. Darren Coffield‘s solo exhibition Black Rain has just opened at Thames-side Studios Gallery. The sho features a group of works which began with the death of Princess Diana in 1997. At the time he was struck by the public expressions of grief, mass hysteria and classical themes echoing through the news channels, as the…
Five? Now were did all that go? Crashes? Computers? Let’s write it all again and again and again and again and no butterflies were harmed during the making of this week’s page, no selfies in front of butterflies were taken, no here’s-me-at-the-private-view-with-some-butterflies episodes here. That’s Hunter Potter up there by the way. Five more? Five…
The Art Car Boot Fair is always an adventure, the annual London events, the visits to Liverpool, Folkestone, Margate or wherever we may go. Last year the London leg took place South of the river down in Vauxhall, a move away from the Art Car Boot Fair spiritual home of Brick Lane. Brick Lane isn’t…
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…
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…
And with the anniversary of Aberfan disaster and that devastation that hit Welsh mining community fifty years ago on our minds today, it seemed rather fitting to mention miners, communities, legacies and the latest artistic endeavours of painter and writer Darren Coffield. Coffield, the artist, painter and writer behind the excellent Joshua Compston book amongst…
CULTIVATE presents PLAY: @ LONDON FIELDS, E8 – A maximalist art exhibition in a warehouse… Play happened last weekend, something like forty-three or so artists gathered together under the umbrella of Cultivate. I think we ended up with forty-three artists? We haven’t done a final count yet, couple of no-shows, couple of last minute additions,…
The Artists line up for the 2015 Annual Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair has been announced. Now in an eleventh year, one of the highlights of the London art year happens in that car park just off Brick Lane, this year on Sunday 15th June. A day when art lets its hair down for…
First Thursday then, for the last thirtyseven in a row, my First Thursday was spent on a busy corner halfway down Vyner Street, frantically Cultivating. Haven’t been able to get out and properly explore an East London First Thursday for over three years now. First Thursday for me was always about just heading out and…
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