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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Our Impact

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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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Case Study: Sarah Cole, TRIBE

Case study of Sarah Cole’s 2013 exhibition TRIBE.

Case Study: Harold Offeh, Platform Press House

Case study of our Youth Platform’s exhibition Platform Press House in collaboration with artist Harold Offeh.

Case Study: Barby Asante, South London Black Music Archive

Case Study of the South London Black Music Archive by Barby Asante

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

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