Life Boat brings together artists with a shared interest in exploring precarity as a site of dynamic transition. Each takes an investigative approach to the environmental, social and historical themes evoked by the lifeboat, as a means of addressing ecological crisis, liminal landscapes, close and distant horizons, boundaries and displacement, lines of rescue, navigation and transformation.
The gallery location in Deptford, once a major departure point for maritime trade and scientific expeditions from Deptford Dockyard, resonates with the exhibition’s concept of being ‘at sea’, in the sense of negotiating the unknown. Research into local histories and ecologies informs work created for the exhibition and is further expanded upon in an accompanying events programme. Events include a low tide river walk, an invisible ink/etching workshop and an open discussion with a Sail Britain skipper, a principal curator and an environmental historian from the Natural History Museum.
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Life Boat
APT (Art in Perpetuity) Gallery, Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London
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This event ended on Sunday 7th of April 2024
This event ended on Sunday 7th of April 2024
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Gallery admission is free
Some events are paid (see website)
Gallery admission is free
Some events are paid (see website)
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APT (Art in Perpetuity) Gallery, Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London
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