An afterhours chance to explore this year’s East London Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition (6-9pm), alongside a live performance by Liang-Jung Chen and a drop-in workshop by Darcey Fleming between 7-8:30pm.

Bow Arts’ East London Art Prize celebrates the talent and diversity of art made in east London. This exhibition will present 12 incredible artworks shortlisted for the second iteration of the Prize. Read more about the exhibition here.

Building on from the shortlisted work Ebb is to flow as wax is to wane (2023), Liang will be collaborating with a choreographer and a composer to activate her in-situ beeswax installation that explores on labour-intensity and its futility, inspired by Liang's personal experience of working in cleaning and her obsession over candles. Through a live durational performance, she invites the audience to witness its disappearance as a way to celebrate the effort we put into our everyday life and embrace the transience of our existence.

For this special late opening, Darcey will be hosting a drop-in workshop introducing the weaving techniques that she uses in her shortlisted work A room (2024), an immersive installation, a colourful world that she has created to connect and communicate with people. Darcey will be working with you to make small weavings from discarded baling twine that she finds in the countryside and that is donated to her by farmers. Baling twine is used to tie hay bales together, after use it is discarded or added to landfill. You will be able to choose the colours and sizes of the twines you would like to work with during the workshop.

The Nunnery Cafe will be open for the duration of the evening, selling drinks and a range of tasty snacks and refreshments.

The performance and drop-in workshop will take place between 7-8:30pm in the Nunnery Gallery.

The development of Liang-Jung Chen’s live performance is supported by The National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan.