Handmade cushion cover
Dye-sublimation print on cotton
Edition of 30
Signed
A limited edition of 30 handmade cushion covers have been produced for the South London Gallery shop using a collaboratively designed fabric. The Art Assassins and artist Eleanor Wright created a new printed fabric design inspired by the local built environment in Peckham. Each cushion is unique and includes the selvedge text detailing designer, title and date.
Entitled A Pattern Language, this new work has been developed as part of the Art Assassins’ year-long project The Peckham Experiment: A Centre for Self-Organisation, exploring the history of the Peckham Experiment with the Pioneer Health Foundation, the Wellcome Collection’s Library, the Science Gallery at King’s College, and community partners Peckham Vision and the Wilderness Wood, alongside a historian-in-residence, heritage experts and artists.
The print is made using dye-sublimation print on 100% cotton. Each cushion cover is hand-made and can be machine washed at 40 degrees celsius.
ABOUT 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. Through their collaborative projects they have defined a unique peer-led approach to create platforms which represent themselves and their ideas. Previous projects have seen the Art Assassins present a night of .gifs, sound and sculpture in collaboration with Alicia Reyes McNamara, Dot Dot Dot (2017); perform with Network 11 at Frieze London with Sonorous (2016); create their own shampoo for their exhibition at DKUK, Liquid Rye (2016); develop an accumulative online archive, #allinsouthlondon (2016); curate the exhibition Invisible Hours (2015); broadcast live through the night from a secret forest location for Bivvy Broadcast (2014); team up with a young people’s group in Johannesburg to record and release their own cassette, We are Us and You are You (2014); develop one of the first collaboratively designed video games made by young people, Arcade Peckham (2014); and takeover the London airwaves for 24 hours, Resonance FM Takeover (2013).
ABOUT ELEANOR WRIGHT
Eleanor Wright is an artist based in Dusseldorf. A central topic in her work is the exploration of architecture and the question as to what architecture can be in relation to the body, and its role in the materialising of culture. As such, her work not only references architecture but also design, textiles and their wider relationships with society, community and space. Wright has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She has undertaken several residencies including The British School at Athens, Cove Park, Helsinki International Artist Programme and was the first recipient of the Warwick Stafford Research Fellowship with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Northumbria University. She is co-founder of the curatorial gallery initiative Drop City.
All proceeds directly support the South London Gallery’s programmes.
