1 July, 2017
6pm – 4am

Art Night is a free contemporary arts festival that puts art into extraordinary locations around London for one night a year, encouraging the public to experience art and their city through entirely fresh eyes. Each year the festival partners with a leading cultural institution and curator, focusing on a different area of London to explore its distinctive identity, culture and architecture through various forms of art.

Charles Avery brings components of his imaginary Island to east London. The Islanders’ main city, Onomatopoeia, appears at St. Katharine Docks as part of a large-scale installation incorporating sculpture, drawings and posters. Significant features of the Island, such as trees and gods are displayed for one night only, as well as its main trade: eel hunting. A cocktail bar much loved by the Islanders, The Egg Eating Egret, operates from the premises of the White Mulberries café all night, serving custom-made egg cocktails to the public, while locals from the Island may appear unannounced. Promotional posters for the Eternal Dialectic, the leading cultural event of Onomatopoeia, are also brought to the streets of the East End through a flyposting campaign.

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Charles Avery
New and existing work
Sculptures, posters, performance and a cocktail bar

St. Katharine Docks, London E1W 1UH
& various east London locations

Cocktail bar & performers: 6pm–2am
Posters & Sculptures: 6pm–4am

Image: Charles Avery, Untitled (Couple kissing on Dha), 2016, watercolour, acrylic, pencil and ink on paper mounted on linen, 70 x 50cm