Sculpture, food and Campari on the top floor of a multi-storey car park in Peckham. Amazing. See you on level 10...
Multi-storey car parks – I hate and fear the things something silly. I blame my parents for this irrational fear and hatred. Thanks to my mum's love of gritty crime dramas I grew up thinking all multi-storey car parks, with their dark and dingy corners, were prime murder territory, filled with armed assailants lurking in shadowy corners. My dad didn't help matters either. His rather risky reverse parking manoeuvres one fateful afternoon means lady BMW drivers will give me the heebie-jeebies for ever more. Besides, going round and round the ramps to the top makes me terribly car sick. Well, I'm glad to say that, as of today, I'm starting to put all this trauma behind me and I might just have found a car park I like the look of. And it's in Peckham.
This summer Hannah Barry Gallery brings Bold Tendencies: Sculpture Project 4 to levels 7-10 of the Peckham Rye multi-storey car park. The fantastic annual exhibition transforms the top four floors of the disused space into an open-air showcase for some rather splendid sculptural works by the likes of Rachel Adams, James Balmforth and Matthew Darbyshire to name but a few.
What's more, Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar, specially designed by Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley returns for a second year to keep the visitors fed and watered while they peruse a bit of art and take in the, um, spectacular view across SE15. It promises to be urban sprawl at its best.
Bold Tendencies is at Peckham multi-storey car park, 95a Rye lane, SE15 4ST from 30 June - 30 September.
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