s p r o u t
by francesca van haverbeke
Francesca Van Haverbeke is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist from Belgium, living in London.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibition, 119 Lower Clapton, London (2017)
Group exhibition, Stour Gallery, London (2021)
Solo exhibition, Kribbestraat 3, Brussels (2021)
Group exhibition, Holy Art Gallery, London (2022)
After studying Law and International Relations, Francesca decided to pursue a different career path – the one in art! Having successfully exhibited in London and Brussels, we are happy to host her second London solo show in East London, Dalston at Stour Galleries.
In the solo art exhibition S P R O U T, Francesca Van Haverbeke presents 10 drawings and 3 sculptures depicting natural surroundings and humorous metaphorical portraits. Her unusual colour schemes rendered in oil pastel create hallucinatory images that vibrate with energy.
Harmony, pattern, rhythm and flow are all present in these scenes created from found and collected source material. Unified by their simple visual language and vibrant palette these works evoke an illusory reality as though plucked from a dream.
You are invited to the art exhibition private view on
7th April 2022 6 pm – 10 pm
at Stour Gallery on 258 Kingsland Road, London.
Explore Haverbeke’s dreamy, raw and authentic landscapes.
The exhibition will be running from 7th April – 1st May 2022, Stour Gallery on 258 Kingsland Road is open daily from 9 AM – 7 PM.
CORDIALIS
BY PROMETHEAN ART COLLECTIVE
Promethean Art Collective started in 2018. The idea of starting the collective came after the multidisciplinary art exhibition Oblivion, curated by Simon Kloss who wanted to bring together a group of artists with different approaches towards contemporary art.
The members of the collective have individual styles and disciplines through which they express their view of life and their talent. Digital and video art, cameraless photography, political flags, soil painting, mixed media...
In 2019, Stour Space Gallery curated a show by Promethean Art Collective State of Mind. In 2022, we are delighted to welcome Promethean Art Collective again, this time in our new spaces at Stour Galleries and present the art show CORDIALIS at Stour Galleries showcasing the core members and guest artists.
John Gosnell @dfastig
Agrypnia @ugne.agrypnia
Shireen Liane @shireenliane
Ildiko Kmeth @ildikokmeth
Edmund Cavill @edmund_cavill
Elika Bo @elikabo_
Michael Trew @michaeljtrew
re: generation stour 2022
And here we are, in 2022, with a new generation of Stour Studios Artists!
The new building, new art & artists, new motivation - Regeneration of Stour!
In the exhibition 𝘳𝘦:𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 2022, we will be showing and appreciating artworks from Stour Studio Artists- new and old members.
@michaeljtrew
@annemarieke.kloosterhof
@rorywatson.art
@dfastig
@ware.london
@rude_embroidery_london
@_luciajurik_
@unhappy_baby_1664
and others
Christmas Presents : The Show
2nd December - 19th December 2021
The last art show of 2021 curated by Stour Galleries presented emerging and established artists that contextually challenge the everyday experience of life in London city, its dynamics and street expressions. The artists explore such topics through prints, sculptures, rugs, paintings and other media and experiments and we hang them high and praise them all!
Jenny McKimm @jennymckimmart
The Hidden Printer @thehiddenprinter
Don’t Think Go @dontthinkgo
Sanja Jovic @sanjajovicart
Carl Stimpson @carl.stimpson
Print Wagon @print_wagon_
Pat Thomas @patgthom
Quiet British Accent @quietbritishaccent
Mimmi Teasle @mimteasle
Francesca van Haverbeke @francesca__vh
Soumati Studio @soumati_studio
Lizita @elisalizita
Colourblind Dog @colourblinddog
Anna Horeglad @annahoreglad
Hiccup @hiccupbooks
Florence Poppy Deary @florencepoppydeary
I Fucking Hate London @ifuckinghatelondon
Katya Rogers @katya_rogers
SKIN @finn_murphy
Faces or Faces @facesorfaces
Name Surname @cctvselfie
Loose Associations @looseassociations
Michael Hanley @michael_j_hanley
Annemarieke Kloosterhof
WORKS IN PAPER
4TH November - 29TH November 2021
Annemarieke Kloosterhof is a multi-disciplinary designer based in central London, originally from a small town in The Netherlands. With a background in BA-Hons Graphic Design and Illustration from Central Saint Martin’s, she now works as a professional Paper-Artist and Set Designer. Though her portfolio is diverse, all her projects have one feature in common… an incredibly high level of detail & craftsmanship.
Works in Paper is Annemarieke Kloosterhof’s first Solo exhibition in London and explores a vast range of artworks in a variety of techniques - all made from paper. Annemarieke likes to play with colour, composition and texture, and enjoys creating anything hand-made with paper, really pushing the material to its limits. Over the past year she has been particularly focussed in developing her own technique to create recycled-paper artworks: using only paper offcuts and her own hand-mixed pulp.
