Catlin Art Prize 2012
Let's hang out by Julia Vogl Catlin Art Prize (www.artcatlin.com) When: Wednesday 16 April 2012 Where: Londonnewcastle Project Space, London, E2 7DP The winner of the 2012 Catlin Art Prize is Julia Vogl, a 2011 graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. She is the sixth winner of the annual Catlin Art Prize, a competition showcasing the work of recent... Read More
Bauhaus: Art as Life
Last week The Barbican Centre opened its doors to a major exhibition about the highly influential Bauhaus movement. The show explores the German art and design school that ran between 1919 and 1933 and made a profound impact on our contemporary world by uniting art, craft, design and technology. Bauhaus: Art as Life brings together over 400 works and highlights the scope of the... Read More
Pickles by David Shillinglaw
Beautiful time lapse for an even more beautiful end result so it would have been rude not to share it Read More
Matthew White x The Dirty Toyz
We’ll bring you a moghty artistic collaboration between Matthew White and The Dirty Toyz, 3 electrodub producers & DJ’s. The result is an eye catching work of mixed media illustration on a 150×120 board of wood. Song “So Real” by The Dirty Toyz Produced by Cinematic Luna. Directed, shot and edited by Luca Naddeo. Read More
Snow circles by Sonja Hinrichsen
There are many ways of enjoying snow, some would get strapped on their snowboard and speed down the slopes whilst other may just look at it falling down. Sonja Hinrichsen thought otherwise, radically so even. She gathered five people and warned them they will be needed for a few hours, 3 to be precise. To do what? Snow circles. Filmed from the air and the whole thing acquires another... Read More
The Faberge big egg hunt featuring Nathalie Priem’s Golden egg
The Big Egg Hunt was a plan hatched by Elephant Family and Action for Children for a record-breaking egg hunt across Central London to raise money for these two eggshell-ent causes! Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs, created by leading artists, designers, architects and jewellers, will be hidden across the capital this Easter. Get onto the www.thebigegghunt.co.uk for the full details... Read More
Sean Avery’s sculptures of broken CDs
When having CDs is becoming so nineties, everything getsstored online in the cloud as they call it, Meet Sean Avery, a talented artist, thought twice about discarding his CDs and have found a way of turning them into amazing and crafted animal sculptures. Sean Avery has created a series of sculptures—from bears to peregrine falcons and even the Loch Ness monster thanks to a clever... Read More
Clemens Behr & Romain Froquet – cardboard, wood, yarn and paint
We have already featured Clemens Behr‘s cardboards installations and are again very happy to do so. This time, the playground is in Paris and the collaboration is with French painter Romain Froquet. The fruit of this partnership are two eye-catching 3D installations enhanced by Froquet’s neat and intricate abstract paintings which can be seen below. The video of this... Read More
Artists pick from the 2012 London art fair – part 3
Here is the third part of our artists pick from the 2012 London art fair | Read part 1 | Read part 2 Paul Richards via Connaught Brown Pastel on paper Elfyn Lewis via Beaux Arts London Acrylic on MDF Tanc via The French Art Studios Spray paint and ink on canvas Ralph Steadman via Jealous gallery Giclee print with debossed border on Somerset paper Nick Morris via Arteria Screenprint Anne... Read More
Artists pick from the 2012 London art fair – part2
Here is the second part of our artists pick from the 2012 London Art fair | Read part 1 | Read part 3 Pakpoom Silaphan via Scream Collage and illustration with marker pen and emulsion Zac Freeman via Woolff gallery Assemblage on board Fernando Kindelan via Olivier Waltman gallery Oil on canvas Greg Miller via Scream gallery Collage and acrylics Cubeworks via Woolff gallery Rubiks... Read More
Artists pick from the 2012 London art fair – part1
If there is one art fair I have been and do not want to miss from now on, is the London Art Fair (LAF). Why is that? Just simply because it presents over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent. Added to that, there are always a bunch of solo shows and curated group displays in... Read More
When just interesting isn’t enough – breathing new life into the artbook. An interview with French-Belgian media artist Gaston Gouron
Gaston Gouron is a visual media artist based in Brussels. His work caught my attention at a show about art books. Not by surprise, yet I think more by design, I had picked out each of Gaston’s three artworks on display before swooping in to catch a word with him. I arranged to meet two days later in Bar De Matin – BDM to those in the know – a chatty bar in Place Eugéne. I... Read More
Linder Sterling: Collage and Montage
John Stezaker once said of Collage that it ”is a yearning for a lost world and reflects a universal sense of loss”. Those sentiments are certainly reflected in the work of artist and radical feminist Linder Sterling (also known as Linder). In her series Pretty Girls, Linder reacted to visual world she occupied, a society of inequality and the gender specific rhetoric.... Read More
Robert Brandenburg at Gallery 1988
In “Pooh… and Other Sh*t,” Robert Brandenburg brings “hijacked” art to Gallery 1988 in Venice Beach, CA. As a self-taught artist from Ohio, Brandenburg brings an expansive perspective to viewers. Born in 1954, he paints contemporary works that offer a light repose from the mundane. His versatile style allows him to incorporate renderings into a variety of works... Read More
Hayley Lock at Transition gallery
Launched at Ickworth House in Suffolk in July 2011 (Now that would be) Telling is a collaborative project between the artist Hayley Lock, curator Catherine Hemelryk and writers Jessica Hart, Lucinda Hawksley, Ben Moor, Hallie Rubenhold and Liz Williams. Lock and the writers have created a series of site-specific works in English stately homes. Part myth and part encrypted biography,... Read More
The 5 best Guggenheim publications
Guggenheim, modern and contemporary international art museum located in Manhattan, New York has recently made available online the publications they have been producing for the numerous shows and exhibitions that have been happening there. Browse through the collection going as far back as 1937 and let you be transport through times. Here below are our top 5 most visually appealing... Read More
BEN OAKLEY GALLERY (aka the B.O.G)
Sweet Heart Otto Schade Having been a fan of Ben Oakley’s art work for the last few years I was really excited to see the Ben Oakley Gallery open in Greenwich last year. Having spoken to Ben this week he has given me details of the upcoming show in January which looks to be another good mix of contemporary street art. Ben works with a range of artists involved in the emerging... Read More
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