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From: PRESS RELEASE Category: Art Date: 16 September 2009 Time: 05:06 AM Review: Art in Nunhead Part of The Nunhead Arts Week 18-27 September 2009 Nunhead Open 6 Exhibition Nunhead community Centre 56 Nunhead Lane SE15 Tel: 07906 206 166 19 – 27 September Open: Friday – Sunday 12-6pm Preview: Friday 18 September, 6-9pm, All Welcome ‘Having discovered a stack of records in the Community Centre, Disk Jockeys Hannah and Daniel play tunes from the 50's to the 80's. Lucky dip a record to dedicate to your nearest and dearest on the preview night’. Presented by Hannah Simons and Daniel Lehan. The Nunhead open exhibition now in its sixth year is an open exhibition in the truest sense. The range of work submitted is a vibrant collection of art from artist’s who are residents of Nunhead and Peckham and the surrounding area. Over eighty artists both amateur and professional and of all ages have submitted work in various mediums but what brings this show together is a commitment and passion for images and ideas that is evident in all the work regardless of art training and age. Saturday 19th September This Happy Band Perform 3pm at the Nunhead Open Exhibition Follow THIS HAPPY BAND a collection of Artists, Musicians, Poets, and Wordsmiths, Elaine Arkell, Daren Callow, the Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Tim Flitcroft, Paul Good, Calum F. Kerr, Daniel Lehan, Janine Marsh, Frog Morris, Mr Solo, Kirsty Wood and more as they perform around Nunhead. Saturday 26th September 2-5pm /Materials Provided/ All Welcome Lady Lucy brings The Drawing Exchange to The Nunhead Open Exhibition where she will be setting drawing exercises in response to the works in The Nunhead Open exhibition. www.irational.org/drawing_exchange/ Deserters Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th 12-6pm Artist Sarah Sparkes and guests C.O.T.H (cult of the Harvester) Derek Jordan, Simon Neville, Ricarda Vidal, Julian Wakeling respond to the absence of community at the Nunhead community Centre with sound, film, situated constructed objects, paintings and photography Nunhead Windows Project (windows can be viewed until 4th October) maps and text available from the community centre. 18 September- 4th October Five artists have been invited to make work for five Nunhead shop windows. Jenna Collins’ poster series provides an absurd take on the eclectic and exotic locations – such as the Caribbean, the Grand Canyon and a Buddhist temple – depicted in the laminated images on the walls of the Baja Spice takeaway restaurant. ‘Mummy Superior’ Sarah Doyle’s window in the textile shop Mummy J Fashions works with the patterns on West African Hollandais cloth and is inspired by local folklore – the story of a nun beheaded on Nunhead Green. Miyuki Kasahara’s 'A home for 100 Tufts' in the florist AG Flowers’s window is an installation of 100 tufts that resemble giant dandelion seeds but which are all made from artificial materials. Daniel Lehan presents ‘Butchers Boy’ in the window of the butchers P and J Baker. A photograph of the artist with the various cuts and joints of meat - Brisket, Thin Flank and Sirloin transferred to his own body, ‘Butchers Boy’ is a reminder of our corporeal and mortal existence. In the Na Pura Portuguese café, inspired by a global trade established between Portugal and China & Japan 500 years ago, Charlotte Squire has reconstructed traditional motifs from Jingdezhen ceramics and Japanese laquerware from recycled aluminium drink cans.