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Decima Gallery is a London

London

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-based arts projects organisation with a reputation for irreverent projects, according to a 2008 article in The London Paper:
Also known as Decima Projects or Decima International Arts, but more commonly simply referred to as "Decima", it is owned/managed by David West, Alex Chappel, Larry McGinity and Mark Reeves.

Decima have occupied various physical spaces since 1997 and have also staged a number of projects hosted by other venues, in London and around the world, including major London spaces such as the Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...

. Decima have also staged many conceptual, event-based and media-based projects. Ralph Rugoff in Frieze
Frieze (magazine)
-Publication:frieze is published eight times a year and is based in London. As well as essays, exhibition reviews and columns by forward-thinking writers, artists, critics and curators, the magazine includes music reviews, artist projects, interviews and sections on design and...

called them "Neo-Publicists", as they do not just seek press coverage, but use the mass media as their artistic medium.

As well as doing art projects, events, and club nights, Decima deals in limited edition books and prints, specialising in Gilbert and George

Gilbert and George

Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...

and Stephen Gill

Stephen Gill (photographer)

Stephen Gill is a British photographer and artist.-Early life:Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs...

Origin

David C.West worked with the Factual Nonsense Gallery alongside Joshua Compston

Joshua Compston

Joshua Richard Compston was a London gallerist whose space, Factual Nonsense, was closely associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists . Compston graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1992...

before Compston's death on March 5, 1996. Among projects on which they collaborated was The Jack Duckworth Memorial Clinic, a spoof clinic for soap opera addicts.

In 1996, David C. West along with Alex Chappel formed a "media terrorist" group called a.r.t. (a reasonable thought). "We use the media as a canvas for art", explained David C. West: "Stunts have included running a clinic for soap opera addicts and launching The Dennis Nilsen Tour Company.". This is thought to be the earliest incarnation of what is now known as Decima.

Decima Street 1997-2000

The group's name originates from the address of their first gallery space which was officially launched in February 1998 at 3 Decima Studios, Decima Street, London SE1.

The gallery was first occupied on August 31, 1997 by Guy Hilton, Philip Hunt, Alex Chappel and Matthew John Andrew. Guy Hilton left before the first show (he later went on to found the Guy Hilton Gallery with Angela Friese in London's East End, in 2005.) On February 12, 1998 the gallery was launched with a show named "Scott", which was organised by Matthew John Andrew and Philip Hunt.

In April 1998, Decima was reported to stage "Fuckart & Pimp

Fuckart & Pimp

Fuckart & Pimp was a media hoax conceived by Alex Chappel and David C West in April 1998 which subjected a small London gallery to worldwide media attention and became a British front page newspaper sensation, as well as featuring on national television...

, a show that purported to feature a female artist producing paintings while having sex with clients
.

With delicious predictability, the Great British Public were incensed." The show was in fact a hoax.
Philip Hunt and Matthew John Andrew left in November 1998 after which, Decima was managed by Alex Chappel and David C. West.

On the 21st August 98, Decima sent a fax to the Tate informing them that they would be bringing a real cow to the Gallery to "show where food and sex connect with the world of art". It turned out to be the artists themselves as a Pantomime Cow. At this time, the artist Derrick Welsh was represented by and closely affiliated to Decima.

In April 1999, Decima attempted to cause another splash with a show entitled "Was Jesus a Homosexual?" which was organised in conjunction with political philosopher Richard Morley. The Independent's Pandora column reported "Gilbert and George

Gilbert and George

have installed part of a 100-year-old fountain they purchased recently, which featured the inscription "Jesus said if any man thirst let him come to me and let him drink". This now reads "Jesus said let him come". Another exhibitor, Piers Wardle

Piers Wardle

Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

, has made a crucifix with wooden balls attached by a "string that can be played with" and called it The Miracle of Holy Balls. Charles Sayer's canvas of a naked woman, legs apart, is displayed alongside eight framed biblical texts and entitled Anti-Christ I awake thee. The piece de resistance is Andrew Putland's untitled triptych depicting a black Jesus and black disciples engaged in fellatio with Christ." The exhibition also featured Swedish artist Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic

Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic

Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic is an artist.Born in Stockholm in Sweden, Löwendahl-Atomic studied in England at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, graduating in 1995...

