Hackney Wick 'Fete of the WickED'

2009-06-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

We are doing a 'stall' at Fete of the Wicked on 1st August, and hopefully having a show [maybe in a shop] as well.

We're running a wicked fete stall with everything from spooky cupcakes to fried eggs, but nothing is as it seems...

We have arty textiles, unusual domestic items and interesting all-sorts and bric-a-brac gone art-attack.

Come and see some genius artist-hand-made products and try a temporary tattoo from the HAGs artiste de tattoo' parlour.

Opening by Gavin Turk at 12.00pm. Oslo House Car park, near Hackney Wick Overground Station. Saturday August 1st

Art at Home In Homerton

2009-06-11T02:54:00.000-07:00

May 14th- 17th 2009

Written Piece by Julia Moore, a member of HAGs, describing ideas behind 'HOMErton House Exhibition'

Homerton Artist Group – or HAGs – present a group show on the theme of ‘Home’. Part verbal play on often-neglected area of Hackney in which the group are based, and part investigation into the resonances and intricate meanings that the notion of ‘Home’ has for us all, the show brings together the work of 20 members of the group.

HAGs was formed by Penny Tristram and Sadie Edginton, two artists living and working in Homerton. Acutely aware of the lack of support for artists such as themselves working alone, they decided an artist’s group would offer a much-needed opportunity to connect with other artists, view and critique each other’s work, develop collaborative ideas and simply socialise.

Their intuitions were well-founded: others responded enthusiastically to the monthly meetings in The Elderfield, a Homerton pub. Only three meetings in, the idea of a group show had been raised to positive response as an ideal way to raise the profile of the HAGs artists and demonstrate the range of work produced locally. Although support was high, the mechanics of finding a suitable venue were complex. An empty shop seemed ideal, but proved hard to source, and Sadie eventually offered her own Homerton home as a venue. While there’s a history of exhibiting in domestic spaces, such ventures normally treat the home as a gallery, clearing all homely trappings and paraphernalia of day-to-day life to replicate the ‘white cube’ of the commercial art space. HAG have selected instead to maintain everything that makes the venue a home; work fits around and into the spaces left by everyday living and the lives of the people living there.

The show explores themes of domesticity and links to home while showcasing a broad range of individual responses and incorporating techniques from painting to live music.

Among others, Jessica Piddock’s paintings exploring missing people investigate ideas of homelessness, while David Bradley’s cast of his own hand finished in bronze recalls ideas of home production and cottage industry. Una Hamilton Helle shows images from her own home – Norway – referencing the subculture of Black Metal and the inherant tensions of its world, darkly violent and misanthropic at the same time as being musically and visually rich.

‘HOMErton’ is the start of a programme of exhibitions and events organised by HAGs and operating outside the gallery context.

Julia Moore May 2009

'HOMErton' Homerton Artist Group's First Exhibition

2009-06-11T02:44:00.000-07:00

We had our first project in May. 20 Artists showed there work in HOMErton, an exhibition in a house in Homerton, East London. The show was on for three days. It enabled us to see each others work, met new artists and start a whole series of projects.

Left: Una Hamilton Feeble Screams from Forest Unknown

Right: Clive A Brandon Pavilion for Daubeney Road, 2009

Sadie Edginton ‘If Tower Blocks were made from Ice Cream’

Amy Waitt ‘Sleeper Series’

Graham Elder ‘Infants landscape’

Jessica Jang Four Strong Winds, Three Floods, and Two White Flags