{"id":3771,"date":"2011-03-19T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2011-03-19T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T12:15:31","slug":"a-trip-to-the-south-london-gallery-and-no-67-cafe-london-se5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-to-the-south-london-gallery-and-no-67-cafe-london-se5\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to the South London Gallery and No 67 cafe, London SE5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of London’s lesser known art galleries, the South London Gallery lurks in deepest Camberwell – right next to Camberwell School of Art – and is well worth a visit.<\/p>\n

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The South London Fine Art Gallery opened in Peckham Road on May 4, 1891,and two years later the Prince of Wales officially opened a lecture hall and library funded by newspaper owner John Passmore Edwards.<\/p>\n

In modern times, the gallery has gained a reputation for putting on “cutting edge” exhibitions, being the first to host Tracey Emin’s ‘Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963\u20131995’ tent installation, and the likes of Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George, Anselm Kiefer and Gavin Turk have all displayed their work there.<\/p>\n

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The SLG puts on five exhibitions per year in its main space and another five in a suite of three domestic scale galleries in the Matsudaira Wing.<\/p>\n

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It was hard to take photos of the video installation in the darkness, and even harder to take photos of the curious space upstairs.<\/p>\n

It was accessed through a long dark corridor before you ended up in a near pitch-black, carpeted small room, only lit by the slight glow of a bank of VU meters while being blasted by some very pleasant classical music.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what it was supposed to mean, but I liked it.<\/p>\n

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A welcome addition to the gallery is the adjacent No. 67 cafe. Fully licensed, the cafe\u00a0offers salads, tarts and quiches, soups, sandwiches, fair trade coffee and\u00a0delicious\u00a0cake. \u00a0It’s a lovely place to hang out.<\/p>\n

Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 8am-6.30pm except Wednesdays until 11pm, last Friday of the month until 11pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6.30pm.<\/p>\n

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The outside area to the cafe – deserted because it was taken on a\u00a0particularly\u00a0chilly March afternoon!<\/p>\n

South London Gallery<\/strong>
\n65 Peckham Road
\nLondon
\nCity of London
\nSE5 8UH
\nWebsite<\/strong> www.\u200bsouthlondongallery.\u200borg<\/a>
\nTelephone<\/strong> 020 \u200b7703 \u200b6120<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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