A limited edition of 30 hand-made cushion covers have been produced for the South London Gallery’s shop using a new collaboratively designed fabric. The Art Assassins and artist Eleanor Wright have 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 fabric is made using dye-sublimation print on 100% cotton. Each cushion cover is hand-made and can be machine washed at 40°.
ART ASSASSINS is a group of young beings who have met weekly since 2009 at the South London Gallery. 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).
ELEANOR WRIGHT is an artist based in Düsseldorf. 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 spatial relations. These interrelated areas – embedded in similar economies of time – result in a practice that resists classification as furniture, sculpture, installation or textile pattern design. Instead, her work accentuates the dialogic potential of material, place and interaction. Wright has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, most recently at M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; ARCADE, London; Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf; ARCO Madrid 2017; and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival with Giles Bailey. 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.
