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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
Zachari Logan – Tales from the Bone Garden at New Art Projects, East London – It is almost a relief to mask up and actually step inside an East London gallery these days, since we all shut down in March thee have been so few opportunities or indeed shows enticing enough to make us want…
Nothing is Square Pt.2 – a Carefully curated painterly group show, 38 artists, 140 identically sized square pieces. Opening night Thursday February 27th, 6pm until 9pm. The show will happen at Shipton Street Gallery, Shipton Street, Columbia Road, London, E2 7RZ. All work ON 20cm x 20cm canvas, all work will be on sale at…
BEX ILSLEY – CACOTOPIA 04, WEEK TWO, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, LONDON, January 2020 – Bex Ilsley has taken over the walls of East London’s Annka Kultys Gallery for the second week of the already rather impressive fourth Cacotopia thing. Hot on the leafy green heals of Nicole Coson, Bex Ilsley has her work cut out,…
Marton Nemes – Ghosting Love at Annka Kultys Gallery, East London, October 2019 – There’s torrential rain flooding the streets of Hackney this evening, but then there’s also the promise of a Marton Nemes show, an opening night that really must be caught however heavy the rain, there won’t be time later this week and…
Dave Buonaguidi, Say It With Flowers at Nelly Duff, Columbia Road, East London, Sept 2019 – I don’ know, calling the art an artist makes “fun” feels a little throwaway, a little lazy, a touch insulting and that really isn’t the intention here, this is fun though, this is classic pop art fun, pop art…
