Furnished Space

2012-01-20T12:40:00.000-08:00

Excerpt 00.00 to 02.41 of 23.47 mins.

Listen with headphones

Bronwen Buckeridge

7 and 2 | Black is Water

Sound installation: 2 x iPods with headphones,
scale drawing with Chinese symbols
(pencil, biro and lined exercise paper 60 X 40 cm),
part I 23.47 mins, part II 4.47 mins

‘7 and 2 | Black is Water’ was made for Furnished Space in June 2011, when a Feng Shui consultant was invited to conduct a reading of the flat and then present his findings. Entering the space the viewer found a hand-drawn scale plan of the flat, marked with various symbols, and two sets of headphones (one in the living room and one in the bedroom) where they could listen in to the consultant making his report and discussing the findings. Recorded binaurally, the viewer has a sense of the interlocutors moving around them, and as aspects of the flat are considered and various objects referenced and examined, it gradually becomes apparent to the viewer that the room under discussion is the very same room they have walked through and are now sitting in. More...

2012-01-08T03:51:00.000-08:00

David Bellingham & Alexandra Hughes

18 - 25 November 2011

David Bellingham

The Sound of a Silent Film

7'' single with insert, Furnished Editions, 2011

Standard Edition of 350 £10

Special Edition of 10 £100

(includes signed and numbered copy of the record & 8mm silent film)

Alexandra Hughes

15 Hours and 40 Minutes of a White Wall

2nd August 2011

Projected back onto the white wall originally photographed

The series results from a snapshot taken every 12:05 minutes from sunrise to sunset

2011-11-20T14:04:00.000-08:00

JACK STOKOE

THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY

A Proposal for Furnished Space

'Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.'

from Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, 1975

Friday 2 December

7 - 8.30pm

PERFORMANCE AT 7.45pm

8 Grove Lane

Flat C

Camberwell

SE5 8SY

07870 698 187

RSVP ESSENTIAL

tamsin@tamsinclark.com

2011-11-19T06:55:00.000-08:00

A batch of Forth & Back posters recently returned from the printers.

They are now ready to be posted somewhere by the artists.

The contributors for Forth & Back are:

Richard Bevan

Melanie Counsell

Sean Edwards

The Everyday Press

Richard Healy

Ian Homerston

Pernille Leggat Ramfelt

Sara MacKillop

Jonathan Monk

Catalina Niculescu

Ben öztat

Colin Sackett

Jake Tilson

Watts of Goodwill

Ian Whittlesea

2011-10-30T04:57:00.000-07:00

DAVID BELLINGHAM
ALEXANDRA HUGHES

Friday 18 November 7-9pm
and by appointment until 25 November

78 records and unique cards will be sent out to mark the exhibition

Image: Alexandra Hughes, Slide No. 35 from 15 Hours 40 Minutes of a White Wall, 2011

2011-09-23T02:29:00.000-07:00

Forth & Back is an invitation to design a poster, post it somewhere and document the piece in its chosen location.

The poster can rest as a temporarily situated object, an announcement, or simply as a gesture put forth.

These posters will be published as an edition together with a record of their brief contexts.

2011-07-25T13:32:00.001-07:00

MAQUETTES

15 - 22 July, 2011

2011-07-05T01:07:00.000-07:00

MAQUETTES

by

MELANIE COUNSELL
DAHAN SHAW ARCHITECTS
DAN GRAHAM
RICHARD HEALY
ALISTAIR OWEN
DAMIAN TAYLOR
ESTELLE THOMPSON
GARY WOODLEY

put together by Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Richard Bevan & Tamsin Clark

FRIDAY 15 JULY
6 - 9pm

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July, 12 - 6pm
& by appointment until
Friday 22 July

Flat C, 8 Grove Lane, Camberwell, SE5 8SY

07870 698 187

With special thanks to Lawrence Weiner & Kanye West

2011-06-27T11:20:00.000-07:00

DEAR TASMIN CLARK

I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR. THE LAST MAQUETTE I MADE WAS FOR A MUSEUM & GALLERY SHOWS & I AM AFRAID THEY ARE MUCH LARGER THAN YOUR COFFEE TABLE. DO TELL.

