Closing Celebration for Gary Stewart: A Ripple in Time
Photo by Raquel Diniz
Creative Labs
Orleans House Gallery invites you for a series of creative labs focused on sound, space, and the environment led by artist Gary Stewart. These hands-on performances and activations blend theory and practice, bringing together creative media and technical production shaped by culture and history.
19 February 2025: Let’s Get Creative with Dubmorphology and Sonic Laboratory with Dubmorphology, Cleveland Watkiss, Shamica Ruddock and Edie Bailey
Come along for a full day of sound art, music making and performance.
Activities for the day
10am–1pm – Meet artist Gary Stewart in the gallery (no booking required, just show up)
1pm, 2pm and 3pm – Let’s Get Creative interactive music-making workshop with Gary Stewart and folk singer Edie Bailey. Let’s Get Creative is aimed at families with children aged 4-11.
6pm–9pm – Performances by Cleveland Watkiss, Dubmorphology, Shamica Ruddock and Edie Bailey, followed by late opening hours for A Ripple in Time. Beer, wine and non-alcoholic drinks will be available from local brewery Jawbone. The first 20 guests to arrive will receive a ticket for a free beverage of their choice.
The gallery is open from 10am to 5pm with no booking required.
Tickets for Let’s Get Creative interactive family workshops will be available to book soon.
Book tickets for the late event on 19 February from 6-9pm.
Learn more about Gary Stewart: Ripple in Time.
Previous Creative Labs
The Creative Labs series was part of the events programme for A Ripple in Time exhibition, open at Orleans House Gallery until 23 February 2025. The exhibition is the outcome of Gary Stewart’s research into the Richmond Borough Art Collection which began in February 2024.
15 January 2025: Sonic Laboratory with Demigosh (Ade Balogun)
Resurfacing is a live, immersive soundscape by Irish-Nigerian vocalist and performance artist Demigosh. It was initially demoed at Staffordshire St Gallery.
Resurfacing is a dialogue between histories, identities, and cultural forces. It draws Yoruba spiritual chants, exploring how ‘these ancient traditions endure and evolve in the present.’ Demigosh highlights the cultural resilience of Yoruba spiritual traditions nearly erased by British colonialism.
11 December 2024: Sonic Laboratory with Ben Swaby Selig
Artists Gary Stewart and Ben Swaby Selig explore themes of land, memory, and Dub music. The event includes a representation and conversation about Ben Swaby Selig’s recent work, Sound Clash.
Sound Clash uses soundscapes to encourage active listening, bridging East London and Jamaica. It combines archival recordings and interviews via Jamaican sonic practices to consider our relationship to land, gentrification and dislocation.
Sound Clash is an on-going collaboration between Ben Swaby Selig and filmmaker Hannah Oliver, featuring contributions from Gary Stewart. The work was first presented at Frieze London in 2024.
30 October 2024: Sonic Laboratory with Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart will be offering a special preview of his Quantum Entanglement Performance before presenting it at the Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories conference in November 2024 at Birmingham University.
On this interactive performance and discussion, Gary creatively mixes two recordings of the late, renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall, placing him in conversation with himself and the audience. One recording features Hall as a young man, early in his career, while the other captures him later in life as a respected academic addressing a conference.
Gary’s work draws inspiration from the concept of retro-causality in quantum physics—the idea that the future can influence the present, and the present can influence the past. Through this lens, the performance explores the complex ways time, history, and ideas interact.
