ORGAN THING: Repetition? Dialogue? The Depot and Charlie Smith bring together the art of Graham Dolphin, Zavier Ellis and Sam Jackson for a conversation or two in a beautiful East London room…

The inaugural collaboration between The Depot and Charlie Smith London, Repetition “brings together in dialogue” the works of Graham Dolphin, Zavier Ellis and Sam Jackson. And it is very obviously a dialogue with and within the room, indeed a rather beautiful room for a dialogue. Now I have to be upfront here, Amy Winehouse did…

ORGAN THING: Two new shows, two rewarding art shows at The Approach over in East London, Sara Baker’s excellent Hems and what is happening in Jack Lavender’s blackness?

What to make of what they have to offer in the two distinct gallery spaces hiding up there above the pub also known as The Approach. Still not sure why they choose to hide up there rather than hint that there might just be a rather big and often very rewarding art gallery up those…

ORGAN THING: Happy birthday to us, Cultivate is ten. It was ten years ago today, that mad rush of a take over, the naked red men, Vyner Street, First Thursday and…

We only really realised twenty two hours ago that it had been ten years this week, I mean, we were vaguely aware, we had been thinking about it, if we should mark it? How we should mark it? Indeed was it worth marking? An awful lot has gone into those ten years, a lot of…

ORGAN THING: Yok at Hoxton Arches, It does feel genuinely exciting to walk in and see it all together in front of you…

Yok Is Home – Yok Joaquim at Hoxton Arches, East London, August 2021 – Sometimes it has to be about the sum of it all rather than just the individual parts of it. It does feel genuinely exciting to walk in and see it all together in front of you there in that railway arch…

ORGAN THING: Pez at StolenSpace, what is there not to like about all that smiling?

We passed a Pez on the way to the show, pretty hard not to pass a Pez on the streets of London, there’s been a lot of smiling out there, they’ve been documented often enough of these fractured pages over the years. “StolenSpace is excited to present the new summer group exhibition” so trumpets the…

ORGAN THING: The Stinging Netil, a beautifully anarchic art fair, ten years on…

We really can’t let the events of ten years ago pass without marking it is some kind of way for ten years ago this very weekend the Stinging Netil happened. The Stinging Netil was essentially an art fair, an artist-led art fair, a slightly anarchic, beautifully chaotic art fair that we put on over here…

ORGAN THING: Rowan Newton’s very expressive paintings at Jealous, East London art and who knows what at Studio 1.1 and…

Where were we? East London? All rather fractured in terms of art now, and that’s way before we consider Covid and the various shades of lockdown that have kept us out of galleries for the last fifteen months. The picture is a little depressing when you get back out there, the developers have been busy,…

ORGAN THING: Partners in the Game of Life – The Sinistry, an intriguing show, an exciting show, a set of beautiful games at Canal Place, Hackney, London E8…

“Partners in the Game of Life: The Sinistry” – at Canal Place, Hackney, London E8 – Yeah, I know, we’ve been way way (way) too slow in terms of covering art since the lockdown started to lift and the sun came out, our own art does come first, dancing around other people’s architecture does come…

ORGAN THING: The day the world turned dayglo, Hattie Malcomson’s brightness, a painterly statement of intent next to Alex Hudson’s European “traditions” at East London’s New Art Projects…

Getting back in the saddle again both in terms of going to galleries and getting around to writing about going to galleries is taking a little time, back in those carefree days before Covid an art gallery was at least a three days a week habit, a matter of must have more art. Cold turkey…

ORGAN THING: Soozy Lipsey, To Be Continued at Nelly Duff, East London. Chaos maybe? Messy? but if it is then almost perfectly so…

Soozy Lipsey – To Be Continued at Nelly Duff, East London, December 2020 – “Join us to celebrate the opening night of artist Soozy Lipsey’s brand new exhibition To Be Continued” so said Nelly Duff, Not that Nelly is a person, not in this case, Nelly is gallery, well an art shop with a small…

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