Annemarieke’s Paper-Craft & Illustration work has been published in magazines, newspapers and online, and her 3D pieces and set builds have been featured in commercials, music videos and in-store installations. Annemarieke has exhibited her work on numerous exhibitions & group-shows. Her work has previously been showcased in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, where her solo exhibit was dedicated to her paper-craft work after winning the Dutch 2014 “Rabobank Culture Prize” for artists under 25.
Jamiu Kola Agboke
BLAH BLAH BLUR
7TH October - 2nd November 2021
Agboke is a multi-disciplinary artist, and his practice is a continuous inquiry into his body’s locality in space through observational painting and drawing, photography and installation. He uses his body in conjunction with various objects and subjects and explores the configuration and complexity of his identity. Agboke describes his installation and photography as a form of performative exorcism. Momentarily dislodging certain beliefs and preconceived ideas, these ideas collide, suspended in some emotional hyperspace, a stillness ensues, giving rise to a new beginning and a fresh encounter.
The work is refined through crudeness. Everything comes together stroke by stroke, moment to moment, mummified in stillness and articulated through attention.
‘’There’s a refreshing silence and dialogue to be found in and between my paintings. My engagement with these sub/objects arise by chance. I think I’m often seeking that element of silence, to be free of the noise of expectation. So, I observe, subdue, reconfigure and displace these things in relation to the atmosphere of the time and place the work’s being conceived. It is an endeavour to ground myself in the cracks of this groundless catatonic free fall of globalisation.
It’s a refusal to reside in a state of social stasis, which negates the false sense of security in individualism. The works that arise have a Dionysian vague/irrational relationship to both myself and the viewer. In another sense, they are close and visceral in their handling of texture, colour & light. It’s an attempt to unearth new possibilities, modalities, perspectives and to confront and investigate things that I can’t quite verbalise.’’
Conrad Armstrong
in hero magazine
Read an article about Conrad Armstrong's exhibition BORN AGAIN in HERO Magazine!
Written by Catarina de Moura.
Published online in Hero Magazine.
conrad armstrong
born again
2nd September - 29th September 2021
STOUR GALLERY
258 Kingsland Road
London E84DG
A bicycle commute from Streatham to Hackney Wick, looking at the shard, thinking about the pyramids. A meditation on repetition. History repeating. Masked power – structures – disguised. parasitic. A sensitive demolition of vanity towers. An emotional history of London. Monuments and landmarks. In praise of DIY Barricades on Cable Street. Public Art – for the public by the public. Melt down Anish Kapoor’s Awful Tower. Save Hackney Wick and community resistance. Building site as warzone. Battlegrounds. A journey through Inferno to reach paradise by digging up the Roman Roads of linear thought. Glasgow to London. The 9 circles of Hell and 9 Zones of TFL. The Shard inverted is a dagger to the truth. A conical shaft to The Angel of Light, half buried in an air-conditioned penthouse in its apex. The purple forked tongue of the Metropolitan line from a plague pit in Aldgate to Milton writing Paradise Lost in dySuburbia at the other end, Underground, in quarantine, self-isolating. to escaping the plague. Face masks and facial recognition. A time traveller wondering what happened to my freedom of movement? While half remembered, half hearted, renditions of Land of Hope and Glory struggle beneath the eerie drone of a helicopter as News Crews pack their cameras away. Look up and see the looming Gargoyles of the American Dream.
Adopting a reflexive stand, conrad examines his artistic practice and city life in his solo show ominously titled BORN AGAIN. Showing works that straddle both time and times, with an exhibition forced underground by plague and fire to continue to grow without light.
armstrong has developed a unique artistic practice, abandoning the traditional canvas for a radical material process that involves layers of paint and plastic melted together with fire, but is also constantly experimenting with new formats and mediums.
nEW STOUR HAGGERSTON SITE
OPENING ON 2ND sEPTEMBER 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are opening a brand new Stour building on 2nd September 2021 at 5PM! The site will be accomodating artist studios, a gallery space and a cafe, all run but Stour companies and our team members. The site gives us an opportunity to continue what we started in HWFI - opening art shows for contemporary artists, housing their studios and art in the Stour Permanent Collection, providing delicious coffee and food and organising workshops, art talks, events and more.
DONT FRET
The Greatest The City Could Offer Me
Was A Stranger
STOUR SPACE GALLERY
04.11.2020
Based in Chicago, Don't Fret is most well-known for his wheat-pasting practice but also paints, draws, sculpts and performs. He has produced large-scale murals in Chicago, New York, Miami, San Francisco and Denver as well as internationally in cities like London, São Paulo, Helsinki, and Berlin.
A street artist, Don't Fret has nonetheless been exhibited in numerous galleries all over the world. His career allows him to produce art that is at the crossroad between practices, humour and critique, the street and the gallery. Inspired by pop culture and cartoons, he offers uncompromising political commentaries on contemporary society’s flaws. He expresses an honest and introspective standpoint which makes his practice unique.
olivier adam's
art exhibition
stour space GALLERY
01.10.2020
03.11.2020
retrospective
terence williams
THE BATHS GALLERY
03.09.2020
30.09.2020
Known as the Gentle Sculptor of Hackney Wick, Olivier makes poetic, round shaped sculptures, intuitively made by hand by intertwining accessible materials such as lime, sand, plants and found objects.