.

When the original gallery space closed in January 2000 the name Decima continued to be used by Chappel and West for art projects.

In limbo 2000-2007

Decima steadily continued organising and participating in projects during 2000-2007, albeit far less frequently. During this time, those involved with Decima became involved with other off-shoot and related projects.

In 2005, The Upstairs Gallery in Clerkenwell Green, London was opened by Alex Chappel and Fiona Watson while the Guy Hilton Gallery was opened in Spitalfields, London, and an art / book sales website www.drugaddict.co.uk was launched by David C. West. The latter two still exist in February 2010.

Gallery 2 in Hackney Wick

Decima opened an art gallery in a former peanut factory in London's Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick is an area straddling the boundary between the London Borough of Hackney and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. It is an inner-city development situated 5 miles northeast of Charing Cross...

area on February 23, 2008 with a launch show "The Famous, The Infamous and the Really Quite Good".

In March 2008, Decima began a collaboration with local galleries Elevator and Residence and local studios to plan a local Arts Festival, called Hackney Wicked. In August 8, The first Hackney Wicked festival went ahead.

Also during 2008, Decima launched their online project 'Decima TV' by webcasting a "chat show" in which comedian Aaron Barschak

Aaron Barschak

Aaron Alexander Barschak styles himself as a "comedy terrorist" and fringe UK politician. In 2003, he attracted media attention by surreptitiously joining Prince William's 21st birthday party.-Background:...

conducted a series of interviews with artists, namely the artists Bob & Roberta Smith, Franko B

Franko B

Franko B is a London-based performance artist. He studied fine art in London at Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art . His work was originally based on the bloody and ritualised violation of his own body...

and Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan is a UK-based performance artist currently working at the Camberwell College of Arts, who has entered the news a number of times for his unconventional approach to public protest and demonstration...

.

Decima are on record as sceptical about the 2012 Olympics, which is planned for the Hackney Wick area. They comment in an article by Fay Nicholson "Relational Aesthetics"

The Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick

Decima Gallery space closed late 2008 - early 2009.

Without walls, 2009

Decima were criticised in January 2009 following an exhibition on Sunday 18th where they utilised images of missing three year old schoolgirl Madeleine McCann in pornographic artwork. The exhibition was branded "appalling and completely insensitive" by the NSPCC.

Decima hit back with a detailed letter explaining their intentions published in the Hackney Gazette on February 18, 2009.

In another statement published in the Hackney Gazette, those running Decima said "Decima Gallery was over three days subjected to dozens of people from Liverpool literally kicking the door in. We have just got new studio tenants and six of them were in the gallery over the weekend and were terrified......Losing these tenants and goodwill of our landlord, Decima Gallery in Hackney Wick had to close it doors on January 28 for the final time, leaving several planned exhibitions in confusion."

In July 2009, Decima exhibited in the Ghetto Gallery, Split, Croatia and went on to stage notable exhibitions in Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg, a part of the combined Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte since 2001, is one of the best-known areas of Berlin...

, Berlin, Germany; Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a major street in central London, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the city of Westminster. The street is part of the A4 road, London's second most important western artery. St...

, London and the Tate Modern

Tate Modern

, London.

As well as exhibitions, in 2009 Decima also organised various film projects, performance projects, art fairs, live music events and even a Berlin rave.

Exhibitions and projects

A selection of exhibitions and projects organised by or involving Decima Gallery. Most dates are approximate: where an accurate date is shown, this refers to the launch date.

1997 and earlier
Related projects which pre-date Decima:

1995: The Jack Duckworth Memorial Clinic.
1996: A.R.T. A Reasonable Thought Zine Project.
1996: The Dennis Nilsen Tour Company.
1997: August 9: The Live Stock Market London. Offered Pantomime Cow rides. Organised by Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...

and the Factual Nonsense Trust.

