Current Exhibition - Burning The Space

Burning The Space

An exhibition of graffiti culture

15 October at 11:00 - 06 November at 18:00

Legendary UK graffiti writer Brave1 revisits Slack Space, and this time he's bringing some of his team. This group show features work from some of the areas original & best graffiti writers. Brave and crew will showcase the impressive graffiti-art skills as they spray paint the entire space.

The entire exhibition will be produced using only free hand techniques (No stencils). We are sure you will be amazed by the intricate detail... and colours in these highly technical spray-can-art masterpieces.

Come along you won't be disappointed.

Brave1 and his team have worked on numerous projects for schools and communities through graffiti art workshops and community re-generation schemes. The work of Brave Arts is always fresh and exciting and can be seen here

Check out all the writers below:

Brave. (Scotty)

K.a.k. (Jonnie)

Zar-Jaz. (Adrian)

Ekto (steve)

Ling (Lindsay)

(Additional ) Outside Artists

Howard (Demane)

Lee (Frame)

Paul (EyeSaw)

Last chance to see.....

Joint exhibition of work by Ilona Johnson and Sarah Barber. Ilona is a suffolk based artist who paints, makes prints and uses other mixed media. Sarah is a textile artist. Ends today!

Photos from the recent Brave One exhibition

August Min- Festival

Fri 6 August 7.30pm

Rock and Roll night with Déjà vu

Essex's newest / oldest rock and roll band give you songs and memories from the golden age of pop

Sat 7 August 7.30pm

Leaf and Angie present …..

Hoof

The abominable Mr Tinkler

and more

Sun 8 August 7.30pm

The August meeting of Artslink Colchester will feature a presentation by Paula Vans, an up-and-coming and exciting young artist who, despite her young age, has had numerous exhibitions of her work; the last being in the Digby Gallery.

Slack Folk

Slack Folk is Slack Space’s new afternoon folk club. Slack Folk runs from 2pm – 4pm on the second Saturday of the month.

The Folk club is being run by popular local band The Meddlars and features performances from themselves, as well as special guests. There are also open sessions. If you are interested in playing then please can you contact Tom Hardy on 01206 515360 themedlars@gmail.com

The next Slack Folk takes place on Saturday 14 August at 2pm.

Free singing workshop at Slack Space, hosted by prestigious and popular local singing group Quire. The event, which will take place on Saturday 10 July from 10am, is free but please email (see sidebar) to book places.

The workshop will run from 10am – 12 and will be followed, from 2 – 4pm, by ‘Slack Folk’ the new Slack Space folk club hosted by the Medlars. The folk club is free and no booking is required.

Please contact Tom, from The Medlars, if you wish to perform tomashardy(at)gmail.com

Hope to see you all there!

A brand new exhibition opening at Slack Space Wednesday 7 July.

Oulipo, roughly translated as “workshop of potential literature," is a loose gathering of writers and mathematicians which seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poet Oskar Pastior and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud.

The exhibition will feature art, instillations and writing inspired by the Oulipian tradition and is unique in the Country. Oulipian poets will be invigilating the space throughout the exhibition to answer questions and provide explanations of the work.