'Choose Your Hero' Opens at Re:Centre, Thames Wharf, Hammersmith.

‘CHOOSE YOUR HERO’ OPENS AT RE:CENTRE, HAMMERSMITH

Re:Centre Present ‘Choose Your Hero’ Exhibition

5th - 17th October, 11am - 5pm daily
Re:Centre, Thames Wharf, Rainville Road, London W6 9HA

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Timothy Gatenby, Sabrina Rowan Hamilton, Jo Holland,
Harriet Hoult, Emma Johansen, Ru Knox, Stephanie Mill, Fleur van der Minne,
Rita de Sa, Simon Stephenson, James Vaulkhard

In the communal Riverside studio at Re:Centre, Hammersmith, nine London based artists have been given the chance to step out of their traditional modes of working, and enter a reflective and inspiring space to reconnect to themselves, to others and to their creative practice.

Each three month residency culminates in a two week long exhibition at Re:Centre’s 4000 square feet event space.
The first exhibition titled ‘Choose Your Hero’ is based on the theme of The Hero’s Journey (Joseph Campbell) and is curated by public art curator Ben Moore.

‘Choose your Hero’ opens with a private view on 4th October 6.30 - 8.30 pm at Re:Centre. Following the private view the exhibition is open to the pubic (admission free) 11 am - 5 pm daily until 17th October.

Selected works by each of the nine artists will go on display across billboard space at Regent’s Park from 24 September for four weeks supported by

Art Below.

25% of the proceeds go towards developing Special Yoga at Re:Centre which aims to support and facilitate the practice of yoga for children and adults with special needs.

‘Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.’ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Timothy Gatenby, Sabrina Rowan Hamilton, Jo Holland, Harriet Hoult, Emma Johansen, Ru Knox, Stephanie Mill, Fleur van der Minne, Rita de Sa, Simon Stephenson, James Vaulkhard

www.artbelow.org.uk/artists/chooseyourhero

RE:CENTRE

Re:Centre is a new concept opening on the Thames Path where visitors can find a sanctuary of rest and reflection – a space to connect to ourselves and others in an authentic and balanced way. In this fast-paced and action-oriented world, it is here we are able to find a connection to ourselves, and to our innate inner creative flow. The space will comprise a main event space, a rentable workshop space, an artist programme, a café, yoga studio, treatment rooms and a rest area.

www.recentre.co.uk

ART BELOW
Art Below is a London based public art enterprise. With a wide range of international artists and its various campaigns in cities worldwide, the organization has an important position within the movement of contemporary art in public space. Art Below uses billboard space in underground stations to display artworks in London and overseas. The group has nurtured an international community of artistic talent and has displayed the works of over 3,000 artists in London, Tokyo, Berlin, New Orleans and Los Angeles.

www.artbelow.org.uk

BEN MOORE

Ben Moore, Founder of Art Below, has had over 12 years experience working with artists, museums, charities and arts organisations, initiating and managing partnerships to deliver new public arts projects. In 2006 he founded public arts organisation Art Below. He has produced and curated public exhibitions in London, Tokyo, Berlin, and Los Angeles working with high profile international and British artists including Turner Prize Winners and Royal Academicians. Recent projects and exhibitions curated by Moore include 'Art Wars', 'Stations of the Cross'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Moore_(curator)

SPECIAL YOGA

Special Yoga was initialised by Francesca Arpino who over the last two years has been training to provide Special Yoga Therapy to children with special needs, in and around the South West London area. Special Yoga’s methodology includes the classical yoga practices of movement, breathing, deep relaxation combined with sound, rhythm, massage and sensory integration techniques. 'Taking the child out of stress and into a relaxed state creates the optimum condition and possibility for positive change.' Francesca Arpino.

www.frankiearpinoyoga.com

THE HERO'S JOURNEY

Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell and some of the people he inspired, including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, filmmaker David Kennard, Doors drummer John Densmore, psychiatric pioneer Stanislov Grof, Nobel laureate Roger Guillemen, and others. Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, and the need for ritual to the ordeals of love and romance. With poetry and humor, Campbell recounts his own quest and conveys the excitement of his lifelong exploration of our mythic traditions, what he called “the one great story of mankind.”

EVENTS COMING UP AT RE:CENTRE