Cacotopia 07 at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, East London – Off we go then, first opening on the 2023 art year, here we go again. There’s a diversity to Annka Kultys as a gallery, more importantly, there’s also a strong identity, a thread that runs through it all, almost but not quite a theme,…
Turns out The Tub, the art space that was hiding in the alley behind Broadway Market here in Hackney didn’t so much close completely as evolve and become Lot Projects, first we knew of it was a sign, a sign is surely always a good sign? A quick post-encounter check on the rather underused Tub…
All Night at Sherbet Green, East London , November 2022 – Ah, I love the smell of a freshly painted gallery on a Thursday evening, no, scrub that, I detest the chemical smell of a freshly painted gallery, why do people insist on painting their gallery walls the day before an opening?! Leave it, let…
Rachel de Joode – Soft at Annka Kultys Gallery, East London, October/November 2020 – – an exhibition that really does demand you look properly, that you question what you see, an exciting art exhibition that says Annka Kultys has done it again… Soft is an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based Dutch artist Rachel de…
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…
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