Art Exhibitions Archive: Spring 2018

Current Events #1. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 1 of 2018.
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Michael Armitage: The Chapel

13 December – 17 January 2018

This is a solo exhibition by Michael Armitage, whose large-scale paintings draw on chapel-like qualities and reference historical and contemporary stories, as well as the artist’s own experiences.

The exhibition is accompanied by essays by Mukami Kuria and Roger Malbert, and a discussion between Michael Armitage and SLG director, Margot Heller.

South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH

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Double Elephant Printmaking Exhibition

13 December to 17 January 2018

Double Elephant Print Workshop’s prize-winning exhibition is open now at RAMM until 17th January. Thirty-four artists from Double Elephant have produced over 75 works which are beautifully displayed in RAMM’s Gallery 22.

This exhibition was made possible by public vote via the Express and Echo’s Local Art Show scheme. It is a fitting way to mark DEPW’s 20 years in Exeter and shows the variety of printmaking that thrives in the city.

Double Elephant Print Workshop
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Gallery 22
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Street
Exeter,
Devon EX4 3RX

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Testcard P

30 September 2017 – 11 January 2018

This exhibition in the crypt of St Marylebone Church was curated by Marco Cali, and seeks to open a space for discussion on current painting practice.

‘The thing that characterises contemporary painting is that each artist pursues a very individual practice. Gone are the days when ‘isms’ gave us useful labels by which to identify an art movement as defined by a group of artists. Instead current painters borrow, beg and steal from every imaginable source in service to the art to which they are devoted. Alongside this, each artist, painter or not, engages in an ongoing dialogue with her or his peers, of which there is a vast pool both historically as well as currently. This dialogue takes place in as many ways as there are of approaching the making of art, from direct copying to responses alongside or in opposition to someone’s work. In any case, the very nature of painting is one of putting in the hours in whatever serves as a studio, a hermit-like pursuit in front of a flat surface. Each painting produced with this intention, is itself a strong statement that adds to the mix and then seeds others in turn.

With this in mind, the theme of this exhibition is works that the artist feels are something new or different with their own practice over the year. These are not necessarily ‘finished’ as such, but instead provide stimulus to a discussion as to what has happened over the last twelve months. As such, they might be sketches, drawings or indeed completed canvases.’

Artists:
Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Louis Appleby, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Marco Calí, Ruth Calland, Lucy Cox, Pen Dalton, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Pippa Gatty, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Paula MacArthur, Enzo Marra, Keith Murdoch, Cara Nahaul, Paul Newman, Gideon Pain, Ruth Philo, Barbara Peirson, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, Katherine Russell, Wendy Saunders, Stephen Snoddy, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Ehryn Torrell, Fionn Wilson, Sean Williams.

The Crypt
St Marylebone Parish Church,
17 Marylebone Road,
London,
NW1 5LT

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Small is Beautiful

14 December 2017 – 6 January 2018

The Flowers Gallery exhibits contemporary art work in any medium that measures 7×9 inches or smaller. This enables their exhibition to include over 100 artists, including famous names and emerging talent.

The work is from artists based in over twelve countries.

Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London W1S 3LZ

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Connect/Disconnect

15 September 2017 – 24 March 2018

This exhibition, curated by Sarah Jeffries, shows the work of seven artists on the theme of visual psychological space in relation to modern life.

‘With the political world rapidly changing around us, how do we, as a connected society, deal with relentless negative news? Is digesting all the uncertainty and harshness good for us or should we disconnect?’

Artists showing include:
Corinna Spencer, Cathy Lomax, David Hancock, Mike Bartlett, Sarah Jeffries and Team Beswick & Pye.

The Point
Leigh Road,
Eastleigh,
Hampshire
SO50 9DE

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Identity

3 January – 14 January 2018
Private View: Wednesday 3 January 6-9pm

‘Identity is a group of established London based and international artist coming together to exhibit their work at Espacio Gallery. The artists have current as well as past connections and share some common ground yet they are all an entity with distinct pathways on their own artistic journey.’

The works on show will be in a variety of mediums including sculpture, paintings and ceramics.

Artists showing include:
Andy Finlay, Svetlana Atlavina, Sally-Anne Flanagan, Natalia Jezova,
Maria Kaleta, Glen Marston, Betka Milligan, Madeleine Marsh,
Gerald O’Dowd, Alicia Zimnickas

Curated by Sally-Anne Flanagan

Note:
The gallery will be open till 9pm on Thursday 4 January as part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays event.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Haystacks, 2017.

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Current Events #2. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 2 of 2018.
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StArt

30 December 2017 — 10 February 2018

An exhibition of artwork by RBSA artists, all of which is being sold for £300 and under.

RBSA Gallery
4 Brook Street
Birmingham
B3 1SA

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The Landscape of Time

13 January 2018 – 29 March 2018

This exhibition curated by Antonia Jackson, is hosted by Contemporary British Painting and displays the work of Helen Bermingham, Tom Down, Susie Hamilton, Antonia Jackson, Nicole Price and Ed Saye. Each explores the themes of time and memory through their painting which vary in style from figurative work to semi abstract pieces.

The Crypt,
St Marylebone Parish Church
17 Marylebone Road,
London NW1 5LT

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Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break

16 December 2017 – 28 January 2018

A selection of Turner Prize-nominee Cornelia Parker’s experiments with printmaking and photography resulting in large-scale photogravures.

‘For some years Cornelia Parker’s work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the ‘eye of the storm’. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.’

This is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.

Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road,
Clifton Bristol
BS8 1PX

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Henry Silk and East End Vernacular

18 January 2018 – 10 February 2018

These watercolours by the basket weaver and East London Group member Henry Silk (1883-1948) are hung alongside paintings by recent artists who have lived and worked in the East End. The Gentle Author of the Spitalfields Life Blog, has selected the works, all of which appear in his latest publication ‘EAST END VERNACULAR Artists: who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century’.

“Complimenting the display of watercolours by Henry Silk (1883-1948), it is my great pleasure to curate a room of some favourite paintings from my book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century.

While Henry Silk was one of the leading figures of the East London Group in the thirties, I have chosen works by post-war and contemporary artists who took the legacy forward. My selection includes a picture by Roland Collins from the fifties, rarely seen works by John Allin and Dan Jones from the seventies, Doreen Fletcher’s and Peri Parkes’ paintings from the eighties and concludes with recent works by James Mackinnon and Nicholas Borden.

Together these pictures – many never seen publicly before – illustrate an extraordinary and vital continuum of painting in the East End which spans the twentieth century and extends into our own time”.

– The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

Abbott and Holder Gallery
30 Museum Street
-opposite the British Museum-
London, WC1A 1LH

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The Drawing Year: End of Year Exhibition 2017

29 November 2017 – 16 January 2018

A group exhibition of students’ work from The Drawing Year, featuring an array of interesting and unusual pieces.

Royal Drawing School,
19-22 Charlotte Road,
London, EC2A 3SG

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Clare Woods: Reality Dimmed

6 January 2017 – 10 March 2018

Clare Woods is a renowned British painter, who established her reputation with large-scale landscapes painted in household gloss and enamel on aluminium. Recently, the artist has moved into figurative painting.

This exhibition presents a new series of raw and powerful paintings by Clare Woods. She is a renowned British painter, who established her reputation with large-scale landscapes painted in household gloss and enamel on aluminium. Recently, the artist has moved into figurative painting. The works, which are frequently vast in scale, were inspired by found photographic imagery the artist collects.

‘These images often depict people at their most vulnerable, including in situations of conflict and confinement. Reinterpreted in oil paint using long, curved brushstrokes and sensuous colour, Clare Woods has created paintings which contain an intrinsic tension between reality and abstraction, beauty and its troubling undercurrent of ever-present danger.’

Mead Gallery
Warwick Arts Centre,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL

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Paulina Pluta – Paintings and Drawings.

4 January 2018 – 24 January 2018

Paulina is a realist painter from London. She paints portraits, figure and still life. This exhibition will show some of her work from 2016 and 2017, including personal work from the studio and figurative work completed as a part of the project for Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.

POSK Gallery
238 – 246 King Street,
Hammersmith
London
W6 0RF

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The image at the top is: Rebel, Rebel by Tom Scotcher, Gouache on paper, 52 x 61cm.

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Current Events #3. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 3 of 2018.
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bound : unbound

20 January – 28 February 2018

bound : unbound is a group exhibition of 5 artists from a variety of disciplines, who have come together to explore the medium of the book. Exhibiting artists include Felicity Bristow, Lynda Wilson, Liza Green, Susie Wilson and Susie Leiper.

&Gallery
17 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

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Open Exhibition 2018

13 January–17 March 2018

This biennial exhibition comprises of the work of 72 artists, selected from an open call by Kaavous Clayton, Jules Devonshire and Roxy Walsh.

Artists: Jonathan Alibone, Zahra Amirkamali, Emily Arnold, Tristram Aver, Catherine Baker, Sharon Baker, Sophie Bament, Emma Barford, Ben Bird, Giulia Cacciuttolo, Lorsen Camps, Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, George Chinnery, Fran Copeman, Benjamin Duax, Daniel Earey, Robert Fitzmaurice, Louise Freeman, James Fuller, Alison Goodyear, John Griff, Colette Griffin, Keren Goresh-Freedman, Luke Harby, Jade Hanley, Matt James Healy, Charlie Hurcombe, Sarah Jenkins, Sarah Louise Keber, Jonathan Kelham, Kyle Kirkpatrick, Marine Lefebvre, Silvia Lerin, Maria Lewis, William Lindley, Eugene Macki, Zara Makhdoom, Tahira Mandarino, Ryoko Minamitani, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Alvin Ong, Sylvia Owens, Alistair Payne, Karen Piddington, Maksim Podorozkin, Duncan Poulton, Richard Powell, Lisa Price, Srecko Radivojcevic, Alison Ranson, Attia Rashid, Chernaya Rechka, Scott Robertson, Luís Filipe Salgado Pereira Rodrigues, Marjan Samie, Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Veronica Slater, Emily Sparkes, Stephanie Spindler, Alcaeus Spyrou, Natalka Liber Stephenson, Pamina Stewart, James Tebbutt, Clare Thatcher, David Theobald, Ross Tomkins, Mererid Velios, Satu Viljanen, Jane Walker, Mark Wilsher, Claire Yspol, Jasmin Yusuf.

Contemporary Art Northampton Gallery
Number Nine
Guildhall Road
Northampton
NN1 1DP, UK

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Eagle Gallery EMH Arts: Abstract Syntax

11 January – 2 February 2018

An exhibition of work by Chris Baker, Katrina Blannin, John Carter, Natalie Dower, 
Julia Farrer, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee and Peter Rasmussen.

