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LOOP 2011 brings together recent graduates and established artists who have exhibited internationally, set up print studios or pursued teaching careers. 16 artists will be showing in The Gallery in Redchurch Street this October: Anna Alcock, Daniel Alexander, Anthony Broad, Ian Brown,Frank Dolphin, Erica Donovan, Marianne Ferm, Jane Hodge, Gail Mallatratt, Scarlett Massel, Ann Norfield, Handan Sadikoglu, Kitty Reford, Terry Steckler, John Tate and Susan Turner.



LOOP is an artist-led initiative highlighting the variety and vitality of contemporary print. LOOP encourages creative freedom by offering artists working in print the opportunity to show their individual subject matter in their choice of media, from the oldest to the most recent print technology.

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If Not Now, Whenever 4th - 9th October 2011


NEW WORK FROM CAMBRIDGE LEADS THE WAY

The first Masters of Fine Art to graduate from Cambridge School of Art are celebrating their achievement by bringing a rich mix of exciting and challenging new work to London. If Not Now, Whenever is an exhibition of visually stunning and critically engaged art that ranges across installation, sculpture, painting and projection. From the personal to the political, from the handmade to the readymade, the seven artists explore their chosen fields with style, rigor and wit.
Works on display include Matthew Wilsons elaborately constructed chandelier made from empty medicine bottles, Patsy Rathbones dystopian handmade wallpaper and Josepa Munozs suspended canvas tarpaulins.

Artist Robert Good said: We all feel that we have now reached a moment in time where we want to get our work out there and join in the debate. If Not Now, Whenever offers up a refreshing set of new ideas from a city that is starting to put itself on the map.


web: www.ifnotnowwhenever.co.uk

emailinfo@ifnotnowwhenever.co.uk

Robert Eadie Shallow Seas 27thSept- 2nd Oct 2011


In Shallow Seas, artist Robert Eadie presents over thirty canvases, including three large triptych paintings, which fill The Gallery in Redchurch Street and take the viewer on an abstract and imaginative journey through landscape. Inspired by solitary wanderings through wilderness, these paintings are a distillation of memory and emotion. Influenced by the scale and grandeur of contemporary abstract painting, and by the soundscapes of Ambient music, Eadie has reduced both form and colour to a minimum, and each painting is charged with accident, spontaneity and emotional impact.

In a world which has been irrevocably changed by the influence of human beings I find it consoling and calming to imagine a natural landscape which is utterly untouched by the human presence, for example one that may have existed in geological time. I am interested in trying to make paintings that evoke this sense of timeless and pristine beauty

Robert Eadie trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art where he won the Bateson Mason Award for Drawing, Heatherleys School of Art and Brighton School of Art. His last solo exhibition was held in 2010 at The Air Gallery in London. He lives and works in West Sussex.

www.roberteadie.co.uk
robert@roberteadie.com

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The Concept Lounge, featuring Seymourpowell: Ideas Generator. 20th- 23rd Sept 2011

NOTHING FIXED 6th Sept- 17th Sept 2011

Alice Browne, Varda Caivano, Christopher Green, Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Raoul de Keyser, Shaun McDowell, Wendy McLean


Marcelle Joseph Projects is delighted to present Nothing Fixed, an abstract painting group show curated by artist Shaun McDowell and featuring work from seven artists, Alice Browne, Varda Caivano, Raoul de Keyser, Christopher Green, Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Shaun McDowell and Wendy McLean. Shaun McDowell has named the show Nothing Fixed as he is interested in works that have movement and life but do not attempt to portray recognisable objects or figures. In his own words, McDowell has selected works that begin and do not necessarily end, are open, finished but not fixed.

Nina Torres Fine Art 30th August-4th September 2011

World Tour of Contemporary Art curated by Nina Torres

First WORLD TOUR EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART to be unveiled in London
Miami based Nina Torres Fine Art brings the first World Tour Exhibition of Contemporary Art to London, a show that features an international line-up of 40 progressive artists, who individually reflect todays art scene. The Gallery in 50 Redchurch St, London will be the venue from August 30 through September 4, 2011 with a private opening reception on September 1.

