“Safety at Sea” was the title of this recent solo show by artist Jo Hummel at After Nyne Gallery in West London. I’ve featured her work in previous blogs and enjoy seeing the way it’s developing as this piece below, my favourite of the exhibition, shows. Here’s a detail below: the more you look, the […]
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Anish Kapoor at Pitzhanger Manor gallery
Pitzhanger is not only a museum, it is also, in keeping with Soane’s vision, a fully functioning gallery which reopened with an exhibition by Anish Kapoor whose highly polished and razor-thin metal sculptures create an orgy of optical illusion. The exhibition is such a tribute to the collaboration between science and art. Very clever. This […]
The Other Art Fair London – post 2 of 2
Another first-time exhibitor to The Other Art Fair was Luke Adam Hawker whose finely detailed architectural drawings and prints were very popular. Here are a couple of pages from one of his sketchbooks, so different to mine. Sarah Needham exhibited her colour field paintings – this indigo one was my favourite and also the largest […]
The Other Art Fair London – post 1 of 2
I always feel a slight pang of regret and envy whenever I visit The Other Art Fair and am not exhibiting as I love the experience so much. I’ll be showing at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn next month so this is some of the work I enjoyed seeing in London. Due to lighting […]
Dior at the V&A London
For some odd reason I had never really twigged that Christian Dior built up his couture house in only 10 years from the launch in 1947 till his untimely death in 1957. When you look at what was achieved in that time it’s quite staggering. Since then of course, various designers have taken up the […]
Ceramics at Ting-Ying shown at Collect London
Collect at the Saatchi Gallery in London is the prime UK location to view the very highest level of contemporary making.This year was no exception with Ting-Ying gallery displaying exquisitely delicate porcelain flower bowls by co-founder Peter Ting The piece below apparently broke in the kiln but its beauty remains undiminished. These glass and porcelain […]
Empathy Hole by Florence Peake at Bosse & Baum, London
The work of Florence Peake at Bosse and Baum, a gallery in Peckham visited recently, surprised me as I hadn’t realised that it was a continuation and development of her earlier 2015 performance piece The Keeners at Space studios . Alexandra Warder and Lana Churchill, co-founders of Bosse and Baum encouraged the artist to exhibit […]
Ledger Art at the Metropolitan Museum New York
“Please direct me to whatever I won’t find in European museums” was my request to the lady at the welcome desk at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The entry ticket to the Met gives you access over 3 days but I only had a morning available so was keen to absorb as much as […]
Innovative materials seen at Surface Design
I’d arranged to meet a friend at Surface Design who was a little delayed so mooched around the new materials stand, always worth stopping at. Here are a few of the products on show which all have an environmental slant to them. Poppy Pippin has designed these terracotta wall tiles which encourage carbon-absorbing moss to […]
Svenja Deininger
What is it about Svenja Deininger’s work that I love so much? I could give you a list of elements but that still wouldn’t explain it. I discovered this Viennese painter at the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York and was smitten. This one looks like patched and stitched leather Look at the little details […]