The Art Academy Newington
In September 2017 Southwark Council granted the Art Academy use of the former Newington Library, Walworth Road. The site allows us to expand our short course offering, give more studio space to our academic students and manage a new public gallery space, available for exhibitions and cumminuty activities. Southwark Council has supported the Academy to take on this additional premises for two years.
Resident artist spaces available at Newington
We also have Resident Artist studios to rent at our Newington site. Studios vary in size from 60 square foot to 800 square foot and are available at competitive rates. The studios are accessible from 7am to 11pm and contracts are rolling monthly with one month notice required. For more information on the Resident Artist spaces we have available please email our Operations Manager, astrid@artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44 (0) 20 7701 2880.
Address
The Former Newington Library
155 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1RS
United Kingdom
Newington Gallery Use and Hire
The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.
Our first free public exhibition programme opened in September 2017 with ‘Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection’, commissioned and produced by Artangel, one of the UK’s pioneering facilitators of daring and innovative public art. We are now inviting other artists and local community groups to exhibit with us.
For more information on how to rent or programme events please email Zuzana Knightova, Public Programmes Manager, zuzana@ artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44(0)20 7701 2880.
Newington Gallery exhibitions
The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.
Current Exhibition
A Painted Touch of Life: Suzon Lagarde, Inma Garcia-Carrasco, Open 28th May – 2nd June 2019, 12 – 5pm
Upcoming exhibitions
Tenebris: Marilena Klemmer, Gloria Cavicchioli and Andy Grinham: Private View Thursday 13th June 2019 5pm – 8.30pm: Open Wednesday 12th June 11am-8pm, Friday 14th June 11am-8pm, Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th June 12-6pm
Art Academy London Graduate Show for Foundation Higher Certificate & Certificate Students: Private View Wednesday 3rd July 2019 6 – 9pm: Open 4th July-6th July 2019, 12-5pm
Art Academy London Graduate Show for Fine Art Diploma & Contemporary Portrait Diploma students: Private View Wednesday 11th July 2019, 6 – 9pm: Open 12th July-14th July, 12-5pm
Previous Exhibitions
Dissolute Geometrix: Heidi Sundvik, Anna Sevcova, Sonia Cabrera, Jonathan Faragher and Seema Manchanda: Private View Thursday 25th April, 5pm – 8pm: Open 25th – 28th April 11am – 4pm
The Bootle or the Book?: Kate Crumpler and Jacob Smith: Private View Tuesday 30th April, 5 – 8pm: Open Wednesday 1st May 10am – 5pm and Thursday 2nd May 10am -1pm
Lessons in Things- An exhibition of maps, charts and diagrams with an anthrozoologic slant: Anna Walsh: Private View Thursday 11th April 6pm – 8.30pm: Open 11th – 14th April, 1pm – 5 pm
Loading: An exhibition by students from LCC Arianna Poverini, Aroa Nunez, Beth Goldstone, Domia Edwards, Ella Finney, Fatema Kach, Frederik Marks, Gemma Lewis, James Greenhalgh, Joseph Beeching, Karolina Gliniewicz, Lily Boyle, Maite De Orbe, Ou Lin, Phoebe Somerfield, Rachel Gordon, Ruth Phng, Tami Aftab, Tom Coleman, Wojciech Fec, Youhah Kim, Yulia Cavala, Zahraa Karim: Private View 19th February 6pm – 9pm: Open 16th February – 21st February, 2pm – 6pm
Queer Arts Week: Group Show: Private View and Cabaret 22nd February 5pm – 8.30pm: Open 23rd – 28th February, 12pm – 6pm
RAW: An Exhibition of Work by Amelie Peace, Rose Shuckburgh, Coco Morris and Alice Irwin: Private View 7th March 6m – 9pm: Open 6th – 10th March 2019
MAP 2019 (Collaboration): Group show by students from LCC: 12th March – 18th March 2019
Gail Dickerson: Core Sample Exhibition
An Art and Geology project focusing on the geology of London and the area of Elephant and Castle. It explores the Rockingham Street Anomaly, the Elephant Park building site, the fluvial deposits from the River Thames and the clay and chalk of the London Basin. Layers in the work are placed using collected sediments made into earth pigments, and temporary exposures on a building site are captured on film. London’s strata is glimpsed through research and collaboration with the London Geodiversity Partnership.
BEAM Exhibition
An exhibition by BEAM Art, a group run by Southwark Disablement Association (SDA). BEAM Art offers ‘disabled artists the chance to create art in a group setting with the opportunity for discussion, conversation and learning from each other in a fully accessible environment.’
We have been working in partnership with SDA to support the BEAM Art programme for over three years. Academy students Emily Russell and Jo Holt have been working in conjunction with the artists to present an exhibition that reflects the diversity of their practices, which include painting, print and poetry.
Shadowbox Exhibition
An exhibition of six contemporary artists exploring truth and fiction within the context of our shifting cultural landscape.
Mind the Art Exhibition
A group exhibition raising awareness of mental health through art.
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