Eagle Gallery/ EMH Arts
159 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3AL

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Fresh Paint

6 January – 4 February 2018

‘Fresh Paint will showcase a mixture of established and emerging artists, from Royal Academicians to those just out of degree shows based around the country. Artists will include Orlanda Broom, Tom Hammick and Stephen Chambers RA as well as a slew of exciting new painters including Kathryn Maple.

The thematic strand through this diverse range of paintings, which weaves them all together is colour. Apart from being critically lacking in the winter scenery, many cultures mark their New Year celebrations by using bright, cheering colours in the form of fireworks or costumes. The use of optimistic hues symbolise — like our exhibition — the hope and the promise of the year’s opening months.’

Messums Wiltshire
Place Farm,
Court St,
Tisbury,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire,
SP3 6LW

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The River Project

26 January 2018

The River Project, an exciting contemporary exhibition of collaborative work by local school children, members of the local community and artists; Alison Boult, Katie Brookes, Nikki Gardham, Rebecca Harper, Kathryn Maple and Elizabeth McCarten.

Find out more on their Facebook Page.

Sun Pier House
Medway Street
Chatham,
ME4 4HF

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True/False/Fake/Real

17 January – 28 January 2018
Private View: Thursday 18 January 6-9pm

An exhibition curated by Seacourt – The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking

Gallery 1
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Kathryn Maple, RED ROOF, Oil on Paper, H120 x W150cm

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Current Events #4. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 4 of 2018.
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Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland

13 January – 8 February 2018

This exhibition brings together the iconic portraits of Scottish poets by Alexander Moffat. Including Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Norman MacCaig, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Morgan as well as paintings of the landscapes associated with the poets, by Ruth Nicol.

Lillie Art Gallery
Station Rd,
Milngavie,
Glasgow G62 8BZ

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H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G

13 January – 11 February 2018

A show of seven contemporary abstract painters which explores space, colour, line and edge. ‘In developing the images, the artists favour intention over accident.’

Some of the assertions they are attempting to test are:
‘What is hard painting?
Painting that is hard edged, non-figurative and abstract
Painting that endures
Painting that is a complex and esoteric distillation of ideas’

Phoenix Brighton
10–14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB
East Sussex
UK

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This Year’s Model! parts I and II ‘Does the Body Rule the Mind?…’

5 January – 28 January 2018

The annual members’ show of studio1.1. London.

Including work by Paige Perkins, Ute Kreyman, Julie Caves, Andrew Seto, Graham Carrick, Kelly Sweeney, Caroline Thomson, Henry Ward, Sonia Petrone, Ruth Philo, Stephen Buckeridge, Sacha Meaden, Euan Stewart and Katya Kvasova.

‘Duck or rabbit? Old crone or beautiful woman. The games the mind and eye can play are notorious. And then there’s muscle memory. Are de Kooning’s last paintings (made while supposedly of unsound mind) invalid? Someone has certainly decided they have less ‘value’ on the art market? Or are they just the most beautiful things he has ever produced? Is there a duality? A contradiction? Or is it just where you start from? Where do you want to get to? Well I wouldn’t start from here…

‘But we cannot cling
to the old dreams anymore
no we cannot cling
to those dreams

Does the body rule the mind
or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno…’

The Smiths ‘Still Ill’’

Studio 1.1 Gallery
57a Redchurch Street
Shoreditich, London
E2 7DJ

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Upright Animal: Selma Parlour

5 January – 10 February 2018

Pi Artworks presents the inaugural exhibition of Selma Parlour’s immaculate paintings that are new or never have been exhibited before. The show has been curated by Sacha Craddock.

Pi Artworks Gallery
55 Eastcastle Street,
London, W1W 8EG

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Frivolous Convulsions

12 January – 25 February 2018

A collection of work by Aliki Krikidi // Babette Semmer // Grant Foster // Ben Westley Clarke // Denzil Forrester // Lucy Stein // David Harrison // Melissa Kime // Vanessa Mitter // Jack Catling // Robin Bale // Stuart Brisley. Curated by Vanessa Mitter and Ben Westley Clarke

“In a world that has really been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood“ – Guy Debord
“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world” – Jean Baudrillard

Turf,
46/47 Trinity Court (Ground Floor),
Whitgift Shopping Centre,
Croydon, CR01UQ

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in with the new

17 January – 28 January 2018

‘January is the month which looks both ways: back to the old year and, more importantly, forward to the new.

So what better time for an artistic collaboration to infuse the New Year with creative energy?

This January, artists from The Artists’ Pool and London Visual Arts have joined together for an artistic expedition at Espacio Gallery.

LVA Artists
Maureen Collier, Anisha Samani, Barry Moore, Ellie Atkins, Nich Batt,
Kay Singla, Ben Honey, Paula Koski, Becca Clegg, Nellam Markanday

The Artists’ Pool
Jesus David Gomez, Mario Bieletto, Rilexie, Manuel Miguel,
Oscar Martinez Olivera, Roberto Cortes Arellano’

Gallery 2
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Aliki Krikidi, All you have to do is to take an uneven number (Truffles with dragons and cinnamon) Oil on canvas 150 x 255cm 2008 whose work is showing at Turf.

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Current Events #5. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 5 of 2018.
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Treasures of the Deep by Gary Scholes

11 January – 4 February 2018

This is an exhibition of recent work by Gary Scholes. His paintings explore the symbolism of the creative imagination and use the iconography of modern warfare, dream symbolism and images from the popular culture of his youth. The idea being to demonstrate, capture and analyse in visual form areas of his subconscious he has become aware of.

The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone, London
E11 1HG

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Pamela Golden: Thunderstruck

10 January 2018 – 3 February 2018

Thunderstruck consists of a series of new paintings by Pamela Golden exploring real and imagined images of Iraq. The title of the exhibition, is taken from the AC/DC song American soldiers played whilst bombing in the Iraq War.

Marlbourough
6 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BY

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Kati Heck: Heimlich Manoeuvre

23 November 2017 – 10 February 2018

For her first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, and her first solo London showing, Kati Heck presents a range of new paintings based on Gustav Mahler’s composition Das Lied von der Erde (1909) – whose lyrics are based in turn on Chinese poetry – and a new video sculpture, Der Springende Punkt Case II. Heck’s practice incorporates sculpture, film, performance and photography, with compositions that branch into multiple genres – with literature, art history, folklore and lived experience forming simultaneous and indivisible strands.)

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5QN

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The Performativity of Painting

16 January – 16 February 2018

Curated by Alex Roberts this exhibition explores the idea of painting as an act.

‘Painting – the performance of structures, fragments and use of space within the perceived painted frame, and the relating inherent surround.
In bringing together these artists, through their distinct individual accounts and methodologies, The Performativity of Painting offers opportunity to consider site-specificity, theatrical tropes, depicted surfaces, staging and the interconnectedness of the artwork’s context (in the works’ content and proximity). In this sense, the exhibition will seek to address painting’s embodiment of the performative space.’

Artists: Tobias Buckel, Liz Elton, David Lock, J.A. Nicholls, Selma Parlour, James Pimperton, Rebecca Molloy, Alex Roberts.

Stephen Lawrence Gallery
10 Stockwell Street
London
SE10 9BD

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In Line

18 January – 23 February 2018

This exhibition brings together the work of nine different artists whose distinct practices explore a common territory in quite different ways and mediums including painting, video, installation, wall painting, drawing and kinetic sculpture. Thematically they are focused on the use of line to generate a complex structure or form, bounded by a set of rules that ultimately determine the final work. It has been curated by Saturation Point, Patrick Morrissey| Hanz Hancock.

Exhibiting artists include:
Duncan Bullen
Robert Currie
Daryl Brown
Lothar Götz
Ben Gooding
Hanz Hancock
Peter Lowe
Patrick Morrissey
Wendy Smith

Griffin Gallery The Studio Building
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

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Unfold

30 January – 11 February 2018
Private View: Thursday 1 February 6-9pm

Curated by Carlos de Lins
‘Unfold is a fascinating journey into the creative mind of the artist. It reveals the creative processes that are essential to the development of their art. They allow the viewer a glimpse into sources of inspiration, and invite the onlooker to watch their ideas unfold, evolve and eventually develop into finished works.

The exhibition showcases a variety of interpretations and mediums reflecting their different styles.’

Artists exhibiting:Tanaz Assefi, Andrea Coltman, Evaldas Gulbinas, Renee Rilexie,
Ekaterini Koliakou, David Emmanuel Noel, Sara Wickenden,
Claire Weinstock.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Andrea Coltman, Johnny Sleeps, showing at the Espacio Gallery.

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Current Events #6. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 6 of 2018.
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Winter Flowers

20 January 2018 – 8 March 2018

A selection of prints, watercolours, oils and sculpture on the subject matter of plants.

Artists include: Ade Adesina, Elizabeth Blackadder, Mary Bourne, Gordon Bryce, Alfons Bytautus, Victoria Crowe, Michael Docherty, George Donald, Graham Fagen, Alexander Fraser, Derrick Guild, Elspeth Lamb, Kirkland Main, Jennifer McRae, David Michie, Marion Smith, Frances Walker, Adrian Wiszniewski and, of course, Anne Redpath.

RSA Lower Galleries,
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL

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Longwick Art Exhibition

17th – 18th February 2018

The 30th anniversary of the Longwick Art Show, located in the Longwick Combined Church of England School this is an annual display of works by local amateur and professional artists.

Exhibiting artists include: Ray Styles, Rachel Wright, Rachel Wright, Pauline James, Mike Bowker, Michael York, Marian Carter, Jo Stewart, Jill Blackburn, Jenny Hay, Janet Erskine, Jane Miller, James Scutt, Jadi, Jackie Webb, Irenke York, Helen Willson, Helen Robinson, Glenn Hart, Geoff Johnson, Gareth Hendley, Emma Wheeler, Diane Riddy, David Floyd, Damian Ward, Cynthia Evenden, Chris Dignan, Catherine Henshaw, Catherine Constable, Barry Macey, Anne Hewitt, Anna Kingsnorth, Andy Lee.

