RSVP London

GOING from behind a laboratory bench to behind a lens, a medical researcher turned photographer is blending both his interests in a new photography exhibition.

After a life-long career in science, John Gaffen from Lewisham answered his creative calling and decided to pursue photography.
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Deptford Arts Network is rumoured to be closing down after three years following intense discussions. It is hoped that a new body may rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes offering barbecued wings and smoked breast alongside the more traditional fare of news and insider information.
Watch this space for further developments.

- “Deptford Renaissance” celebrated on new website -

Today saw the launch of a groundbreaking, new on-line arts magazine, known as the p&b cultural showcase, which looks set to seal Deptford’s emerging reputation as a new creative quarter in South East London.
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Our next RSVP event is during the Made In Deptford Festival; our next gathering will take place in an amazing teepee that cathedral have hired for the festival; we are working with Cathedral to invite locally based artist to contribute to the decoration of the space. The work will be hung in the space for three days. if you are intrested in taking part please contact us at

Anne Hampshire has now left Wigmore St, but more importantly Tracey Neuls and KJ laundry has got together to launch a temporary “guerrilla” art space in replacement.

Available now until the end of September, this central west London space will be a platform to showcase some of the best of the emerging artists of 2007. Now open for submissions, we hope to create a dynamic summer schedule.
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