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 […]
Places
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?
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 […]
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 […]