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…
JAMES JOHNSTON, “Recent Work”, Stash gallery at Vout-O-Reenee’s, East London – James Johnston, mostly, at least for those of us who have been in London long enough and lucky enough to witness his development, is best known as Gallon Drunk’s frontman, he has also spent considerable time working with others: a mid 90s spell as a touring…
Transformations Sue Tilley, Dylan Meade, Fredrik Andersson.at New Art Projects, Hackney, East London (July 2019) – So what to make of this one?, What to make of everything right now? Going to as many London shows as ever but where has the spark gone? Is it just me? Not seeing so many shows that really…
“Join us for Open Weekend 17-19th May 2019!” exclaim the spokespeople or a spokesperson for Chisenhale. Open studios are always a worth exploring, especially places like Chisenhale that have history on the walls and artists with tales to tell – take yourself to some Organ coverage and a bag load of imagery from a previous…
Things get a little fractured when you’re knee-deep in fruit down by the flower market. Solo shows are interesting things, you learn a lot about yourself as well as others, about how people view you, how they view your art, you learn a little more about how you see things, about the sideways feel of…
Phillip Allen , Anthony Iacono The Approach, London E2, Feb 2019 – The Approach is a strange place, one of those galleries that doesn’t like to tell you it exists, no sign of a sign or anything like that, if it wasn’t for that familiar murmur of an opening night “private view” that a crowd…
Doreen Fletcher – A Retrospective at Nunnery Gallery, London E3 – They look wonderful, the light, the atmospheres, the empty streets so full of life, the café fronts, the shops, the light under the bridges, the bus stops, that one painting of a bus stop in the twilight especially (that light in the window, that…
