View Tube Art: Sparked 2011-12
Inspired by the public art pieces in the London 2012 Olympic Park, Sparked is an eight-month educational exhibition series as part of the View Tube Art Education programme, from October 2011-May 2012.
The View Tube sits on The Greenway in East London, next to the London 2012 Olympic Park, it is a community arts and education venue, with a cafe and bike hire.
Sparked is funded by The Legacy List, a new charity established to support the long term cultural, social and physical regeneration of London’s future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its surroundings.
Sparked is supported by Bow Arts
Here’s a short film summarising the Sparked exhibition series, which ran as part of View Tube Art from October 2011 to May 2012.
Here’s a selection of photos from our final Sparked family day, which took place on Saturday 14 April. It was fantastic to see so many of you there taking part in the free print making workshops and chatting with Lemn Sissay about his poem.
To see more photos from the day click here.
Watch an interview with Lemn Sissay talking about his poem Spark Catchers, commissioned for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
If you missed the launch screenings this weekend for the Sparked exhibition with Olympic Park Artist in Residence Neville Gabie, then don’t panic as we will be screening Twelve Seventy every Sunday for the duration of the Sparked exhibition.
Twelve Seventy is the new film from Neville Gabie featuring previously unseen footage of the Olympic Park Aquatics Centre and the wonderful story of Sam the bus driver, who was amongst the first to swim in the Olympic pool.
Screenings of the 27 minute long film are upstairs at View Tube every Sunday until 18 March at 1pm and 1.45pm, no booking is necessary.
Sparked with Neville Gabie is open daily at View Tube from 9am-5pm until 18th March 2012. Entry is free. A free family day runs as part of this exhibition on Saturday 18 February from 10am-3pm.
Grab a copy of the Metro today and get your very own Olympic artwork by Neville Gabie.
As we’re busy installing Neville’s exhibition, opening this weekend with launch screenings on Sunday 29th, you can take home your very own piece of artwork free in today’s Metro! Neville has recreated Seurat’s famous Bathers At Asnieres as a photograph, but replacing the characters with workers from the Olympic Site.
You can see other works produced by Neville, as part of his Olympic Park residency, in the next Sparked exhibition at View Tube. With Freeze Frame the size of a billboard, a film of Neville’s attempt to sit in every seat in the Olympic Stadium , and Twelve Seventy, photographs and film of one of the Olympic Park bus drivers swimming the length of her route in the Aquatics centre, the exhibition is an intriguing insight into Neville’s time spent ‘the other side of the fence’, and his attempts to understand and comprehend the vast nature of the Oylmpics.
Sparked with Neville Gabie: launch screenings of Twelve Seventy this Sunday 29th Jan, every hour at 11am, 12noon, 1pm and 2pm at upstairs at View Tube. Then screenings every Sunday at 1pm and 1.45pm until 18 March.
The exhibition runs 7 days a week from 9am-5pm and is free to attend. Pick up an activity worksheet and come along to the free family day on Saturday 18th February, with your chance to work with Neville Gabie and other artists in art workshops.
The exhibition flyer for Neville Gabie’s Sparked exhibition as part of View Tube Art, opening Saturday 28th January, with screenings of the film TwelveSeventy on Sunday 29th January at 11am, noon, 1pm and 2pm.
Stay tuned for more information about the family day on Saturday 18th February.
(photo www.paulgrundy.com)
The Metro reports on Neville Gabie’s extraordinary effort to sit on every seat in the London 2012 stadium, as part of his Artist in Residence for the London 2012 Olympic Park. You can see the final time-lapse video as part of Neville’s Sparked exhibition at View Tube from 28 January 2012.
Olympics artist-in-residence plays a stadium-sized game of musical chairs, Metro, 16 Dec 2011
Please note, the family day as part of the Neville Gabie Sparked exhibition will now take place on Saturday 18th February at View Tube.
Stay tuned to learn more about the free activities taking place on the day and how you can get involved.
We’re delighted to announce that the second exhibition as part of the Sparked series will be with Neville Gabie, Artist in Residence for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The exhibition will run from 28th January - 18th March.
Presenting works that have emerged as part of his time spent immersed on the Olympic Park, the exhibition promises to offer a fascinating look inside the Olympic Park, and introduce the people who have created the vision.
The family day will take place on Saturday 18th February 2012 at View Tube, from 10am-3pm.
Listen to Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen talk about their Sparked exhibition and the Fantasticology project that inspired it.
Don’t forget the Sparked Family Day this Saturday 3 December at View Tube, 10am-3pm. Free art workshops, a Christmas Market, object handling with Museum of London Docklands and all the usual View Tube activities.
