Nothing is Square Pt.2, Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2 – opening night, 27th February 2020 – Hey look, we put on the show, we put on our Cultivate hats and put on another art show and now we’re grabbing our Organ hats and blowing our own trumpets about it all (again). You surely…
Augustine Carr and Neal Rock, Transfers (On The Margin), Transition Gallery, East London, Sept 2019 – A rather intimate two person show at Transition Gallery’s new space down in The Ghetto (as some Hackney residents mockingly call the Victoria Park village). Actually this seems a far more friendly welcoming place than that previous rather aloof…
There’s quite a few gallery openings around the side streets of East London tonight, enticing new art shows and galleries bursting into action for what some insist is the start of the new art season, never really got that new season notion, art doesn’t really stop does it? There’s shows and openings and fairs and…
STOP PRESS: The opening night “private view” will now happen this Thursday rather than this Wednesday. We assume this is something to do with a football match… Chris Moon returns to London with Monday Club, a new series of paintings based on the artist’s daily cycle from his studio to London Fields Lido. – The…
Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky – This is The Gate of Heaven at Gallery 46, Whitechapel, East London – “Working around themes of transformation, corruption and conservation, the show presents a banquet of the senses and a magic bullet for these dark times” – we’ve seen lots of Paul Sakoilsky in recent years, his paintings,…
The First Thursday of May then. First Thursday? Really? Are you sure? Shall we put down the paint brushes and go clutch at straws? Are we clutching at straws? According to various social media feeds and e.mail in-boxes First Thursday in the East End of London is still a happening thing. Really? Surely not? Almost…
Lennie Lee’s heart has been broken, he tells of lying in hospital following open heart surgery in a morphine induced state, he tells of being visited by a beautiful red-headed angel of death who greeted him like a long-lost lover, he felt warm and complete and happy to see her, but the angel floated away to…
We said it last week, we shall no doubt say it again (if and) when we get to go to the next one (you can never take these days or places for granted is these property-developer-fuelled times of greed and destruction), we’ll say it once more here, open days at artist’s studios are always worth…
All change down at the bottom end of Vyner Street and the end of pretty much the last gallery standing on the once much loved East London Street that has pretty much had the heart and soul developed out of it by the the builders of expensive shoe boxes and the self proclaimed “future thinkers”.…
Performance artist Amy Kingsmill took part in the open night of Cultivate‘s Interact show last week, well actually she took part in the entire four-day show with her piece Fairytale, a piece that stood in the middle of the gallery from start to finish. Interact, a group show featuring the paintings, sculpture, print making,…