Longwick School
Walnut Tree Lane
Longwick
Princes Risborough
Bucks
HP27 9SJ

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Destroyed by Shadows

A group exhibition of the following artists:
Dominic Beattie
John Bunker
Neil Gall
Peter Lamb
Andrea Medjesi-Jones
Harland Miller
Selma Parlour
DJ Simpson
Michael Stubbs
Shaan Syed
Clare Woods
Vicky Wright

The Cornerstone Gallery
Liverpool Hope University
The Creative Campus
17 Shaw Street
Liverpool
L6 1HP

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Bloomsberg New Contemporaries 2017, Block 336, London

27 January – 3 March 2018

An exhibition of 47 artists selected for Bloomberg New contemporaries including:
Raen Barnsley, Calum Bowden, Eleanor Breeze, Christy Burdock, Robbie Campbell, Neil Carroll, Sofia Caselli, Adam Castle and Ed Twaddle, Tereza Červeňová, Sarah Cockings and Harriet Fleuriot, Declan Colquitt, José Rafael Cordeiro, Jake Elwes, Darek Fortas, Rufus Roma Genn, Matthew Gough, Thomas Greig, Tom Hatton, Caitlin Hazell, Gabriella Hirst, Jack Howell Evans, Hettie James, Jack Killick, Carla Lavin, James Laycock, Gal Leshem, Melissa Magnuson, Lucy Mayes, Amanda Moström, Rhona Mühlebach, Nathan Roy Newton, Robbie O’Keeffe, Irvin Pascal, Katarzyna Perlak, Seth Pimlott, Tom Platt, Glen Pudvine, Maïa Régis, Harriet Rickard, Martin Sekera, Devlin Shea, Felix Treadwell, David Walker Kennedy, Max K Weaver and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.

Block 336
336 Brixton Road
London
United Kingdom
SW9 7AA

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Society of Wood Engravers: 80th Annual Exhibition

30 January – 18 February 2018

This is the 80th annual exhibition of wood engravings by members and includes a range of approaches and subject matter. There is a special display by Pam Pebworth.

Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JH

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Leosoc

7 – 15 February 2018

A mixed media group exhibition by members of the Leonardo Fine Arts Society, Imperial College.

Blyth Gallery
Imperial College London
Sherfield Building
London
SW7 2AZ

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The image at the top is: David Robertson, Less Affordable Housing, wood engraving, who is showing at the Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition.

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Current Events #7. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 7 of 2018.
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The Adam and Eve Project

13 January – 25 February 2018

A group leading artists who live and work in Derbyshire and Staffordshire have produced work to make something with a personal response to the story of Adam and Eve and how it has been interpreted over the centuries.

Brampton Museum
Brampton Park
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 0QP

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For a Burning Love

21 January – 25 February 2018

An exhibition of contemporary painting by the following artist:
Stephen Carley, Alison J Carr, Nick Grindrod, Warren Hayes, David Jones, Rita Kaisen, Mandy Payne, Stephen Todd, Kate Whateley, and Sean Williams.

This exhibition has been curated curated by Sean Williams.

The Old Lock Up Gallery
19, The Hill
Swifts Hollow
Cromford
DE4 3RF

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Michael Ashcroft, Lisa Hooper & John Threlfall

10 February – 28 March 2018

A joint exhibition of the work of Michael J Ashcroft, Lisa Hooper and John Threlfall.

McGill Duncan Gallery
231 King Street
Castle Douglas
Dumfries and Galloway
SCOTLAND
DG7 1DT

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Night follows Night

3 February – 17 March 2018

A collection of work by Paul Fenner, Anne IIsley Anna Jung-Seo, Jessie Makinson, Hannah Murgatroyd and Paige Perkins.

Gallery 98 Ramsgate
98 Highstreet,
CT11 9RX
Ramsgate

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Rural

16 – 29 February 2018

An exhibition of 5 artists showing work in various media.

Martin Jones – Photography

Frances Marr – Ceramics

Dan Bilton – Landscape Ink Work

Debra Sweeney – Landscape work

Jill Hillman – Landscape in Gouache

Studio53
George Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP27BB

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Transcendance

9 – 18 February 2018

A group exhibition of artists exploring otherness and the conflict between simple boundaries of the real and unreal.

Curated by Sarah Jeffries and Alexander Hinks, this show includes work by: Abi Box, Alan Brooks, Alexander Hinks, Darren Nixon, Gary Colclough, Graham Crowley, Kiera Bennett, Louisa Chambers, Martin Dukes, Ruth Solomons, Sarah Jeffries, Patrick O’Sullivan, Zoe Schoenherr.

The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
Waterloo
SE1 8TJ
Londo
United Kingdom

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YELLOW

13th – 25th February 2018

Curated by Terry Beard this shows features the work of 16 gallery artists responding to the theme yellow. It is part of an annual series of exhibitions the Espacio Gallery runs that focus on colour as a theme exhibiting artists include:

Terry Beard, Robert Fitzmaurice, Zelda Eady, Christine Calow,
Sally Grumbridge, Bozena Czyz, Philip Leevers, Lizzie Brown,
John Adams, Tina Viljoen, Ann Simberg, Susan Keshet,
Andy Metcalf, Rosana Miracco, Kirsty Kerr

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Rosana Miracco, The Falling Sky 1, 2013, whose work is being shown at Yellow at the Espacio Gallery

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Current Events #8. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 8 of 2018.
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Reflections in a Blue Lake: Reduction Woodblock Prints by Chen Li

19 February – 24 February 2018

‘Chen Li’s award-winning reduction woodblock prints bring his unique vision and abundant originality to an age-old technique, creating pure magic. Chen Li (b. 1971, Kunming) uses a rare woodblock reduction technique perfected in Yunnan. He prints all colours from a single woodblock, using thick oil-based colours that result in a mesmerising textured surface. Each step along this process destroys the previous one. Only a single edition can be printed and the process can never be repeated.’

Katrine Levin Gallery, Coningsby Gallery,
London, 
W1T 4RJ

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Face To Face

27 January – 2 March 2018

This exhibition is curated by Sasha Bowles and includes work by Mark Jackson, Sue Williams A’Court, Sasha Bowles, Wendy Saunders, Corinna Spencer.

‘’I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould……..
I know faces, because I look through the fabric of my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.’’ Kahlil Gibran

ANGUS-HUGHES Gallery
26 Lower Clapton Rd
(at the junction of Urswick Rd)
London,
E5 0PD

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The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018

20 February – 3 March 2018

Including works made with pastel, pencil, chalk and charcoal, The Pastel Society exhibits a range of thematic work. The show mixes the work of elected members of the society with those selected from open submissions.

Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

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Through the Window

20 January to 24 March 2018

A mixed show featuring paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery focusing on themes including: Early evenings with houses all lit up inside, we can peek into other lifestyles, catching glimpses of their treasured objects on the shelf and arrangements on the table. Or maybe you are cosy by the fire, watching the birds feeding in the fading light, thinking of weekend walks in the countryside, bracing days by the sea.

Artichoke Gallery
Church Street
Ticehurst
TN5 7AE

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Lulu Manasseh: Locating One Self

8 February – 2 March 2018

Gallery Elena Shchukina presents Locating One Self, a solo exhibition of mixed media paintings by London-based artist and PROJECT2017 public vote competition winner, Lulu Manasseh. Comprising four interrelated series of works, the exhibition is conceived as a narrative display of Manasseh’s artistic and spiritual journey over a year of intense creative productivity.

With a focus on process, intended both as the physical practice of building an artwork and the artist’s labour of self-discovery, Locating One Self guides the visitors through a transcendental journey of shifting perspectives.

Earthy, layered paintings incorporating natural materials such as hessian and clay, the artworks on the lower floor are firmly grounded in the physical realm. Titled The Heart of the Matter, this series is a practical exploration of materials, but also a philosophical search for point(s) of origin, the crux “where two opposing forces cross and meet, providing a completely new and unique perspective. Centred on the heart of the matter we can explore our relationship to ourselves and the world around us.”

Moving up to the ground floor, the works gradually lose their earthbound qualities – natural pigment, black paint and woven material slowly give way to thin layers of white paper and clean, graphic marks.

“The drawings illustrate a universe of moving points, forming pathways that stop, pass each other, cross or meet.”

Shifting focus from the ground to the stars, the works in the Mapping Infinity series take the artist’s exploration of our relationships to the metaphysical realm, attempting to capture fleeting snapshots of a universe in constant flux: “multidimensional, multi-directional, we can move between or create new constellations… The possibilities are endless.” Looking back onto the world from a higher viewpoint, Manasseh achieves a complete shift in perspective in Between Here and There. “Realising that the actual process of building the maps is integral to the information received from them,” explains Manasseh, these maps can help us to see ourselves.

The journey of Locating One Self finds its conclusion in a final act of synthesised unity: inscribing the maps within layers of clay, hessian, fibres, acrylic and oil paint, Manasseh creates powerful textural black and gold paintings in which all perspectives finally meet.

“It is only by diving into the depths, into the darkness, that we can discover One Self. A timeless presence, an anchor in this ever-changing world. A place where we all meet, where differences fall away and we unite in harmony.”

Gallery Elena Shchukina
10 Lees Place
Mayfair, London
W1K 6LL

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Daily Rites

Private view: 1 March 2018
2 March 2018 – 18 March 2018

This exhibition of Tom Berry’s work includes paintings and screen prints that explore ordinary, daily activities that become imbued with a symbolic power through repetition.

‘Daily Rites is an ongoing set of images which explore the impulses hidden beneath modern, commonplace activities. It is concerned with ritual and desire, and other instincts which underpin the modern humdrum. Each design is first painted in monochrome on wood panel, and a small edition of screenprints are produced from this image.’

Deptford Does Art
28 Deptford High Street
London SE8 4AF

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Gin & Bare It

8 February 2018 – 3 March 2018

This is a group exhibition of artists exploring the human figure in their individual styles.

Artists exhibiting include: Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE, Alan McGowan, Angela Reilly, Violetta Palak, Sebastiano Cantarella and Trevor Jones.

This exhibition is sponsored by Firkin Gin.

Union Gallery
4 Drumsheugh Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 7PT

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on my island none of this would be true

1 February – 3 March 2018

This exhibition focuses on the conflicting associations, ideas and stereotypes that islands as a space conjure up.

Artists exhibiting include: Naama Arad, Guy Ben-Ner, Verity Birt in collaboration with Holly Graham and Richard-Forbes Hamilton, Edgar–Walker, Gery Georgieva with music by Patchfinder, Joan Jonas, Terence McCormack, Hannah Regel and Mike Seaborne.

arebyte gallery
Java House,
Botanic Square,
London City Island,
E14 0JU

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Go with the Flow

27 January – 4 March 2018

‘Flow explores the ways in which the physical materials that artists choose and use to create work influence and direct the Final outcome. The exhibition includes sculpture, painting, photography, film, ceramics and installation in which matter oozes, pours, tears, sags, cracks or hangs in the balance, vitally influencing form and scale.  Tension is created between the intention of the artist and the potential of accident.
Artworks include the film Singularity by Solveig Settemsdal, which won the prestigious Jerwood Drawing prize; and ceramics by the ground breaking artist Jonathan Keep, who programmes 3D printers with an element of chance to create innovative and intriguing porcelain pieces.
Alexis Harding, winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, will be showing work that challenges the way paint normally behaves and functions.  And, Harriet Hill will be making a site specifc installation that responds directly to the visceral qualities of the materials she uses and the OBS Gallery space.
Clare Price’s paintings explore the tension between geometric elements derived from digital technology and more expressive mark making. And, Emily Glass’ making process ensures that forms cannot be wholly predetermined, her fabric sculptures suggest the play of improvisation and chance.’

