IN BRIEF

Football’s coming to the MarketCome along for a kick-about on 15 September

London Art Night reviewSee the four incredible art installations hosted by New Covent Garden Market

Whale of a timeSt. George’s Primary School mural is unveiled

Fruit and Veg MarketBuilding work progresses for Fruit and Veg Market

SUMMER 2018

We are excited to announce that the new football pitches here at New Covent Garden Market will be officially opening on Saturday 15 September 2018. Come along from 12noon to 4pm to celebrate with us.

These football pitches are a new sports facility for our neighbours and we can’t wait to share them with everyone. This will be a permanent benefit to the community providing direct access to high-quality sports facilities on your doorstep. We have partnered with Covent Garden Market Authority and Powerleague to deliver these five 5-a-side pitches and one 7-a-side pitch in an extraordinary and

innovative setting, as they sit above the market’s new Recycling Centre.

A Community Use Agreement ensures those in our neighbouring communities can enjoy the benefits of these pitches on every single day of the week, free of charge. The opening will be a day for everyone to come together – families, community groups and leaders – to celebrate, have fun and play football. For more infomration contact Powerleague Nine Elms on 020 719 93522 or nineelmsad@powerleague.co.uk or visit https://www.powerleague.co.uk/5aside/london/nineelms

FOOTBALL’S COMING TO THE MARKET

Football Pitches opening day: 12noon-4pmSaturday 15 SeptemberThessaly Road EntranceNew Covent Garden Market

VINCI St. Modwen, in partnership with Covent Garden Market Authority, is celebrating the latest milestone in the redevelopment project at Nine Elms: the Food Exchange.

This is a workspace, kitchen space and food culture venue for everyone and everything to do with food. The Food Exchange forms the first chapter of London’s Food Quarter – a vibrant food industry campus and a serious food destination.

The Food Exchange is partnering with Mission Kitchen to create London’s largest shared kitchen space, alongside co-working space, for London’s small and ambitious food makers. Already there are ice cream companies Oppo and Wheyhey!, granola makers Spoon Cereal, coconut water aficionados CocoPro and Young Foodies, a food business consultancy.

The building has already been recognised by the Mayor’s Good Growth Fund, receiving a £2.9m award in partnership with Mission Kitchen, which will further

enable the Food Exchange to grow its businesses, empower its people and support the local community. It has also been given the London & BUILD Project Award for Best Commercial Design. If you are a food start-up or entrepeneur and are interested in working there, you can book a tour of the private studios, just email hello@cgma.co.uk. If you live locally, don’t miss the chance to see it for yourself at the LFA (see p.3).

Award Winning Food Exchange Building Opens

The Food ExchangeA new food-hub at the heart of New Covent Garden Market

Art on the WallsThessaly Road and St. George’s Primary School to receive artist’s makeover

LFA 2018New Covent Garden Market to host event on ‘Identity’ for London Festival of Architecture

Art NightTamara Hendserson announced as performance artist for the London’s biggest art show

IN BRIEF

NEW COVENT GARDEN SITESNEWS

S P R I N G 2 0 1 8

Oppo Ice Cream move into Food Exchange

For an overview of the project visit: www.newcoventgardensites.com

CONTACT DETAILSFor specific information or to provide feedback concerning construction activity on the New Covent Garden Market site please contact:

E: ncgm-vcuk-liaison@4projectsmail.comT: 07767 006599

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Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival, transforming the city annually for one unforgettable night on 7 July 2018 with a series of artist’s projects in extraordinary locations across London.

Ralph Rugoff and the Hayward Gallery team have curated 12 artist projects inspired by the area, which will be along the trail, alongside special artist projects and events presented by local organisations, independent creatives and artist collectives.

Canadian born Tamara Henderson is New Covent Garden Market’s highlight for this year’s Art Night. Inspired by nature,

Tamara Henderson will respond to the Flower Market at New Covent Garden Market’s infrastructure with ‘Vision 3: Flowering Transition’, in the form of a choreography for 16mm film.

