Off The Fence ‘24
In Celebration of 50 Years of the Lambeth Country Show
Wednesday 22nd May — Sunday 9th June 2024
Brockwell Park
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This year’s Off The Fence project celebrates 50 years of the Lambeth Country Show with a spectacular collaboration between artists and local community. The perimeter fence of the Brockwell Live festival site will be transformed into a large-scale installation honouring Lambeth’s history of radical celebration.
In collaboration with Brockwell Live, The Brixton Project has commissioned five artists, through a widespread open call, to design artwork for the fence based on community ideas and memories of celebration.
Selected artists misha B, Lorna Jean-Charles, Akmaral Khassen, William Lindley, Habiba Nabisubi and Kes Young, were invited to run creative workshops with local residents of all ages as part of the Brixton Project’s innovative Community Research Exchange. The workshops set out to gather the disparate voices of Lambeth’s local residents to share personal and collective narratives through dynamic, creative means.
Informed by the stories and visual representations gathered in these community workshops, the artists’ designs make up an immersive installation of joyous expression, that captures the vibrant spirit of Lambeth’s local community.
The Lambeth Country Show
Starting back in 1974 The Lambeth Country Show, is a highlight of South London’s summer. Celebrate and escape into a space where city meets country, where we meet and share all that we are for two glorious days sunshine or rain.
For 2024 we celebrate 50 years of sheep shearing, flower shows, and vegetable wonders sitting side by side with amazing music, food, crafts and community groups. This beloved and maverick tradition that could only happen here, in Brockwell Park, Lambeth — London’s most radically creative borough.
Contributing Artists
Habiba Nabisubi is a British-Ugandan multimedia artist, educator, mental health advocate and illustrator based in South London. She is a highly detailed visual storyteller and worldbuilder, with authentic representation being at the core of her practice. Habiba views all of her artworks as an opportunity for others to learn, grow and reflect. Having graduated from Camberwell College of the Arts in 2016 with a BA(Hons) Illustration degree; she then went on to participate in Arts Council funded Pathways Into (Children’s Publishing) 2019–2021. She has worked with BBC, Angelo Seminara, Merky Books, The National Portrait Gallery, Peckham Levels and The Horniman Museum & Gardens, amongst others.
William Lindley is a visual artist based in South London. His artistic practice is influenced by his background in architecture, regeneration and research in the UK, the Netherlands and Egypt. His work primarily explores the evolution of place and landscape, and has been presented in many settings, including museums, concert halls, libraries, parks and historic buildings. He frequently collaborates with other artists and practices to deliver projects with communities. He has created site-specific commissions and installations across the UK, including projections for Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire, a collaborative project with local residents at Portsmouth Central Library, a project with a neuroscientist at The University of Sussex and a moving image to accompany a live performance of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite for the London Medical Orchestra.
Akmaral Khassen’s first art print was created during her master’s thesis at the architecture school where she investigated hidden homelessness amongst women in the UK and the lack of access to menstrual hygiene. Her work opens the conversation about our body’s right and explores joy and softness associated with feminine forms.
Misha Amber Bryan, widely known by her stage name miSha B, is a multifaceted singer, songwriter and abstract artist hailing from Manchester, England. While she initially gained recognition as a captivating singer and songwriter, Misha has since expanded her creative horizons to include the world of abstract art. Misha uses her platform to spark meaningful conversations about social justice and systemic inequality. Finding solace in the world of art, Misha discovered a new avenue for self-expression, channelling her deepest thoughts and emotions into her abstract creations. One woman, many layers she is.
Lorna Jean-Charles has lived and worked in Lambeth for over 25 years, she is not only an artist she is also a musician. Lorna has performed in the past in the Brockwell Park Country Show. Lorna has acted and sang in various musicals one in particular Black Heroes In The Hall Of Fame where she played Ella Fitzgerald. Lorna has always been creative from making jewellery, song writing and art using different mediums. She recently put in a proposal to the British Library which was accepted and she planned and organised 6 workshops to produce 6 Mosaic plaques which is currently on display at the British Library Beyond The Baseline exhibition.
The piece Lorna worked on is a collaboration with Kes Young they capture the vibrancy, entertainment, and social diversity, whilst making a statement to bring down barriers that infringe on people.
Kes Young has always loved art and started her business Heart in art workshops, to share all forms of creative workshops with everyone. Her most loved medium is mosaics.

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