Peckham Platform is a creative and educational charity based in Peckham, South London. We bring local communities together with leading artists to co-produce social art that responds directly to the needs and concerns of the people involved.

We commission new work, run workshops, talks and exhibitions and provide progression routes for young people. For each new artist commission we work with a section of our community to jointly identify themes, develop a brief and select artists. The community then collaborate with that artist to create new work. The model of joint decision making continues right through to the exhibition, installation or event.

Learning

Activities exploring socially engaged art for families and schools

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Our Programme

Our artistic programme strives to be both relevant and useful to artists and the communities with whom we work. Reflecting our values and concerns as a cultural organisation with a civic duty. We are committed to community-led co-commissioning and creating a genuinely collaborative process.

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What is social art?

Socially engaged art can be broadly defined as what happens when artists work with people in the co-creation of a public outcome. In the context of Peckham Platform, this means that we support artists to work with Peckham’s communities in the process of making something together.

Resources

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Pencil shavings pinned to the wall as part of A Dog in the Playground exhibition

Publication: A Dog in the Playground

This publication explores teaching in classrooms as a socially engaged artistic practice, by looking at the role of the teacher as artist.

Podcast: Futurama, urban design and utopian thinking

Artist Harold Offeh and Paul Goodwin (then Tate) discuss issues of urban design and future thinking in reference to Futurama, Offeh’s 2010 commission for Peckham Platform.

Artist David Cotterell standing with miniature stunt helicopter as part of the film Slipstream

Artist Talk: David Cotterrell, Slipstream

Artist David Cotterrell discusses his commissioned artwork with Dr David Dibosa.

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

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