The East London Art Prize Events Programme is a dynamic, free public programme open to all, which builds on the Prize’s ethos of providing ongoing support, development, and networking opportunities for artists in east London and beyond.
Featuring a constellation of workshops, talks, panels, lates, socials, labs, walks, and takeovers in collaboration with our Prize partners and featuring some familiar faces from our inaugural shortlist of 12 fantastic artists, the 2023 events programme celebrated and paid homage to the huge abundance of talent and creativity in east London.
The events were developed in collaboration with our Prize partners the British Council, The Line, London College of Fashion (LCF), London Legacy Development Corporation, University College London (UCL), V&A East, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Dulux.
Look back on last year’s programme below
Building on the work of UCL’s Cultural and Community Engagement team, this series of knowledge exchange and co-creation labs will bring together artists, researchers, and local communities to contemplate the future of our cities and explore imaginaries, ideas, and speculative futures.
Join us at the LLDC’s Good Growth Hub to get clued up on the all the fab opportunities, grants, and programmes they have on offer for artists in east London, as well as getting to know some of the innovative young creatives operating out of the Hub.
Join Marianne Shillingford – Creative Director at Dulux – in this practical, hands-on skills lab exploring the transformative power of colour in how we see, make, and respond to art and the influence it has on how we navigate the world around us.
Come along for a guided walk along part of The Line’s route with Sarah Carrington, their Head of Strategy and Partnerships, encountering and experiencing artworks by a range of brilliant artists including Rana Begum, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Antony Gormley, and Richard Wilson along the water’s edge.
Get to know some of this year’s inaugural East London Art Prize shortlist of 12 phenomenal artists as they take over the Whitechapel Gallery in an after-hours programme featuring a host of workshops, music, talks, screenings, performances, and more.
Local practitioners and the V&A East invite you to reflect on what the ‘power of tradition’ means to you as an artist and within the context your own creative practice, in this hands-on workshop subverting and reframing traditional making techniques through a contemporary lens.
Come and hear from Skinder Hundal, Director Arts at the British Council, and members of the wider Visual Arts team about the fundamentals of you need to know about international working and collaboration for artists in east London and beyond.
Artist Sophie Cunningham presents Tin Foil Ghost: a new 28-day performance, which subverts the current fashion trend of metallics, leveraging them as a visual stimulus to interrogate the entangled relationship between the global urgency of the climate crisis and creative expression as a resistance tactic.
Artists Woo Jin Joo, Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell, & Hannah Lim join together for a discussion chaired by Christine Lai (Public Programme Curator, London Borough of Waltham Forest) which delves into the personal mythologies that inspire the work of each of their practices.
Artist Sophie Cunningham presents Tin Foil Ghost: a new 28-day performance, which subverts the current fashion trend of metallics, leveraging them as a visual stimulus to interrogate the entangled relationship between the global urgency of the climate crisis and creative expression as a resistance tactic.
Artist Sophie Cunningham presents Tin Foil Ghost: a new 28-day performance, which subverts the current fashion trend of metallics, leveraging them as a visual stimulus to interrogate the entangled relationship between the global urgency of the climate crisis and creative expression as a resistance tactic.
Artists Alaa Alsaraji and Sabba Khan host a workshop to develop poster and banner making using the works, activism and themes in the ‘Designed for Life’ exhibition as inspiration.
Join us as we explore the relationship of the arts, research, and the planet, and climate justice. We will be delving into how we as artists, researchers and academics partake in the creative solutions which contribute to the sustainable legacy in east London.
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What is the East London Art Prize?
The East London Art Prize is an all-media art prize designed to showcase the talent of artists working and living in east London, with an accompanying event programme supporting artists’ careers and opportunities. You can find out more on the Prize webpage here.
Who is the sponsor?
The East London Art Prize is generously funded by Minerva and Prue MacLeod.
Minerva is committed to championing the talent of east London. Founded in 2013, Minerva provides executive search and leadership services for clients across the cultural, social impact and education sectors. They stand out for our commitment to diversity, leadership development and supporting governance.Their commitment to art has been at the heart of the firm since they started, including previously sponsoring the FBA Futures exhibition at the Mall Galleries and working with the Van Gogh House in Brixton supporting summer residencies.
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Access information
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at any of the events in the programme or would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance, please email us at nunnery@bowarts.com
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting event timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