His aim is to engage with his audience through memory and emotion leading an ongoing conversation about ambiguous loss, uncertainty and unfinishedness. Olivier believes that sculpture is accessible to all through using simple materials that can be bought at builders’ merchants, or even found in your street.
His sculptures create a dialogue with the audience through the sense of touch which allows to connect with our environment in a way that is impossible to our eyes. Olivier Adam creates an eternal cycle allowing the nature to become a part of the artworks or if those do come to an end, they gradually dissolve back into nature.
The exhibition displays oil paintings that were created during the last twenty years of Terence Williams’s artistic practice.
The works presented are divided into overlapping bodies of work entitled: Life Drawing Sketches, Click, Beach and Political.
The majority of the works on display are connected by the democratic use of images collated from magazines, newspapers and the internet that propagate and characterise collective memories of Western societies during the 20th Century.
The images are deliberately altered via a process of collage and painting to create new compositions that consciously evoke alternate narratives as a method to subvert or dispose of the original intention of the image and give the material a new existence.
annette zera & sue paraskeva exhibition
STOUR SPACE GALLERY
03.09.2020
30.09.2020
Zera paints with acrylic on paper, foam board and fabric. Her aim is to find ways in which colour and texture can work together to lift the spirits in these separated and strange times. She is looking for a new order, a juxtaposition, flow; collaboration.
Annette approaches every new piece with trepidation and without planning – taking as long as it takes to find the way forward.
Paraskeva’s multidisciplinary conceptual practice comprises stand-alone pieces, installation, film and tableware, collectively defined by a distinct language. Creating pieces that exist within their duality, she refers to our internal and external worlds.
Artworks are imbued with an elegiac sensibility expressing sorrow, especially associated with irreparable loss, as well as interpreting political issues from a female perspective.
the
ever-changing past
STOUR SPACE GALLERY
06.08.2020
02.09.2020
steve pulvernis
Ba lan
zula rabikowska
THE BATHS GALLERY
06.08.2020
02.09.2020
On 6th August we opened a Zula Rabikowska's show Ba Lan at The Baths Gallery.
Zula was born in Poland, grew up in the UK and worked in France, China, South Africa, India, Palestine and the Caribbean.
Her practice is influenced by her own experience of immigration. In her work, she explores the themes of national identity, displacement and belonging.
Zula's project focuses on the Vietnamese diaspora in Warsaw. It seeks to understand how this community reconciles its identity in a country which believes that nationality is rooted in ethnic origin. Poland’s Communist past is central in the project and for this reason, she incorporates archival imagery into the photographs that she had taken.
With her photographic practice, Zula enables the community to articulate and re-create their identities by exploring the world from a different perspective.
On 6th August we opened photographer Steve Pulvernis's exhibition 'The Ever Changing Past' - an analogue hand printed collection at Stour Space Gallery.
Working as a professional photographer during the 1990s, it was in the darkroom where Steven found his niche; working with monochrome negatives.
The theme of this body of work is centred on street art within the context of streamline architecture of old and new through east London; concentrating on two main areas, Hackney Wick and Nomadic Gardens (RIP).
With their ever-changing canvas and a wealth of both old and new structures, Steve searches for the angles to create the most aesthetic image. For him, cropping of the square Hasselblad negatives in the darkroom and composition are vital definitions of his photographic practice.
anticlone:
The IMmortal diaspora
SADE ENGLISh
the baths gallery
23.07.2020
05.08.2020
The Baths Gallery opened with an exhibition "The Immortal Diaspora" by multidisciplinary artist Sade English.
With the exhibition, Sade English takes us into a journey through painting, garment construction, film, and soundscapes.
Sade, as a young Black & Andean woman, witnessed the premature death of her mother Marcia Byfield against the backdrop of a race war and a global pandemic.
Sade managed to refocus her energy into relearning and making history while pledging to rediscover her ancestry within the African Diaspora.
The Immortal Diaspora is an invitation to reflect on the self, its construction, and its place in society. If we are inspired and influenced by others who are no longer present in physical form, yet they continue to live on through work, can we all, in fact, become Immortal?
the STOUR
Permanent
collection
exhibition
Stour space gallery
04.07.2020
04.08.2020
On 4th July, Stour Galleries opens Stour Permanent Collection, a visual archive of the work produced and displayed at Stour Space’s exhibitions over the past 10 years.
The SPC offers new ways of showcasing and celebrating the local artists and their work via an online gallery and a permanent, mobile collection.
The work given to us has created the base of The Permanent Collection that will help artists to promote, print and sell their work and connect artists and new audiences and art spaces.
In the expansion of the Stour Studios and the creation of new gallery space at the Baths in Hackney Wick, we now have an opportunity to expand our collection as a means of furthering the opportunities for showing and selling local artists work.