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Sunday 5th February 2023
4 PM – 9 PM with live performances from 5:30 PM
RSVP required
Scipop
Scipop – Science Fiction Pop Art – is the alias of London-based Nazar Ali Khan, who uses digital and traditional techniques to produce art that positions itself as part of, but also part of the fallout between, modernist and popular culture. Active in design on the music scene over a number of years, Nazar’s recent works, exhibited at this event, centre around themes of transience and transition, as explored in the music of his own techno alias Stray Transmission.
Stray Transmission
Stray Transmission emerged on the London sound art scene with live performances that pitched the incidental yet dreamlike soundscapes of field recordings against the repetitive beats of techno. Developing into a fully hardware-based techno act in live performance across gallery
and music events, Stray Transmission continues to navigate an area somewhere between dance music and sound art.
Paul Khimasia Morgan
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist who has worked with Steve Beresford, Faradena Affifi, Blanca Regina, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Christian Alvear, Ryu Hankil, TIDES and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN. His recordings have been released by Minimal Resource Manipulation, Lonely Impulse, Linear Obsessional, Cronica, Con-V, TSOKL and Confront Recordings. Paul also writes about new music for The Sound
Projector magazine.
“…feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…” – Byron Coley in The Wire magazine.
1 – 15 September 2022
Opening Reception: Friday 2 September, 6pm – 9pm
(RSVP required)
Happenstance Gallery, Unit 1, 334 Old Street, Shoreditch, London EC1V 9DR
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You are cordially invited to Net Infinity, an exhibition at our gallery space in Shoreditch. It features several artists chosen from the extended Happenstance community, including:
Sound artist Georgina Brett performed live at the Net Infinity opening reception. Check out this interview and performance clip:
Blanca Regina and Moshi Honen performed an experimental electronic duet while using video mapping to illuminate the art works. Check out the behind-the-scenes and performance clips:
This is a course designed for artists to learn and practice main methods used in conservation framing when mounting their artworks.
Dates available:
Fri 26 July – book
Fri 2 Aug – book
Duration: 2-4pm
Location: Joseph Wales Studios (2 Dane Hill, Margate CT9 1QP)
Course price: FREE (all professional materials included); pre-booked only, places limited.
After this course you will know how to mount your artwork in three different ways:
– float mount raised for a box frame
– in a cut out window mount
– straight in for a browser
Only 8 places available.
What you need to bring with you: 3 artworks or photographs A4 size or smaller.
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Book Your Course here:
Fri 26 July – book
Fri 2 Aug – book
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Salon des Refusés 2019 Exhibition
Coordinated by Happenstance Art and Framing
Dates: 25 July – 8 August 2019
Location: Joseph Wales Studios
Free Entry
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RSVP for Opening Reception – Thursday 25 July 2019, 6pm-9pm.
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In the tradition of the 19th century Parisian Salon des Refusés, Happenstance Art & Framing Gallery presents the 9th Salon des Refusés: Exhibition of Artworks Refused from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Our annual extravaganza of artworks missed, unappreciated, misunderstood or sacrificed at the last minute by the Royal Academy Selection Commitee will this year feature over 100 UK and international creators across a range of art forms. This is a unique chance to appreciate non-establishment and democratic art.
Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite works with winners announced at the exhibition’s finale on Saturday afternoon.
For live updates:
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Salon des Refusés 2019 Exhibition
Coordinated by Happenstance Art and Framing
Dates: 12-15 June 2019
Location: Camden Image Gallery
Free Entry
View TOP 12 Artworks as Voted by the Public
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In the tradition of the 19th century Parisian Salon des Refusés, Happenstance Art & Framing Gallery presents the 8th Salon des Refusés: Exhibition of Artworks Refused from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Our annual extravaganza of artworks missed, unappreciated, misunderstood or sacrificed at the last minute by the Royal Academy Selection Commitee will this year feature over 100 UK and international creators across a range of art forms. This is a unique chance to appreciate non-establishment and democratic art.
Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite works with winners announced at the exhibition’s finale on Saturday afternoon.
Exhibition open to the public:
12 June – 11am-6pm, 1:30pm Lunchtime Concert, 3:30-5:30pm Opening Tea Ceremony RSVP
13 June – 11am-8pm*
14 June – 11am-6pm, 1-4pm Workshops and Talks
15 June – 11am-5pm, 12-4pm Sound Art Performances, 4pm TOP-12 Artworks Announced
Wednesday 12th of June is the first chance to see the exhibition and meet the artists with live music and drinks.
The evening of Thursday the 13th of June is for the Opening Reception with late opening.
*Ticket only 6pm-8pm
This is a course designed for artists to learn and practice main methods used in conservation framing.
Dates available: Thursday 31 January 2019 (sold out), 21 February 2019 (sold out), 7 March 2019 (sold out), 28 March 2019 (book).
Duration: 11am-4pm with a lunch break
Location: Happenstance Framing Studio (318 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4DE, Haggerston)
Course price: £40 (all professional materials included); pre-booked only, places limited.
After this course you will know how to mount your artwork in three different ways:
– float mount raised for a box frame
– in a cut out window mount
– straight in for a browser
Only 5 places available.
What you need to bring with you: 3 artworks or photographs A4 size or smaller.
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Book Your Course here:
31 January 2019 – sold out
21 February 2019 – sold out
7 March 2019 – Follow to book
28 March 2019 – Follow to book
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We have 8 years experience of assisting artists with their submissions to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. If you have been shortlisted for the next round of the RA competition, we can help you submit the original of your artwork to the RA on specified delivery days.
Note that it is very important that the artworks are framed in accordance with the RA standards and expectations. This is where our experience can help you: you can bring or post your artworks to us and know that they will be in reliable hands and will be submitted to the RA on your behalf on time and properly framed.
If you have shortlisted artworks and need our assistance, email us on art.happenstance@gmail.com .
Key Dates
Shortlisted artists will be notified on 14 March 2019.
Delivery days for shortlisted 2D artworks this year – Wednesday 1 May 2019. Once you’ve heard that your artworks have been shortlisted, contact us as soon as possible to ensure that there is sufficient time for postage and framing.
The final results will be announced on – 20 May 2019.