OBS Gallery
Tonbridge School
High Street, Tonbridge
Kent, TN9 1JP
England

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The image at the top is: Angela Reilly, Knot, Oil on Canvas, 101.6cm x 101.6cm

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Current Events #9. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 9 of 2018.
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The Classical Now

2 March – 28 April 2018

The Classical Now is a major exhibition exploring Greek and Roman antiquity in the modern artistic imagination.

Presented by King’s College London in partnership with MACM (the award-winning Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins), the exhibition traces the ways in which Graeco-Roman art has captured and permeated the modern imagination. It examines classical presences in the works of twentieth-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Yves Klein, and leading contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Louise Lawler, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread. The show explores the myriad continuities and contrasts between the ancient, modern and contemporary, revealing the ‘classical’ as a living and fluid tradition.

The Classical Now is staged across two spaces at King’s College London, the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House, and the Arcade at Bush House – part of The King’s Cultural Quarter.

Exhibited works range from classical Greek and Roman artefacts (in bronze, marble and mosaic) to contemporary painting, sculpture, video and photography. The exhibition will feature contemporary works in which classical forms receive provocative new expression – such as the fragmentary bodies by contemporary artist Marc Quinn – alongside more oblique or suggestive uses of ancient themes, such as Bruce Nauman’s landmark video performance, Walk with Contrapposto (1968). Paris-based artist Léo Caillard, known for dressing classical statues in contemporary attire, has been commissioned to produce a new site-specific installation for the exhibition.

Alongside ancient Greek and Roman objects, The Classical Now exhibits work by Edward Allington, Pablo Bronstein, Léo Caillard, Jean Cocteau, Michael Craig-Martin, André Derain, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Derek Jarman, Yves Klein, Louise Lawler, Christopher Le Brun, Roy Lichtenstein, George Henry Longly, Ursula Mayer, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Giulio Paolini, Grayson Perry, Frances Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Marc Quinn, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Sacha Sosno, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread. The show will also incorporate the video-installation, ‘Liquid Antiquity: Conversations’, featuring interviews with six contemporary artists (Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Urs Fischer, Jeff Koons, Asad Raza and Kaari Upson) – commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, and designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.

Inigo Rooms
Somerset House East Wing,
London
WC2R 2LS

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Sol LeWitt: Colour

14 February – 17 March 2018

This is the first solo exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s graphic works since his death over ten years ago. It focuses on his late prints a medium he began to work with in 1970. This includes several print series and both organic forms and basic shapes.

Alan Cristea Gallery
43 Pall Mall,
London
SW1Y 5JG

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Picnic

3 – 4 March 2018

This exhibition presents work that are playful female perspectives on Manet’s ‘Le Dèjeuner Sur L’Herbe’, including work by Megan Preston-Elliott,Antonia Showering, Tuesday Riddell, Freya Douglas-Moris, Cora Cuthbert, Polly Bennett, Nina Silverberg, Victoria Cantons, Florence Mytum, Jeanette Gunnarsson.

Subsidiary Projects
28 Bonnington Square,
London
SW8 1TQ

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Andrew Viner: A Simple Image

24 February – 12 March 2018

Andrew Viner’s new paintings originate for his quest for a simple image. They represent both place and experience and are inspired by raw coastlines, dark seas and imagined ships. His work draws on what he sees during local walks and trips to the Cornish Coast. All of the work are simplified to their essence.

Mccully and Crane
27b Cinque Ports Street
Rye
East Sussex
TN31 7AD

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Collective Possibilities

28 February – 5 March 2018
Private view: 28 February 2018

Curated by Julian Wild.
An exhibition of the work of 10 emerging artists. Including Syeda Begum, Meng Ni Beh, Aimee Brigginshaw, Sue Dagnall, Nathali du Luart, Dominic Head, Karin Jolly, Rebecca Kunzi, Patrick O’Donnell and Meg Wroe.

The featured work above is by Syeda Begum. Her work is heavily influenced by the urban environment of London. Her often very minimal and stripped back works are a response to the city and draw on key forms present in the city’s architecture and play with the urban colours of street signs. Her work presents her sense of detachment and disconnection from London. You can find out more about Begum and view more of her work on her website.

The Old Newington Library
155 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1RS
United Kingdom

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Open Exhibition: SSA & VAS Together 2018

29 January – 8 March 2018

This is a collection of work by Scottish artists who were sourced from an open call, over 200 artworks have been selected by a team of members from the societies.

The Royal Scottish Academy,
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL

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Camaradas: UK – Mexico Art Competition

27 February – 4 March 2017
Private View: Wednesday 28 February 6-9pm

After four other editions, the Embassy of Mexico is now presenting “Camaradas: UK – Mexico Art Competition”, a fantastic opportunity for emerging artists from both the United Kingdom and Mexico to work and learn from each other and to discover unexpected similarities they share.

One British and one Mexican artist must become comrades and form a partnership, the partners must submit either an individual proposal of a piece by each artist, or a joint proposal. The art piece presented engages in a dialogue on a subject or idea of their choosing. The works will include paintings, photographs, videos, sculpture, performance and other visual art forms.

A panel of judges comprised of leading figures in the art world will select the best partnership proposal.

Curated by Pablo Lugo

Supported by the Embassy of Mexico

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Syeda Begum, Floating, In The Sum, 2016.
Oil and pencil on panel
11″ x 14″, you can see more of Beugm’s work here.

–Current Events #10. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 10 of 2018.
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21st Annual East Riding Open Art

2 March – 28 April 2018

The East Riding open art exhibition presents the work of artists that live in Hull and East Riding, it consists of 310 pieces by both professionals and amateurs.

Treasure House & Beverley Art Gallery
Champney Rd,
Beverley
HU17 8HE

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In A Country Far Far Away

1 March – 17 March 2018

A cross-border group art exhibition with accompanying workshops, concerts and events inspired by fairytales, myths and legends from countries in war and crisis

Speakers’ Event Artists in transition, Athens
Far Away Film Fest Animations by artists worldwide
Dance Amici Dance & Music for the Deaf
Tell Tale Pots Make art from relicts
Puppet Making with Arteast & the Creative ESOL Group
Communal Golem building day
Myth End: The Hamlet a Myth Away Adventure installation
Stop Clock Storytelling for All 360 seconds to tell a tale
Sound Baths by Mystery School of Sound
East London Life Drawing 2 guest sessions to join
LivingROOTS Interviews and photo portraits with gallery visitors

Mishaped Pearls UK folk, 1 March 8 pm
sandmoon Indie folk, Lebanon, 17 March, 7 pm

The Art Pavilion Mile End Park,
Clinton Rd,
London
E3 4QY

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2018 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition

5 – 17 March 2018

An exhibition of selected entries for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. The prize encourages encourage creative representational painting and skilled draughtsmanship.

Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

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Dame of the Hour : International Women’s Day exhibition

5 March 2018 – 22 March 2018

This exhibition, curated by Kate Constantine, is a showcase of 22 local and international artists. It is designed to mark international women’s day.

St. James Wine Vaults,
10 St James Street,
Bath,
BA1 2TW

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Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition 2018

17 February – 22 April 2018

A collection of amateur and professional artists ‘ work that covers a diverse range of styles and media.

Ferens Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Square,
Carr Ln,
Hull
HU1 3RA

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Mum Before Me: an exhibition inspired by our mothers

8-13 March 2018

Opening on International Women’s Day, this exhibition is themed upon the question ‘Who was your mum before you were born?’

18 artists reflect on the lives of the women that became their mothers.

Exhibiting artists include:
Helen Adie, Julie Bennett, Jackie Brown, Joan Byrne, Gill Day, Lulu Ditzel, Gin Dunscombe, Edori Fertig, Rebecca Fortnum, Tracey Francis, Pia Goddard, Caroline Gregory, Liz Honeybone, Helen Ireland, Leona Mitchell, Jacqueline Utley, Cynthia Wild, Caroline Wright.

Jeannie Avent Gallery,
14 North Cross Road,
London
SE22 9EU

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Threads: Women’s History Month


06 March – 11 March 2018
Private View: Tuesday 6 March 6-9pm

Curated by Renee Rilexie

‘Our lives as women contain many threads. Some run through time, connecting us to our past selves and pointing a way towards the future.

Others are the threads that weave us together with our family and friends. And there are also the threads of memory, of those we have loved from near and from far, and of those we have lost.

In Women’s History Month, the Threads exhibition reaches out beyond the boundaries of national borders, language, culture and belief, inviting participants to choose a thread from the wide tapestry of their lives and gently unravel it to release its meaning, wisdom and secrets.’

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Isabella Maclure’s ‘East Coast’ who is exhibiting at the Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition.

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Current Events #11. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 11 of 2018.
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Still Life: Lisa Milroy & Jayne Parker

3 March – 18 March 2018

This collaborative exhibition includes film, photography, sculpture and painting. It charts both artists continued interest in material, transformation, the experience of absence and how memory resides within us.

Art in Perpetuity Trust – A.P.T Gallery
Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside
Deptford, London
SE8 4SA

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The Other Art Fair

22 March – 25 March 2018

A direct artist to buyer show with work from emerging and undiscovered artists.

Victoria House
Southampton Row
London WC1A 2QP

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1 Godley VC House

8 March – 20 April 2018

Curated by Tim A Shaw, Emma Smale and Niamh White, this exhibition is based on a floor plan from Tim A Shaw’s London flat being converted into a skeletal frame that creates an imagined room.

Exhibiting artists:
Rachael Champion | Karen David | Jon Emmony | Alexandra Lethbridge | Steve Macleod | Cameron Morgan | Rose Pilkington | Charley Peters | Tim A Shaw | Esna Su

Griffin Gallery The Studio Building
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

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Sophie von Hellermann: New Waves

16 February – 24 March 2018

The first solo exhibition of Sophie von Hellermann’s work which include paintings drawn from her subconscious and references to current affairs, literature and mythology.

Pilar Corrias Gallery
54 Eastcastle Street
London W1W 8EF

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Longwick Art Exhibition

24 March – 25 March 2018

The Longwick Art Show, located between 24th March and 25th March in the Brill Church of England School is an annual display of works by local amateur and professional artists to raise money for the school.

