Mark Nader, Crystalline Candy Clouds at IMT, Bethnal Green, London – There a delight or two here with the cakes and the biscuits and the doughnut flavoured colour and yes those paintings do have a touch of the dancing around the maypole about them, whoever said that was right, there is something delightfully English, something…
Phillip Allen , Anthony Iacono The Approach, London E2, Feb 2019 – The Approach is a strange place, one of those galleries that doesn’t like to tell you it exists, no sign of a sign or anything like that, if it wasn’t for that familiar murmur of an opening night “private view” that a crowd…
Thirteen galleries, several pints, this particular Friday afternoon started with another quick look at Jonathan Baldock’s bed over the street at Space . At least someone has made this particular bed and not left their discarded shoes and their empty bottles of vodka from last night all over it (I do prefer an unmade lived-in…
“It feels like she’s on the cusp of something here”, said an overheard voice watching the film in the dark room in the middle of the gallery, and it does kind of feel like that, this entire body of work and this rather enjoyable solo show that’s on the cusp of making some kind of…
Well we didn’t expect that today! East London’s rather celebrated Clare street has been buffed, the art vandals have struck! Really wasn’t expecting that today, it was only last weekend we were celebrating the colour and the organic creativity on that street, people come from all over to view the the art on that Bethnal…
Displacement? Words? Another show…. art…. blah blah… this… that… words? What’s words worth?…. there goes the neighbourhood…. beer…paint…. rust…. people…. words… friends…old friends, new friends…. foes, toes, stepping on toes, artists, egos… words… I was on the way to the show yesterday morning, off along the road, painting under arm, off to hang it in…
From what we can understand, One Little Girl and a Can of Gasoline (the name of a steel fabrication workshop in a railway arch on Clare Street (Bethnal Green, London E2), a workshop that sometimes doubles as a gallery space) invited the London artist known as Skeleton Cardboard to run an art show And so Displacement…
So that big banner thing came down from the Front of Space to reveal a big silver space ship and a launch pad where once the rather underused gallery space stood, that and a giant 40ft tall sculpture coated in Cavorite (that is how you get to the moon isn’t it?). Well no, not really,…
Thursday evening ended with The Snake playing as the venue emptied out , you really have to Keep On Keepin’ On through, the Snake always divided Northern Soul opinion so much. Things evolve, things move, buildings go, venues, galleries and more being lost almost on a weekly basis now, where did that one go? Another…
Those Libertines never really meant that much around these parts, especially back when you couldn’t turn on the radio or pick up a paper without them being rammed down your throat by someone insisting they were better than the Stones, the Kinks, The Who and every other vaguely English sounding band ever. When you could…
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