Innovative new wall art hub will celebrate UK diversity
Published on: 09-Aug-2007
A new £8 million public building will open in the heart of London this October and will use wonderful wall art and challenging visual displays to celebrate the city's rich culture.The Rivington Place gallery, in east London, was designed by award-winning architect David Adjaye OBE and will be the city's first new-build public exhibition space opening since the Hayward Gallery opened in 1968.
As well as a library, cafes and workspace and offices for local arts organisations, the new 1,445 sq m building also contains two huge project spaces which will house wall art exhibitions and displays, film screenings and discussion groups which look to London for their inspiration.
Ahead of the new opening, Open University emeritus professor and Rivington Place project champion Stuart Hall told fxmagazine.co.uk: "Difference is complex - it alters and evolves, but does not go away. Difference matters and will continue to matter, it provides an incredible source of richness, new ways of seeing and creativity.
"Rivington Place is a landmark building which celebrates diversity and the exciting and essential contribution it makes to the visual arts."
Running from October 5th, Rivington Place's opening exhibition will be Place for Me, which will explore the issues of migration and social upheaval through a series of photographs and moving images.
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