Explore your creative neighbourhood.
On the first weekend of October artists and crafts people across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Doors will be open from 10am to 6pm, 3rd and 4th October and admission will be free. Dots will be added to our map as artists and makers sign up to this year’s event. Lambeth Open showcases the fantastic range of creative talent tucked away in our borough and is a great way to discover the various art spaces too often hidden in your neighbourhoods.
Visitors will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and exhibition spaces for a unique personal insight into the individual technical processes. Private Views may be held at a number of exhibition spaces, see venues for details.
FEATURED ARTIST
DANTE OROZCO is a Peruvian painter currently based in Kennington. He is applying to participate in Lambeth Open Studios as part of the relaunch of his artistic practice in London. You will find him in the basement flat of number 63 Kennington Oval, look for the signs. He has previously exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal West of England Academy, and the National Open Art (NOA). He is a recipient of the People’s Choice Award at WAC (2016 and Rewing Edition 2017) and at Bath Art Society (2018 and 2019). He previously exhibited under the name Dante Turner and has now returned to working under his original name. His current practice is focused in Kennington, where he continues to develop and present his work.
FEATURED ARTIST
MORGANE PAIRAIN is a Carshalton-based contemporary painter. She paints abstract and semi-abstract landscapes, people and still-life in bold colours, exploring the effect of colours and materiality on moods and feelings. Her latest series of ‘Faceless People’ explores the theme of voyeurism. By withholding the face, the paintings strip away identity and expression, the usual anchor we use to read another person. Morgane mostly paints in oil or acrylic.
FEATURED ARTIST
HENRIETTA ROEDER is a director of Practise Room, which she co-runs with Luke Hannam, drawing on her previous experience as a senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts. Her work can be seen at the Lido Stores Gallery and in various Soho Houses. And currently with Gallery Hole, Modern Problems, Darsham Suffolk. For Henrietta, painting is an exploration of materiality, its substance, its histories, and its ability to speak within the vast and sometimes chaotic continuum of art history. Her work investigates the human condition, the felt moment, and the universal language of emotion as expressed through paint. Painting becomes her companion in this inquiry. Oils, gouache, acrylics, whatever occupies her studio, carry their own material narratives while insisting on the urgency of the present. The act of painting can be tender or resistant, pulling her under like a swamp or pushing her outward when she grows too certain. It is both obedience and rebellion, an ebb and flow where.