An exhibition from Suffolk London Asylum Project

(SLAP)

Opening July 5th 12-5 pm with live music from Wyatt Riot &

Spoken Words by the artists

Situated in the Suffolk hinterland where reclaimed

marshes meet terra-firma, is this liminal landscape that

has inspired and brought together the eight artists who

have made new work for SLAP's inaugural exhibition.

The location hovers between times, stories, histories,

and geographies. Originally RAF Bentwaters (named

after requisitioned farmland during WWII) it then

became USAF as the Cold War took hold. Along the

site’s northern perimeter is Asylum Studios and it’s

Gallery; once the computer central intelligence room of

a world before the Berlin Wall came down, and now the

venue for this exhibition. An eerie two-way

interrogation room mirror is one of many scattered

remnants abandoned from times gone by. The abutting

medieval woodland oozes mythic legends of witches,

druids, and visitors from other worlds, whilst global

goods in containers arrive and depart from the port of

nearby Felixstowe, sating the needs of 21 st  century

consumption.

Bentwaters of 2025 is a conundrum of abandoned

artefacts that, in our here and now, act as clues to

previous occurrences and past dramatic events. This

unsettling landscape is compelling, seemingly insistent

that we engage with its strange and potent essence.

Unable to flinch and look away each artist has been

pulled irrevocably into the vortex of Bentwater’s

imposing ether, beguiled and coaxed into responding to

the inherent statement emanating from within the

earth it sits on – ‘Something Happened Here’.