The Foundry (UK)
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The Foundry is a bar and exhibition space at 84–86 Great Eastern Street, on the corner of Old Street and Great Eastern Street, in London EC2A, England. It was the former headquarters of a major bank. The Foundry is owned by Jonathan and Tracey Moberly (Sanders-Wood) and Bill Drummond.
It has played host to meetings, performances, readings, exhibitions and other events, including:
2000
- Too Much Spirit[1] — an artist exchange between Moscow's 'Dom' and The Foundry featuring 50 artists, musicians, film makers including Pete Doherty of indie rock groups The Libertines and Babyshambles, Triona Kennedy a.k.a. singer-songwriter Ariel, and YBA sculptor Gavin Turk, Daisy Asquith film maker, Tracey Moberly (Sanders-Wood) artist, Tam Dean Burn actor, Arnold Frenzy's Flea Circus, Maggot racing Steven Haines, Gabriel Keen pianist.
2001
- Law and Auder's 'X-Chromosomes — Women in Experimental Electronica' [2] featuring Mira Calix of Warp Records, Ariel and the Flames and Andrea Parker of Mo'Wax Records. Two 'Female of the Species' CDs were released by Law and Auder Records. [3]
- Luverlie Jubbilie Free Shoreditch Street Party [4] — a celebration of the Queen and her Golden Jubilee
2002
- Day of Action Against the Cryptocracy featuring the London Psychogeographikal Arkestra
- Anthony Hancock Paintings and Sculptures: A Retrospective Exhibition with the London Institute of Pataphysics
2003
- We Get Restless
- Birth of conceptual art group i could do better than that [5]
2004
- SELLOUT — the art of listening exhibition — 10 artists, 100 works, £9.99 each, all proceeds to Resonance 104.4fm — 25 May 2004. [6]
2005
- Virtual Reality/Cybernetic Culture — Art exhibition @ The foundry — 3 artists, Filipe Galante, Shem Booth-Spain, Iniago Wilson — 16 October 2005.
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