Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Crouch End Open Studios
Saturday10th - Sunday11th May 12 - 6pm
This is the 10th anniversary of Crouch End Open Studios and this year 30 artists will be showing their work, including many new faces.
The idea is to create your own Art Trail, visiting several, or even all 30 artists, perhaps calling in at the Original Gallery at Hornsey Library to view the taster exhibition of everyones work first.
There is currently a small exhibition showing some of the Ladder artists plus those on the fringes of Couch End, entitled Sneak Peek, at the lovely Blend Cafe on Green Lanes. Until 29th May.
Please go to www.crouchendopenstudios.co.uk for more information
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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on
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In fact I was admiring your piece in the Blend show today, Like it. Is that the view from Lyle Park in Silvertown? Hope to catch more next week.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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This one? Interesting as well because it's contaminated land which had to be capped.
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Ah yes Thames Barrier Park just a bit further down from Lyle Park. There is a history of heavy industry throughout the area as you can tell by the wharf names (Guano) and factory (Akzo Nobel, Tate and Lyle...etc) remnants.
Some history here:
http://www.arup.com/_assets/_download/download17.pdf
You can still see the memorial to the Silvertown explosion just nearby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvertown_explosion
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I don't claim any expertise on the area, Jane. And in Googling I was doing what many others do - trying to find out a bit more about a place we visited.
In my original comment on Flickr I drew from the London Development Agency website. With abolition of the LDA I can't find the original webpage. Nor, at least with a superficial search - can I find anything on the decontamination works, nor the capping necessary. (It was once the site of a chemical factory.) I'm sure you'll have more success asking locally.
In fact a quick search online about this park tends to be more PR than information. There's lots of Orwellian doubleplusgood Newspeak - upbeat words and phrases like pivotal, world class, vision, focal point, regeneration and other meaningless nonsense. Plus mentioning the great views of the Thames Barrier.
Online I also found some comments and speculations about the park's design reflecting or perhaps being inspired by local history and features. At the same time it seemed that the circles, rectangles, and diagonal lines may have owed more to the French landscape architects' "postmodern" ideas about park design. And/or Russian Constructivist painters.
Seven years ago the question crossing my mind was whether or not it "worked" as a park. Visiting it now, Jane, what's your view?
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As the area has been declared fair game for monocultural gated community gentrification get in whilst you can to capture the industry before it is all gone. There is still an eerie beauty to the surviving industry.
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On a few occasions when we were around there, the sky was astonishing.
Click on Nico Hogg's photo of the Woolwich Ferry to see larger sizes.
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