The artists practices rely on exploratory techniques with material, form and sound in various mediums ranging from photography to video. WTECA brings together a select group of artists who have exhibited internationally and many have won important awards, they all share an impulse to re-imagine and rescript our relationships to everyday objects and characters.

This exhibition promises an intriguing sample of the art being produced in 24 countries and will be exposed to audiences in Dubai, Mexico, Madrid and Berlin where the WTECA will continue to tour in 2012 and 2013. Today, the world has witnessed a progressive intellectual and creative evolution of its contemporary art. A myriad of painters, print-makers, sculptors, digital artists and photographers represent a new and ever-growing modern art scene that demands exposure around the world. In acknowledgement of the selected artists achievements, this project contributes to revealing the best of their artwork while also unveiling it to a wider international audience.- said Nina Torres, Director and Chief Curator.Please visit www.WTECA.com for full information, photos and lists of artists. (Virtual catalogue and Press Release)

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DSC 19th-26th July 2011

Delight and Destroy

Lust, power and consumption are the themes behind DSCs latest body of work. An alternate world has been created where consumer brands are laid bare with a message that could be speaking from their collective subconsciousness. This is communicated by vivid urethane paint on steel and aluminum performance car bonnets. These represent racing car teams without the veneer of pretence, a world where brands, money, consumption and power feed off each other and consumers. The results are striking, high gloss panels that appear almost as lustful totems to modern society.

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University of the West of England 12th-17th July 2011

'Break a lead'

Break-a-Lead brings you the latest and greatest from Bristol, the heart of British illustration. This years graduate exhibition from UWE Bristol Illustration students encompasses a wide variety of styles and approaches, embracing both traditional and contemporary practices. All artists work starts from the humble beginnings of a lead pencil, but quickly grows into new, inspiring and diverse avenues. Break-a-Lead demonstrates this, presenting a collective of driven, exciting and passionate artists united in their enthusiasm and talent for their craft. We take pride in our diversity, but are unanimous in our ambition and expertise. We are bold, we are brave: we are Break-a-Lead.

The UWE Illustration program is unique as it places equal emphasis on both technical training and personal style, nurturing each students individual approach to the subject. It has a long history of success and is highly regarded within the industry, with students frequently winning awards such as the MacMillan and Penguin/Puffin prizes. Students go on to work in all areas of the visual arts, from the animation industry to curatorship. UWE Illustration is proud to present its latest up and coming graduates, and invites you to sample Bristol's brightest and boldest artistic delights this July at the Gallery in Redchurch Street."

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BRIDGE an exhibition by NEIL PINKETT 7th July -10th July 2011

presented by Cornwall Contemporary

Neil Pinkett is one of the foremost landscape painters in Britain today. His paintings have been exhibited extensively across the UK and have also toured the East coast of America. In the spring of 2011, Neil chartered a helicopter over the city of London and the Thames, this was to form the basis of his paintings for the exhibition Bridge to be shown at The Gallery in Redchurch Street and then at Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance from12th Aug to 12th Sept.

The exhibition features not only London bridges but bridges across the UK including The Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, the North Parade Bridge in Bath and the Tamar Bridge which links Cornwall to Devon. Neil Pinkett was born in St. Just, Cornwall in 1958. His early artistic career saw him work as a successful illustrator and visualiser but he moved into the fine art arena with a hugely celebrated debut solo exhibition in 1996. His work has been exhibited at a large number of venues throughout the UK and has also toured in America. Neil Pinkett portrays the landscape of Britain from a uniquely different perspective and the paintings are intrinsically linked to the land and sea. He evokes a real sense of experience beyond what is merely captured within the picture frame.

