some more gorgeouss ceramics, in some sick cabinets made by Mr Graham Smith.
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Showing posts with label Shows/Galleries/Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shows/Galleries/Events. Show all posts
On Thursday a bunch of us from London headed down to Charleston in East Sussex for a super exciting day out. Charleston (if you don't know about it, look it up) and the Omega Workshops are one of my favourite things and place to visit, just totally mindblowingly inspiring. Makes you want to paint everything and anything and move to the country. ANYWAY ... the reason we were there was because my dad has been working on some stuff for the brilliant people at Charleston and has a show there which runs till October, full of ceramics and a coupla papercutz, all done in the Charleston spirit
wahhh, super cute staffordshire cats and dogs. The best one said "I miss being a kitten" !!! :'-(
some more gorgeouss ceramics, in some sick cabinets made by Mr Graham Smith.
Even the new issue of SPQR was dedicated to the Charleston exhibition and it was a banger of a newspaper issue.
The lovely people in Charleston even gave us a lovely arabian tent to hang out in, when we were all arted out (also visiting Monk House) with sweeties and cocktails ... yum!
The day was all in all soo lovely, with bingo and pass the parcel and goodie bags on the coach down. I think everyone went to bed very happy. Thanks to alll the ryantown gang
some more gorgeouss ceramics, in some sick cabinets made by Mr Graham Smith.
Andy Rementer is one of my favourite illustrators, his zines are so funny, his gouaches are gorgeous and he sends really nice letters too. Above are some goodies my parents bought back for me from his private view in the Hague. If you happen to be in the Netherlands in the next month, it could be cool to go to. I know I would if I was in the area.
Daniel Eatock's pairings just work. Every Wednesday he is at the Stanley Piker Gallery (in Kingston) exploring new pairings of objects and documenting the works and you can pop in and say hello, a bit like Pick Me Up but far more nice and cosy.
http://www.eatock.com/
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/12607/1/one-one-daniel-eatock
David H
Amelia and I went to see Hockney last week at the Royal Academy. Was mental and mentally busy. Think I'm going to have revisit it a few times till I can say something actually coherent about it. The room with his sketchbooks was so ace. But for now I will leave you with some sly phone photos.
And how charming is Hockney's framing. Forget mounting, he's just gone for masking tape. Brilliant.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/
And how charming is Hockney's framing. Forget mounting, he's just gone for masking tape. Brilliant.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/
David S
Yesterday afternoon, I went to a laugh out loud exhibition. Obviously, it was David Shrigley at the Hayward Gallery. It was such a nice change to see people walking round a gallery chuckling and smiling, made me think loads about the kind of work I want to be making. Work that anyone can get whether they're into art or not, work that you don't have to stand next to explaining your concept to for five minutes.
Shrigley put on a great show. Photography, sculpture, animation, painting, taxidermy, iron casting, biscuits, drawings - I don't think Shrigley has a preference, he just uses the materials and processes he thinks will do the job. So cool! As it's so easy to get stuck in a rut. Such an inspiring and feel good show. Can't wait to sit down and read through the book.
The show runs till 13th May 2012
SeLfRiDgEs
Last month I helped the wicked guys at It's Nice That out on their latest collab/project. Which involved putting fortunes into thousands and thousands of plastic balls for Selfridges's "words words words" show, for a massive fortune-teller-rollercoaster-thing.
It's described way better than I just tried to here ... http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/its-nice-that-words-words-words-at-selfridges .... I think it's a wonderful project.
There are 30,000 different fortunes to be taken home, this is mine ...
Also, if you are at Selfridges Tatty Devine have got an instore workshop in the Wonder Room which is also part of "words words words". So many cool people at Selfrigdges at the moment!
Don't want to write a boring retrospective of the year. That's because I'm so excited for stuff that's going down in 2012! From the looks of it is gonna be a sick year for exhibitions in London. And that's just from the major galleries ...
1. David Shrigley: Brain Activity @ Hayward Gallery (010212 to 130512)
I think Shrigley is a great fine artist because his work is accessible, none of this fuddy-duddy nonsense. His observations are brilliant and so honest in my opinion. This major exhibition will be epic showing his cartoons,photography and hopefully his fantastic sculpture work. Keeping it real.
2. David Hockney: A Bigger Picture @ Royal Academy of Arts (210112 to 090412)
Hockney is fantastic. 'A Bigger Splash' is my favourite painting ever, it's the kind of painting that makes you wish that you were there. This show will display landscapes he has done over the last fifty years, his iPad drawings as well as some films he has made, which sounds exciting. Can.not.wait.
3. Gillian Wearing @ Whitechapel Gallery (280312 to 170612)
Wearing's work first came to my attention after seeing her photograph G.M.Jagger for POP. She is a bit of a genius and I can't wait to see this show to learn more about her.
