Imagine my surprise and delight to come across Kristin’s gallery in Wandsworth Town, a part of London I’ve never been to before. She was recovering from the private view the night before of A-Biotic, a show by Andrea Francolino when I met her. His concrete floorplans of megamalls are imprinted then smashed and reassembled like archeological relics in […]
Artists
Hackney WickED 2014
Golly, Hackney WickED, an open studio and general celebration of art in Hackney Wick has been taking place every year since 2008. I’ve never been around to attend till now & was shocked to see the visual brutality of the contrast between the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick as the overground journey just doesn’t show it. The atmosphere […]
Artsy.net – international art website
I’ve only recently discovered Artsy, a US based website launched in 2012 whose mission, in their words ” is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection” so thanks Jack for getting in touch. Their combination of art and science powers the Art Genome Project mapping the over 500 characteristics connecting […]
Luke Bishop – One Year On at New Designers
I enjoy seeing the diversity of age and background of recent graduates at New Designers and this year was no exception. I was drawn to Luke Bishop’s lachrymatories (receptacles for tears) and dishes in the One Year On section. The different sculptural combinations produced by stacking various elements tell a story and the elastic bands […]
Edinburgh College of Art at New Designers
This year’s New Designers Part 1 was generally acknowledged to be a vintage one; I was assaulted by colour, pattern and form as soon as I entered the Business Design Centre. Here is a taste of the work of 3 students from Edinburgh School of Art: Ainsley Francis showed a selection of sharply hewn glass […]
Ptolemy Mann’s collaboration with Johnson Tiles at Clerkenwell Design Week
One of the installations at Clerkenwell Design Week was Ptolemy Mann’s wall produced with Johnson Tiles using all 68 colours available in their Prismatics range. A straightforward, even basic product used with imagination becomes magical. We need more artistic interventions such as this.