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Paul Purgas

PAUL PURGAS

ARTISTS FLAG // PAUL PURGAS Southwark Park Galleries 1 July 2024–1 July 2025 London
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Artist and musician Paul Purgas presents one of Southwark Park Galleries’ annual public flagpole commissions, honouring our 40th birthday year and presented outside Dilston Gallery. A new commission, and created alongside his installation In the Temple of the Earth for Dilston Gallery, the flag builds on his ongoing research into the histories of design, music and spiritual philosophy within South Asia.

In the Temple of the Earth built on the artist’s recent touring exhibition We Found Our Own Reality, which uncovered the utopian design and music that emerged in India post-Independence and focussed on a tape archive discovered by Purgas documenting the history of the nation’s first electronic music studio.

Commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries, London, and generously supported by Arts Council England, The Paul and Louise Cooke Endowment, Southwark Council Culture Together Fund, ADi and OMNI.

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Southwark Park Galleries is an artist-led, interdisciplinary contemporary art organisation set across two contrasting gallery spaces—the Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery—in Southwark Park, Bermondsey, London, UK. Established in 1984 (formerly known as CGP London), the organisation is rooted in the local community while maintaining an international outlook, commissioning and presenting free exhibitions by emerging, overlooked, and established British and international artists.

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Lake Gallery
1 Park Approach
Southwark Park
London
United Kingdom
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Monday – Friday
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London Lake Gallery, 1 Park Approach
Southwark Park Galleries contemporary art institution in London United Kingdom
Southwark Park Galleries
Lake Gallery, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London, United Kingdom
+44 20 7237 1230
http://southwarkparkgalleries.org

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Monday – Friday
9am – 5pm
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