You know how sometimes you just want peace and quiet? Well, I found it here in this exhibition of Korean work, Constancy & Change, at Tent. It’s a touring exhibition, having first been at La Triennale di Milano and now on its way to Hangzhou in China before ending in Seoul. The images here include […]
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Beers Contemporary
I’d been meaning to visit Beers Contemporary for a while now and finally popped in on a Saturday afternoon, initially to see Michael Mapes‘ work as I’d seen images of it before. I was intrigued by his deconstruction of a portrait and the way he reconstitutes the image. There was poignancy in the debris from elements […]
Lego’s celebration of The London Design Festival and Open House
For all young architects, designers, engineers and makers I had to stop when I saw this on popping into John Lewis Oxford Street for something totally unrelated. Click on the names for more on both the London Design Festival and Open House, taking place this weekend. Were there any buildings you didn’t recognise?
Olafur Eliasson’s response to JMW Turner at Tate Britain
From 10th September Tate Britain is showing the EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free, with extraordinary paintings created during the latter part of the artist’s life. Olafur Eliasson, best known here for his Weather Project installation at Tate Modern in 2003, has created a series of colour experiments based on analysis of seven […]
Peter Marigold in London this autumn
I admire Peter Marigold’s use of materials as exemplified in his recent Bleed wooden cabinets shown at Sarah Myerscough Gallery. He will be showing “Wooden Tables” at Libby Sellers Gallery this month as well as having a presence at Sarah Myerscough for the London Design Festival. All photos from Sarah Myerscough & Libby Sellers.
Inner City Ooz at Display Gallery
Display Gallery, a large space on two levels, opened a few months ago in Holborn and is set to make an impact in the area. I visited on the first day of the current show: Inner City Ooz by brothers Jack & Archy Marshall, also known as Mistr Gone & King Krule. From a visually creative […]
Meet the Manufacturer
As the autumn shows come around, it seemed timely to remind designers and makers of the Meet The Manufacturer event which took place earlier in the year. I worked in fashion textiles in a previous life so was intrigued to see the comprehensive selection of companies based in the UK specialising in different skills. Take, for […]
Creative interventions
Interventions can be found wherever we look. Here are a couple of examples from my image bank ranging from spontaneous to carefully planned: from the loos at Tate Modern Skating by Magnus Muhr shown in Cut & Paste: 21st Century Collage which is published in September by Laurence King. I’m assured that the fly died of natural causes. […]
Matisse cut-outs in textiles
It was good to see the wall panels and scarves designed by Matisse for my old boss Zika Ascher on show at Tate Modern this summer. I remember spending days in the basement of his Hampstead home sifting through scarves by, amongst others, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens and Cecil Beaton. Mr Ascher told […]
Digital Futures at The Barbican
One of my favourite cultural venues in London, the Barbican recently launched Digital Futures, an exhibition of the creative developments in digital technology through the work of artists, filmmakers, architects, designers, musicians and game developers pushing the technology. Some exhibits are interactive such as Together by Universal Everything, encouraging the audience to create short animated loops through […]