Punish the Streets opening night at New Art Projects, Hackney, East London, January 2019 The art year in off and running then, off with a touch of beautifully chaotic style with some art, some fashion, some club culture, some people watching at the rather packed opening last Thursday night at New Art Projects – Fred…
THE (ACCIDENTAL) MARKS MADE WHILE MAKING ART – The accidental marks made while making art are always intriguing, the floors of artist’s studios, their boots or dresses or shirts, the outside wall that a canvas might have been propped against while being painted on. The photographs of studio floors, paint covered boots, colour-encrusted easels, old…
John Lee Bird, back for a sixth time? Will it be the last one? He said it would be but then he also said there’s always one more person he really needs to paint. The Before Encore series of paintings has been evolving for something like ten years now and the sixth exhibition happens in…
Reveal….. the show opened last Thursday evening in an East London railway arch, deliberately timed to happen as early in the year as possible, hopefully the first London art show of 2016, actually for once there was quite few things worth exploring on the first Thursday of the new year. Reveal happened at a space…
This one then, a whole stream of something dancing around something or other, and the point of it all? Sometimes it really is about just throwing a signpost or two in your direction, signposts like this one and a piece that claims that Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism. Signposts,…
We’re busy today, we’re busy every day, we’re busy revealing things today. Reveal will be the first 2016 art show brought to you by Cultivate. For those of you who don’t know, Cultivate is the art-event arm of Organ, for those who don’t know, Cultivate started life as a rather vocal artist run space back…
Diane Goldie’s world is a gloriously, bright one, a colourful one, a welcoming one, a wonderfully positive one, her world is an inspiring one, at least the one she is presenting to us with so much joy last night is. Diane Goldie’s world isn’t about misfits, more about the people who don’t want to fit,…
Organ thing – This Tuesday night and throughout the following weekend, you have the opportunity to enter the (very colourful) WORLD OF DIANE GOLDIE Artist, Feminist, former children’s entertainer and maker of wearable art , Diane Goldie is exhibiting her rather unique world at the Vaults Gallery, Waterloo, SE London from Tuesday 3rd of November.…
CULTIVATE presents PLAY: @ LONDON FIELDS, E8 – A maximalist art exhibition in a warehouse… Play happened last weekend, something like forty-three or so artists gathered together under the umbrella of Cultivate. I think we ended up with forty-three artists? We haven’t done a final count yet, couple of no-shows, couple of last minute additions,…
Play will be a two day show in an East London Warehouse, A big empty warehouse, right by London Fields. The exhibition happens of Saturday 6th June and Sunday 7th June What is Play about then? Simple really, a coming together, an art show, an art event and the gathering of artists to create an…
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