Platform One Gallery

Genius Salvaged

2011-02-27T11:24:00.001-08:00

So it's official, Genius Salvaged is Platform One Gallery's contribution to this year's Wandsworth Arts Festival (WAF).

Kicking off on Friday 6 May and running until Sunday 22 May, the festival is a highly creative and exciting opportunity to experience the variety of arts on offer in the borough.

Last year, we hosted excellent exhibitions by Mobile Studio and Room3 but this year we're planning to push the boat out further with an ambitious public art project based on forgotten moments of inspiration.

The tagline planned to feature in the festival's promotional literature goes like this:

Ever left a prize idea behind as you were waiting for a bus? Platform One Gallery – with students from the Royal College of Art –presents: Genius Salvaged, a series of geo-tagged poems and site specific installations based upon forgotten moments of inspiration. Find out more at @Gensalvo

With a handful of artists already on board, now the plan is to open the project out to further contributors.

So if you’re reading this, and have scrawled down a bit of poetry or prose or snapped a thought provoking image while wandering in Wandsworth – why not get in touch and add it to the mix?

With just over two months until WAF begins, Genius Salvage is now open to submissions.

Best regards

Merlin

Überspaß

2010-08-21T10:25:00.001-07:00

Platform One Gallery is delighted to welcome its new artists in residence, 'inter-Scandinavian' group Überspaß (Thais Espersen, Anders Nielsen, Jakob Ingemansson, Philip Elwall, Sune Rieper and Magnus Ohren.)

This week Überspaß will be running a series of workshops at the gallery, exploring Yves Klein's '(CM)YKB 98,84,0,0' shade of blue. The group will test Klein's Pantone-esque thesis with a series of architectural interventions, responding to the gallery and surrounding train station and suburban context. Material evidence from the week will be exhibited on 29 August.

I'm particularly optimistic about the coming week as it is the first time our cosy 12m² gallery has hosted six resident artists at one time. Thais Espersen of CRAB Studio, Clerkenwell, coaxed the pan-European group over to south London and, in my opinion, must be congratulated for his work.

The project offers an excellent opportunity for visitors to experience an alternative reading of the gallery and its environs. Equally inspirational copies of Jakob Ingemansson Stad magazine (issue #3), featuring poems and essays on Belgrade, Serbia, will be available.

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday 29 August. Please bring friends and any ideas you have for future shows, we are always delighted to meet new artists and curators.

Meanwhile, enjoy the rest of summer!

Merlin Fulcher

Programme Director
Platform One Gallery

Bold Tendencies

2010-07-03T16:33:00.001-07:00

Hats off to Hannah Barry Gallery and the tremendous Bold Tendencies show! This excellent showcase of emerging artists has once again returned to its home, a suburban multi-storied rooftop carpark in Peckham, South London (pictured).

This annual delight is something of Ballardian dream - knitting its skylined urban context with sunbaked luxurious themes. A good place to go a for a cocktail, food, or quiet reflection.

Recommended transport: Bike, bus, train to Peckham Rye, or car.

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Meanwhile, Platform One Gallery can unveil a new show by Andrew Gillespie which will run in the last week of July. Exact dates, times, details to be published in due course.

Enjoy the sunny weather!

Merlin Fulcher

Programme Director

Platform One Gallery

Alight Here 18 - 27 March, open daily 2-8pm

2010-03-21T04:51:00.000-07:00

PROGRAMME:

Monday - Janina Lange’s sculpture and film (6-8pm)

Tuesday - Elizabeth Porter’s film

Wednesday - Installation by Emma McCormick-Goodhart

Thursday - Giles Bunch’s sound installation and performance by Lucy Fyffe

Friday - Josie McInerney’s performance from 5-7pm

Saturday - Merlin Fulcher and Danny Fulcher present poetry and physics

Alight Here is a collaborative project between Priyesh Mistry and the Platform 1 Gallery. Using the context of the gallery's placement on the platform of Wandsworth Common Station Mistry has created an installation,based on experimentation with the space and the social interaction of the station itself. Using a simple displacement of colour from one part of the gallery to another, viewers and commuters are invited into the gallery to engage with a new piece of work each day.

As the installation exists within the space during the week, it will be open to further collaboration from invited guests. Each day, during the course of the week long exhibition, the guest collaborator will showcase a reaction to Mistry's installation and the train station providing further conversation and a new perspective to Platform 1 Gallery.

In collaboration with performance, sound and visual artists, writers, craftsmen and thinkers, the gallery will offer itself as a destination, a reason to alight at the station, renewing the interest in the gallery space, celebrating the end of it's winter hibernation and introducing the spring/summer programme. The exhibition will feature, among others, performance by Josie McInerney, an Elizabeth Porter film, sound by Giles Bunch and poetry by Merlin Fulcher. For more information see the Platform One Gallery website.

'Alight Here' is part of the Pass It On programme which is produced by Artadmin, funded by the London Development Agency (LDA) and managed by Arts Council England. For more information about Pass It On click here.

Platform One Gallery
Wandsworth Common Station
SW12 8NL
+44 (0)7940184547
http://www.platform1gallery.com

Alight Here

2010-03-18T13:42:00.000-07:00

Priyesh Mistry and the gang are busy setting up for Alight Here, a new opportunity to take part in a creative process for both artists and fans of the gallery.

The show is looking set to kick off on the night of Monday 22 March and run until Saturday. I'm already booked to do a poetry reading at the finale (check out my writing). The full programme of events will be announced imminently - Watch This Space.

If you have a sculpture, image, or performance of your own you'd like to share drop me an e-mail on merlin.fulcher@gmail.com .

Meanwhile we're moving closer to the 1-23 May Wandsworth Arts Festival and going full steam ahead with workshops planned for 15 May at 5pm by The Mobile Studio, and 23 May at 11am by Room3.

Further projects await the stage.

Thank you

Merlin Fulcher

Programme Director

Platform One Gallery

2009-12-24T12:34:00.000-08:00

Season's Greetings, and what a year?

We kicked off in April with FESTIVAL, and in May got heroic with Tom de Freston.

Robin Hunter's Vanishing Space brought celebrity, and GOLD RUSH was a cheer!

David Spearing made us a brand spanking promotional VIDEO.

Jack Barraclough and Melanie Freshness spilt their beans whilst Martin Kerrison breathed.

Then Information Wants to be Free slammed us up to speed in September.

And Julia Kollewe's Disembodied Voices & Jon Aye both took the lead.

Leaving Waiting Room to be, 09's last dazzling STOP.

So here's to making time for art and a big Thank You to all those who took part!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Let's make 2010 one for ALL, breaking through.

Thank you,

Merlin Fulcher

Program Director

New Show

2009-06-07T14:16:00.000-07:00

Exciting work is underway to secure a new show by Rob Hunter. The work should be installed by the end of the week, and the Private View will be Sunday night.

Rob and I are working on the press release and preparing images. I have a strong idea how to curate the show and will be discussing this with the contributing artists (bands) on thursday.

The event is planned as a prelude to Glastonbury, which takes place the following week. I seem to have turned down numerous offers to attend the festival, as for me there is simply too much to be done here in London.

The week following Hunter's show we are hosting a program of performance art events. Whilst these are taking place David Spearing and his film crew will be shooting a 'three-minute wonder' video for Platform One.

All very busy this month, and that's not to mention all the degree shows, parties, and general opportunities to bring new artists into the gallery space.

Merlin Fulcher

Program Director