4. British Design: 1948 to 2012 @ The V&A (310312 to 120812)
The long awaited furniture gallery will open in 2012 at the Victoria and Albert Museum which is crazily exciting and what better way to celebrate than with this show. White City, 1948 was the last time London held the Olympics and this show will examine post-war British design. Bet there is going to be lots of exciting things to look, bet this show is going to be a revisit or!
5. Christian Louboutin @ The Design Museum (280312 to 010712)
Red soles ... You know the deal. This retrospective at the Design Museum seems really exciting and not just necessarily one for stiletto lovers. The exhibition will give insight to the production and design stages of these works of art.
... As well as Pick Me Up @ Somerset House in the Spring and, Lucian Freud @ The National Gallery and Yoko Ono @ The Serpentine Gallery too. Looks like a great year for art from here!
1. David Shrigley: Brain Activity @ Hayward Gallery (010212 to 130512)
I think Shrigley is a great fine artist because his work is accessible, none of this fuddy-duddy nonsense. His observations are brilliant and so honest in my opinion. This major exhibition will be epic showing his cartoons,photography and hopefully his fantastic sculpture work. Keeping it real.
2. David Hockney: A Bigger Picture @ Royal Academy of Arts (210112 to 090412)
Hockney is fantastic. 'A Bigger Splash' is my favourite painting ever, it's the kind of painting that makes you wish that you were there. This show will display landscapes he has done over the last fifty years, his iPad drawings as well as some films he has made, which sounds exciting. Can.not.wait.
3. Gillian Wearing @ Whitechapel Gallery (280312 to 170612)
Wearing's work first came to my attention after seeing her photograph G.M.Jagger for POP. She is a bit of a genius and I can't wait to see this show to learn more about her.
4. British Design: 1948 to 2012 @ The V&A (310312 to 120812)
The long awaited furniture gallery will open in 2012 at the Victoria and Albert Museum which is crazily exciting and what better way to celebrate than with this show. White City, 1948 was the last time London held the Olympics and this show will examine post-war British design. Bet there is going to be lots of exciting things to look, bet this show is going to be a revisit or!
5. Christian Louboutin @ The Design Museum (280312 to 010712)
Red soles ... You know the deal. This retrospective at the Design Museum seems really exciting and not just necessarily one for stiletto lovers. The exhibition will give insight to the production and design stages of these works of art.
... As well as Pick Me Up @ Somerset House in the Spring and, Lucian Freud @ The National Gallery and Yoko Ono @ The Serpentine Gallery too. Looks like a great year for art from here!
This afternoon I visited for the third time, the Post-Modernism exhibition at the V+A. And I still don't know what I think about it. Some parts I think are fantastic and other parts just make me want to vomit. It's a toughy. Luckily the show runs till 15th January 2012 and hopefully I will come to a conclusion by then. Will keep you posted.
Making it up as we go along!
Happy birthday! Dazed and Confused are celebrating 20 years of their wicked magazine. When I was younger I would always flick through copies my parents would leave at home, but I never really buy it, i-D always gets in there first. Anyway, so it was really great to see an exhibition all about Dazed at Somerset House - to view magazine content on the same level that you view a framed piece of art. I thought that was cool, in the world of publishing you always rush onto making the next issue for the printers deadline and you never get a chance to properly acknowledge what you have created - so I think the show was great in that respect. Below are some of my favourite pieces from the show ...
The language Barbara Kruger (below) uses in her pieces is ace. "I'm cool. If I wasn't skinny, I couldn't be cool. I'd have to be hot, or even worse warm" - perfect phrasing for the world of fashion journalism!
Phil Poytner's series "I didn't recognise you with your clothes on" for November 1998 is definetly one of my new favourites! So witty.
Also the embroidery pieces by Maurizio Anzeri for "It came from the sky" were absolutely gorgeous.
Hidden Heroes
The Science Museum have a really ace exhibition on at the moment called "Hidden Heroes" which runs until June next year. It explores the genius of everyday things. The show reveals original sketches by the inventors, history of the object and development over time. I thought this show was great because it let me see the beauty in practical things - there is nothing more beautiful than when something works well and functions perfectly. 44 objects are featured , the stars of the show included - bubble wrap, the condom, the clothes peg, tetra pack, velcro, the barcode - among many other superstars! The multi-pack carrier was one of my favourites in the show. In my opinion, it is revolutionary how six beverages can be held at such a low expense and using so much less packaging material.
The title "Hidden Heroes" is so apt, as to me good design should be almost invisible. If you can't make it to the show, the website is a pretty good reference despite being annoying to navigate.
Nobrow Launch
This week I went to the launch for issue 6 of Nobrow's magazine, which is created alongside their small publications.
If you don't know Nobrow, well I think you should because they produce some of the most beautiful publications in London, in my opinion. I'm a bit of a zine enthusiast and a sucker for colour prints - so obviously discovering Nobrow was a happy day. The publications showcase lots of fantastic illustrators and graphic artists, check the list by clicking here. Their shop and studio is on Great Eastern St and is totally worth popping into, even if you don't decide to buy something.
