RSVP London

Inheritance
The Stephen Lawrence Centre
Terrace Area
39 Brookmill rd, Deptford, SE8 4HU
26th September- 19th October 2008
General Opening times; Thurs& Fri; 10-4pm.
Saturday; 10am-6pm, Sunday; 12-5pm

Artists Talk; Saturday 4th October 2pm.

An exhibition of paintings by Rosalind Davis as part of an invited project for the Deptford X Arts Festival.
In collaboration with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust

‘Paintings of iconic buildings within an iconic building’ Rosalind Davis

Rosalind’s unusual and delicate mixed media paintings examine the buildings that reflect human worth and the currency of a life. Inheritance focuses particularly on the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and the Royal British Legion, two very different community-based organisations in Deptford. Paintings of their buildings sit alongside exhibits from other community centres to reflect the relationships local groups have with the buildings they consider important to the development of their community. These are the buildings that seek to bring worth and value to people's lives through their existence.
Inheritance will also involve contributions by the students of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.

Davis fuses painting with collage and embroidery adding fragility and tenderness to the subject matter, emphasising the disconcerting juxtaposition between aesthetics and meaning. Rosalind Davis is a local artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Davis has paintings in both public and private collections and has exhibited widely in many prestigious shows and galleries, most recently at Contemporary Art projects and Signal Gallery in Hoxton.

Contact for further information and images;

www.rosalinddavis.co.uk

Additional notes

The Stephen Lawrence Centre
39 Brookmill Road, Deptford London SE8 4HU; Tel: 020 8100-2800
www.stephenlawrence.org
Educational centre in honour of Stephen Lawrence, the architecture student murdered in 1993. Angled façade with expanded aluminium cladding. The position and form of the buildings is a response to the constraints of the site, triangular in form. Adjaye/Associates 2008.

Established in 1998, Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is a national charity committed to increasing the number of young people who pursue a career in urban design with a focus on bringing about lasting improvements to some of this society’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities - those living in inner city poverty.

Deptford X
An arts event, which exists to promote the best contemporary visual art and celebrate that art with the widest possible audience. This year’s curator is Julia Alvarez of Bearspace
The selction panel for the invited projects also included Simon Parris, Programme Manager of South London Gallery
David A Bailey, Artist and curator. Awarded an MBE for his services to the visual arts.