This huge (152 x 122cm) orange pastel drawing by Carla Groppi displayed by Alicia David Gallery stopped me in my tracks at The Affordable Art Fair. She is obsessed by the Belle Epoque photography of Eugène Atget, repeating the same imagery in subtly different ways as you can see below.Apart from her obvious technical skill, I’m fascinated […]
Artists
The Last Hug at the Geffrye Museum
Seen at The Geffrye Museum over the Christmas period, The Last Hug, a piece by locally based product designer Meital Tzabari. She develops the strength of leaves in her product development project Re:connect. I think it will be there till final disintegration. A fun idea to develop in lots of ways if you have some leaves.
seX-fiction at Fiumano Projects
This was young curators Paul Spez and Jonathan F. Kugel‘s first collaboration held at the new Fiumano Projects’ space near King’s Cross, showing the work of artist and designer Baron Emmerich von Flughafen, formerly known as Diego Fortunato I’d go as far as to say that these happy, decorative pieces remind us of the sheer fun of […]
Contemporary Artist’s Editions by The Multiple Store
The Multiple Store commissions contemporary artists every year to create work available in limited editions, making pieces affordable to a wider audience. Whilst most earlier editions have completely sold out, work is still available from some artists, a few of whom are shown below from a recent show at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf. Cornelia Parker used her […]
Before it closes: Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy
Even though I don’t normally feature mainstream exhibitions I thought you might like to see these pictures, taken back at the very beginning of the Ai Weiwei show at the Royal Academy which ends at the weekend. Unusually for most exhibitions, image-taking was actively encouraged; I only found out at the end so did a quick […]
Body painting by Carolyn Roper for Channel 4
I’d just popped out to get some fruit & veg from my local greengrocer when I came across this: a man being painted to merge in with his background. No it wasn’t the Chinese artist Liu Bolin but a piece by twice world champion of body painting Carolyn Roper using this setting as part of […]