Exhibiting artists include: Ray Styles, Rachel Wright, Rachel Wright, Pauline James, Mike Bowker, Michael York, Marian Carter, Jo Stewart, Jill Blackburn, Jenny Hay, Janet Erskine, Jane Miller, James Scutt, Jadi, Jackie Webb, Irenke York, Helen Willson, Helen Robinson, Glenn Hart, Geoff Johnson, Gareth Hendley, Emma Wheeler, Diane Riddy, David Floyd, Damian Ward, Cynthia Evenden, Chris Dignan, Catherine Henshaw, Catherine Constable, Barry Macey, Anne Hewitt, Anna Kingsnorth, Andy Lee.

Brill School
The Firs
HP18 9RY

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Varying Degrees: Peter Wileman

3 March – 24 March 2018

A solo show of Peter Wileman’s work which uses washes and glazes along with complimentary colours to create depth and mood.

Lemon Street Gallery
13 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS

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nth nature: Lilah Fowler

16 March — 21 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 15 Mar, 6–9pm

‘A few whiles away: there are roads, roads and roads.
Delicate ribbons of travel, following contours of least resistance. No one believes in landscape anymore; the land becomes landscape becomes map.
Why exactly am I here?’

A collection of new work by Lilah Fowler that looks at the tensions between what we think of as natural and tcyberspace divide in how we designate, chop up and contain within physical locations and cyber space.

Assembly Point
49 Staffordshire Street
London SE15 5TJ

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Transitions- A Solo Show by Adébayo Bolaji

20 February – 20 March 2018

A solo show of Bolaji’s focusing on the idea of reaching your full potential by removing or adding narratives and subjects in order to find a way to ‘deal with himself’.

someth1ng
52 Honor Oak Park
London,
SE23 1DY

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JABBERWOCKY: and other nonsense in the here and now

13-18 March 2018
Private View: Thursday 15 March 6-9pm

‘This exhibition is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’, one of the greatest examples of nonsense literature. The poem’s impressive use of fictitious words and abstract imagery masterfully illustrates a scene of childhood fantasy, in which the monster lurking dangerously in the shadows is finally eliminated. While the narrative itself remains mysterious, the action of overcoming a great evil is undeniable. It is Carroll’s creative reframing of threat and danger through his bewilderingly-named creatures that has elevated the poem to such acclaim.

The show includes a myriad of contemporary messages about playing with fantasy in order to comprehend reality and to defeat menace. This encompasses two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks (painting, photography, print, mixed media, installation), as well as video/film and performance, all of which may be political, personal or as nonsensical as the poem itself. With the poem as a focus, artists convey impressions of today’s Jabberwocky narrative both figuratively and in abstract forms, drawing from playful and serious perspectives.’

Denise Wyllie, Ida Ndoni, Kevin Derbyshire, Lawrence Mathias,
Les Lismore, Liz Derbyshire, Jonathan Graham, Cristina Cantilena,
Lizy Bending, Ben Mellor, Helen Lack, Elena Rizzardi,
Yolanda Pinto Medina, Verena Giavelli, Sonia Stanbury, Adolfo Solarte (FITO),
Marcos Buarque de Hollanda, Art Hop Life, Marcia Mar,
Andrés González-Meneses, Janet Moses, Naïg Thomé, Meliha Gunenc,
Julia Schoklitsch, Edson Costa, Luciana Mariano

Curated by Ana Cockerill

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: “Black President – A Portrait Of Fela Kuti” by Adébayo Bolaji, 2018 showing at Transitions- A Solo Show by Adébayo Bolaji at someth1ng gallery.

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Current Events #12. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 12 of 2018.
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Beneath the Canopy

31 March – 30 June 2018

An exhibition that includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery that focuses on tress, birds and insects. Particularly the branches of trees and wildlife they support.

Here Bellido’s work looks at stillness and uses inks alongside silkscreen.

Artichoke Gallery
Church Street
Ticehurst
TN5 7AE

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[city]Frequency: Make Zimmermann

22 March – 1 April 2018

This exhibition explores urban experiences and is an audio-visual installation looking at documentaries and narrative as part of human ecology.

A.P.T Gallery
Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside
Deptford, London
SE8 4SA

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Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda

24 February – 20 May 2018

This major exhibition by Stephen Chambers introduces ‘The Court of Redonda’, a collective portrait of an imaginary court of maverick and singular individuals. it includes 101 paintings with artists imagining an alternative world.

‘Curated by Emma Hill, The Court of Redonda was made over a two-year period that coincided with Britain’s referendum about leaving the European Union and touches upon themes of identity, heredity and nationalism.  She says, “The Court of Redonda is woven from a story about an uninhabited place, which writers and artists have envisioned.  It is a work about the collective human spirit.  The expression of the necessity and freedom of creative imagination, for art’s ability to reflect to us the moment we are living in and for an individual artist’s statement to carry the weight of this, is at the heart of images Chambers presents us with in the faces of his imaginary courtiers.”‘

The Heong Gallery
Downing College, University of Cambridge,
Regent St, Cambridge
CB2 1DQ

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Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators

23 February – 31 March 2018

This exhibition includes the work of 19 artists, who are gallery artists or regular contributors, it includes painting, drawing, sculpture & installation.

Exhibiting artists:
Peter Ashton Jones, Emma Bennett, Kiera Bennett, Tom Butler, Dan Coombs, Florian Heinke, Sam Jackson, Reece Jones, Kate Lyddon, Eric Manigaud, Wendy Mayer, Hugh Mendes, Alex Gene Morrison, Gavin Nolan, Dominic Shepherd, John Stark, Geraldine Swayne, Barry Thompson, Gavin Tremlett.

Gallery Director Zavier Ellis states:
“In some ways a gallery artists show is a pretty dull and unimaginative thing to do. But, on the upside it enables our audience to digest our stable in context. We are mostly a painter’s gallery, albeit with a curatorial emphasis that embraces every medium when appropriate. The artists we exhibit are technical, but this is nowhere near enough in itself. You will find that each one of them makes work with an intense emotional, philosophical or psychological charge, and so their work operates in a challenging, profound way.
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CHARLIE SMITH LONDON,
336 Old Street,
Shoreditch,
London EC1V 9DR

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Width of Circle

22 March – 3 May 2018

This is the first of a series of exhibitions titled “WIDTH OF CIRCLE”, which is intended to explore the areas of interest that will shape the further series and identity of the overall project.

Exhibiting artists:
Lex Thomas, Olha Pryymak, Dominic Shepherd, Peter Burns and Ben Sadler.

Width of Circle
Titan House
Old Wharf Road
Stourbridge
DY84LS

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Stations: Simon Carter

2 March – 6 April 2018

An exhibition of Simon Carter’s paintings.

Oasis Cafe,
2 Connaught Avenue,
Frinton-on-Sea

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Secret of the Landscape|

23 February 2018 – 6 April 2018

Curated by Rita Selvaggio this show deals with landscape as a mental, tactile, physical and spatial passage, an emotional geography that can be expanded, deconstructed, reassembled and reimagined.

Exhibiting artists include:
Isabelle Cornaro, Giulia Piscitelli, Jessica Warboys

‘Jessica Warboys’ Sea Paintings are made below the high water line at the sea’s edge. After immersion, the sodden canvases are pulled from the sea and laid out on the beach. Mineral pigments are thrown directly onto the sea beaten fabric; its folds and creases catching the grains of colour. The process is then repeated with the canvas returning to the sea or being left to dry on the beach. The sea, wind, and sand along with the pigment and the artist’s hand create forms through the movement of colour. The place and date of making is given in each work’s title, emphasizing the mirroring of location and time.’

Frith Street Gallery
Soho Square, 60 Frith Street
London
W1D 3JJ

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#pengtings

27 March – 1 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 29 March 6-9pm

#pengtings is an exhibition by a group of international female artists who are consciously choosing to confront how they present interpretations of the world and how they weave into this interpretation their own desire.

‘Social media has given us all carte blanche to reinvent ourselves as super-human, exaggerating how we look and artificially enhancing what we believe are our best features. The pressure surrounding body image is a real and growing issue and can occasionally manifest itself in anxiety and mental illness. There are numerous ways to define beauty and catching a moment to appreciate it can be a way to alleviate the stresses of life and escape into a world of imagination. This can be achieved with art that pushes the boundaries of what is real and can imitate itself within painting, drawing, and sculpture.’

Exhibiting artists:
Caroline Lovett, Diana Sandetskaya, Jacqui Grant, Josette Aitman,
Michelle Karpus, Tania Askar, Victoria Perloff

Curated by Jacqui Grant

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: The Beast, 2017, Oil on Linen, 40x56cm by Dominic Shepherd, who is showing at Width of Circle.

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Current Events #13. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 13 of 2018.
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You are an ocean and I am a living thing: Thom Kofoed

19 March – 21 April 2018

This solo exhibition includes paintings, needlework and drawings by Thom Kofoed.

‘This exhibition represents my own personal anthology of female poets. Each of these women explore and interrogate the nature of poetry: through poetry itself or through novel writing, non-fiction writing, visual art, music or comedy. Many of them work across all of these artforms. They each take a radical approach to language and use it to the full extent of its power. They play with words, create incomparable images and tell stories that no one has heard before.

All of these women have also inspired my own work as a writer and an artist. When I was growing up, I wasn’t exposed to the wealth of work being created by female poets. I only knew the very few who were represented in my textbooks at school; I had to go in search of others myself. As I read more, I realised that the white male monopoly on poetry as an artform had required many women to work beyond the boundaries, and embed their poems in other artforms. I realised that every time I read a Toni Morrison novel or listened to Joni Mitchell or watched Victoria Wood’s stand-up, I was hearing and absorbing poetry in a powerful and important way. This collection is a celebration of these women.’ — Thom Kofoed

The Poetry Society
22 Betterton Street
London
WC2H 9BX

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Ann Oram: New Paintings from the studio

7 March – 31 March 2018

Ann Oram’s latest solo show at the Scottish Gallery focuses on architecture, still life and landscape. She has shown at this gallery for over 30 years and her work continues to explore the interior with still life and show the same expertise for demonstrating engaging shape and form.

The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6HZ

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Small Wonder

From 10 March 2018

An exhibition of small paintings and prints by Susan Absolon, Sandra Miller, Nicki Vowls, Jackie Russell, Julia Hamilton and Caroline Yates.

Will & Yates Gallery
95 Beach Street
Deal  Kent
CT146JE

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Night Realms: Arusha Gallery x Kristian Day

29 March – 29 April 2018

This group show is the first collaboration between Kristian Day and Edinburgh’s Arusha Gallery. It features the work of Hamish Pearch, Margaux Valengin, Markus Vater, Ana Milenkovic, Rafal Topolewski, Fiona Finnegan and Christopher Orr.

