Young people

Three young people in an abandoned-appearing space, pointing out architectural details to one another. A group of children in the background are also observing the space. — Art Assassins creating an evening of music called Dot Dot Dot with artist Alicia Reyes McNamara, June 2017. Photo: Sam Nightingale.

From the Art Assassins to REcreative, young people visiting the South London Gallery can collaborate with artists, make exhibitions, organise events and meet new friends.

The Art Assassins have stayed overnight in a forest, created an evening of art and music and investigated local history and culture. Through REcreative young artists and curators have the opportunity to join the Editorial Board, arrange events in the gallery, write for the website and join an annual film school.

The programme uniquely offers a platform for groups of young people to devise and deliver their own professional projects.

The Young People’s Programme is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Oscar Humphries and Sophie Oakley and the SLG Council.

Art Assassins

Art Assassins

The Art Assassins, the SLG’s young people’s forum work together with contemporary artists, designers, filmmakers and each other to create a programme of events for other young people and a wider audience.

Entanglements: Who makes history?

Entanglements: Who makes history?

Over six months, the Art Assassins will interrogate a unique ethnographic archive of artefacts, photographs, sound recordings and botanical specimens collected in Nigeria and Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century.

Past projects

The Peckham Experiment: A Centre for Self-Organisation

The Art Assassins are working alongside a historian-in-residence, heritage experts and artists to investigate the Peckham Experiment, a pioneering health movement founded by doctors George Scott Williamson and Innes Hope Pearse in 1925.

Dot Dot Dot

The Art Assassins in collaboration with Alicia Reyes McNamara, explored ideas around protest, resistance and immigration, working with repetition and play in drawing, printmaking, object making and performance.

Sonorous

The Art Assassins worked with the artist collective, Network 11 and developed a new improvised sound performance presented at Frieze Art Fair and the Peckham Road Fire Station.

Art Assassins with Andrea Franke

In summer 2016 the Art Assassins worked with artist Andrea Franke to discuss Andean Philosophy and social practice.

Liquid Rye

In 2015 the Art Assassins worked with Daniel Kelly, artist, hairdresser and founder of DKUK, a Peckham-based hair salon where art and hairdressing are combined.

Art Assassins inspired by Wilfred Limonious

Working in response to the work of Jamaican artist Wilfred Limonious, the Art Assassins worked with artist Ben Connors to develop their own comic/ zine and music label.

#allinsouthlondon

In 2016 the Art Assassins developed a two month research project with artist Hannah Lees investigating how we catalogue our daily lives.

Show of Hands

A weekend of free talks, performances, screenings and workshops for young people to come together and voice their opinions about politics today.

A Pattern Language

Art Assassins and Eleanor Wright worked together to produce a collaboratively designed fabric inspired by the local built environment.

Law Shifters

Art Assassins worked with Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen to propose an amendment to the UK’s stop and search laws.

Art Assassins and Lloyd Corporation

Art Assassins and Lloyd Corporation worked together to explore how ‘social experiments’ can be used as a form of public and political art making.

Art Assassins and artist Ilona Sagar

The Art Assassins and artist Ilona Sagar conducted research and produced works exploring privacy, health and data ownership, in relation to The Peckham Experiment.

Art Assassins and Nina Cristante

As part of the Peckham Experiment project the Art Assassins and artist Nina Cristante worked together to consider how what we eat relates to our social identity.

Bivvy Broadcast

In September 2014 Art Assassins and artist Dawn Scarfe broadcast live sound from a forest somewhere in England.

For the People, By the People

Art Assassins collaborated with artists DashNDem to consider what the role of a Prime Minister means to them, and how young people can be directly involved in current affairs and decision-making for their futures.

Invisible Hours

In November 2014 the Art Assassins and REcreative Editorial Board were invited to take over the first floor galleries at SLG, conceiving and curating their own exhibition Invisible Hours.