Painting trips form a fundamental basis to his painting practice and include a 1000 mile cycle journey from Cape Wrath in Scotland to Cape Cornwall in 2006. The expedition was meticulously planned and he cycled through Scotland, North West England and Wales and the entire Atlantic coast of Devon and Cornwall. The physically demanding trip saw Neil produce a prolific amount of watercolours and sketches along the way of sweeping valleys, mountains, land and seascapes. In 2008 he canoed down the River Shannon in Ireland painting from an easel stashed across the bow of a specially adapted canoe. The Shannon is the longest river in both Ireland and Britain at over 200 miles long from its source to the sea.

In 2009, Neil undertook a second epic canoe and painting trip starting near the Forth Bridge in Scotland, through the Forth and Clyde and Glasgow and then out to the Inner Hebrides of Arran and Mull.

'A Bridge can be a place of peace and space, a lofty vantage point spanning estuary, gorge, river and road. A point of departure and arrival; joining countries and counties and in some cases island to mainland. Their structures vary from simple stone arches to towering edifices of steel and stone defying tide and wind. To me they represent adventure and give me a thrill akin to those found in childhood. Each one of the structures painted in this collection is special; it has a personal story associated with it and evokes many memories.'Neil Pinkett

Cornwall Contemporary

1 Parade Street, Penzance

Cornwall TR19 7JB

Tel: 01736 874749 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting01736 874749end_of_the_skype_highlighting

www.cornwallcontemporary.com

sarah@cornwallcontemporary.com

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Long Live the Art School 17th & 18th June 2011

UCA Epsom

Students and staff of the Graphic Design BA (Hons) UCA Epsom invite a range of contributors and creative collaborators to answer the question; 'What is the Art School?¹

A tricky question especially as there aren¹t many left, in the strict sense but one that seems to continue to be asked. The notion of the 'art school¹ is multifarious, but with the shift from the definite or indefinite to the zero article it becomes as with 'Punk¹ at once anthemic and chimeric. Not so much an educational structure, establishment or movement but an approach, a way of thinking, a cultural institution of a much more elusive yet pervasive kind than anything as prosaic as bricks and curriculum. 'No school is a school without an idea.¹[1] states Madoff But what exactly is the idea? What is the 'Art School¹ today? A 'Permanent Autonomous Zone¹. . . An area insulated from the financial and temporal restrictions and expectations of 'everyday life¹? A zone of irreverent cultural experimentation and production? Workshop, studio, laboratory, hothouse, alembic, crucible, apprenticeship. Camelot, Atlantis, Shangri-La, lost horizon. Long Live the Art School!

With contributions from: · Why Not Associates · Tomato · Adrian Shaugnessey · Rick Poyner · Ken Garland · Lynda Relph Knight · Atelier Works

Janus Youth 7th - 12th June 2011

from Griffin Rayne Gallery

Youth culture an interesting concept; we revere it by saying culture, but in the next breath we revile it. Do we long for it, in all its rose-tinted glory, or fear it as an unknown, restless and angry quantity? There is an inescapable but dark quality to the idea of youth: we love it, cannot be without it, but it stalks our ordered selves, watching, knowing and gloating. If you subscribe to the view of when I was young it was all different, we suggest you look at this exhibitions traditional, cultural references, see what you perceive to be past perfection and glory. If your poison however is the youth of today, then embrace its continuing counter-culture, energy, anger, sex and militancy represented by the contemporary movement. This exhibition brings together elements of the yesterday and tomorrow of humanity. It makes an interesting juxtaposition; mature artists retrospection of youth bound together with young artists vision of themselves and the world as they see it now. Together these artists show a perspective which is often lost in generalisations.

Harold Eldridge leads traditional views of what was; his innocent and beautiful depiction of Penny for the Guy is surely the epitome of everything innocent about adolescence. Running in this same vein are artists such as John Christoforou, Bernard Meninsky, John Bratby, Patrick Proktor, Sarah Lederman and Stanley Lewis. As a counter balance to these is a grungier, deliberately toughened view by the youth of todays experience. Andrew Salgado leads the way in both respects; romanticism to a point but underscored with rebellion, frenetic energy and passion. Sharon McPhee, Azadeh Fatehrad, Jenny Evans and sculptor Neil Hedger enhance a line up which cuts across modern painting and sculpture to produce a vision of ourselves which in some cases uncomfortable, is more often than not, utterly true.

