Making | Writing | Curating
‘Re-Use, Re-Think, Re-Imagine’ presents the work of seven UK-based experimental artists and makers, whose practice explores unique responses to materials and process. The group exhibition will feature new and existing works, spanning glass, ceramics, found objects, textiles and furniture. Whether repurposing, recycling or innovating, each of the makers are challenging traditional conceptions of craft and... Continue Reading →
Choosing Keeping is hosting an exhibition in their shop in Covent Garden. Private View 3rd October from 18.00. The first in a new series of exhibitions at Choosing Keeping, presenting exquisite stationery related items handmade by some of the finest and undiscovered craftspeople worldwide. Ann Hepper has a passion for boxes - if she’s out... Continue Reading →
Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Emotional Fields, an exhibition of large scale contemporary tapestries by Carolina Mazzolari. In her first UK solo exhibition (20 September - 25 October and opening tomorrow 19 of September), Mazzolari presents striking hand-embroidered textiles inspired by Kurt Lewin’s space diagrams and Carl Gustav Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious.These... Continue Reading →
Art London is more than a guidebook. It will accompany you on a journey through London, telling stories, uncovering histories, sharing insights into those who have made, collected and influenced art past and present. Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhood, Art London travels the streets with you, revealing art in mseums, galleries and beyond, from palace to... Continue Reading →
Over four days in September Whitechapel Gallery is transformed by over 80 creative and cutting-edge publishers. The London Art Book Fair returns with a vibrant mix of art books, independent titles and magazines from around the world. Exhibitors range from publishing behemoths to independent presses and represent a diverse international cohort from 20 different countries,... Continue Reading →
Magdalene Odundo OBE is one of the world’s most esteemed artists working in the field of ceramics. This major exhibition - from 3 August to 15 December 2019 - at the Sainsbury Centre, will bring together more than 50 of Odundo’s works. They will be shown alongside a large selection of objects chosen by Odundo... Continue Reading →
Peasant woman. Costume design for Le Coq d'Or 1937 - Watercolour, bronze paint and graphite on paper - State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Presented by E. Kurnan 1983 - © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019 I was at the Tate Modern a few days ago, but with a young lively lovely son 'attached' I didn't manage... Continue Reading →
The Apple Tree, 2019 "Over the last two years I have become obsessed with The Apple", declare the artist Barnaby Barford". " It is Adam & Eve, the Judgement of Paris, Heracles, it is The Beatles, Steve Jobs and Newton, it is Cézanne, Magritte, Snow White and William Tell, it is even the American Frontier!... Continue Reading →
Jerwood Makers 2019 Yesterday I was fortunate to have time to walk around London without planning things. Yes is a luxury, I know. While walking and thinking I stopped with my family at the Jerwood Space for coffee and lunch. While there I enjoyed the art hosted in their space: Makers 2019 in full swing,... Continue Reading →
This summer is all about Scandinavia at the Wilsons. We went back there, again. We love Scandinavia. There are several reasons, one is that we needed to go back to Denmark to to strengthen a bit our hearts and partly because we love to go to Denmark and also to Sweden and meeting our friends.... Continue Reading →
Giorgio Morandi - Flowers (Fiori ), 1950 -© Giorgio Morandi, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2019 Giorgio Morandi is memories of my childhood and my hours of art history studying in the afternoon but also maybe something that you are less interested when you are a teenager. Only recently I seem more keen in his work and not... Continue Reading →
Contemporary Asian artist, Ilhwa Kim, will have a 2-week Solo Show titled ‘Seed System’ at HOFA London from September 25th – October 6th this year. It will be her third solo exhibition in London after ‘Sensory Portraits’ in 2018. Ilhwa Kim is known for creating avantgarde, intricate paper art by masterfully combining sculpting and painting techniques.... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I went to my local Museum to visit Cleo Mussi new exhibition.Museum in the Park is hosting until the 26 of August 2019 a new collection of inventive mosaics by Stroud-based artist Cleo Mussi. An ornament of comely grace featuring garlands of the head, nosegaies and poesies for the recreation of... Continue Reading →
Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads Box,, 1968 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York Bildupphovsrätt 2019 During our Scandinavian trip we had the fortune to stop in Malmö visiting dear friends from my London life. In Malmo there is this cute Museum of Modern Art (paired with an other one... Continue Reading →
Johan Röing, Nefertiti, 2008-2012 © Johan Röing Bildupphovsrätt 2019 This summer our curiosity lead us again to the North. We spent some of our summer in Scandinavia, with longer stops over in CPH and Malmö, where we discovered this small and inviting museum in a former power station from 1901 with an orange extension that is... Continue Reading →
Botanica, is a new exhibition curated by Flora Goodwin and Omar Mazhar for the Tristan Hoare Gallery in London, which focuses on the work of a diverse group of artists who have sought their inspiration from the natural world. From ancient times through to today, artists have interpreted nature in different ways and for different... Continue Reading →
CUTTING EDGE: MODERNIST BRITISH PRINTMAKING 9 June - 8 September 2019 This Summer, Dulwich Picture Gallery will shine a spotlight on a brief but intense period of dynamic printmaking during the interwar period, with the first major show of work by artists from the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Celebrating 90 years since the inaugural... Continue Reading →
How lucky I am. My dear friend Adriana is still exploring Venice these days. And the Biennale Arte 2019 is the perfect location for dreaming and getting inspired. Adriana mentioned to me the amazing installations at the T Fondaco dei Tedeschi, amazing art in this amazing building. You can read a bit more about it... Continue Reading →
The Colour Palace has been unveiled as the second edition of the Dulwich Pavilion. The outcome of an open design competition organised by the Gallery and the London Festival of Architecture, The Colour Palace is a vibrant new addition for summer 2019 at Dulwich Picture Gallery, with a full programme of events planned. This summer,... Continue Reading →
My dear friend Adriana is in Venice these days. She is celebrating her birthday in the cute and inspiring Laguna and visiting the Biennale di Venezia. Yesterday she spotted this amazing Ukrainian artist. So I asked her to let us know more. Here's her visual reporting. One of the most striking aspects of Zhanna Kadyrova’s... Continue Reading →
Mari Balsamà Wilson 