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The launch for issue 6 of the magazine was @ Jaguar Shoes. Showcasing artwork from the new issue and also screening films from neat illustrators+animators. The space was transformed beautifully, in my opinion.
Below is a really neat animation by Joe Mann that was on display at the launch.
Brit Museum
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Crafts
Grayson Perry is definetly one of my favourite Essex boys. After seeing his show today, I want to visit it again and again, learn more about him and also make so much more stuff. Mind blowing stuff, I highly, highly recommend it. The show is an installation of objects made by him, alongside objects made by unknown men and women throughout history from the British Museum’s collection - with a brilliant narrative. Perry said that "Everything in the British Museum was contemporary once" and I had never really thought about the objects displayed like that before. And to me Perry's work is so contempory featuring beautiful vases showing obese teenagers, cyber bullying and the Lotto rollover - brilliant!
Alan Measles features very heavily in the show. Do you not know who Mr Measles is? Well he is the 50 year old dictator of Grayson Perry's imagination - his beloved teddy bear -"When I was a toddler Alan was the name of my best human friend and I had measles". Obviously the real Mr Measles didn't appear in the show, as he is far too precious to be in a display but his presence is there none the less!
When I was really little I hated going to museum and galleries because "ewww old things are boring and too smelly". But this show really has drilled into me that all these things displayed in glass cabinets in dark museums where once the cutting edge and spectacularly new and exciting to the viewer. The excitement I feel when I look at Perry's work. I feel that it is so appropriate that this show is in the British Museum because so often it is easy to just walk to the Mummy's or the Rosetta Stone but everything displayed was once modern and not primitive and boring as I used to think when I was small.
The show runs till February and I will certainly revisit it. Also listen to the Grayson Perry, Desert Island Disks it's very good!
http://www.britishmuseum.org
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Object Abuse @ KK Outlet
London Design Festival is just round the corner and this is a show that has got me a bit excited about it. Some of my favourite designers including Michael Marriott and Dominic Wilcox were in the show, so I knew it wouldn't be disappointing. The concept of the show was to take an everyday object and to change the function of it - a simple brief, providing brilliant outcomes. I'm going to share my top three things in the show, even though there is so much more good stuff.
1. Salt&Pepper Shaker (Egg timer) by Emma Morton
This piece is so charming. This is literally turning the object on it's head. It's so simple, I think it would be a really good timer for playing boggle. Good move not putting ground pepper in it, it would have mixed and gone a bit murky with the salt.
2. Paint brushes (Coat hooks) by Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox can do no wrong in my opinion. This piece is so witty, but also executed really beautifully. When I was younger I would always forget to wash my brushes but I wish they would have hardened in shapes like these. Wilcox is so good at observing things and even better at applying these observations to his work.
3. The gift shop
My third favourite thing, oddly wasn't a piece in the show. It was the peg board made of pencils that KK Outlet display their publications in. I think it is genius, definitely going to be trying this out. So simple, but so great.
1. Salt&Pepper Shaker (Egg timer) by Emma Morton
This piece is so charming. This is literally turning the object on it's head. It's so simple, I think it would be a really good timer for playing boggle. Good move not putting ground pepper in it, it would have mixed and gone a bit murky with the salt.
2. Paint brushes (Coat hooks) by Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox can do no wrong in my opinion. This piece is so witty, but also executed really beautifully. When I was younger I would always forget to wash my brushes but I wish they would have hardened in shapes like these. Wilcox is so good at observing things and even better at applying these observations to his work.
3. The gift shop
My third favourite thing, oddly wasn't a piece in the show. It was the peg board made of pencils that KK Outlet display their publications in. I think it is genius, definitely going to be trying this out. So simple, but so great.
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The Art of Looking Sideways @ Kemistry Gallery
I was in Hoxton on my way to Bethnal Green and decided to pop in to the Kemistry Gallery on the way (because I haven't gone in ages). I was pleasantly surprised to find that the show was all about Alan Fletcher, displaying the original plans for his book "The Art of Looking sideways". I have this book at home, but to be honest I've never sat down to read it because it is so big and awkward. But this show was really great I think.
Already being familiar with his work, I was most excited by the layout of the show. The individual plastic wallets the artwork was displayed in, allowed you to consider each piece individually. It made me think of "The Art of Looking Sideways" as a blog, with each page being an idea, an inspiration or a quick thought - a bit like Fletcher's own version of our summer holiday project.
Below are some quick sketches I did before I had to leave ...
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Last night I went to a launch for a new line of wallpaper at Ryantown. Everything in the shop on Columbia Rd was covered in the wallpaper even all the framed papercuts and the carrier bags. and skateboards. I thought he should have covered the shop front in it though. It was very odd, because you couldn't see any of the products. I've posted quite a bit on this blog about how much I think having your own shop rocks because of the control you have ... maybe I just want to have a shop ... or maybe I'm fed up of seeing Tesco's popping up everywhere. Anyway, here are some photos of the private view for you to enjoy.
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