Every young person, like every artist, strives against what has gone before in the effort to create a newer, brighter, more liberated present. Whether traditional or contemporary in approach this contribution is invaluable, history will judge if it is good.

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Camera Obscura & Other Stories 24th - 29th May 2011

Solo Exhibition of new work by Ellen Bell from Four Square Fine Arts

Have you ever picked up a photograph from a flea market or looked through a family album of relatives you have never known and wondered what they were thinking or feeling? Have you ever imagined what dialogue may have taken place before and after the click of the shutter?

Ellen Bell's new collection of work seeks to explore these questions. She is concerned with familial memory - conversations had, clothes worn, books read, intimacy lost and found. Pre-digital images from bygone eras that reveal children and adults caught in stiff awkwardness before the camera are the starting point for these pieces. Bell extracts outlines of figures and extraneous details from these photographs and deftly inserts undulating threads of words and sentences cut from works of contemporary fiction into these forms. Universal stories flood these vessels filling in for the silent, the mis-remembered, the forgotten and the unknown conversations of the past.

Bell is represented by Four Square Fine Arts. She has exhibited in London, New York, Chicago and Miami and her works are held in private collections in Europe, Australia and the USA.

For further information about the works, please contact Sonia Crivello, Four Square Fine Arts, 5a Station Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2DA.

Telephone 01273 474005 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting01273 474005end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Mobile 07442 659446 

www.foursquarearts.co.uk,

sonia@foursquarearts.co.uk

Julia Caprara School Of Textile Arts 19th - 22nd May 2010

Coming Through: BA Graduate Show. What is textile art and when does a craftsperson become an artist? The questions run like a thread through the work of the seven students graduating this year from the Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts. Some of them embarked on the part-time BA (Hons) programmes with backgrounds in design, fashion and fabric retail; others in government, healthcare, journalism and teaching. But all of them have a passion for stitched textiles that has carried them through six challenging years of juggling jobs and family with developing their creative voices.

What has emerged on the other side? The work is diverse both in technique and concept a result of distance learning where no one style prevails. Hand and machine embroidery, knitting, felting, quilting and appliqué combine with paper, plastic and painting in an exhibition that may stretch the definition of embroidered textiles almost to breaking point but has its origins firmly and respectfully in its traditions. Themes range from the natural world and the role of women to binge-drinking, religious hypocrisy and the dark meanings of fairy tales. For the graduates themselves, as they break through to pursue their separate creative and professional paths, the results are more enduring. One graduating student says of her work: I now have the confidence to say this is from my soul, and I believe in its validity as art. The exhibitors are: Diana Bliss, Diana Halbert, Valerie Huggins, Chris Spencer, Sass Tetzlaff, Barbara J West and Wendy Harris Williams.

Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts offers the opportunity to study on its unique distance-learning course leading to a BA (Hons) in Embroidered Textiles, validated by Middlesex University. The course is a combination of experimental textile and theoretical modules, taught as either a full-time or part time-programme. The school was established by Julia Caprara under the name Opus in 1998, and since then many graduates have set up successful art practices, become tutors at prestigious art colleges or studied to MA or PhD level. The graduating group acknowledge their debt to Julia and to those who have continued her legacy.

