Where were we? East London? All rather fractured in terms of art now, and that’s way before we consider Covid and the various shades of lockdown that have kept us out of galleries for the last fifteen months. The picture is a little depressing when you get back out there, the developers have been busy,…
Cutting through Redchurch street isn’t as exciting as it once was, there was a time when it was vital to do so, when you wouldn’t dream of taking another route to Brick Lane for fear of missing something/ Redchurch Street, like her sister, Vyner Street, was once so alive with galleries, with artist-led shows, with…
Seven or so days on from all the rushing around of the Frieze weekend and the rest of the whatever the hell it all was, there were (and for that matter still are) a couple of rather decent art shows that deserve a mention before we finally move on and deal with the next things…
DESIRE LINES, DAVID SMALL and JEREMY WILLETT at STUDIO 1.1, REDCHURCH STREET, SHOREDITCH, EAST LONDON, August 2017. Desire Lines… “David Small’s extravagantly coloured (yet finely controlled) abstract paintings will be exhibited upon the severe optic disruptions of Jeremy Willett’s black and white wallpapers, themselves abstracted from photographs of brutalist urban wallscapes”. from correspondence between the…
Really like the fact that Studio 1.1 is almost defiantly hanging on there behind the brightly painted door half way along a Redchurch Street now almost totally fallen to the soulless greed and corporate designer label shallowness that is now really seriously strangling the creative life and integrity out of East London. Somebody moaned that…
While everything else changes and gallery spaces are eaten up by developers, rent-hikes and the creep of expensive designed shops, coffee outlets and the rest, down in Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, East London, the one constant in a once thriving art street now almost lost, is the energetic space know as Studio 1.1. The small artist-run…
There’s a certain pleasure in seeing that red door open, seeing it still there, almost a relief, the gallery, defiantly right there, a last slice of hope on East London’s Redchurch Street and that former glorious of a road once alive with art and creativity rather than the dull thud of cash registers, coffee shop…
“Join us for Open Weekend 17-19th May 2019!” exclaim the spokespeople or a spokesperson for Chisenhale. Open studios are always a worth exploring, especially places like Chisenhale that have history on the walls and artists with tales to tell – take yourself to some Organ coverage and a bag load of imagery from a previous…
Organ Preview: One of them parish noticeboard type preview things, this looks like it might be good in that slick kind of nicely framed way they do things at the maybe sometime just a little too slick gallery knows as jealous… “Saatchi Gallery and Jealous Print Studio & Gallery have partnered to present the exhibition…
Something’s haunting Electric Avenue, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Megan Plunkett at Emalin. Like any good spectre, though, the one at 1 Holywell Lane keeps its identity just out of view. Instead, we’re left with a host of uncanny copies… “Join us today between 1-8pm for the opening day of Electric…
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