Deptford, London

  • Cafe on Deptford High Street 2
    Title : Cafe on Deptford High Street 2
  • Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Charles Shearer)131 2
    Title : Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Charles Shearer)131 2
  • Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Charles Shearer)131
    Title : Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Charles Shearer)131
  • Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Sue Lawes)686 2
    Title : Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Sue Lawes)686 2
  • Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Sue Lawes)686
    Title : Creekery Sue Lawes (credit Sue Lawes)686
  • Mark Titchner, A Point of Suspended Nothingness Sited at Old Police Station 2
    Title : Mark Titchner, A Point of Suspended Nothingness Sited at Old Police Station 2
  • Mark Titchner, A Point of Suspended Nothingness Sited at Old Police Station
    Title : Mark Titchner, A Point of Suspended Nothingness Sited at Old Police Station
  • Shelley Theodore Photography sited on Deptford High Street
    Title : Shelley Theodore Photography sited on Deptford High Street

Deptford X exists to promote the best contemporary visual art and celebrate that art with the widest possible audience. It is an arts event bourn of Deptford’s creative community and based on a belief in the limitless potential of the area.

This year Deptford X have invited a lead artist to develop a theme for the festival and to develop a statement of intent that would permeate throughout its activities.

Statement of intent for 2010 by Mark Titchner

Grand and spectacular, ephemeral or concealed, art qualified and created by daily life. An incongruous video on the CCTV monitors at the Job Centre, strange sounds on the PA system at the station, a message chalked on a wall, glimpsed and forgotten, flushed by the rain. It doesn’t matter what ‘it’ happens to be, but ‘it’ is experienced and ‘it’ is lived. Daily discoveries uncovered by chance encounters on busy streets. Not art but everyday life.

Get up, go to work, come home, get up, go work, come home but with an added element, something that wasn’t there the day before, something that actually makes you think about all this routine, this place we live and call life. Ridiculous, odd, generous, pretentious and maybe a bit stupid but something that reminds us that real life is not elsewhere. It’s here.

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