2011-06-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Richard Bevan & Tamsin Clark
are putting together a show of Maquettes

2011-06-07T01:30:00.000-07:00

7 and 2 | Black is Water

A site-specific audio work by
Bronwen Buckeridge for Furnished Space

Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June, 12 - 6pm

8 Grove Lane, Flat C, London, SE5 8SY

bronwenbuckeridge.com

2011-05-22T08:11:00.000-07:00

The long bench outside of my workroom was a good idea.
When we made it, we planned it for sitting and for admiring the view
from a pleasing vantage point. The deep overhang of the eaves means
the bench is protected from most rain.
It spans the length of the front of the building between the two doors.
It is five and a half metres long and a little bit higher than I would like.
When I sit on it, my feet dangle off the ground. It ended up a bit high
because when the blacksmith came with the metal brackets he had made,
he had to put them into the stone wall in a place where the wall would take them.
There was a bit of lumpiness down near the bottom so the bench got higher
off the ground. The smooth wooden boards make a wide and comfortable surface,
but in spite of the generosity of the width, the bench seems to be used for
everything except sitting. Underneath it has become one of our firewood
storage places. It is a good and protected spot for wood, and what is stored
here now is dry and will be ready for next winter. I use the bench as a kind of table,
an extension of my workroom. Right now, I have lined up a fine selection
of the rusted objects I have found and collected, both here and from up above at
Johnny Mackin's old place. It looks as if I might be opening a little shop.
We spent a lot of time as children making shops to sell groceries.
We emptied my mothers cupboards of the cans and containers.
We made labels for empty boxes and assorted packages to further fill our shelves.
I do not remember ever getting to the point where we sold anything to anyone.
The whole activity was about setting up the shop. My line-up of rusty things is
for no purpose. It is just nice to see them together and to admire them as I walk past.
Sometimes I bring things inside to make drawings of them.

Text from
for the new year 2011
Coracle Press

S/Z
S/Z Builds Benches on Request (Furnished Space), 2011

Installation as part of 'NEEDED BY THINGS'
25 - 27 February, 2011
The bench will remain in the space as a piece of furniture.

2011-03-26T09:35:00.000-07:00

S/Z
We've put a bowl of Tamsin's in the window of The Wholemeal Shop, Well Street, London.
2011

Part of 'NEEDED BY THINGS'

With thanks to Ian Farr and George

2011-03-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

S/Z

We've put a plate from a kitchen at The Guggenheim Museum, New York on Tamsin's counter
Also, one of Sarah's plates is at The Guggenheim Museum, New York.

2011

Ian Homerston

Grey, Green, Pink, 2011

Acrylic on paper

Coracle Press

After Brancusi, 2010

5-panel concertina

Part of 'NEEDED BY THINGS'

25 - 27 February

2011-03-12T06:56:00.000-08:00

Stefano Calligaro

Dialect, 2011

Ongoing series, inkjet print on a stack of white paper

Part of 'NEEDED BY THINGS'

25 - 27 February

2011-02-12T06:53:00.000-08:00

'NEEDED BY THINGS'

Stefano Calligaro

Coracle Press

Ian Homerston

S/Z

Friday 25 February, 7-9pm

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February

by appointment

8 Grove Lane

Flat C

London

SE5 8SY

07870 698 187

'I am bored but it’s my duty to be attentive,

I am needed by things as the sky must be above the earth.'

- Frank O'Hara from 'Meditations in an Emergency'

Image: Bowl exchange initiated by S/Z

2010-10-12T06:19:00.000-07:00

SARA MACKILLOP

ALAENA TURNER

2010-09-28T06:34:00.001-07:00

SARA MACKILLOP

ALAENA TURNER

Furnished Space, Saturday 9 October

When an object is placed, the place is objectified: you can see both place and object. The object may blow out of the window, it may leak paint and become unstuck from the wall, or it may just sit.

A spool of tape looks functional on a table. Then on looking closer, this material appears more like ribbon than an item of stationery and its colour fades randomly from pale pink to white. Sara’s works are assembled from the chosen ephemera of keyrings, photocopies, receipts, typewriter ribbon and record sleeves. An act of placing and arranging opens them out to reveal latent shapes and colours. Here the fading of the tape gives evidence of a former history.

Thinking of a painting in the simplest terms as a thing made of paint, and with similar concentration toward material, object and surface, Alaena makes improvised constructions to allow paint to be displayed. In recent work, paint is poured into plastic containers, which are then stapled like stretchers. Inside these transparent vessels the paint is still wet and elastic, its weight moulding a loose shape and occasionally escaping in drips from the edges. The paint itself functions as an object whose colour and sheen are startling.

A painting is made that is all paint without brush or canvas or trace of the artist’s hand. While a roll of tape, sometimes colourful, sometimes colourless, may perhaps unwind a narrative. These invitations of looking can be at once casual and entirely fresh.