For further information see: www.jctextilearts.com

or contact E: alix@jctextilearts.com or T: 01787376746 01787376746

ROBERT WYATT 'at Home' 10th - 15th May 2011

Robert Wyatt is a fashion photographer who has been working commercially for 15 years. He has spent the past three years working on a photographic project called 'at Home'. After working with models and celebrities for a number of years on high profile campaigns for the likes of Prada, Valentino, Ferrari, British Airways and others which involved hair & make up artists, stylists, lighting crews, locations and prop stylists, he decided to embark on a project using real women, with no hair or makeup, no lighting, no stylist, no clothes, no retouching, photographing them in their real homes doing real things. Models have been getting younger and younger and this drew him towards wanting to get back to photographing women. The images are intimate colour portraits of real women in their own homes. A snapshot of a moment in a womans life. Its the lack of manicured glamour that makes these shots exciting. An insight into someones private space. The women look strong and in control of the sitting. The images remind you more of how a woman would of sat for an oil painting without being dated or classical. It is this reason that they appear to be more of a portrait than a nude. Each woman and location is a surprise to Robert until he arrives and likewise for the woman. She has agreed to be photographed in her own home by a complete stranger. The women are therefore in control of when, where and almost how these images are taken. They determine many of the stylistic elements of the session, thus having editorial control. They have chosen the model, location, lighting etc. It is this bizarre dynamic that gives these intimate portraits their unique look. The body of images ask many questions not of the photographer but of the subjects. Why would a woman choose to be photographed by a stranger? Are there cultural differences that predetermine a subjects willingness to participate? Is there an apparent confidence a subject has with their own self or is this a test of ones confidence? Is there a certain body shape or size that a woman is happy with that allows her to participate? Likewise, a body shape that rules certain subjects out? Its the lack of editorial control that brings surprises to the sessions. On show are thirty six images taken in London, Paris, Berlin, Cape Town, Los Angeles and New York

www.robertwyatt.net

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Adobe Youth Voices 27th and 28th April 2011

Adobe Youth Voices is one of the world's fastest growing initiatives for young people to invest in their creative talent. It has been active in the United Kingdom for five years and currently engages over three hundred young people aged 13 to 18 years old. This group exhibition focuses on the participants' photographic and digital artwork as we wrap up another year of creativity. Adobe Youth Voices begins again in September 2011.

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North West Kent College 6th - 9th April 2011

'IMAGE' is an exhibition of photographic work by Foundation and BA Hons Degree students studying at University of Greenwich. The work explores a broad number of themes which examine how 'image' and 'images' shape the world around us and determine our relation to it . Ansel Adams claimed that "there is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." Yet one might argue that the concept of 'image' is itself somewhat fuzzy. For when we ask ourselves what an image is, we inevitably run up against a number of contradictions. Images appear to be at the same time both things in themselves and pointers to things elsewhere. What's more, it is difficult to say where any given image resides. Is an image in the world or in our heads? Or is it both simultaneously? Furthermore, to what extent does the image we have ourselves influence how we interpret or read an image?

One thing is sure, our world is a world filled with images, and these images determine the shape and form of the world itself. Images win wars and Presidential campaigns, destroy marriages, create friends, incriminate the guilty, sell cars, provoke eating disorders, educate students, titillate lovers, evoke memories and traumatise children. In the modern era the world has come to resemble its own image and so, it has become increasingly difficult to identify what is image and what is world. Perhaps, more than any other type of image, it is the photographic image that has enabled this to happen.'

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EXHAUSTED COLOUR 8th - 13th March 2011

from Griffin Rayne Gallery .

Do we fear the dark?

Be that a question about night, darkness, black, the unknown, the void, the fading of light and colour or absence, human history is marked by our natural hesitance concerning any one, or a combination, of these. In the modern world, do we still harbour superstitions about an absence of colour; a natural reticence about a shade whose acknowledged state is a scarcity of everything we seem to gravitate towards? Sometimes it seems that we can get bogged down in pigmentation, luminosity, tone and saturation so that the depth of the piece suffers as a result.

The works here are not black; one can perceive in many the odd flash of jewel-like colour, or artworks created in more muted shades; subtle rather than statement. In some cases the colour seems to have been washed out and leached away by the passage of time, a reminder of our own transient natures.

