Pump House Gallery Presents... Investment Avenues
Take part in decorating construction hoardings
‘Investment Avenues’ is a participatory project by artist duo Lloyd Corporation, inviting gallery visitors, local community groups and residents to explore different perspectives on value, exchange and investment operating in the local area.
Lloyd Corporation will use construction hoardings as a subject, site and material. A common sight in London, hoardings are rich sites of cultural, social, economic, political and aesthetic production. They act as secure boundaries between public and private land, physical screens of advertising images and projected futures, as well as sites of protest, graffiti and other mark making.
Constructing a hoarding in Pump House Gallery’s Project Space, Lloyd Corporation invite visitors to make hands-on interventions in response to a number of prompts. Through writing and drawing the hoarding aims to gather layers of mark making over the duration of the project. Off-site and in collaboration with local community groups, Lloyd Corporation will also initiate a film-making project, working with residents to document and voice their perspectives on the developing landscapes and future investments in their area.
Lloyd Corporationis a duo - Sebastain Lloyd Rees and Ali Eisa - who met while studying at Goldsmiths. They have been collaborating for several years, making work that often draws on the breakdown of financial structures that started with the last crash.
The project runs from 3 October – 16 December 2018
Radical messages
Family workshop with Lily McGuire
Sunday 14 October 2018, 12-4pm
Drop in to this family workshop to explore the power of the written word when presented in public space. Borrowing from typography and graphics used in adverts, families are invited to disrupt this voice by devising humorous, abstract or playful slogans. Work with Lily McGuire to design your very own alphabet and let the public know what you have to say.
Ideal home
Family workshop with Lily McGuire
Sunday 28 October 2018, 12-4pm
Exploring how adverts on hoardings present images of future lives, drop in to this workshop and play with the possibility of inhabiting these dream spaces. Families are invited to play with the language of advertising to cut, paste and construct their own ideal homes. Work with Lily McGuire to collage scenes with paper and then use green screen technology to become immersed in these domestic settings. What role will you perform?
Imaginative cities
Family workshop with Lily McGuire
Sunday 11 November 2018, 12-4pm
Responding to our ever-evolving cityscape, drop in to this workshop as we consider what might emerge from behind the hoardings constructed in the Project Space. Taking inspiration from images and texts, families will be prompted to invent new and imaginative spaces. Gather building materials such as pipes, ropes and bricks, and work with Lily McGuire to assemble a landscape of playful structures and tell stories about how they are inhabited.
All the above free workshops have been designed and delivered by Engagement Coordinator, Lily McGuire as part of the project 'Investment avenues' by Lloyd Corporation. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
A blank hoarding ready for some spray paint - see below
Gallery of the Street
Workshop for all ages with artist duo Lloyd Corporation
Sunday 25 November 2018, 12 – 4pm
Property developers are increasingly turning construction hoardings into graffiti and mural paintings, often appealing to youth and ‘urban’ or ‘street’ culture, as well as aiming to represent local people. Drop in to this workshop for all ages as we work on a large scale and play with spray paints to create our own mural and hoarding artworks. Taking inspiration from the history of community murals in Battersea, which explored urgent social and political issues, the workshop will use graffiti and other mark making to create our own visual images representing shared values and social change.
This workshop has been designed by artist duo Lloyd Corporation as part the project 'Investment Avenues', which has been working with local groups to explore perspectives on value, exchange and investment in the local area.
This free workshop is suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Investment Avenues: Final event
Sunday 9 December 2018, 12pm – 4pm
For 'Investment Avenues', artist duo Lloyd Corporation have initiated a film-making project working with local youth groups and residents to document and voice their perspectives on value, exchange and investment operating in the local area. Join in for a closing event where work from this project, and the ongoing project at the gallery, culminates.
This free event is suitable for all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult
September 28, 2018