The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature again. Well why not (again)? Again and again (and again and again), all this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every couple of weeks or so alongside everything else that appears on these fractured pages on a daily basis? Can you think of one good reason why not to? Well besides the time involved and the this and the that and the dancing around and the skins on the tins of paint and the man at the door…

Five pieces of art then, a semi regular feature, just five pieces of art that have passed our way in the last few days, nothing more (or less) than that. Nothing really to do with an upcoming show or anything else (although maybe they are), just a simple, semi regular five pieces of art feature. Let’s do it again…

1: Svetlana Struk – This is a piece of art by Svetlana Struk called Homage to Gardens of Eastern Ukraine Destroyed by Russian Nazis (embroidery on canvas, 118x64cm, 2024). Svetlana Struk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. She graduated from National Art Academy of Ukraine in 2010. She had solo exhibition at Ja Gallery in Lviv, 2009. She participated in group shows at the National Museum of Literature in Kyiv (2013 and 2015) and Center for Contemporary Art “White World” in Kyiv, 2017. Svetlana lives and works near Kyiv. The art work was available on this website, I do believe it has sold now, the website is worth exploring though, it showcases the works of older Ukrainians from the city of Chernivtsi.

2: Tim Fawcett is a UK based painter, originally from Cambridge, do believe he’s based on the Isle of Wight now. Tim featured in Cultivate’s Mixtape No.7 on-line group show back in May of this year, do like to see his paintings passing by on his Instagram feed, do like his line, the texture, the generous use of paint, do click on those two images of recent paintings to enlarge and see more … Links

3: A collection of pieces from Kieran Monaghan, an artist and musician from New Zealand who’s music had featured on these pages (and our airwaves) many times – “The future sits on the edge of Now, and in the blink of an eye slides to a place called the Past. It is ever-present, ambiguous, haunted by terrifying possibilities and incredible potentialities. These pictures, by Kieran Monaghan of vegetable.machine.animal, Mr Sterile Assembly, and skirted Records, are an unintentional outcome from a residency at Driving Creek Railway in the Coromandel, 2023…

“In between recording, sound-searching and experimentation, tiny vague words, missing punctuation and clarity of meaning, intentionally mis-readable, and multi-interpretable, appeared. Three or four word phrases that, sometimes, reference the connection species have to the world, and that includes us, and other times don’t.  And somewhere in the simple act of scratching a phrase onto paper, abstractions appear and offer place for unexpected colour, unintended form and unplanned results….” More

4: Jeffrey Gibson‘s No simple word for time is at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK right now and yes, I said this page wasn’t really about shows, can’t resist and installation shot of a Jeffrey Gibson exhibition though. “American artist Jeffrey Gibson has created a new site-specific installation for the Sainsbury Centre. The first Indigenous artist to represent the USA at this year’s Venice Biennale, Gibson is a painter and sculptor whose work is held in many major American collections. Incorporating murals, paintings, textiles and historical objects, Gibson’s work also weaves together text drawn lyrics, poetry and his own writing, complete with references to abstraction, fashion and popular culture. The exhibition illuminates the rich practice of abstraction in Indigenous art, going against the common narrative within UK museums that abstraction only emerged in the 20th century”. The show ended on August 4th but this isv’t about that, it is just about enjoying the installation shots that we just blatantly stole of the gallery’s social media feed…

Previous Jeffrey Gibson coverage on the Organ website

ORGAN THING: Jeffrey Gibson at Stephen Friedman Gallery, Cork Street, London – all his Let my fly away with you sentiment, all his embracing warmth, the uplifting possibilities of it all…

ORGAN: Frieze, day one, did it impress? Was it enough? Was Jeffrey Gibson or those big bold Jadé Fadojutimi paintings or Selome Muleta’s pieces enough? And what about that elephant again…

5: This is a Georgina Stone‘s rather impressive An angry rabbit without a carrot, a painting currently on show in Hackney at Guts Gallery who in turn represent Georgina (or however the gatekeepers at the rather unfriendly gallery want to spin things). It would be true to say we don’t really see eye to eye with the gallery just up the road, they don’t exactly put the welcome mat out if you don’t fit in with their rather narrow rather middle class rather aggressive rather ageist agenda. As we have said several times before, they do show some rather decent art at Guts Gallery, this Georgina Stone painting caught an eye when it arrived as one of the gallery’s many (many) annoying self-congratulating e.mails (they do like an e.mail at Guts). The painting is in the gallery now as part of group show called Buffer Three, if you’re lucky it might even have a label on it telling you who the artist is. I don’t know, as much as I really like the painting, I don’t feel welcome up enough to actually go up there and see it in the flesh. Do like the energy in Georgina’s painting, the commitment to the paint, the style found in the movement, the use of colour. Maybe I will put on a different hat and sneak in while the gatekeepers aren’t looking. Here’s Georgina’s Instagram

And while we’re here, we’ve been looking at this latest Andree Adley eye, a piece thar that’s been sitting on the bottom step of a step ladder in a Cultivate group show over in Crystal Palace for the last weekend and it has been bugging me as to what it was reminding me of and then I opened this half written page and there were Mr Sterile Assembly at the top of things up there and yes, of course…

Andree is multi media artist, a painter and a pro-active curator, she runs the Secret Salon, she just took part in Switch The Other, a Cultivate group show, which is why we were looking at her piece for three days, Cultivate being something we do and Switch The Other being our 193rd artist-led show….

And we are now just 25 days away from the Art Car Boot Fair, we were 29 days away when that screen shot was taken….