THAMESMEAD TEXAS is a nomadic artist led project space, based in Thamesmead founded by artists & filmmakers Vanessa Scully & Liam Scully, who create events, exhibitions, residencies as well as the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema and bar.
For 2023/24 Thamesmead Texas takes up residence in a vacant shop unit in Thamesmead, Cygnet Square. The gallery is an 8 minute walk from Abbey Wood station on the new Elizabeth Line.
DIRECTORS:
SCULLY & SCULLY have been curating and commissioning film screening events in Arthouse Cinemas and Galleries since 2011 in sites across London including The Aubin Cinema, Sugarhouse Studios, Close Up Cinema, Horse Hospital, Genesis Cinema, Deptford Cinema, The Rio, TACO! and CCA Glasgow. In 2018-19 with artist Dean Kenning Scully and Scully founded Sick Monday, a film Programme that commissioned new works by 18 artists including Mirza & Butler (GB), Paul McCarthy (USA), Laure Prouvost (FR), Lindsay Hallam (AU) and Ben Rivers (GB). Recently Scully and Scully were recipients of a HLF (Heritage Lottery fund) commission, to make an artwork that engaged with so called hard to reach communities, including their voices in the Thamesmead Community archive. Celebrating 50 years of Thamesmead, the outcome included 15 new interviews, a multi-screen installation and the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema.
ASSOCIATES:
ALESSIA GAMMAROTA is an Italian photographer with a Fine Art degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and a Photography degree from the European Institute of Design in Rome. Alessia Gammarota is a documentary photographer. Her practice is rooted in community engagement and participatory processes. She favours long-term immersive involvement with people and communities, from which she develops work that is co-created with the participants. She believes in plurality of voices and she conceives her stories through a multidisciplinary approach which involves collaboration with artists, architects, anthropologists and other professionals from different fields.
ALEX TUCKWOOD is a local Designer and Maker with a passion for finding out how things work by taking things apart and fixing items which are broken. Recently he completed building The Thamesmead Travelling Cinema and is Director of Plastic Please, a recycling project based in Thamesmead.
