I first saw Ute Decker’s jewellery several years ago and featured it in a previous post back in 2010. She’s based at Cockpit Studios, one of the diminishing number of London havens for artists and makers. The sculpture was what first appealed to me; I only found out later about her commitment to the use of conflict-free and […]
Sculptural jewellery by Ute Decker
Shelley James at Cockpit Studios
A maker I hadn’t met before showing at Cockpit was Shelley James and there was no way I couldn’t stop after seeing these glass pieces. The one below contains a poem, the strips of text legible according to the angle of the ball. You can see for yourself the connections to DNA, science, mathematics and music, all […]
Prudence Millinery at Cockpit Studios
Open weekends at Cockpit Studios are a good chance to catch up on makers working there as well as meeting new ones. Prudence Millinery produces outsized hats (recognise them from Vivienne Westwood in the 1990’s?) and has been based at Cockpit in Holborn for several years but I’d never stopped for a chat and try on before. She […]
Carla Groppi’s work in pastel and charcoal
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 […]
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 […]