X Arts Projects

Engaging audiences through performance, computational arts, print, paint, video, sound. Collectively.

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Watershed goes to Parliament!

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Our touring project, Watershed, gears up for Parliament in June! Bringing attention to the state of UK rivers, the large-scale artworks will be installed where MPs and Peers will pass on the way to Committee Rooms to discuss the Clean Water Bill.
https://xartsprojects/watershed

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Celebrating #LondonRiversWeek2021 Oct 23-31 @Thames21! #WandleWonderWander summons spirits of rich industrial heritage in geo-located fragments of sound, text & animation as you stroll along #RiverWandle. Grab yr mobile and go with the flow! https://t.co/40SaK3JHwu

[ClaygroundCollective @Clayground_Co]

Clayground is involved in bids to reconstruct the Roman kiln in Highgate @HighgateRoman. Fabulous to be back again on the foreshore with our Roman walk led by Clayground Associate Archaeologist, Mike Webber. Examples pictured of coarse and Samian ware.

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Fantastic achievement @EastQuayWatchet (not just the food!) congratulations!

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Final w/e #WAF2021 - grab your mobile & go #WandleWonderWander! Augmented reality walk summons spirits of the River Wandle's industrial heritage & urban wildlife: gunpowder, snuff, William Morris, windmills, trout, watercress, calico, kingfishers & more! https://t.co/40SaK3JHwu

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

We're thrilled to launch #WandleWonderWander for Wandsworth @WAFfringe #WAF2021! Conjure up fragments of the River Wandle's fascinating incarnations, with our augmented reality walk. More info, link & map: https://t.co/40SaK3JHwu.
Grab your mobile and go with the flow!

[Drawing Room @drawingroomldn]

Find out more about the artists, their works in the Biennial and how you can bid on them and support Drawing Room's work, by following the link: https://t.co/LrjIOjs3Ts

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Fantastic news - great to hear that the planning application was turned down. Congratulations @BeaconsfieldArt!

[Beaconsfield @BeaconsfieldArt]

Today is the day the Secretary of State Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP will issue his decision on the planning application at 8 Albert Embankment. Fingers crossed! ☀️🤞🏼☀️🤞🏼

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

We're thrilled to be part of this festival, with our artists' creative journals for #TheWaterReplies all now filmed and online. Thankyou @estuaryfestival !

[Estuary Festival @estuaryfestival]

Have you seen our Estuary 2021 flyers? They were created by @BaxterandBailey to incorporate our visual identity, inspired by the semaphore flags which bring little pops of colour to our much loved #ThamesEstuary. #EstuaryFestival

[Estuary Festival @estuaryfestival]

The ‘Sound Mirrors’ geocaches for #EnglandsCreativeCoast as part of #EstuaryFestival have been installed 🔊The artwork by #DotDash is a trail of sound portraits on the Essex coast: #ChalkwellPark, #EastBeach, #WallaseaIsland, #JaywickMartelloTower, #NazeTower & #HarwichGreen.

[YINKA SHONIBARE CBE @SHONIBARESTUDIO]

‘Yinka Shonibare CBE. End of Empire’ is now open @MdMSalzburg. This major survey exhibition celebrates @ShonibareStudio’s diverse oeuvre and features around sixty works from the past three decades, including expansive installations, sculptures, photographs, textiles, and films.

[V&A @V_and_A]

Welcome back to arts and culture.

From glorious galleries to the thrills of theatre & marvellous miles of museums, the countdown to reopening is on.

The V&A’s doors open on 19 May, book your free timed tickets: https://t.co/xx8A4JMxwR

Ready, Steady #LetsDoLondon

[Estuary Festival @estuaryfestival]

Our first #EstuaryLiveLounge event ‘On the Obsessive Pursuit: Place and its Purpose’ is on Wed 26 May. Long-time friends and acclaimed writers @RachelLichtenst and #IainSinclair explore the impact of place, how it shapes our understanding of ourselves, our past and our present.

[YINKA SHONIBARE CBE @SHONIBARESTUDIO]

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is delighted to be co-ordinating this year’s Summer Exhibition @royalacademy

The show's theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ will celebrate the joy of creating art and give a platform to artists marginalised by the western art narrative.

[Laura Dekker @LauraDekker_io]

Bistort or Snakeroot, by the #RiverWandle next to #Wandsworth High St. Bright blustery day researching #WandleWonderWander our augmented reality walk for #WAF2021 @WAFfringe @XArtsProjects @LizSergeant1. Grey & pied wagtails, gorse, great crested grebe, guelder rose, valerian...

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

#RiverMoselle #Thames tributary, #QueensWood to #Tottenham. Barely perceptible, except through tantalising traces, a rushing sound beneath a drain cover, an inexplicably wavy fence.
#MappingTheWetness @lauradekker_io's creative journal for #TheWaterReplies @estuaryfestival

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

During the first lockdown XAP artists have been #walking, #walking, exploring their own local tributaries of the #Thames, creative journalling for #TheWaterReplies @estuaryfestival. @LizSergeant1 walks the River Lea. "Let me introduce you to my river..."

[Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize @TBWDrawingPrize]

The Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 is now open! The #TBWDP21 exhibition will be selected by Sheela Gowda, Artist; Simon Groom of @NatGalleriesSco and Zoé Whitley of @ChisenhaleGal. More information & how to submit here: https://t.co/QbRoECuCXd

[X Arts Projects @XArtsProjects]

Brilliant to see how the project's going. From little shipping containers, big things grow.