1998
All 1998 events held at Decima Gallery, London SE1, UK unless otherwise stated.

1998: February: Scott - the inaugural show (reviewed in Time Out Feb 25th 1998). Curated by Matthew John Andrew and Philip Hunt.
1998: March: 290¼ pounds - the first solo exhibition of Matt Calderwood
Matt Calderwood
Matt Calderwood is a Northern Ireland artist who is currently most famous for a piece of rope constructed from 50 rolls of toilet paper, which Charles Saatchi bought for a reputed 6,000 Euros....

. Curated by Alex Chappel & Amy Plant.
1998: April: Fuckart & Pimp
Fuckart & Pimp
Fuckart & Pimp was a media hoax conceived by Alex Chappel and David C West in April 1998 which subjected a small London gallery to worldwide media attention and became a British front page newspaper sensation, as well as featuring on national television...

- an conceptual media hoax event by Alex Chappel and David C. West - launched 17 April 1998.
1998: May 29: VOIDance - a performance by Gitta Wellbe. Curated by Philip Hunt.
1998: May 29: Instrument - a performance by Angelica Fernando. Curated by Philip Hunt.
1998: May 29: Vibrating Wall - site specific installation by Philip Hunt.
1998: Split - group show by St. Martins graduates. Curated by Matthew John Andrew and Philip Hunt.
1998: June:Lost and Found - a group show including Simon Starling
Simon Starling
Simon Starling is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. He lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, and is a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.-Biography:...

. Curated by Annalise Hollis by invitation of Matthew John Andrew.
1998: Marginal Platform [Blue Lagoon] solo installation by Wendy Bornholdt.
1998: The Decima Banquet featuring the Blue Museum's Jack Diamond, Rart & Sete's penis casserole and make up artist to the stars Sharon Dowsett
1998: The Sofa Show - Matt Calderwood
Matt Calderwood
Matt Calderwood is a Northern Ireland artist who is currently most famous for a piece of rope constructed from 50 rolls of toilet paper, which Charles Saatchi bought for a reputed 6,000 Euros....

and Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass is a film maker and artist. She received her Masters in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and BA in Painting at Central St Martins School of Art . She also received a Rome Scholarship in 2002...

.
1998: Summer: Inter-gallery 5-a-side art football tournament against White Cube
White Cube
White Cube is a contemporary art gallery designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates in Hoxton Square in the East End of London Mason's Yard, in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London...

Gallery, Victoria Miro Gallery and others. Organised by Sam's Salon and held at Spitalfields Market, London.
1998: August 21: Daisy The Pantomime Cow goes to the Tate Gallery performance outside the Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...

Gallery, Millbank, London.
1998: August 31: The Diana Weekend
1998: October Framed - The Media as Canvas.
1998: December: Arsed - a group show by Rart and Sete, Derrick Welsh and Alison Chan.

1999
All 1999 events held at Decima Gallery, London SE1, UK unless otherwise stated.

1999: February 12: Laura White - Decima Gallery.
1999: The Arts Club Exhibition No.2
1999: The Windy Nook Chip Shop at the Waygood Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
1999: Gavin Turk's Rubbish by the "Little Artists
Little Artists
The Little Artists are John Cake and Darren Neave. They create versions of well known contemporary artworks and art personalities in miniature using toy Lego bricks. They also produce a range of merchandise. They describe themselves as conceptual artists. Their work is collected by Charles...

", John Cake and Darren Neave. Solo show.
1999: The Arts Club Exhibition featuring The Little Artists
Little Artists
The Little Artists are John Cake and Darren Neave. They create versions of well known contemporary artworks and art personalities in miniature using toy Lego bricks. They also produce a range of merchandise. They describe themselves as conceptual artists. Their work is collected by Charles...

.
1999: April: Was Jesus a Homosexual included Gilbert & George, Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

, Rart & Sete, Jayaram Khadka
Jayaram Khadka
Jayaram Khadka is a cross-country skier who is the first Winter Olympic Athlete from Nepal. He participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics. In the Men's 1.5 km Qualification his time was 4:48.4 making him 70th place. His nation has never won an Olympic medal in Summer or Winter.-References:Biography...

and Charles Sayer.
1999: June 8: The Leeds 13
Leeds 13
The Leeds 13 were a collective formed by third year fine art students at the University of Leeds in 1998. They caused a media sensation with their end of year project, Going Places, in which they claimed to have spent thousands of pounds of university union money on a holiday to Malaga.-Origin:The...

