Luminous was loud last night, not that it was anything to do with sound art or performance, no, it was just the noise made by the almost crushed-in gallery crowd for Frea Buckler’s first London solo exhibition and “the eagerly awaited outcome of a long-term artistic relationship between British female artist Frea Buckler and curator Anna…
Hackney WickEd is almost upon us, a week and a bit to go until another of the city’s best artist-led events and a gathering of some of “London’s most exciting artists to celebrate a Summer of Love at Hackney WickED DIY Open Studios” This year the ever evolving event happens from July 28th to July…
What is it with all this pretty art tonight? The first Thursday of July and I have to say, I have a real blackout in the red room type love/hate relationship with East London’s super-slick Stolen Space gallery. I have a love/hate relationship with their extra-super-slicker-than-slick corporate coffee table attitude towards what is essential something…
Well that was great fun! What an excellent day, It was never going to be quite the same south of the river, of course it wasn’t, and a lot of the debate at the end of it all revolved around comparing the day with the great days of previous fairs and the buzz of Brick…
Set up in the wake of Joshua Compston and the original wave of East End artists taking hold of things and doing it themselves, some would argue there was a more than healthy Easy London Art Scene well before Compston’s legendary fates, his ideas of a “better Woolworths” and art reaching out to engage with…
Thirteen Questions From Organ. The idea is simple, an ongoing series of thirteen questions sent out to people who’s creativity we’re rather admiring and enjoying at the moment – artists, musicians, film makers, mostly artists and who knows who? Today, ahead of the Leytonstone Arts Trail, and his own show that’s part of this year’s…
The 2017 Art Car Boot Fair is almost upon us, and as we’ve said on these pages before, always one of the highlights of our art year, Sunday 9th July is the date, Whitgift Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 is the place so don’t be making for Brick Lane this year, Vauxhall is the place (which…
