Nicola Tremain is a local self-taught artist. She paints mainly in oils, although has been known to mix in other media, such as lipstick, varnish and crayons.
Her art is inspired by the organic shapes and patterns of nature. Her current passion is for portraiture. She can work to commission and can be contacted on nicola.tremain@gmail.com and 07905 172 353.
Her Saatchi Online gallery can be viewed here. Nicola’s work will be in Apollo from Sunday June 21st.
‘An Eye for Peace’
Upshotz Youth Project Launches Photographic Exhibition in Brixton to help promote unity through creativity’
An Eye For Peace, a new photography exhibition by young adults in Lambeth launches on Wednesday 17th June 2009 at the Old Apollo Video Store in Herne Hill, London and runs until Saturday 20th June 2009. Aimed at reducing ‘postcode’ rivalry in the borough of Lambeth, An Eye For Peace strives to bring together young people (aged 16-19) from different areas in the borough through the power of creative expression.
Organised by Upshotz, a new youth project that offers young people a platform for expression through photography - and sponsored by Epson - the exhibition and project’s aims are to engage with young people (16-19), to nurture their creativity and teach them new skills that will be useful in their personal and future career development. This was done through a series of photography workshops which were delivered by industry professionals – Simon Denton Photography, Gibson Blanc Photography and Upshotz founder Ellie Laycock - in South London at youth clubs in West Norwood, Clapham North and Brixton.
Workshop attendees were initially taught the basics of photography and they were then tasked with photographing ‘what peace meant to them’ - the resulting photographs will be exhibited and be on sale to raise money for the Upshotz project at the launch of the exhibition. With Lambeth youth constantly receiving negative media attention due to crime related behaviour and mindless postcode violence, Upshotz was formed to give teenagers and young people a positive means of expression. Fully supported by Lambeth Council, the exhibition has caught the eye of Tate Britain, who has expressed a wish to incorporate the project into their youth outreach programme in 2010 – the first time this will be extended to South London.
Upshotz founder Ellie Laycock said, “We have had tremendous support from the community and young people in Lambeth for the project. The aim of the workshops is to give 16-19 year olds a creative outlet they otherwise may not have had access to. We really want to celebrate what we can achieve as a community when we all pull together”.
The exhibition runs from Wednesday 17th June to Saturday 20th June at the old Apollo Video Store, 27-29 Norwood Road, London, SE24 9AA. The private view launch starts at 7.00pm on 17th June with DJ Paul Saviour providing musical ambience.
For further information, interview requests, An Eye For Peace private view guest list or images please contact Upshotz founder Ellie Laycock at Upshotz on:
Email: ellie@upshotz.co.uk
Tel: 07813 33 9621
Web: www.upzhotz.co.uk
or Upshotz co-founder Mathias Moka on:
Email: matt@upshotz.co.uk
Tel: 07796 60 0704
Stuart Taylor is a photographer, carpenter and full-time dad, as well as a passionate advocate for cycling. Rarely planned; an ever-inventive and resourceful maker, his latest creation is The Silverfox bar, for the Apollo Project, made from 100% recycled materials.
Neither Am I: Live at the Apollo
Neither Am I and their verbal puppet-show of minor-celebrity satire invite you to a splurge of high-end theory, low-end humour and middlebrow celebrity at the second live wordbath from south London’s most infamous literary nobodies .
Featuring a rag-tag assembly of world-famous authors, amateur wordscratchers and journeyman yarnpeddlars, the randomly selected and completely anonymous Neither Am I Performance Squad will be unleashing a hivemind monologue of verse and fable using only their voices in a virtuoso rendition of under-the-counter material and over-the-top delivery.
With the assistance of performance artist Harriet Poole, this one-off event will summon the ghosts of rom-coms, chick-flicks, soft porn and low-budget horror to frolic between the exhumed racks and display cases of the Apollo video shop.
Are you a member? Neither Am I.
FREE admission. Discounted bar opens 7pm. Neither Am I on-stage at 8.30pm.
Certificate 18: This spoken word performance contains strong language, long sentences and extended metaphors of a graphically sexual nature.
Queries: neitherami@neitherami.com
http://neitherami.com/
Come along to The Apollo on Sunday for a relaxing evening of acoustic performance.
6.15pm The Sneezy T’s www.myspace.com/thesneezyts
7pm Stephen Evens www.myspace.com/stephenevens
7.45pm Rob Moore (from www.myspace.com/thelittlephilistines)
8.30pm Paul Glass www.myspace.com/thnvrnvr
9.15pm She Makes War www.myspace.com/shemakeswar
We’re playing the night a little bit by ear. There is room for a couple of last minute additions.
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Join Apollo and his Olympic friends for some printmaking, clay and collage fun!
All ages welcome. Get creative this weekend and be a part of our children’s art exhibition.
Run by Katherine Saville from Orleans House Gallery Arts Education team
http://www.richmond.gov.uk/orleans_house_gallery
Katherine lives locally but leads an arts education project at Orleans house Gallery in Twickenham, working with primary schools in Hounslow and Kingston . She also enjoys taking part in local community arts projects.
TITLE: APOLLO AND OTHER SUN GODS
FORMAT: STORY-TELLING FOLLOWED BY FUN CREATIVE WRITING
THEME: PERSONAL CREATIVITY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE MUSE
AGE: SUITABLE FOR YOUR CHILD OF 7+ SUITABLE, ALSO, FOR YOUR INNER CHILD
RELEVANCE: LOCAL ARTISTS HAVE TRANSFORMED A NEGLECTED VIDEO SHOP TO A CENTRE FOR THE ARTS IN HERNE HILL. COINCIDENTIALLY, IT IS CALLED ‘APOLLO’. BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT IN ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY APOLLO, APART FROM BEING THE GOD OF THE SUN, WAS ALSO THE LEADER OF THE MUSES WHOSE JOB WAS TO INSPIRE ALL ARTISTS?
Biographical note
Irene Skiadopoulou (or Irini if you say her first name the Greek way) was raised in Corfu without TV but with a true love of reading and story telling. She came to England where the study of literature followed by teaching, singing/song-writing, DIY and children, pushed the stories aside. Then one summer night, back in her childhood home, she started to write The Dreamcatcher Scam, a novel for teenagers - a modern, myth-inspired thriller adventure in which Olympians are not ‘gods’ or immortal, but fallible guardians of Gaea, the Titan who mothers us all. She left full-time teaching to see this project through. When she is not writing, she works as a Herne-Hill based tutor, helping children and teenagers love the art of reading, writing, story-telling and trusting in their creative intelligence.
Stephen Evens is a songwriter who has a lot of bitterness and resentment and is channeling it into writing songs to avoid its manifestion into a cancer or abnormal growth.
The songs are beautiful and the words are horrible. I don’t know why you don’t think that’s a good thing.
It’s all our fault.
WTCDTD take over Herne Hill’s abandoned Apollo Video for a night of space exploration, featuring:
The Capsized Smiles
B-Movie tales of horror and woe
http://www.myspace.com/capsizedsmiles
AEO
One man’s battle against the machines. The light of victory, shine on.
http://aeo.noise.org.uk/
Mesonoche
“every day a day dream”, the holy beast (distorto-destructo)
Short films from The Pictures
http://www.myspace.com/thepicturesnight
& treats & that
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