There are some extremely well known artists who flourish with a darker palette as well as their sometimes better known brighter works. Names such as John Walker, Keith Milow, Roy Turner Durrant, Clifford Fishwick, Francis Davidson, Norman Neasom, Jeremy Annear and William Johnson to name but a few, thrive within these restrictions, and the work produced is some of the most striking and potent in their portfolios. The chosen emerging artists cover a range of subjects from Saatchi short-listed Rachel Cosgrave's emotive landscapes to newly award-winning Yuma Tomiyasus spiritualism; newcomer Ben Snowden's figuration, to flourishing artist Jemma Appleby's architectural compositions. Respected contemporary artist Sarah Lederman adds the finishing touch with her beautifully naive but worldly wise figures.

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Versailles 9th - 13th February 2011

Curated by: Lucia Quevedo and Matilda Moors. . Versailles, as inaccessible now as it was then. Often envied and imitated, has always been a place where representations win over reality. We may be aware that it is a historical landmark however Versailles can seen objectively, from all angles. Though unattainable the best that can be done is attempt to reflect the different layers of'The Château made of a pack of cards'.

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Meli Melo: Its a mess! 1st - 6th Feb 2011

Curated by:Victoria Genzini, Marsida Rexhepaj, Riddhi Bhansali

On the 1st of February The Redchurch Street Gallery in London is opening a group show Meli Melo: Its a mess! curated by Victoria Genzini, Marsida Rexhepaj and Riddhi Bhansali. The three curators are aged between 19 and 21 are currently studying For a BA in Curation at Central Saint Martins.

The selection of artists in this show is in fact a Meli Melo: that in English translates as mishmash. Every artist goes through a very different thought process, research and work: using mixed media such as sculpture, fine arts and photography. But most importantly they are all under 35 and come from very different countries and exhibiting experiences. For example Celine Lafevre, from France, is a self-taught artist, works in a small boutique and has never showed before. Just as Matt Loglan sculpturer, from England has never shown before. Whilst artists like Tom Gallant, from England, Masa Suzuki From Japan and Thomas de Falco from Italy, have already showed in many galleries in different countries. Universities of the Arts students showing are Jean Feline from France, Sean Hedman from Sweden, Alice Munteanu from Romania, Tais McBean from France. Vittoria Piscitelli is an art student in Naples and Alessandro Teoldi, is a Milan based artist. Yvana Pejovic is a video artist from Montenegro

Email: melimeloexhibition@gmail.com

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Four Square Fine Arts 1-5th Dec 2010

Four Square Fine Arts based in Lewes, East Sussex regularly represents artists by putting on solo and mixed exhibitions in hired galleries in London and Sussex and by attending major art fairs in the capital. This Christmas Exhibition is a chance to view and purchase artwork from many of the artists from their portfolio including Ellen Bell, Erin Burns, Colin Booth, Margaret Cahill, Marco Crivello, Pete Hoida, Annabelle Nicoll, Eberhard Ross, Sonia Stanyard and Helen Turner.

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ADRIAN SWINSTEAD 11th - 14th Nov 2010

Ancient Trees/ Current Work

Sculpture, Furniture, Images by Adrian Swinstead

In this exhibition Adrian Swinstead explores the sculptural, textural and graphic qualities of ancient and historical trees. He has a fascination with the history of the trees he works with and this body of work encompasses trees planted 300 400 years ago as well as truly ancient trees which were part of the forest in the UK thousands of years ago.

This has led to Adrian working with a burr oak tree, which dates from a 17th century formal garden, horse chestnut from an estate planting in 1735 and obtaining a 20 ton oak planted in 1610 next to Woburn Abbey on the estate of the Duke of Bedford the oak reputed to have formed the gallows of an abbot of Woburn Abbey.

Over recent years Adrians fascination with the historical trees has focussed on Bog Oak grown between 4000 and 8000 years ago and preserved in the peat landscape of the Fens. The link between the standing stones erected by our ancestors at the times these trees were growing is echoed in the sculptural forms of Adrians work.