Tamara Henderson has had a prolific career, and exhibited at Glasgow International, dOCUMENTA (13), Serpentine Gallery’s 2017 Park Nights and Tate St. Ives. Art Night is free to all visitors.

For more information visit: www.artnight.london or follow on Twitter and Instagram @ARTNIGHTLDN

Inside the Flower Market

© Tamara Henderson, Copper Drinking Fountains

© Tamara Henderson, Copper Drinking Fountains

© Tamara Henderson, Seasons End: Out of Body , 2017. Serpentine Galleries, Park Nights 2017

© Tamara Henderson, Seasons End: Out of Body , 2017. Serpentine Galleries, Park Nights 2017

Art Night 2018

ART NIGHT 2018

Tamara Henderson

Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival, transforming a different part of the city annually for one unforgettable night on 7 July 2018 with a series of artist’s projects in extraordinary locations along the South Bank.

Canadian born artist Tamara Henderson was New Covent Garden Market’s highlight for this year’s event.

Sponsored by VINCI St. Modwen and taking place on the only night that the Flower Market is closed, Henderson’s performance replaced the trading activity with a cast of eight characters. Constructed from materials found at the Flower Market, each character was conceived as a sculpture for the actors to wear in a choreographed procession through the specially lit Flower Market.

The characters derive from the life-cycle of the plants and flowers, their origins in seeds, earth and water, incorporating the daily activities of the Flower Market and its symbology and language.

Henderson herself featured in the performance operating a camera to film the event as the ‘eye’ witnessing the night’s activity.

ART NIGHT OPEN

Anna Skladmann

Özge Topçu

Georgina Hill

Anna Skladmann’s installation Ghost In The Machine sits at the front of the Flower Market.

Skladmann has taken flowers from the market and set that against errors from her scanning machine. Her work explores how nature and the machine can work both with and against each other. This piece remains at the entrance to the Flower Market on Nine Elms lane, so you if you missed Art Night you can still see it for yourself.

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In her sound installation, Hammer & Anvil: Stems, on the upper car park of the Flower Market, Georgina Hill reconstructed the 1970s Flower Market.

Listeners could hear field recordings and eyewitness accounts from the old market. The work conveys the changing nature of the area, with its many embedded architectural and personal histories, and reflects on the evolution of New Covent Garden Market.

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Art Night Open consisted of satellite events happening around the main featured art installations. Özge Topçu’s work Agora was inspired by the idea of the marketplace.

Topçu engaged with the local community through a series of workshops at the ROSE community centre, where she asked the participants to come up with designs for alternative public spaces which can be built from one of the key components of the market place – the market box.

Built during Art Night, the new structure was used as a social meeting point for those walking the trail. www.ozgetopcu.com | Instagram @ozgetopcuart

FRUIT AND VEG MARKET

CONTACT DETAILS

For specific information or to provide feedback concerning construction activity on the New Covent GardenMarket site please contact:

E: ncgm-vcuk-liaison@4projectsmail.comT: 07767 006599

Follow us on Twitter:@STM_NineElms

For an overview of the project visit: www.newcoventgardensites.com

Works start on siteOctober sees us starting the construction of the new Fruit and Veg Market in the south of the market, in an area called the South Vehicle Car Park. Keep up to date by following the project on:www.newcoventgardensites.com

An Illustration of the Brand New Covent Garden Market

WHALE OF A TIME

In June a beautiful 22 metre-wide mural was completed on the playground wall of St. George’s Primary School in Battersea, thanks to funding and support from New Covent Garden Market site developers - VINCI St. Modwen.

This project is the culmination of a much wider Cultural Education Challenge entitled Cultivate running across Wandsworth and the UK, in which artists are introduced to schools to work with young people and to provide exposure to creative thinking and career opportunities.

Artist Mr Dane has been working with St George’s Primary School for the past two years, having first been introduced to them as part of VINCI St. Modwen’s Edible Avenue programme.

The image is a real life-size female whale set against a blue sea backdrop. The female whale is exactly the same length as the wall of the playground ‘pen’ at St. George’s.

A specialised paint was used which works to absorb CO2. As the wall is so large, its absorbency equals approx 30 kg of CO2.

South Vehicle car park

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