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 […]
Places
The Cornershop by Lucy Sparrow
Open till the end of August, The Cornershop by Lucy Sparrow has taken 8 months to prepare. I’m not sure how long the faded celebrity has been hanging around outside but I’m hoping she’ll last the run, as long as she manages her alcohol intake. The bottles in her pockets should cushion any slips. Lucy […]
Spectra by Ryoji Ikeda; a memorial to 1914-18
Spectra by Ryoji Ikeda was a temporary installation organised through that wonderful organisation Artangel and on from dusk till dawn between 4th & 11th August, which I visited on a warm dry night. I could see the beam from my house several miles away while it was on. Ii was inspired by the words of British Foreign […]
Andrea Francolino at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
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 […]
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 […]
Emerging Arts III at Leyden Gallery in London E1
Open less than a year, Leyden Gallery is an intimate space close to the City and on the edge of Spitalfields. Their current summer show, Emerging Arts III, presents a diverse range of work selected through an open call and includes prints by Dolores de Sade (who I’ve written about before), textile pieces by Jessica Scott, including Prayer Before […]