galleries

The Wapping Project

Wapping Hydraulic Power Station Wapping Wall
London E1W 3SG
020 7680 2080
jules@thewappingproject.com
www.thewappingproject.com
Mon-Sat 12-10.30, Sun 12-6
Tube Wapping; DLR Shadwell

The Wapping Project is housed in the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, a matchless cultural space on the north bank of the Thames, east of Tower Bridge. Celebrated for its singular combination of challenging contemporary art and performance, fine food and inspiring architecture, it opened to the public in October 2000. The Wapping Hydraulic Power Station was built by the London Hydraulic Power Company in 1890. It harnessed Thames water to provide power to the surrounding docks and throughout the central London area. When it finally closed in 1977 it was the last of its kind in the world.

The body of work produced by The Wapping Project is the product of twenty year’s experience and an un-challenged record of commissioning artists who have become major players in the UK’s cultural landscape. All work in the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station is new, commissioned and site-specific. Benchmarks include: Yellow since 1877, large site-specific commissions – choreographers, film-makers, fine artists and architects darkly respond to the yellow pantone 137C. Angus Boulton films and photographs on former GDR. Roy Snell’s A SNAPSHOT, a sole unpublished image of Warhol, Roy’s shot. Presented in different sizes, format and techniques; a smart reinterpretation of Warhol’s work. Margaret Williams’s DANCE FILM a retrospective of Margaret’s twenty years of work, a celebration of contemporary dance and film making (2007). FREE AND FRAMED a major photographic exhibition which included new work shot backstage in Paris and New York (free) by Thomas Zanon-Larcher and a narrative with British Designers directed by Jules Wright and shot by Thomas Zanon Larcher in Oslo and based on Ibsen’s 19th century play, The Doll’s House framed (2006/07). JERWOOD: FASHION FILM AND FICTION a major installation which included commissioned pieces from 29 of the UK’s young exciting fashion designers, milliners and shoe makers, as well as six film makers; the work was subsequently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum, New York (2005). GRIMM DESIRES by Maresa von Stockert, a dance work commissioned in response to the building and providing the first full length – 4 week run – for contemporary dance in the UK; Maresa won the Time out Award for Choreographer of the Year (2004). ALL ABOUT CHAIRS, a series of 33photography and choreography commissions (July to October 2003). Richard Wilson’s extraordinary site-specific work, BUTTERFLY (2003). NYC, the ground breaking photography show of Magnum photographers and their work on New York (2002). Elina Brotherus’ SPRING photography and video installation (2001). Solo jazz performances commissioned for JERWOOD: SOLO WITH LIGHT (2001, later heard on JAZZ ON THREE). Keith Haring’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (2001). STAIRWORKS: JERWOOD:10X8 (2001) an extensive choreography series on the external stairwell. CONDUCTOR by Jane Prophet (2000), featuring 120 luminescent cables in the flooded Boiler House and Anya Gallaccio’s sublime 34 tonne ice-block, 1996.

Exhibitions SKIRT1 06.Feb - 03.Mar.08