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198 is a pre-eminent cultural space in Brixton, which explores the rich diversity of artistic practices informed by globalisation and emerging cultural identities.

We foster creative synergies through a challenging artistic and education programme, which explores economic and social change; and their effects on visual culture.

Our artistic programme provides a platform for emerging artists and contributes to contemporary discourse on issues inherent to their work.

Our engaging, inspiring and accessible programme encourages and uses the interaction between diverse cultures, generations and social backgrounds as a catalyst for the creative process.

Contemporary Arts

The Inconsistency of Everything
Harminder Singh Judge

23rd July – 11th September 2010
Preview 22nd July 2010 7-9pm

“I always keep one eye on my personal history as a British born Sikh who loves rock music and Red Dwarf whilst also being genuinely fascinated and moved by the epic stories of religious history. I would site religious symbolism, mass conversion and the rituals of cults among my many influences, as well as Madonna, Coca-Cola & Jesus.’’

For the Inconsistency of Everything commissioned by the New Art Exchange and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Judge has created new sculptural and wall-based work that locates its starting point in religious mythology merged with pop culture and marketing gimmicks.

Judge has created and shown work for Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation, Tate Modern London, Arnolfini Bristol, the European Performance Art Festival at Centre for Contemporary Arts Poland, Ikon Gallery Birmingham and the National Review of Live Art at Tramway Glasgow. Harminder Singh Judge was born in Yorkshire in 1982. He studied Fine Art in Newcastle and is currently based in Birmingham.

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Creative Learning

198 Creative Learning’s mission is to provide professional digital media training for young creatives, with a focus on social inclusion. It involves practicing artists and designers and links with our exhibition programme.

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Belonging Traveller's Stories, Traveller's Lives
Eva Sajovic

4th February – 20th March 2010

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Cheryl Lane The Retrospective
7th June - 10th July 2010

A Voice to Break Through the Silence

“When I be makin things, I be makin my self.
I use all those l’le things I see around me.
Things that got no meanin, things peoples don respect.
I jest put ‘em together, I don use my mind I jest sense ‘em”

Cheryl Lane’s work revolves around an urgent need for expression. Images, merge with text. Use of materials to create layers of meaning materials from the domestic environment, unconventional materials, often found and reused materials merged together to make some strange and wonderful constructions. There is a constant repetition of letters words or phrases, or the name Philomela, Philomela, Philomela. Utterances, urges to speak to find a voice within the silence to find a means of expression. Magazine images are embellished and redefined by Lane’s mark making. Women are painted or drawn without mouths or eyes or they are constructed without heads or arms, essential physical qualities for intimate human expression. Lane’s work is has an intense draw to the viewer who is intrigued by a sense of beauty that is dark and melancholic yet romantic, sensual, and extremely poignan

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Previous Exhibitions

198 aims to advance public interest and participation in the visual arts and to nurture and support the early careers of emerging and under represented artists. In 2009 198 hosted a variety of exhibitions, including the first solo exhibition for Aya Haidar, the return to the gallery of artist and award winning writer Roma Tearne and the preview of Tahera Aziz's sound installation [Re]locate, which explores the event's that happened on the night of Stephen Lawrence's death. We have also worked on some exciting collaborations such as People, Signs & Resistance with Mutiny Arts, What is crime? with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and Free to Air with Film and Video Umbrella. This year we will be continuing to work with some exciting new artists such as Sunara Begum and Harminder Singh Judge in who's exhibition the Inconsistency of Everything is presented in collaboration with the New Art Exchange in Nottingham. There will also be a chance to see Eva Sajovic's exhibition Traveller's Stories Traveller's Lives at Hackney Central Library as part of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month.

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