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East London 2004-2012. Landscape, displacement, communities. Olympics.

Object

Postcard

Production date

2004-2012

Object number

2012.221

Physical Description

A collection of postcards picturing East London Olympic related changes

Associated Organisation

Associated Person

Christie, Caroline
Lloyd, Bobby

Material

Card

Dimension

Width (Front): 15cm
Height (Front): 105mm

On display?

No

Inscription

East London 2004-2012. Landscaape, displacement, communities Olympics. Caroline Christie, Bobby Lloyd and Traveller & Gypsy children. On Site Arts.
OLYMPICS
Landscape, displacement, communities
EAST LONDON 2004 - 2012

Artists Caroline Christie and Bobby Lloyd formed on site arts in 2004 to explore the profound changes taking place in east london’s lower lea valley / olympic park area. In parallel with their own visual art practices, Christie and Lloyd led extensive photographic projects with Traveller and Gypsy communities going through the process of displacement from the Olympic site and beyond this to resettlement.

This collection of postcards taken from both the artists and the traveller and gypsy archives marks the final olympic park area project for on site arts.

On site arts’ photographs and installations have been exhibited across London: on four number 38 Routemaster buses; at space gallery, hackney; on construction hoardings along carpenter road inside the closed-off Olympic Park; in a luton van turned gallery; a caravan for Holocaust Memorial Day; at the V & A’s Museum of Childhood Tower Hamlets; at City Hall and in 2012 at parkway crescent romany gypsy
Site in newham and hackney picturehouse.

Support by the london gypsy traveller unit postcards funded with the help of westfield

On site arts’ funding has come from a number of sources including arts council england lottery awards for all local network fund, the learning trust hackney and the V & A

Cover photo by Bobby LLoyd Channel Tunnel Rail link site 2005 / olympic park 2012

16 postcards
All profits towards on site arts projects
www.onsiteearts.org
£4.99