WANDER / WONDER

A series of one-day experiences designed to turn waiting into wonder inside the Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station, created by Shirin Majid in collaboration with various artists.

Upcoming Installations

Are You Still Here?

Are You Still Here? is a one-day site-specific exhibition that brings together 20 sculptors, writers, painters, photographers, ceramicists, designers, makers, poets and musicians to explore stillness and presence in the 'in-between' inside the historic Old Waiting Room next to Peckham Rye Station. These works form a collective landscape of stillness, reimagining waiting as a space for quiet transformation.

Programme:

  • 2-3.30pm: Keeping House is a participatory workshop hosted by Anaiya Sheikhawat that uses collective making and conversation to explore unseen labour, migration, identity and care. 

  • 3.30pm: A spoken word performance by writer and actress Eve Cong

  • 4pm: Live ambient and liminal instrumentals by musician Simon Shippey

Visitors are also welcome to participate in the exhibition by creating their own still life using a range of objects provided.

Past Installations

What Are You Waiting For?

Set inside the Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye station, What Are You Waiting For reimagined Dr. Seuss’s Oh the Places You’ll Go as an immersive poem to explore waiting as a state of becoming.

At the centre of the experience was a collection of chair sculptures, created out of single use waste and recycled materials by Athena Paginton, that represented the complexity of waiting.

All around the Old Waiting Room, you were invited to discover and interact with the poem through a scenic installation created by Shirin Majid.

After a wander through the poem, you were invited to make mini dreamboards in response to the prompt: What are you waiting for?

Where Are You Going?

Part art installation / part sound bath / part immersive experiment, this one-day experience was designed to create a moment of transcendence and renewal in advance of the pink moon.

Participants were first invited into a ritual about release. They were asked to write a single word of something that was holding them back, rip it up and then place it in an urn. What will you let go?

After the release, sound healer and founder of House Of Butterfly Nicky Palamarczuk guided the participants through a 30-minute sound bath with the ambient accompaniment of trains and passersby.

Finally, an installation on renewal and intention with a gentle prompt to clarify a way forward: Where will you go now?