Today’s Organ Thing of The Day is a look back to a very powerful piece of art we encountered as part of the 2015 Chinese Open here in London, an installation piece by East London artist Rebecca Feiner, I woke up thinking about this piece this morning. Today, Monday 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day…
“This ship is sinking” says the big painted slogan on the wall right in the middle of the building site that is the Wick, the words have been there for some time but things really are drastically changing (or sinking) now. Things have been drastically changing for a good few years, but it does feel…
Hackney WickED is upon us again, an artist-led event (or series of events), an annual weekend of events that revolves and evolves around a celebration of the “DIY Open Studios showcasing local as well as internationally renowned artists within their own studios, exhibitions and site specific installations” The weekend starts this year with a big Hackney…
Where were we? Time to get our various heads on and kick start this new year? Rage Hard? Shame shit different number? Underculture? Bleakender? Brave the Elements? Bring it on… Elements Gallery, an outdoor London gallery in a back yard (slightly hidden) around the back of the Angus Hughes gallery behind a big black gate…
So Elements opened in the darkness last night, salt bricks caught in the lights from the flats on one side and the windows of the Angus Hughes gallery on the other, the natural city light rather than any specific lighting. A new outdoor gallery, out in the elements and almost hidden around the back of…
Salt Fields? The first formal show at Elements Gallery opens tonight. We’re promised a unique urban outdoor space, an exciting new space presented in a rather formal way, a dedicated outdoor curated contemporary art gallery. Based in Hackney, Elements can be found in the grounds of their sister gallery Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes. The Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes gallery can be…
A quick shout out for what looks like it might develop and become something rather interesting. The one time Angus Hughes gallery, now known as the Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, a space in a great big house up at the top end of Hackney, an interesting space, a rather formal space, an old-school gallery space…
This weekend over at Hackney Wick, around Fish Island and the surrounding area of fast disappearing East London, lots of things are happening. Things? Creativity, art, painting, performance, dancing around architecture (while maybe watching a ship, or a Sweet Toof encrusted canal boat, arriving too late to save a drowning witch?). The annual Hackney WickED…
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…
