# Raven Row

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{{Short description|Art exhibition center in Spitalfields, England}}
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thumb|56 and 58 Artillery Lane, now used by Raven Row.
[[File:Consider the Lillies of the Field by Padraig Timoney, 2009..JPG|thumb|right|"Consider the Lillies (''sic'') of the Field" by [Padraig Timoney](/source/Padraig_Timoney) in his ''Fontwell Helix Feely'' exhibition of 2013]]
'''Raven Row''' is a free art exhibition centre in [Spitalfields](/source/Spitalfields).  It was constructed from numbers [56](/source/56_Artillery_Lane) and 58, [Artillery Lane](/source/Artillery_Lane).  These properties were built about 1690.  The area was formerly used for testing [artillery](/source/artillery) and this portion of the lane was known as Raven Row until 1895.  No. 56 and 58 had been rebuilt in the 1750s for use by [Huguenot](/source/Huguenot) silk weavers and traders.  The buildings were converted into a gallery in 2009 by [6a architects](/source/6a_architects) on behalf of [Alex Sainsbury](/source/Sainsbury_family), who established a charity to run it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/27/raven-row-architecture-review-spitalfields|title= Raven Row art gallery: east London architecture at its finest|work= [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)|author= [Jonathan Glancey](/source/Jonathan_Glancey)|date = 27 March 2009|access-date= 23 December 2021}}</ref>  The inaugural exhibition was of work by New York artist [Ray Johnson](/source/Ray_Johnson).<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/venue/16004/raven-row |journal=[Time Out](/source/Time_Out_(magazine)) |title=Raven Row}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Quiet London |author=Siobhan Wall|authorlink=Siobhan Wall |page=121 |chapter=Raven Row |isbn=978-0-7112-3190-0 |year=2011 |publisher=Frances Lincoln Adult }}</ref> Raven Row has held exhibitions by [K.P. Brehmer](/source/K.P._Brehmer), [Iain Baxter](/source/Iain_Baxter), [Adam Chodzko](/source/Adam_Chodzko), [Suzanne Treister](/source/Suzanne_Treister), [Peter Kennard](/source/Peter_Kennard), [Hilary Lloyd](/source/Hilary_Lloyd), [Harun Farocki](/source/Harun_Farocki), [Eduardo Paolozzi](/source/Eduardo_Paolozzi), [Stephen Willats](/source/Stephen_Willats) and [Yvonne Rainer](/source/Yvonne_Rainer). Other exhibitions have been curated by [Richard Grayson](/source/Richard_Grayson_(artist)),<ref>{{cite web|title=Polytechnic|url=http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/polytechnic/|website=Raven Row}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Grayson|first1=Richard|title=Polytechnic, catalogue essay|url=http://www.richardgrayson.co.uk/texts/Polytechnic.html}}</ref> Lars Bang Larsen<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bang Larsen|first1=Lars|title=Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia|url=http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/reflections_from_damaged_life_/|website=Raven Row}}</ref> and Alice Motard.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Motard|first1=Alice|title=Běla Kolářová|url=http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/bela_kolarova/|website=Raven Row}}</ref>

Raven Row suspended its exhibition programming in 2017 with the intention to reopen in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Raven Row|url=http://www.ravenrow.org/events/raven_row_2013/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.ravenrow.org}}</ref>  In the interim, the Artillery Lane building was used by non-profit groups and organisations including the gallery Piper Keys, Asia-Art-Activism Research Network, [London Renters Union](/source/London_Renters_Union), and East London Cable.

After a five-year hiatus, Raven Row reopened in January 2023 with ''People Make Television'', an exhibition featuring archive BBC footage of grassroots programming from the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Harris |first=Gareth |title=East London art space Raven Row makes a comeback |work=The Art Newspaper |date=15 December 2022 }}</ref>  

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ravenrow.org/about/ About Raven Row]

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Category:Contemporary art galleries in London
Category:Art museums and galleries established in 2009
Category:2009 establishments in England
Category:Spitalfields

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