Echoing the ‘apartment exhibitions’ of Soviet non-conformist art collectives, the new wave of contemporary artists, curators and gallerists have looked to alternative spaces to escape the elitist LondonFrom Deptford High Street, Peckham Rye to Bermondsey’s industrial district – these galleries are situated in unexpected locations and are, in most cases, undistinguishable to their neighbours if it wasn’t for a small sign above a door.
Working directly with local universities and emerging talent, these secretive spaces are creating new equal opportunities for emerging artists to display contemporary work with fantastic results.Two doors down from the great Lai Loi Vietnamese supermarket sits 186a Deptford High Street – otherwise known as the artist-run gallery, Gossamer Fog.
After six months of refurbishment, Capps established the gallery in 2016, where Gossamer Fog instantly became the forefront of new-media art – working with VR, AR and more traditional media that address contemporary societal issues.