The combination of ancient and modern is nowhere more evident than in the series of tables and benches that form part of this exhibition, whilst the sculptures and objects resonate with echoes of the past. The images and cabinets that also form this body of work showcase the natural forms and designs inherent in the trees used to create them. This exhibition showcases Adrian Swinsteads creative vision making the ancient current.

www.adrianswinstead.com

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GILES HAYTER

A Parallax in Sight and Sound 2nd - 7th Nov 2010

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Talented painter, composer and Westminster School maths teacher Giles Hayter synthesizes abstract geometric art and uplifting contemporary music in his fifth exhibit A Parallax in Sight and Sound

The 29 year old Oxford Maths graduates approach to art is experimental and multi-sensory, drawing on themes in abstract geometry for his inspiration. Allowing nature to determine the final outcome of his pieces, Giles develops innovative techniques to define the flow of paint, utilizing items ranging from cocktail sticks and nails to hairdryers and umbrellas. His canvases are often arranged onto custom-built surfaces to create 3D contours, onto which the paint is overlaid. Giles introduces his first series of glass-like collages to this exhibition, produced by dragging mixtures of paint between sheets of card before arranging the pieces sequentially.

All of his compositions are charged with energy, burst with colour and plunge through numerous depths with their multi-layered surfaces. In the exhibition, three parallel displays of striking abstract art are each accompanied by symphonies composed by Giles to complement the theme and rhythm of the paintings.

Stoic Dream is a piano work, combining stride, ragtime, classical and jazz rhythms, the Songs After Summertime are performed by renowned vocalists Ann Bailey and Rachel Lynn and Crazy Music Paint Disco is a set of off-the-wall dance and electronica tunes. The music is transmitted via Silent Disco wireless headphones, combining the personal sensation of listening to music with the shared experience of others hearing and viewing the same thing.

Says Giles "I'm extremely excited to be showcasing my new artworks in the same space as my music. It has been a thrill making it all - I hope to create a truly unique, interactive and enjoyable experience for everyone who comes".

A Parallax in Sight and Sound is open from 10am to 9pm free entrance and free hire of Silent Disco headphones. To watch the Preview, and for more info, please visit www.gileshayter.com

"It would be an exaggeration to compare the art to that of Kandinsky but it does help to explain Hayter's artistic approach. All of his paintings sing with colour and have a sonic quality that's hard to put a finger on." The Londonist .

www.gileshayter.com/parallax

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Newertown Art presents External: New Art from Further East 25th - 31st October 2010

Curated by Juan Carlos Farah

This October Newertown | Art is organising External: New Art from Further East, its second art exhibition featuring young artists from the Middle East, Iran and Turkey. Curated by Juan Carlos Farah, it is a showcase of innovative paintings, photographs and video installation. An exploration and insight into the thriving art world of further east, this exhibition invites its audience to address the importance and shortcomings of individuality and tradition in a region frequently subject to clichés and misconceptions. Throughout the week, we are organising a number of events to promote the artists' work and make External a true celebration of art and culture. These include two performances of short plays by new and established playwrights, a latenight viewing, a panel discussion and a film screening. Featuring: Athier, Noor Al Suwaidi, Asad Faulwell, Ruba Asfahani, Cyrus Mahboubian, Saeed Taji Farouky, Eda Aksoy, Shirine Osseiran, Kate Busby, Tini Meyer, Kholoud Sharafi andYazan Khalili

Events: 27 & 29 October 2010 7pm External: A Performance

28 October 2010 7pm Evening Viewing

30 October 2010 3pm Panel Discussion with Curator and Artists 30 October 2010 6pm Film Screening .For more information, please contact Juan Carlos Farah: T: +447531205955 

E: art@newertown.com

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FRESH CREAM from Opus Art, 12th -17th October 2010

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An exhibition of contemporary art from eight compelling young artists. Fresh Cream celebrates new painting, photography and print from the cream of emerging contemporary artists. Fresh Cream includes new work from Chris Acheson, Kim Baker, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Hector de Gregorio, Hush, Chris Kettle, Andrew McAttee and Karl de Vroomen. Fresh Cream opens during the height of London's arts week, on Tuesday 12 October

