Posted in Art, Eccentricities, Interviews, South London People, tagged artist, clothing, deptford, design, fashion, london, recycling, south on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Recycling artist Lauren Shanley talks to East Dulwich based filmmaker and Dulwich OnView regular contributor, Laverne Hunt, about her designs.
Lauren Shanley, the queen of glamorous recycling lives in South London and has done since she moved here from New Zealand over twenty years ago. Inspired by art, history and a commitment to recycling, [...]
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By Clare Ferdinando, Education Outreach Co-ordinator at Dulwich Picture Gallery
When I tell people about my job they always amazed at the range of community work the Gallery is involved in.
‘I had no idea. You do all this from an art gallery?!’
A day in the life of the outreach work may start on an estate [...]
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Posted in Art, Exhibitions, New work - Exclusives, South London People, What's On, tagged A Stain Upon The Silence, Beckett, Central St Martins, exhibition, Group Show on July 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By Chris Page, curator
The exhibition ‘A Stain Upon The Silence’ came about as part of the ‘output’ of a new collective called ‘Group Show’. The members of this collective met, by and large, in Central Saint Martins, where the majority of us graduated from last year. It began, as I’m sure many collectives do, as [...]
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Posted in Community, Interviews, South London People, tagged Dulwich, Southwark, Charity Collection, BBC1 Children in Need, The Blue Cross, Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, Living and Loving Foundation, Roy Downes on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Continuing our series of South London People, Angie Macdonald talks to Roy Downes, aka The Charity Man.
For the past eight years Roy Downes has been a familiar figure on many a Dulwich doorstep. Armed with his folder of letters and press clippings and a cheeky grin, it’s likely that Roy has knocked on your [...]
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To celebrate the retrospective exhibition of the work of Adrian Morris, Audrey Morris writes about life with this distinctive, but often overlooked, British artist.
At last the show of my husband’s paintings, that he had been working towards for so long, is finally taking place. But he is not here to enjoy the satisfaction [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Art, Community, Going Green, Local History, Past Events, South London People, tagged Artists' Open House, Camberwell College of Arts, design, Dulwich Festival, Make it Local on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
‘MAKE IT LOCAL’ by second year design students
We have all produced works that respond to our personal explorations and impressions of the Mile Radius around Camberwell College.
They range from visual comments on the perceived cultural environment to pieces inspired by specific sites, references to history and tools to encourage the positive aspects of the area.
Inspiration [...]
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Posted in Community, Film, Theatre & Music, South London People, tagged arts, awards, british, chinese, Community, earth, foundation, pearl, Politics, theatre, yellow on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Continuing our series on South London People, Croydon-based Mark Wu talks about the growing visibility of British Chinese in the arts, theatre and politics as well as across all areas of UK society.
Unofficially named “Mark Wu” (my Chinese name being my legal identifier), I’ve led a quite straight-forward life. My parents came to [...]
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Posted in Competitions & Offers, Local History, South London People, Uncategorized, tagged Anne Shelton, Court Lane, Dulwich, Dulwich Park, Kelly Richards, se21 on April 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of the commenters on our article about Glyn Davies was Kelly Richards, who remembered Glyn from her childhood. Here she talks about growing up in Dulwich and life with her aunt, Anne Shelton.
My name is Kelly Richards, and I am very proud to say that I am the niece of one of the [...]
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East Dulwich based film maker, Laverne Hunt, writes about her work with a Latin American group of dancers and artists aged 11-25 who specialise in Regathon style music (a cross between Hip Hop and Reggae).
I have a background in law and also had a very brief spell as professional dancer and actress. My [...]
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Posted in South London People on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As part of our series on South London People, Herne Hill resident Meera Kohli talks about her cross-cultural life, with one foot in the UK and the other in India.
My family are originally from the Punjab, India but moved to New Delhi (the capital of India) after the Partition of India in August 1947. [...]
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