Events, Performances and Exhibitions

Primary Bank Big Dance

A celebration of the Primary Bank Project

This year pupils from Charlotte Sharman Primary School have been involved in an extraordinary dance project, investigating Siobhan Davies’ method of creating choreography. The year 5 children invite you to see their work as part of Big Dance 2008.

The building will be brought to life with dance, sound, art, animation, living sculpture, film and photography. You can explore the sounds, colours and shapes of the building through the eyes of the children who will take you on a tour of their work.

Afterwards parents and children can take part in activities and games in dance, sound, music, architecture and art.

Booking:

Contact reception on 020-7091-9650 or email
info@siobhandavies.com
Refreshments available

Primary Bank is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Click for more details on the Primary Bank project.

Small Designs

London Festival of Architecture

Come and explore our RIBA award winning building in a morning of fun and creative activities for all the family. Led by architect Sarah Wigglesworth and choreographer Siobhan Davies it begins with a seek and find tour and follows with creative projects focusing on the architecture of the building, its vibrant colours and intriguing textures. For 6-10 year olds and their parents.

Booking:

Opens 28 April, Contact reception on 020-7091-9650 or email info@siobhandavies.com
Refreshments available

Siobhan Davies Studios will also be open for the general public to view during the afternoon 2-4pm. No booking required.

Visual Art Exhibition

Nathaniel Rackowe - preverberation

Using light, kinetic elements, and common industrial materials British artist Nathaniel Rackowe makes large-scale works that animate architectural spaces and transform viewers into active participants. His sculptural works are often made of low-tech 'functional' materials that explore the boundaries of the physical spaces that surround them. Building upon Minimalism’s attention to the relationship between viewer, object, and space, Nathaniel’s works display a shifting relationship to their environment, exposing otherwise unseen dimensions, visual and temporal, giving these abstract entities physical form. The works question the steadfastness of the built environment, testing its margins and suggesting inventive and alternate paths of movement.

Alongside a new sculptural work, Block Tower (2008) Nathaniel Rackowe will show previously unseen photographs that explore through registrations of scale the structural possibilities of his sculptures, and a video work that draws together previously separate footage from a number of installations that span the artist's career.

Nathaniel Rackowe lives and works in London, he is represented by Bischoff/Weiss, London and Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. Recent exhibitions include RP3 at the Economist Plaza, London (2007) and Artificial Light at Richmond, Virginia and Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, USA (2006), while current projects include a large scale commission for the McLaren Technology Center in Woking.

Curated by Charles Danby.

With kind support from Bischoff/Weiss, London

More Information: www.rackowe.com

Booking:

None required, drop in