Degree Show - Decima exhibited as an "artist" in this show in Leeds, doing a "Diana the Dancing Cow" performance alongside Bank
BANK (art collective)
BANK was an artists’ group active in London during the 1990s.-History and project:John Russell, Dino Demosthenous and Simon Bedwell founded the group in 1991. Dino Demosthenous left in 1992. In 1993, Russell and Bedwell were joined by Milly Thompson, David Burrows and Andrew Williamson. Burrows...

, Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...

, The Chapman Brothers
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo...

, Damian Hirst, Georgina Starr
Georgina Starr
Georgina Starr is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists notable for her "pop style installations and films." Her major works have been described as "large-scale installations combining video and sculpture" to create emotional stories about lost or fragile phenomena.-Life and...

, Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....

, Jo Spence
Jo Spence
Jo Spence was a British photographer. Many of her works were self portraits about her own fight with breast cancer.Spence was born of working class parents in London, 1934...

, Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...

, Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...

and Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...

among others.
1999: July: Susan Mihalski's All-new Adoption Agency - solo show.
1999: August: Diana Goes to the Seaside performance at Cap d'Agde Resort, France.
1999: September The Time Has Come as part of the Articultural Show, South Bank, London. Featuring Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

and organised by Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...

.

2000–2007

2000: Derrick Welsh - The F@ c@ s@ on the m@ at Bacon Street Studios, London. Organised by Alex Chappel & Lynn Wilson.
2001: September Maslen & Mehra - Drift, the film at 291 Gallery, Hackney, London.
2002: Micalefalob at 291 Gallery, Hackney, London.
2002: Daykinisms at Tinsy Space, Brick Lane, London.
2004: The Joke's on Us - Although not organised by Decima, this Show at De-luxe Arts, Hoxton Square
Hoxton Square
Hoxton Square is a garden square situated in Hoxton in the London Borough of Hackney, in London's East End. Formerly home to industrial premises, since the 1990s it has become the heart of the Hoxton arts and media scene, as well as being a hub of the thriving local entertainment district...

, London, was organised by Robert Urquahart and Anna Lewis and featured a video by Alex Chappel, an installation by David C. West, a photograph by Decima and rude embroidery by Derrick Welsh.
2005: May: Piers & Micalef - Are You Thinking What We're Thinking? at Upstairs Gallery, Clerkenwell, London. Organised by Alex Chappel & Fiona Watson to coincide with United Kingdom general election, 2005
United Kingdom general election, 2005
The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....

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2005: June: Dead Derrick - a Derrick Welsh retrospective at Upstairs Gallery, Clerkenwell, London.
2007: May: The Surrealist's Ball at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. "Sad Fan Raffle" performance by David C. West and Stephen Micalef. Organised by Rosie Cooper.
2007: June 30: The Last Puff at the Golden Heart pub, London. Exhibition to mark the last smoking day in public places in England
Smoking ban in England
A smoking ban in England and Wales, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed public places and enclosed work places in England, came into force on 1 July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006...

. Included drawings of cigarettes by many notable figures and celebrities, including Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...

, David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....

, Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s...

, Dinos Chapman, Vic Reeves
Vic Reeves
James Roderick Moir , better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer . He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour....

and Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

.

2008
All 2008 events held at Decima Gallery, Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick

, London E3, UK (unless otherwise stated).

2008: February: The Famous, the Infamous and the Really Quite Good.The opening show at Decima Gallery, Hackney Wick, London. Including Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George
Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...

, Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...

, and even Primrose Hill socialite Sadie Frost
Sadie Frost
Sadie Frost is an English actress, who currently runs fashion label Frost French and has designed the kitchens for a new development in the East End of London.-Biography:Frost was born Sadie Liza Vaughan in London...

.
2008: April: Micalef for Mayor project.
2008: April: The Decima Easter Auction compered by actress and singer Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober", then her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, which was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her debut album stayed within the top 40 album...