‘This cosmopolitan group, at different stages in their careers, produce work that is profoundly Romantic in nature. This Romanticism is strongly reminiscent both of the pan- European sensibility most associated with artists and writers such as Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Caspar David Friedrich, Charles Baudelaire, but also profoundly modern in its desire for intimacy, meaning and security in a socially fragmented world.

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Although the painting on show at Night Realms is predominantly figurative, it is also often dark and enigmatic, eluding clear definition. As such, it engages the darker, clandestine, side of the human psyche, where meanings are confused and space disorientating, vertiginous, dreamlike or hallucinatory.’

Night Realms
Arusha Gallery,
13A Dundas St,
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

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”WOMEN CAN’T PAINT…”

7th April – 12th May 2018
Private view Friday 6th April 6 – 9pm

Exhibiting artists include:
Roberta Booth / Jean Cooke / Stevie Dix / Jane Harris / Rosa Lee / Mali Morris / Hannah Murgatroyd / Cherry Pickles / Clare Price / Emma Roche / Geraldine Swayne / Josephine Wood / Rose Wylie

Turps Gallery & ASC Gallery
Taplow House, Thurlow Street
London
SE17 2UQ

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Tom Hammick: Lunar Voyage

16 March – 5 May 2018

‘British painter and printmaker Tom Hammick has described landscape in his work as a metaphor to explore an “imaginary and mythological dreamscape.” Drawing from a wide range of sources, from Japanese woodblock prints to Northern European Romantic painting, utopian Modernism and contemporary cinema, Hammick’s depictions of isolated human dwellings grounded in uncanny dreamlike settings summon the uneasy atmosphere of a psychologically-charged thriller, or a dystopian suburban nightmare.

In the present exhibition of woodcuts, shown in its entirety for the first time in the UK, Hammick conjures a metaphorical journey to outer space, weaving interstellar dreams and earthly relationships. A suite of seventeen images traces the cyclical path of his protagonist, an archetypal artist or poet, who leaves life on earth in pursuit of freedom and isolation on the moon – only to be haunted by memories of those he has left behind.’

Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London W1S 3LZ

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The image at the top is: Tom Hammick, Nightfall, 2017 – Reduction woodcut.

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Current Events #14. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 14 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country.
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The Chaiya Art Awards

29 March 2018 – 8 April 2018

This exhibition at the gallery@oxo shows the successful work of entrants to the Chaiya Art Awards. The Chaiya Art Awards exists to show challenging and thought inspiring art in a modern setting through contemporary eyes. The works by innovative and exciting artists are in a variety of media including painting, sculpture and video. This year’s awards focus on the theme: Where is God in our 21st century world?

Exhibiting artist:
Adams Bridget Organised Kindness
Andrews Iain Corvus Corax
apaRicio-yoldi claRa Fragment edMemory
Askey Matthew Grenfell
Attwood Trevor God
Beaumont Sheona Natal
Bingham James El Evangelista, Romel
Booth Colin Jesus Wept
Bradbury Roz How do you see me?
Campbell-Wharam Hannah Wilderness
Castelan Isabela GODLESS
Chlapowski Teresa Where do we go?
Chorkularb Jade One Day, I Will Stop Crying
Christie Heather Enlightenment
Codling Peter Naivety
Crawford Andrew Beyond the edge of gone
David Susie studies for the shipwrecked #1
Davis Louise The Exiles
Fryer Mike I keep God handy in my little box
Green Kate In the detail
Ho Rachel Scarred
Hobbs Paul St Anmol
Klein Simon Standing in between.
Lavers Kirsten Admitting the possibilities of error
Lawty Sue Seqentia
Lloyd-Williams Trudi Albedo
Mendes Ana This is my God
Newman Karl Seek and you shall find
Parr Gina Last Fish Supper
Rushton Maxwell Left Out
Rutt Elisabeth I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine’. Psalm 50:11
Shepherd Simon The Real Thing
Smith Sue Florescence
Smith Mandy Genes
Stair Julian Infant sarcophagus
Theobald David Modern Wonder
Tompsett Deborah a 1000 bottles of tears
Wang Yue Koryo
Weatherbee Karen Pathways
Wilson Stephanie Shrouded in Mystery
Wouda Marjan The Other Lamb
Zia Anusheh Celestial Adhaan
ashar The suspense of living on the edge

gallery@oxo,
Oxo Tower Wharf,
Bargehouse Street,
South Bank,
London, SE1 9PH

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Adam Hennessey Pigeon to Dove

15 March – 28 April 2018

This body of new work by Adam Hennessey was originally made as a special project for the London Art Fair, Hennessey began by making nine small pieces to begin to explore scale. The work in this exhibition consider painting as a drawing form and offer a range of surreal and cunning humour. This is particularly noticeable in his work ‘Pizza’ that shows a cartoonish slice seemingly levitating and a ‘Cabbage’ that seems to solemnly look at you.

New Art Projects,
6D Sheep Lane,
London, E8 4QS

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80 – TUTOR SHOW

23 MARCH – 7 APRIL 2018

This showcase of the work of the St Ives School of Art’s tutors includes work by Laura Menzies, Alice Mumford, Gary Long, Hilary Gibson, Kerry Harding, Ges Wilson, Amy Albright, Ashley Hold, Emma McClure, Marion Taylor, Liz Hough, Greg Humphries, Ilker Cinarel, Liz Luckwell, and Steve Dove.

The show will open with a performance by Ilker Cinarel, and during the exhibition several events are scheduled including live painting demonstrations by Alice Mumford, Gary Long and others, and talks by Liz Luckwell, Marion Taylor, Liz Hough and Hilary Jean Gibson.

Kerry Harding, whose piece ‘Tree-Pool’ is featured above, is an experienced painter and tutor. Her paintings look at her view of nature while prefacing paint as the hero. Throughout her work Harding has built up a vocabulary of marks and surfaces that interpret and vividly depict the Cornish Landscape. You can view more of her work here.

Penwith Gallery,
Back Road West,
St.Ives,
Cornwall,
TR26 1NL

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All Things Being Equal: Sandra Porter: Drawings, Prints & Paintings

10 Mar 2018 – 15 Apr 2018

Sandra Porter’s work begins with her looking at architecture, such as monumental buildings including St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow and Siena Cathedral in Italy. These abstract works use grids and stripes, inspired by the iron bothies on the Isle of Skye. This is her fist solo show and includes large-scale carborundum prints, drawings and paintings.

The Museum in the Park Gallery
Stratford Park
Stratford Road
Stroud
GL5 4AF

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Moore and Plum: Paintings, Music and Things

6 April 2018

Marie-Louise Plum and John Moore present an exhibition of outsider art within a private surrealist members club.

Marie-Louise Plum’s work focuses on preservation, memory, mortality, sense of self, and identity, following themes of social alienation, sexual ambiguity and subversion of the “common sense”. She works on revealing and exposing scavenged lost fragments of forgotten objects or ideas.

Vout-O-Reenee’s
The Crypt
30 Prescot Street
London
E1 8BB

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JACK BULLEN // TOTENTANZ

21 March – 5 May 2018

‘Collaborating with dance artist and choreographer, Agnese Lanza to develop and interpret the theories of Austro-Hungarian Movement Analyst, Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), Jack Bullen presents paintings, monotypes and installation transcribing Hans Holbein’s macabre Renaissance woodblock series, Dance of Death, or, Totentanz.’

This exhibition shows the second chapter of Bullen and Lanza’s collaboration.

‘With this series, Bullen has complimented the abstract movement of his central characters with colour theory and alchemical history. Working with the backdrops of early Renaissance masterpieces, as homage to Holbein, and fabricated using techniques of that time, the artist combines pigment properties and colour association, with symbolism and planetary attributes to identify not only the weight, speed and dynamism of each character, but also their associated personality traits. An eight-panel folding screen will create a 3-dimensional arena in which to engage with 2-dimemsional imagery through a bold reinterpretation of Holbein’s The Ambassador’s.’

Brocket London
16 Windmill Row,
London,
SE11 5DW

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THE LAST DAY ON EARTH: 10 days/10 exhibitions

7 – 15 April 2018,
Preview: Friday 6 April 6pm – 9pm

The Last Day on Earth is a work-in-progress exhibition that changes or transmutes over the course of 10 days to form one new installation per day.

Crate Project Space will be used as an exhibition studio-lab where Rechsteiner will be working within a clearly defined framework of themes and materials. It will focus on the challenges, dangers and impact of continuous digitalisation and will be live streamed. The new installation will be ready at 2pm each day.

To find out more about Jay Rechsteiner who is a storyteller and process-based artist working within several practices, please visit his website.

Crate Project Space,
1 Bilton Square,
Margate, CT9 1EE

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Mat Collishaw: The Centrifugal Soul

24 March – 4 October 2018

This solo exhibition by Mat Collishaw includes his piece Centrifugal Soul, which is a 3D zoetrope that is based on Geoffrey Miller’s theory that the ability to make art comes from human’s instincts of courtship and reproduction. The sculpture on show at Castle Howard, is of animated birds of paradise as they perform elaborate mating dances and extract pollen from wild blossoms. Alongside the zoetrope are hung a series of brand new C-prints depicting birds tethered to perches.

Castle Howard
Castle Howard,
York
YO60 7DA

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The Space Between

3 April – 8 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 5 April 6-9pm

An exhibition showing the work of members of the London Independent Photography’s Central Group; these pieces will be focused on the relationship between the photographer, the subject and the viewer.

Exhibiting artists:
Hady Bayoumi, Héloïse Bergman, Dorota Boisot, Chris Burrows,
Jan Cylwik, Steve Jones, Danilo Leonardi, Anna Lerner, Teresa Levitt,
Hugh Look, Rashida Mangera, Heather Martin, Frankie McAllister,
Ingrid Newton, Jim Paterson, Ray Rapkerg, Edith Templeton, James Thorp,
Geoff Titley, Ariadne van de Ven, Kate Wentworth, Alec Wyllie

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Jack Bullen, Totentaz, showing during a solo show at the Brocket Gallery, London.

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Current Events #15. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 15 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country.
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Components

6th – 12th April 2018

A group show displaying works by a range of emerging artists.

V.23 The Old Biscuit Factory
Block F
100 Clements Road
London
SK16 4DG

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Surface tension by Sam Hodge, Andy D’Cruz and Marcia Teusink – 5 to 29 April 2018

5 April – 28 April 2018

Surface tension features work by artists Sam Hodge, Andy D’Cruz and Marcia Teusink. The three artists share a fascination with the idea of surface tension in its scientific meaning (the elastic-like force on the surface of a liquid) and its more artistic and poetic implications (surfaces of paintings and drawings, tensions in materials, tensions between objects), and they explore these themes across multiple media.

