Open Weekend at Skylark 2

There's just one year to the opening of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and to help mark the milestone this weekend Skylark Gallery 2 is hosting one of the 1,100 events taking place across the UK in the London 2012 Open Weekend.

On Saturday 23 July and Sunday 24 July from 3pm to 5pm Skylark artists will be on hand to help visitors to the gallery make collages that represent their hopes and dreams. A similar event last year was a huge success - so join us for a second year, or don't miss out again this year. We look forward to seeing you on the South Bank!

www.london2012.com/open-weekend

Images from Dreambank

Dreambank at Skylark on 23-25 July - part of the series of Open Weekend events in the buildup to the 2012 Olympic Games - was a great success, with visitors to the gallery being challenged to make a postcard-sized artwork that portrayed their dreams and aspirations.



Kathy Dutton, one of the Skylark artists involved in the event, said: "It was busy right from the start, with people really getting into the creative challenge, making some fantastic work for the Dreambank. All the works will be photographed, and then uploaded to our website and Facebook pages. And finally we will post them to the creator of each card."


Here are a few images from the weekend.

Dreambank at Skylark, 23-25 July 2010

Dreambank... come and post your goals, dreams and aspirations

Skylark Galleries are delighted to be partners in this year's Open Weekend from 23-25 July 2010 as part of the buildup to the 2012 Olympics. Open Weekend gives audiences a unique opportunity to participate within a variety of London's world-class creative and cultural venues.

Skylark Galleries will be hosting a series of free artists events. Come and join the artists at Skylark Gallery 2 who will help visitors to create mini works of art on postcards expressing their hopes and dreams. All artwork will be collected into our Dreambank before being posted back to participants.

Friday 23 July, 3-5pm, visual artist Kathleen Dutton
Saturday 24 July, 3-5pm, textural artist Gill Hickman
Sunday 25 July, 3-5pm, figurative artist Dwayne Shirley

You can follow events on the London 2012 Open Weekend on Facebook.

Skylark Galleries are partners in the Cultural Olympiad for 2010
(Part of build up for the 2012 Olympics)

Spirit of the Southbank for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

Skylark Gallery is delighted to be partners in this years Open Rehearsal as part of the build up to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Open Rehearsal gives audiences a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes and experience how London's world-class creative and cultural organisations create everything from performing arts to fashion, from art and film to museum collections.

This pan-London season, a Mayor of London’s initiative, is in its 4th year and forms the core London element marking the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, the 4-year cultural programme running until London 2012.

Open Rehearsal takes place across London's 33 boroughs from 26th-28th September

Skylark Galleries will be hosting THE SPIRIT OF ART ON THE SOUTHBANK with a FREE ARTISTS' EVENT

Friday 26th September (6-8pm)
Skylark 2 Gallery 1st fl OXO Tower
Come and join the artists at Skylark Galleries, hear them share their personal stories of empowerment and discuss the ideas and inspirations behind their most recent work.
Including Gill Hickman, Kathleen Dutton and Steve Yeates

• Gill Hickman believes art & particularly the "happy cells" she's been visualising for years have kept her well without medication for 20 years after HIV diagnosis
  
  
• Kathleen Dutton Artist and Illustrator talks about her recent advertising commission for an environmental awareness campaign in Italy and her work with social enterprise.
  
  
• Steve Yeates Empowering the self and surviving cancer through art. A personal account of Steve's experiences and processes. (A donation made to Cancer Research UK with every sale)

Skylark 2 Gallery • Unit 1.09 • Oxo Tower Wharf • SE1 9PH
(First Floor Riverside up the stairs) Tel 0207 401 9666

www.skylarkgallery.com

For more information please go to www.openrehearsal.co.uk

Images above, left to right: Healing Earth - Give and Take, by Kathleen Dutton Energy Cells, by Gill Hickman Empowering, by Steve Yeates