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2008: May 17: Piers & Micalef - Banksy
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...

versus Barksy.
2008: May 28: Shiv Mishra Solo show of the Indian artist.
2008: May 31: The Decima Editions Launch & Art Fair.
2008: May: Decima TV presents an interview with Bob & Roberta Smith interviewer Aaron Barschak
Aaron Barschak
Aaron Alexander Barschak styles himself as a "comedy terrorist" and fringe UK politician. In 2003, he attracted media attention by surreptitiously joining Prince William's 21st birthday party.-Background:...

.
2008: May: Decima TV presents an interview with Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan is a UK-based performance artist currently working at the Camberwell College of Arts, who has entered the news a number of times for his unconventional approach to public protest and demonstration...

interviewer Aaron Barschak
Aaron Barschak
Aaron Alexander Barschak styles himself as a "comedy terrorist" and fringe UK politician. In 2003, he attracted media attention by surreptitiously joining Prince William's 21st birthday party.-Background:...
2008: June 5: Mind the Step - Camberwell College Drawing MA show.
2008: June 7: Decima TV presents an interview with Franko B
Franko B
Franko B is a London-based performance artist. He studied fine art in London at Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art . His work was originally based on the bloody and ritualised violation of his own body...

interviewer Aaron Barschak
Aaron Barschak
Aaron Alexander Barschak styles himself as a "comedy terrorist" and fringe UK politician. In 2003, he attracted media attention by surreptitiously joining Prince William's 21st birthday party.-Background:...
2008: Illegal Dog Fight at the Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick, London.
2008: June 13: Iceberg Enters Obelisk at the Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...

, London. Screening of film 'Illegal Dog Fight'.
2008: June 21: The Decima Artists Show with live music by Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober", then her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, which was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her debut album stayed within the top 40 album...

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2008: July 19: The Decima Arts Club featuring Piers Jamson.
2008: August 9: The Art Olympics. Featured Stephen Micalef, Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

and Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill (photographer)
Stephen Gill is a British photographer and artist.-Early life:Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs...

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2008: August: The Hackney Wicked Festival - co-founders and co-organisers of the first festival in 2008. Various venues around Hackney Wick.
2008: Summer: The Cowboy Art Fair. Organised by Geraldine Ryan. Featuring Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

, Stephen Micalef, Spiritwo and others
2008: Condensation 08 show curated by Robson Cesar.
2008: September 6: Decima at Bestival showed with Stranger than Paradise Club at the Polka Tent, dressed as dogs, at the Bestival Festival 08, The Isle of Wight, UK.
2008: September 13: Decima at Stranger than Paradise at Dex Club, Brixton, London. Dog Dancing performance.
2008: November 8: Decima at "A Night of Hackney Adventures" at the Round Chapel, Clapton, London. Organised by Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill (photographer)
Stephen Gill is a British photographer and artist.-Early life:Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs...

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2008: December 4: Decima TV presents Byron Pritchard v East End Lights filmed at Beyond Retro, London
2008: December 13: The Decima Christmas Art Fair & Nativity Play Organised by Kate Kotcheff, daughter of Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff , sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood.-Early life:Kotcheff was born William...

. Art fair featured Carlo Zenone.

2009

2009: January 18: An Afternoon of Hardcore Porn project. Held in Clapton, London.
2009: January 24: Micalef for Poet Laureate project, launched at Pages of Hackney bookshop, Clapton, London.
2009: April 17: Decima on Resonance FM radio broadcast, London.
2009: May 23: Decima Charity Fundraising Ball held at McGinity Hall, Hackney, London.
2009: June: The Art Car Boot Fair at Brick Lane, London. Dressed as dogs.
2009: July 24: It's All Over Banksy
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...

Mark Reeves and the Decima Dogs at Ghetto Gallery, Split, Croatia.
2009: August 1: Come Back Decima, all is forgiven as part of the Hackney Wicked Festival, Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick is an area straddling the boundary between the London Borough of Hackney and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. It is an inner-city development situated 5 miles northeast of Charing Cross...