2010-09-07T08:20:00.000-07:00

SARA MACKILLOP

ALAENA TURNER

Saturday 9 October

4 - 7pm

2010-08-01T03:18:00.000-07:00

rubric #3

'document'

rubric #3 featuring

a table and a radiator

Richard Bevan

A prop for a 16mm film made in and for Furnished Space

Furnished Space is a distributor for Rubric Journal

rubricjournal.org

2010-03-02T09:51:00.001-08:00

For Sean Edwards

A dusty sculpture is left from my bedroom renovations

2010-02-11T08:26:00.000-08:00

introducingart.com

Issue 8: Richard Bevan 'A Small History and Recording'

Contributors:

Richard Bevan
Tamsin Clark
Michael Cousin
Sean Edwards
Chris Grygiel
Klaaus Hoek
Catalina Niculescu
Philomene Pirecki
Pernille Legatt Ramfelt
Andra Simons
William Blake West
Ian Whittlesea

2010-02-07T11:14:00.000-08:00

USHER

A record from Richard Bevan

An edition of 300 with print

Now available for £10
please email for details

tamsin@tamsinclark.com

2010-01-27T04:57:00.000-08:00

Detail from Revati Mann's Installation

2009-12-29T03:32:00.000-08:00

The Furnishing of Art is Furnishing

- Ad Reinhardt

2009-12-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

Three cards for Christmas

RICHARD BEVAN

NATHAN EDMUNDS

IAN WHITTLESEA

Email me your address to receive the card(s) of your choosing.
tamsin@tamsinclark.com

2009-11-21T04:21:00.000-08:00

Revati Mann's Garden Installation

Saturday 7 November

2009-11-19T10:43:00.000-08:00

Just two of Ian Law's multiples remain unwrapped and propped
against the wall at Furnished Space after the opening on 7 November.

2009-11-03T07:11:00.000-08:00

IAN LAW

REVATI MANN

Saturday 7 November

In the installations by Ian Law, a pristine surface sits beside a folded paper form. Revati Mann's colourful meanderings carve a world from gathered or sculpted objects, doodles, marbles and confetti. These are practices or actions through which a piece emerges from deft making, selecting, editing and documenting. In the task of creating an installation for Furnished Space, the artists' actions collect around the domestic context, describing what can be made within, or brought to, the situation. The consideration of what will fit on a table, the success of failure of growing moss on a stone or of how a piece might be viewed at dusk, are small but crucial interventions.

Things as varied as light bulbs and limes are assembled with a care that draws sharp attention to each surface, colour and position. Often the implied relationships between these materials, or their framing within a title or situation, become as important as the individual elements themselves. A found object may be gently adapted or seen afresh in company. Here it will be left for the viewer's eyes to determine how invited objects distinguish themselves and how these in turn relate to what is already present.

2009-10-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

Preparations

Revati Mann making her installation
How to Grow Moss on a Stone

2009-10-27T09:10:00.000-07:00

A multiple by Ian Law will be given away
at Furnished Space on Saturday 7 November

2009-10-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

IAN LAW
REVATI MANN

Saturday 7 November

4 - 7 pm

8 Grove Lane
Flat C
London SE5 8SY

02072772820 07870698187

2009-08-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

fragment from an edition in progress

2009-07-29T14:35:00.000-07:00

Furnish 16mm

2009-07-26T06:33:00.000-07:00

Zavtra

poster edition with Richard Bevan

email tamsin@tamsinclark.com
if you would like to receive a poster (edition of 450)

2009-07-26T06:20:00.000-07:00

vintage stationary for Sara Mackillop

2009-07-18T06:19:00.001-07:00

Slides & Stills

2009-06-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

Saturday 27 June

RICHARD BEVAN
IAN WHITTLESEA

2009-06-26T14:29:00.000-07:00

preparations

2009-06-16T13:38:00.000-07:00

RICHARD BEVAN
IAN WHITTLESEA

Saturday 27 June, 3 - 8 pm

2009-05-28T11:22:00.000-07:00

works in progress

a stencil, a collage fragment, a test- shot

2009-05-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

2009-05-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

'the room and what is here, that's a kind of beginning'

The move to a new flat was a starting point, a time in which I was feeling my way in a fresh space, curious about its possibilities.

The name Furnished is partly drawn from Lawrence Weiner's aphorism 'books do furnish a room' which describes my hope that this space can be as furnished with ideas and daydreams as it is with possessions. I like the title's 'putting in' connotation too, which might be as much about activity as it is about the material.

A living room and garden invite artists to work on an intimate scale, unlike the blank canvas of a gallery, this space is already a situation. Everything that is found here is integral, from the room's proportions and quality of light, to the contents of plants, books and furniture.

Like social calls, the exhibitions held here will be mostly occasional, one day events. While the installation of work will be a temporary occurrence, its process will breathe through various formats, in small publications, editions and a blog.