Reflections on Stockwell Depot

The following text combines selected extracts from interviews held separately between 2013-14 with ten of the artists associated with Stockwell Depot. This selection addresses core issues associated with the Depot during 1967-79, a period in which each of these artists had an active involvement. David Evison, Gerard Hemsworth and Peter Hide helped to set up the studios in 1967; John Mclean moved into an area managed by Evison by 1970; Jennifer Durrant, Katherine Gili and Anthony Smart all first sublet from Hide in the early 1970s; and Mark Skilton arrived later in that decade. From 1975-79 the annual Stockwell Depot exhibitions regularly included a number of artists, including Alan Gouk and Paul Tonkin, who did not have studio spaces in the building