The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone, London
E11 1HG

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Wasp

Private View Thur 5 April 6.30-9pm
6 April – 5 May 2018

This group show includes work by:
Rachael Allen, Andrea Arnold, Coco Bayley, Liz Berry, Sophie Collins, Emma Cousin, Stevie Dix, Marie Jacotey, Melissa Leigh-Houghton, Momtaza Mehri

Hannah Barry Gallery,
4 Holly Grove,
London
SE15 5DF

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Paradise Underground

18th April 2018, 6pm – 12am

A group exhibition of performance art and painting by 23 artists.

An installation within an installation; Paradise Underground takes over SUGAR CANE BAR for a night of ritual, art and play!

Join us for a post-apocalyptic art experience featuring roaming characters, bespoke cocktails, new media works, painting installation and ceremonies.

Sugar Cane Bar
247 Lavender Hill
Clapham Junction
London
SW11 1JW

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South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30th September 2017 – 15th April 2018

The self-portrait by Francis Newton Souza, a highlight of the Ruth Borchard Collection, has been included in Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery’s exhibition, South Asian Modernists 1953-63. The exhibition explores the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.

Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Rd,
Manchester
M15 6ER

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Superstition

13th – 14th April, 2018

Superstition acts as a four-walled mineral cabinet consisting of artists that all depict geological forms such as crystals, gemstones and geodes. Featuring work by Cy Bernheim, Jane Ashby, Leah Luten, Olivia Pratt and Paula MacArthur.

Project Space Wapping49 Pennington St
London
E1W 2BD

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Emergance

7 March – 21 April 2018

Framework Herefordshire is a support network for emerging artists and this is their third annual exhibition at ASG. Local artists and friends, starting out on their artistic journey, curated the exhibition in conjunction with the gallery.

Apple Store Gallery
The Rose Lipman Building
43 De Beauvoir Rd
London N1 5SF
United Kingdom

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Baring Teeth: Painting Show

14 April – 12 May 2018

A contemporary painting show in Kent displaying works by 14 contemporary painters. All welcome.

Gallery 98
Ramsgate
CT11 9RX

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Third Order

13 April – 29 April 2018
Private view: 13th April 6-9pm

Third Order is an all-female group show focusing on contemporary painting and including 4 UK based artists: Agnieszka Katz Barlow, Sara Dare, Anna Liber Lewis, Karolina Albricht.

Unit 3 Projects
ASC Studios, Empson Street
London, E3 3LT UK

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The image at the top is: a photograph of the Emergance exhibition at the Apple Store Gallery, London.

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Current Events #16. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 16 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country. (click images for larger view)

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Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking

24 March – 5 May 2018

This large diverse international painting show includes work by artists from several generations and is hung salon-style.

Work is being shown by the following artists:
Jan Albers, Sue Arrowsmith, Paul Barlow, Eric Bainbridge, Anthony Bennett, Michael Bevilacqua, Merijn Bolink, Juan Bolivar, Kate Bright, Ralf Broeg, Glenn Brown, Simon Campbell, John Chilver, Sacha Craddock, Michael Craig-Martin, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Rowena Dring, Marcel van Eeden, Machiko Edmondson, Tim Eitel, Roberto Ekholm, Dee Ferris, Gail Fitzgerald, Saul Fletcher, Ed Fornieles, Torben Giehler, Lothar Goetz, Deme Georghiou, Brian Griffiths, Terry Haggerty, Jane Harris, Matthew Harrison, Karolyn Hatton, Gerard Hemsworth, Gregor Hildebrandt, Stefan Hirsig, Dale Holmes, Paul Housley, Tom Howse, Des Hughes, Richard Jacobs, Ben Judd, Ben Kaufmann, Scott King, Richard Kirwan, Rannva Kunoy, Des Lawrence, Christoph Lohmann, Bob Matthews, Caroline McCarthy, Penny McCarthy, Peter McDonald, Dominic McGill, Robert McNally, Dawn Mellor, Nathaniel Mellors, Jo Melvin, Robert Moon, Ryan Mosley, Jost Münster, Julian Opie, Carl Ostendarp, Helena Petersen, Michael Petry, Daniel Pettitt, Jan van der Ploeg, James Pyman, Ged Quinn, Barry Reigate, Bernd Ribbeck, Darren Richardson, Mark Riddington, David Risley, Ben Rivers, Neil Rumming, Lesley Sanderson & Neil Conroy, Sophie Schmidt, Gary Simmonds, Dillwyn Smith, Maxima Smith, Stephen Snoddy, Michael Stubbs, Daniel Sturgis, Srinivas Surti, Tomoaki Suzuki, Finlay Taylor, David Thorpe, Dimitra Vamiali, Riette Wanders, Mathew Weir, Richard Wentworth, Lucy Williams, Keith Wilson, Martin Wöhrl, Clare Woods, Richard Woods, Will Yackulic and more.

Attercliffe™,
747 Attercliffe Road,
Sheffield,
S9 3RF

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Book Launch: ‘The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh’: Miroslav Pomichal

Thursday 19 April 2018, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Miroslav Pomichal’s new artist book ‘The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh’ is being launched at Griffin Gallery, London this Thursday. During the evening the artist and publisher (Invisible Print Studio) will have a discussion on the work chaired by art and culture critic Jonathan McAloon.

Press release:

Tne Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh

The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh has been produced as a hand-made volume of original artworks, printed alongside a number of carefully chosen texts. This hand made book references a wide variety of sources, from medieval incunabula (early examples of printed books) to German Expressionist artefacts such as Wassily Kandinsky’s book, Klänge (Sounds) 1913. Kandinsky described Klänge as a “musical album.” The woodcuts, prose poems, and typography merge and complement one another in a symphonic synthesis. The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh uses the same romantic symphony of image and text, stitched together as an immersive journey.

Using the traditional notion of the ‘traveller’, The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh tells the story of philosopher-vagrant, stumbling through the centuries in search of the essence of the European imaginative modus operandi. The artworks are produced in a process that is simple but unique to Pomichal’s practice; being both painterly but with echoes of German Expressionist woodcuts. The imagery is created with Microsoft Paint, a simple raster graphics programme that is arguably the most widespread and accessible program of our time. It is something of a cultural artefact itself. The digitally produced artworks are then printed on archival matte paper, hardbound and published as a limited edition of 100.

Pomichal says: “The book represents Ehrenfried’s imaginary inner journey. This inner journey expands and contracts according to its own ahistorical logic, moving beyond time and phenomena and aspiring towards the ideal, synthetic form of, what I call, ‘the Gothic impulse’. This is laced with unreason, inter-connectedness, hypertension, anxiety, and feebleness of excess. The essence of ‘the Gothic impulse’ is schismatic and blasphemous, as well as anagogical and divine”.

Miroslav Pomichal (1984, Bratislava) lives and works in London and Velka Lehota, Slovakia. He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA Art History) and Wimbledon School of Art, University of the Arts London (MFA Fine Art). His solo shows include Duino Elegies at Kun Kelemen Fine Arts (2017, Bratislava), Kaukazske Malovanky at Flatgallery (2016, Bratislava) and Living Like a God at CANAL (2016, London). He was selected for Saatchi New Sensations (2014) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2014-15) and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Newlyn Art Gallery Newlyn, Bosse & Baum London, The Lightbox Museum and Gallery Woking, or World Museum Liverpool.

Invisible Print Studio is a publisher and producer of original concepts in print. Launched in 2013 by Michael Hall and Coralie Sheppard it has published editions by Simon Patterson, Bruce McLean, Andrew Bick, Ray Richardson and many more established and early career artists. Their most recent project The Arca Project: An Exhibition Inspired by the Work of W.G.Sebald was their first full curatorial project in print and was presented by PayneShurvell Gallery in London and Suffolk.

Please RSVP to michael@invisibleprintstudio.co.uk or info@griffingallery.co.uk

Griffin Gallery
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

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Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies: Steve Capper

26th April – 12th May
Private view: Thursday 26th April 2018, ’til 8:30pm.

40 works by Steve Capper

‘The show features pieces with Steve’s trademark use of kalaedescopic colour and his take on still life and the regional landscape. In viewing Steve’s work, we are visually reminded of what was one once said about The Beatles song which inspired the title of this exhibition: “A sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms”.’

Gateway Gallery
116 Ashley Rd,
Hale,
Altrincham
WA14 2UN

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Taking Shape

12 April – 30 April 2018

This exhibition presents work by three artists Alan Lennon, Stephen Holmes and Alan Martin on the theme of the contemporary, playful and abstract to showcase their different approaches.

Lennon-Art Gallery
83 Henderson Row,
Edinburgh
EH3 5BE

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No Man’s Land: Talk and Silent Disco by Darvish Fakhr

19 April – 27 April 2018

No Man’s Land is a solo exhibition by Iranian-American artist Darviswh Fakhr. The show focuses on the incredible tale of the deaf-mute Iranian farmer Darvish Esfandiarpour and his silent rebellion against the environmentally devastating land reforms of the Shah of Iran’s regime in the 1960s. Over almost have a century, Esfandiarpour assembled heavy stones on dead trees, giving birth to the Stone Garden – a site of both devastation and rebirth, and invigorating ceremonial dances.

Mainly consisting of oil paintings and charcoal drawings the show itself investigates the notion of boundaries, space and movement.

On the Thursday 19th April, Fakhr will be joined by the British dancer Akram Khan top hold a discussion on the themes of the show and go on to hold a silent disco in celebration of The Stone Garden. Movement is a key practice of Fakhr’s work since he sees his studio as a cosmic gym.

Asia House
63 New Cavendish St
London
England
W1G 7LP

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Arthur Lanyon: White Chalk Lines

30 March – 5 May 2018

“Where Do We Come From,
 What Are We,
 Where Are We Going”
 
This solo exhibition of Arthur Lanyon’s multi-media and multi-scale paintings demonstrate ad intense two year period of creativity and development. Spanning 3 floors of the gallery, ‘White Chalk Lines’ invites the viewer to explore Lanyon’s frenetic and vivid stream of consciousness presented as dynamic mark making.

‘Delving into the ambiguous, abstracted and gestural work of this talented young painter, one absorbs the tangible imprint of recent experience, distant memory and notable lineage.’

Anima-Mundi
Street-an-Pol,
St. Ives,
Cornwall, TR26 2DS

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After Eden

16 April – 28 April 2018
Private View: Tuesday 17 April 6-8pm

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven” Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

The show is a celebration of the diversity of the natural world and hints at it’s decline in the face of man. The fall of man is positioned as a place to investigate the state of the world we live in today after man has been banished from paradise.