, London.
2009: September 11: Britain's Rubbish Fundraiser live event held at the George Tavern
George Tavern
The George Tavern is a famous East End pub and music venue located at 373 Commercial Rd, London E1. It was formerly known as the Halfway House.A Grade II listed public house in the heart of the East End, owned and run by artist Pauline Forster...

, Whitechapel, London, in association with La Bouche Magazine. Featuring Tymon Dogg
Tymon Dogg
Tymon Dogg is a highly idiosyncratic English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, violin, guitar, oud and a harp of his own invention...

, The Coolness, The Fucks, Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill (photographer)
Stephen Gill is a British photographer and artist.-Early life:Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs...

, Simon Ould, Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan is a UK-based performance artist currently working at the Camberwell College of Arts, who has entered the news a number of times for his unconventional approach to public protest and demonstration...

, Paul Sakoilsky, Nova, Tricity Vogue, Stephen Micalef, Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

, Mark Reeves, cApStAn StRiNg, , Vicki Gold & David C West.
2009: October: Asphalt Handbag, a rave in Berlin. Co-organised by Private Lives
2009: October 30: Britain's Rubbish at Molecular Studio, Berlin, Germany. Featuring over 50 artists including Gilbert & George, Featherhouse, Piers Wardle
Piers Wardle
Christopher Piers Arthur Wardle was a British artist, musician and art factotum. Born in Beckenham, he lived in Southwark, London, UK and died in Clyst Hydon, Devon, UK.-Biography:...

, Darren Coffield
Darren Coffield
Darren Coffield is a British painter.-Biography:Coffield studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London, where he received his Bachelors in 1993 in Fine Arts. In the early 1990s, Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual...

and Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...

. Co-organised by Molecular Studio.
2009: November 21: We're Dreamin' of a Rubbish Xmas! live music event held at the George Tavern
George Tavern
The George Tavern is a famous East End pub and music venue located at 373 Commercial Rd, London E1. It was formerly known as the Halfway House.A Grade II listed public house in the heart of the East End, owned and run by artist Pauline Forster...

, Whitechapel, London, in association with La Bouche Magazine. Acts included Beastellabeast, Nova, Douce Angoisse and The Annual Decima Nativity Play, in its second year, again directed by Kate Kotcheff.
2009: November: Xmas Rubbish art fair event, London.
2009: December 19: Smash & Grab - Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass is a film maker and artist. She received her Masters in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and BA in Painting at Central St Martins School of Art . She also received a Rome Scholarship in 2002...

& Nelly Dimitranova - opening event at 97 Clerkenwell Road, Camden, London. Assisted by Camden Council
Camden London Borough Council
Camden London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London...

.
2009: December 12 & 13: The Decima Turnip Prize at the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

Gallery, as part of Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt
Robert "Rob" Pruitt is a visual artist based in New York City.Pruitt grew up in Rockville, Maryland. In a 2010 exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise he showed several works influenced by Amish tradition....

's Flea Market, itself part of the exhibition "Pop Life: Art in a Material World".
2009: December 4: What Happens After the Ball? at Decima Clark West, Piccadilly, London. Organised by Decima, Nomad Galleries and Jackie Clark.

2010

2010: January 7: Pop Up - Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass
Louise Camrass is a film maker and artist. She received her Masters in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and BA in Painting at Central St Martins School of Art . She also received a Rome Scholarship in 2002...

& Nelly Dimitranova - closing event at 97 Clerkenwell Road, Camden, London. Assisted by Camden Council
Camden London Borough Council
Camden London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London...

External links

http://www.decimagallery.com/ - Decima's home page.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7766446414&ref=ts - Decima's Facebook group.
http://www.facebook.com/DecimaProjects - Decima's Facebook fan page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/decima - Decima-related photos & images on Decima's flickr page.
http://twitter.com/decimaprojects - Decima's Twitter Page.
http://www.youtube.com/DecimaTV - Decima TV, Decima's YouTube channel.
http://www.drugaddict.co.uk/ - Decima-related art & book sales site.

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Origin

Decima Street 1997-2000

In limbo 2000-2007

Gallery 2 in Hackney Wick

Without walls, 2009

Exhibitions and projects

See also

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