Pump House Gallery

Alongside an installation in the park by Samara Scott Pump House Gallery is pleased to present the first solo presentation in a UK institution by London-based artist Sally Troughton. Troughton’s work is rooted in notions of archaeological placemaking, manifesting through sculpture, media and textile fabrics. Using natural, industrial and domestic materials, Troughton takes on how we position ourselves in a world that invariably shifts across digital and analogue zones.

Preview: 3 August, 6.30-8.30pm. All welcome, free entry.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

No

Website

http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/

Combining the rich industrial history of the area with the tradition of outdoor works of art in the park, the work has evolved from a period of testing, experimenting and reworking materials that are changed by time and the natural environment.

Samara Scott uses materials that mix the bodily with the industrial or chemical which create confused reactions of both familiarity and disgust. Her work has an intimacy and repulsion that is tied up within the body, which combined with such familiar everyday materials, has a sense of place rooted in contemporary

Preview: 3 August, 6.30-8.30pm. All welcome, free entry.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

No

Website

http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/

Each fighting its own little battle in happy ignorance
12 October – 11 December 2016
Preview: Tuesday 11 October, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lenka Clayton, Harun Farocki, Thomas McCaughan

Pump House Gallery presents a group exhibition based on Graham Greene’s novel It’s a Battlefield. Greene’s book, written and based in Wandsworth, takes on ideas of administrative power, disempowerment of the individual and the impact of bureaucratic structures on the individual when misused. The artists in the exhibition evoke both the thematic concerns and the narrative essence of the book. By investigating areas such as the voice and agency, political structures and individuals, labour and language, the work in the exhibition locates the individual in the confusing world of bureaucracy.

For more information please visit our website.

Website

http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/each-fighting-its-own-little-battle-in-happy-ignorance

INHOUSE PROJECT: CRIME SCENE ARCHIVE
12 October – 11 December 2016

Ongoing drop-in activities for all ages
Open during gallery hours

Have you ever felt like something wasn’t fair, verging on criminal or was just plain outrageous? Alongside the exhibition Each fighting its own little battle in happy ignorance, artists Ivan Thorley and Caroline Bowman invite you to create a story about people behaving badly.

In response to the novel It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene, create your own crime scenes with objects and puppets during our drop-in sessions in the gallery Project Space. As characters are moved, manipulated and re-arranged over the project, join us as we investigate who decides what is right and wrong?

More information on this project and other activities at the gallery can be found on our website.

Website

http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/crime-scene-archive

INHOUSE FAMILY WORKSHOPS: CRIME SCENE ANIMATION
Sunday 16 October, Sunday 30 October, Sunday 13 November, Sunday 27 November, Sunday 11 December
12 – 4pm

Free family workshops for all ages

Alongside the exhibition Each fighting its own little battle in happy ignorance artist Ivan Thorley and Caroline Bowman have created an interactive display inviting visitors to create a scene illustrating a moment when something wasn’t fair, verging on criminal or was just plain outrageous.
Join us every other Sunday, from 12 – 4pm, for a series of playful drop-in workshops as we explore, uncover and interpret these crime scenes. Work with Ivan Thorley and Caroline Bowman from Puppets with Guts as we experiment with puppetry, creative writing, drawing and improvisation games.
More information on these workshops and other activities at the gallery can be found on our website.