‘Mehta Bell Projects encourage a dialogue on the potential hazards and misgivings of the world we live in, and investigate the consequences of our actions in these deeply troubled times. On a voyage through the exuberance of nature and its infectious energy, these works also pose a valuable reminder of the temptations and risks that are ever present and ask that we be mindful that paradise can be lost.’

Artists:

Nick Archer
Lauren Baker
Anouska Beckwith
Orlanda Broom
Ting Cheng
Kamolpan Chotvichai
Peihang Huang
Marc Quinn
Tom Shedden
Benjamin Thomas Taylor
Jane Ward
Tawan Wattuya
Kristjana Williams

Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

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Viewpoints: The Rooftop Collective

17 April – 22 April 2018
Private View: Tuesday 17 April 6-9pm

Viewpoints is a series of artistic conversations: it is a collection of photographic & art works by six photographers and six artists, curated by Anna McNay. Subject matter includes sublime landscapes, dynamic portraiture and work that acts as an immersive experience. Cohesion is brought to the exhibition by the artists working from London and everyday local surroundings in order to form an ongoing dialogue about their thoughts and ideas.

This sixth show of the Rooftop Collective (est. 2010) showcases work by members:
Chris King – Paul Clifford – Toby Deveson – Tom Owens – Graham Matthews –
Jeremy Johns: along with selected artists chosen to pair with each photographer –
Judith Burrows – Consuelo Simpson – Annamarie Dzendrowskyj – Susan Clare –
Michael Wallner – Lesley James.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Arthur Lanyon, Black Collar, oil, acrylic, gold gesso, spray paint, charcoal on linen, 170 x 190 cm

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Current Events #17. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 17 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country. (click images for larger view)

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Object: Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Hayley Harrison and Anne Parfitt

20 April – 29 April 2018

Private view: Thursday 19th April  6 – 9 pm with performance by Hayley Harrison at 7 pm
Closing event – Sunday 29th April 3 – 5 pm with artist talk at 3:30 pm

‘Object’ brings discarded or pre-used materials and objects into a once abandoned building, each with their unseen and often multi-layered histories.  Through the transformative nature of their works spanning sculpture, installation, drawing and performance, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Hayley Harrison and Anne Parfitt re-imagine and re-construct both material and space, imbuing them with new meaning and associations.
The works address our relationship with the empty, abandoned or defunct, reflecting on such as metaphors for absence or loss; as cultural signifiers to a nomadic way of life, and as memorial to the past. In so doing these artists invite the viewer to contemplate future ideas and possibilities as to how we may live in, and with, our world.

hARTslane,
17 Harts Lane
SE14 5UP NEW CROSS GATE
London

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Glimpses of Eternity: Alexander Creswell: Westminster Abbey

17 March – 16 May 2018

‘GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY’ is an exceptional exhibition of 35 paintings (plus their sketches) created by Alexander Creswell during his residency at Westminster Abbey 2011-2017 and to be shown in The Chapter House at the Abbey. This is the first collection and exhibition of paintings of Westminster Abbey to be made since it’s foundation. The entire collection was acquired by The Dean & Chapter of Westminster Abbey in 2018.

Chapter House
Westminster Abbey,
Abingdon St, Westminster,
London SW1P 3PA

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Two Hours: To Ours

4 May – 31 May 2018

Tottenham Art Classes are very excited to hold their fourth annual group exhibition, ‘TWO HOURS : TO OURS’ at Craving Coffee in May.

The exhibition will showcase works by Watercolour Painters and Life Drawers who have attended their classes in Tottenham for the past year. Expect a range of artwork in a variety of media and styles, all nurtured in our local area.

Also let’s not forget the affordable ‘Silent Auction’ which will be back again this year where you will be able to bid on small original artworks from £7!!!

Exhibiting Artists:
Elizabeth Blunt – Watercolours
Mark Ellis – Watercolours
William Jefferies – Watercolours and Life Drawings
Tom Davies – Life Drawings & Paintings
Read But Not Heard – Prints
Isabella Chwiluk – Life Painting Watercolours
Jai Chakrabarti – Life Drawings & Paintings
Alice Williams – Life Drawings
Susan Bryan – Life Drawings
Karen Raingold – Life Drawing
Troy Hyde – Life Drawings & Paintings
Margarita Hyde – Life Drawings
Victoria Hordern – Life Drawings
Jenny Kirner – Life Paintings
Catherine Collingborn – Watercolours
Claire Lauder – Watercolours
Michael Gillings Pattison – Watercolours & Life Drawings
Max Marsden – Life Drawings
Rachel Elliott – Life Drawings
David Clay – Life Drawings
Max Prentis – Life Drawings
Za Morad – Life Drawings
Pippa Kone – Life Drawings
Noel Treacy – Life Drawings
May Glen – Prints
Rachel Elliot – Life Drawings

Plus more to follow…

Most artwork will be unframed and some available for sale.
For any sales enquiries please contact Tottenham Art Classes directly on: info@tottenhamartclasses.co.uk

Check out their classes and courses in and around Tottenham.

Craving Coffee Uk
Unit 3,
Gaunson House,
Markfield Road,
N15 4QQ

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Print Rebels: Haden, Palmer, Whistler and the Origins of the RE

25 April – 13 May 2018

This exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder and first President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Francis Seymour Haden. Prints by Haden and those who inspired him including Rembrandt and Durer will be included, along with works by his contemporaries including Samuel Palmer and JAM Whistler; members of the RA who were closely associated with the RE and current members of the RE responding directly to their Society’s heritage.

Bankside Gallery
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH

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Studio Face : Kiera Bennett

6 April – 12 May 2018

Bennett continues her exploration of making paintings about the practice of painting, and the actions and emotions that accompany the process. Beginning by making repetitive line drawings, and then repeating the process when making the paintings themselves, Bennett relentlessly seeks to hone her line and form in order to arrive at an essence. This distillation replicates the process of depiction to abstraction that was so well refined by early 20th century Modernism, which in turn referenced perceived notions about early non-Western art.

“The work usually turns into conversations with other paintings by other painters. Painting for me is ultimately about creating structures within which I can try to paint in all the ways I want to and establish an ongoing dialogue with the history of art; the behemoth of art history to the present.”

This relationship is affirmative and autobiographical. Whether presenting us with a first or third person view, and therefore inviting us to at times be acting within the scene, and at other times to be observing the scene, there are always references to Bennett’s personal thoughts, feelings and experiences during making work: urgency; futility; meaning; humour; repetition; trance; mania; insomnia; obsession. Ultimately the painted plane becomes a threshold through which the artist and audience might access the history of mark making; shift identities; and touch upon the escapism, nostalgia and delusion that accompanies making paintings.

Charlie Smith London
336 Old St, 2nd Floor,
Shoreditch,
London EC1V 9DR

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Claire Nichols: BAM-BOO

Private view: Thursday 26 April 2018 6-9pm
26 April – 29 April 2018

ArtWorks Open 2017 Prizewinner selected by Florence Peake and Tai Shani.

BAM-BOO is a solo show by Claire Nichols at the ArtWorks Project Space, Barbican Arts Group Trust (BAGT). The exhibition brings together new tactile and geometric compositions using existing materials gathered from the area surrounding the BAGT and accumulated over time from different studios and artist residencies.

Treating the relations between these found objects more like aspects of an organism than an installation, this body of work materialises a process that has no clear ending. Nichols is interested in improvisation and movement, and each composition she creates is balanced and temporary; open to new configurations. Each day of the exhibition the viewer will witness a new iteration, as the organism shifts, collapses and renews. In this way, Nichols blurs the line between studio and gallery and proposes that the gallery becomes a site of interrogation with regards to the creative process, both for the artist and the viewer.

Exhibitions and performances include arebyte, London; Enclave Lab, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Art on the Underground, London; FormContent, London; Centre Cultural la Mercè, Girona; TwoHotel, Bahia; and Despina, Rio de Janeiro. Nichols was artist in residence at the Florence Trust between 2016-17 and her work is included in the Chelsea Special Collections and Goldsmiths Women’s Art Library.

ArtWorks Project Space
114 Blackhorse Lane,
E17 6AA

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A CAROMING

26 April – 5 May 2018
Private View: 6-8pm Wednesday 25 April 2018
On view: 1 – 6pm 26 April – 5 May 2018

‘The incident’ might be thought one of the fundamentals of drawing – in the form of the mark, the point, the change. These incidents then form for the viewer, a drawing. The carom – in the game of billiards where one ball hits two balls at once, or more generally, to strike and rebound – forms the basis of this research project.

Starting with a work by C4RD Resident Artist Sharon Leahy-Clark, two artists will be invited to respond to this work; these works will form a basis as a response by two more artists per work, and each phase will continue in the same vein.
Artists taking part include Sharon Leahy-Clark, Neil Morley, Rui Matsunaga, David Dipre, Alison Hand, Aly Helyer, Will Peck, Liz Atkin, Paul Cole, Ben Coode-Adams, Ikra Arshad, Anna Jung Seo, Covadonga Valdes, Min Kim, Rosie Wyllie, Nahem Shoa, Piers Secunda, Sean Kennedy, Rosa Hewitt, Kelly Chorpening, Max K Weaver, Gordon Cheung, Mel Cole, Tony Walker, Jordan Mouzouris and Bella Easton.

The resulting work will form an accumulation, or drawing, of each such incident.

The work will be shown at the end of the project 26 April – 5 May 2018 (reception will be 6 – 8pm 25 April).

Concept: Andrew Hewish, with thanks to Rosie Wyllie and Sean Kennedy

C4RD
2-4 Highbury Station Rd
N1 1SB,
LONDON, UK

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Context Free

24 April – 29 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 26 April 6-9pm
Performance Art: Marcia Mar at 8pm

As the title suggests, Context Free is an art exhibition with a free theme.

The show includes representational and non-representational artworks from any category of visual art: sculpture, assemblage, installation, painting, collage, textile art, printmaking, photography, filmmaking.

Whether your work is thoughtful or spontaneous, concerning serious concepts or playful ideas – all forms of artistic expression are welcome.

Evaldas Gulbinas, Ivanka Kutner, Marta Boros, Ida Ndoni, Jenny BM,
Diana Krilova, Patrick Newell, Boano Prišmontas & Ricardas Blazukas,
Mariwan Jalal, Peter Raynor, JC Trouboul, Markéta Popelková, Kofi Boamah,
Craig Hudson, Edson Costa, Javier L Cazenave, Marcos Buarque de Hollanda

Guest Performance Artist: Marcia Mar

Curated by Ana Cockerill

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818 – 1910), Breaking Up of The Agamemnon, No.1, 1870, original etching with drypoint