Exhibition talks and events

OPENING EVENT - SIMON PATTERSON, LANDSKIP
Sunday 5 October, 2 - 3pm
Location: Battersea Park
Free - all welcome

The exhibition launch is marked by a public performance in Battersea Park of Simon Patterson's Landskip. First presented at Compton Verney in 2000, the installation brings a pastoral painterliness to Second World War camouflage testing. Military smokes (smoke-making devices) are installed by Patterson and timed to emit plumes of coloured smoke that unfurl ribbons of green, blue, red, violet, yellow and orange into the landscape. This event will be followed by a special viewing of the exhibition.

Admission is free but booking is recommended.  Please contact the gallery on 020 7350 0523 or email pumphouse@wandsworth.gov.uk

SMOKE FAYRE
Saturday 8 November, 12 - 4pm
Location: Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park
Free - all welcome

A bundle of smoky-themed workshops, demonstrations and performances in the grounds of the gallery, for both children and adults, including tastings and demonstrations of food smoking, trying out smoky eye makeup techniques, meeting Smoky Angora rabbits and learning how to knit their hair into smoky forms, watching magicians make objects disappear in a puff of smoke.

TRAILING SMOKE
Wednesday 12 November, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Location: The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT
Admission: £5

What is smoke exactly? We invite specialists to try to pin down smoke as it is manifest in fields as diverse as the literary history of smog and cutting-edge materials science. The panel includes broadcaster and historian of the poetics of air, Professor Steven Connor, and 'Professor' Mervyn Heard on the practice of projection on smoke by false ghost-raisers in the late 18th and early 19th
Centuries.

Please note this is a ticketed event and has limited capacity. Tickets can be purchased in advance in person, or over the phone from the gallery.