- Sat May 25, 2024 @ 12:00
- Led by Charlie Osborne
Taking place each month, our free feedback sessions are a chance to get feedback on your work from a practicing artist.
Opening night 17 May 5-8pm
Free & open to all
Friendships are formed on the dance floor. In smoky rooms with sticky floors, in pub toilets with stickers covering the stall doors, we carve out our own sense of belonging. We operate new frequencies, climb up lampposts and flyer city streets to shout that we are here and we will find each other.
Within Eye Level, five artists and artist groups explore South London subcultures, examining the circular nature of trends in music and fashion. Archival works and new commissions map out South London’s rich musical heritage and the communities built in response. From early dubstep nights and the precursors to grime, to today’s up-and-coming musicians and designers, Eye Level traces the scenes and creatives who all contribute to new Cultures.
As trends circle, ebb and flow, the use of self-expression to find belonging remains constant. Old haunts close, new hubs emerge, but the music and stories we share are permanently etched. Eye Level is a call to preserve, to nourish, and to notice
Georgina is the visionary behind Drumz Of The South, a zine turned blog, turned event, turned book, in which she delves into the early evolution of dubstep within her native South London.
Insta @drumzofthesouth
Georgina Cook is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer whose work is deeply rooted in community, culture, environment, and identity. Georgina frequently works with esteemed institutions such as the Tate Modern, Museum of Youth Culture, and the V&A.
A founding director of Picnic, a photobook library in Hastings / East Sussex, Georgina played an instrumental role in spearheading its education program. She is the producer of Vision of Sound, a podcast spotlighting creative individuals whose work is inspired by or centred around music. A longstanding collaborator of the record label GD4YA, Georgina’s contributions have been pivotal in shaping the landscape of contemporary electronic music culture in the UK and beyond.
Nammy Wams is a British Vietnamese-Chinese London-based music producer and DJ specialising in Grime, UK Drill, and the related-sounds. He has hosted a weekly two hour slot on Croydon 97.8FM since 2018.
He runs the label AP Life with Bok Bok where he has released three instrumental EPs. Many artists have vocalled his instrumentals on Grime sets including: D Double E, Frisco, JME, Jammer, Merky Ace and Youngs Teflon. DJs such as DJ Spyro, Makten, Marcus Nasty, and Benji B have supported his music.
Nammy works with producers and vocalists and has released music with M.I.C. (an EP called You Can Achieve Anything which was supported by DJ Spyro on BBC 1Xtra), JME, Jawnino, and Merky Ace.
Nammy has played multiple venues and radio stations across London and further afield, including a tour of China with fellow South London Chinese-Vietnamese artist Jianbo.
Croydon FM is a community radio station based in St. George’s Walk, Croydon. Founded in 2018, Croydon FM is one of London’s newest stations and the first in Croydon that has been awarded an FM frequency (97.8FM).
No Bounds Radio is an internet radio station, currently run by four people across London and Manchester.
The station was set up in March 2020, simply as a way for people to share their voices in lockdown. Our shows include topics around literature, music, radio plays, sound collages, documentary, sound art, and more. They have an experimental and DIY bent – often recorded via phone. Thus we encourage amateurs and non-amateurs alike.
Our hosts come from across the UK, Europe and the U.S. Shows are all currently pre-recorded and remote, but we are in the process of setting up a pop up and physical space in Brunswick Park, Camberwell (London) at the Outhouse Gallery/Bookshop.
Charlie Osborne is a London-based artist who works across video, performance, sculpture, music, and writing. She has exhibited at Matt’s Gallery, London Short Film Festival, The British Film Institute, OHSH Projects, The White Hotel, and The Turner Contemporary.
Charlie uses fiction to create work which glimpses into a world of an aftermath. Elements like hypnagogic pop, freak folk vocals, and digital props conjure up hope, humour, and magic. Through fractures and structures similar to poetry, characters appear: lonely werewolves, drenched office workers and loved up smurfs. They feel strangely familiar and are presented with a hyper-real, theatrical aesthetic.
Reuben Robinson is a London-based artist and musician who works across sound, installation, and moving image. He creates immersive, fantastical narratives and explores world-building through fiction and magical realism.
With a background in electronic music, he has performed live at venues both internationally and in the UK. He recently scored the original soundtrack to a film by artist Charlie Osborne, commissioned for an exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, curated by Mark Leckey. Under his solo music project, ‘Shast’, he runs an immersive club night series called ‘Aerial’. This series is based on a fictional story activated by live actors, bespoke lighting setups and original music/sound works.
Sarah Stedeford is a British photographer known for her authentic portrayal of people and culture. She has collaborated with heavyweight fashion and culture titles like i-D Magazine and Dazed & Confused.
Sarah works in a documentary style approach, with a portraiture eye. Her work rejects the fast-paced, perfected and falsified images that we have become accustomed to seeing in the digital era. Sarah seeks to capture the uniqueness of the individual, within the context of the community. Themes of rebellion and a focus on grass-roots activism run through her work.
Sarah was born in South West London. Starting photography at school, photographing her friends while going out and seeing the magic of developing the photographs in the darkroom informed her practice.
Est 2013, Turf is Croydon’s homegrown art space; free exhibitions & workshops, studios & collectives run by creatives for creatives.
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46-47 Trinity Court, Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR01UQ. For detailed visitor info, click here.
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11:00 — 17:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 — 17:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 — 17:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 — 17:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
| 21 Aug | Closed |
info@turf-projects.com
07519 072116
