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Free Art Thursday at Cultivate Vyner Street
A new type of gallery is occurring on Vyner Street: this one does not always abide by the First Thursday rule, it gives away free art sporadically, and it’s on a corner! (When you think about it, it is the … Continue reading
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Condensation – Group Show at Danielle Arnaud Gallery SE1
This exhibition, showing last month at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery, was set over two floors within this beautiful Georgian house in Kennington. The works were mainly made for the exhibition, and the domestic, sentimental and chintzy focus to these pieces creates a sympathetic dialogue with the period features of the surroundings. Continue reading
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Jasper and Harry’s Tate Modern
What is the most fun an artist could have? Painting a whole exhibition of your own version of famous works has got be a good one. And so in probably the ‘poshest’ dry cleaners in the whole of London, Jasper Joffe and … Continue reading
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The opening of the …..
This Saturday the 4th of December LAVA Gallery opens it’s doors. After a year spent staging pop up events in temporary locations, the Lava Collective have a gallery of thier own. Following the success of the Ashes 57 show in October, Kingly Court is going to be thier first permanent art space. They’ll be selling originals and prints from an international network of artists. The gallerywill be a base from which to to co-ordinate a new series of pop up shows in vacant shops throughout the Soho area.
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Tribute to Richard Martin – Arts Pops Hero
The Residence Gallery is holding a tribute to Richard Martin tomorrow night, for all those art pops out there Continue reading
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Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair 2010
The first week of the fair consisted of the painting, sculpture and time based media. You still have time to catch the next three weeks, each week being a different program of exhibitions and all are free entry (see below for more details).
Last week saw the work of Ksenia Maximova, the Russian supermodel turned artist, portraits by Daniel Whiteson – designer and artist, and the inventive work of mixed-media artist Susan Hippe. All along with the incredibly talented fine art of Adele Stephenson and much, much more. Continue reading
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Save AREA 10
he Save Area10 Campaign is to try to stop Southwark Council’s plans to close the much loved arts organisation, Area10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham. Area10 has specialised in bring ambitious and worthwhile events and projects based in Fine Arts, Perforative Arts, Circus, and Theatre for the last eight years, and is the bed rock of South East London’s artistic community. Continue reading
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Phoebe and Elizabeth Cope, Open Studios
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Up and Coming Art Openings May 2010
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Guest’, White Cube Hoxton Square
The Hoxton branch is showing Erberhard Havekost’s new work, a painter that is known for his Doig-like approach to painting. He starts with a photo and deconstructs the image so that it takes on a more compressed, stylistic result. Unlike Peter Doig his paintings tend to be stunted, usually fixed close-ups – such as on an edge of a building or a skewed image of a wing of an aeroplane. Because of this they have little of the sense of drama that Doig’s paintings have. Instead they concentrate on form and line, using shadow or light to bring out static composition rather than movement or atmosphere. Continue reading
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‘The Library of Babel/In and out of place’, projectspace176, The Zabludowicz Collection
One tenth of a huge private collection focusing on contemporary and emerging art is being exhibited in the 176 project space, an old Methodist church in Chalk Farm. It is the first time even this much of the collection has been on show, over two hundred works out of two thousand collected by Anita Zabludowicz, a founding supporter of The Zoo Art Fair. If you haven’t got to it yet it is a must see, so get down there sharpish. Continue reading
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One Night Show: Apartment 21
Feeling a little adventurous this evening? A hotel in Kensington is the venue for a one night show from the Rented By The Hour project group. Four artists – Olivia Hicks, Beatrice Haines, Anna Curtis and Laura Clarke – have produced work in a ‘psycho-social’ response to the surroundings. Continue reading
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Automatic Shoes, Danny Rolph solo exhibition.
Danny Rolph creates striking multi layered collage paintings using a top layer of triplewall – an industrial plastic roofing material made of clear perspex strips – stuck over a base canvas. He paints over and under and on both sides of each layer, often using cuttings from newspapers or consumer items and varying types of paint. Four of his large peices are exhibited at Poppy Serbire’s latest exhibition and some smaller canvas paintings and drawings. Continue reading
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Flash in the Pan – Exhibitions this weekend and beyond
Perhaps because of the London Art Fair there are some short term free entry exhibitions to be taken advantage of around London this weekend. Continue reading
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Grifters, Group Show at Lazarides
A cutting edge attitude to their selection of artists has done Lazarides proud and a testament to this is their excellent group show Grifters exhibiting the Outsiders artists at Rathbone Place on till the 16th of Jan. Continue reading
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A Magic Carpet ride in The Crypt Gallery
Contemporary art where you least expect it is what is so great about London, and the little known gallery in the crypt of St Pancras Church which opens for (so short you could easily miss them) group exhibitions is a perfect example.
Magic Carpet is 14 artists’ work based around the theme of Time Travel. Walking among gravestones and bits of broken masonry you can’t help but see references to transience appearing in the works in front of you. Continue reading
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Tate the Biscuit, group show in Shoreditch Town Hall Basement
Covering practically every inch of the rabbit warren like space that is the Shoreditch Town Hall basement, the East End Arts Club put on a varied exhibition displaying a huge array of street art, graphic design led art and work from illustrators. Continue reading
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Architectural doubts
Recently Art Sleuth was invited along to the grand opening of a permanent site specific work for Art on the Underground created for the new Piccadilly line concourse as part of the extension to the King Cross St Pancras Underground station. The excitement built as we walked through the open barriers and travelled down two long and shiny new elevators. Eventually we came to the piece itself.
It was a grey wall – with a semi-circular grey panel arranged on top of it. Continue reading
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Art by Offenders
If you are going to see any show out there right now then this is it. Knowing that the artists are offenders gives this exhibition both a unique and hard-hitting edge, but the quality of work shown and the spectrum of ambience from witty to meditative to exceedingly dark makes Art by Offenders a real success. Continue reading
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