South, London
Group Exhibition
Sin Centre
Hannah BarryGeorge Rouy, Jesse Pollock, Melloney Harvey, Nikolaj Schultz, Stevie Dix, Joe Sweeney, Kingsley Ifill, Danny Fox, Tali Lennox, Lisa Ivory, Marie Jacotey, Paloma Proudfoot, Ebun Sodipo, Scott Young, Simon Whybray, Miranda Keyes, Jermaine Gallacher, Harley Weir, Inez Valentine Sin Centre is for pleasure, a place and programme made by artists, writers, designers and friends working together. It incorporates various specified entertainments (bar, library, etc.) as well as unprogrammed spaces for amusement. Everything in the Sin Centre has been made specially, to satisfy the unruly mind, forge connection, offer surprise and delight. You just come here, we do the rest. The Casino sign is a new work by Simon Whybray. Bar and snacks organised with thanks to Coco Bayley, Frank Boxer, Dominic Barry Sin Centre takes its name from an unrealised project by English architect and founder of Archigram Group Michael Webb (conventionally, but misleadingly dated 1959-62) about which little has been written. Webb’s Sin Centre was planned for Leicester Square as his thesis project at Regent Street Polytechnic (where he took 17 years to complete a five-year course). It was to be a place of transcendence, of release from material things. Webb’s drawings, writing and thinking are a continuous source of red hot inspiration for our Sin Centre. Michael Webb (b.1937) lives in Rhode Island. Sin Centre Is the fourth project of its kind organised by Hannah Barry Gallery, following Palazzo Peckham, Venice (2013), Peckham Hotel, London (2013)and Peckham Pavilion, Venice (2009).