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email: enquiries@opus-art.com

web: www.opus-art.com

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CEDRIC CARRE 5th - 10th Oct 2010

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French painter Cédric Carré is to make his UK debut this autumn at The Gallery In Redchurch Street. The exhibition consists of recent work from his Urban Landscapes series, which sees him document the urban periphery - that space which sits, undefined, between city and countryside. Depicting, in an almost literal sense, these no-mans lands, Carrés paintings are eerily absent of people, or any sign of their existence, bar the man-made objects that occupy them. The work seems to present an abandoned, perhaps even alien world, yet the repeated inclusion of these constructions allows us a sense of comfort that can only come from recognition. Pylons and industrial buildings all feature highly in the paintings. Not generally considered to be things of beauty, but with which we are all familiar, in Carrés hands they become worthy in their own right of aesthetic appreciation rather than just objects of necessity to contemporary living. Roads, another of Carrés favourite subjects, reassure us by offering an escape from these deserted non-places back to, or away from civilization - and a chance to follow those natural instincts towards society or into the freedom of isolation. Cédric Carré has shown widely throughout France and his work can be found in private collections and public galleries throughout Europe, including the Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix, which this summer acquired, and exhibits, a second piece of his work. With Urban Landscapes, his debut show in London this October, recognition of Carré as one of our most exciting and important contemporary artists is sure spread even farther.

www.carrecedric.fr

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.LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 16th Sept - 2nd Oct 2010

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MATILDA Exhibition: 13 of Australia's best designers launch in the UK as part of London Design Festival 2010

cloth * Dinosaur Designs * F!nk * ilias: wallpaper & textiles * Volker Haug * Husque * Trent Jansen * Korban Flaubert *Alexander Lotersztain * Luxxbox * Marc Pascal * Brian Steendyk * Street & Garden / Surya Graf

Australia is rich with contradictions - young and ancient, primal and sophisticated - and although it's the worlds largest island continent, it is also the country with more people living in towns and cities than any other in the world. Tyler Brûlé (founder of Wallpaper* and Editor-in-Chief of Monocle) has described Australia as the country that exported lifestyle to the rest of the world. All designers are a product of their environment and Australia has a lifestyle that is the envy of the world. The infinite space, sky and sea have provided these designers with the backdrop for product design that is simple, authentic and full of hope. Matilda lives in that space of endless potential, somewhere between Ikea and Eames, with designs that are destined to be part of your life, not just your living room.

www.matilda-design.com

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DANNY FOX 7th- 12th Sept 2010

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A Song For Someone Else is the latest solo exhibition by self taught 24 year old painter, poet and musician Danny Fox. Originally from Cornwall, Fox left the coastal town of St. Ives at 17 and has since traveled to various places. He currently lives in London. His last exhibition explored his own personal story of love and the security that it brings, this state commemorated by a shrine like mantle piece of belongings and keepsakes which he used in a installation called Evidence of Love. A Song For Someone Else explores the flip-side having lost everything, my love, my home, my belongings. States Fox. The exhibition is a collection of new works using a variety of media, exploring the territory of a broken relationship and the intoxicating solitude that remains. In the centre of the exhibition sits a full size tree painted white, stripped bare of its lush foliage, all that clings to the branches are used foil leaves. The exhibition is supported by Millennium, St. Ives. Director Joseph Clarke states Fox is an artist with a rare unguarded ability to be truly honest. His work is made because it needs to be made, for Fox this expression is cathartic. When viewing this exhibition how can we not be moved by such sincerity, but also reminded of our own isolation and our own difficulties in making sense of that which is dealt to us. For more information please contact Joseph Clarke or Sarah Goldbart at Millennium

www.millenniumgallery.co.uk

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BAREFACED THEATRE presents Candidates for Change: The Road to Con-Dem Nation by Stuart Barrow 26th - 31st July 2010

.Directed by Kenny O'Toole

This dry satire of UK politics and London life follows the lives of four women, a man of two dreams, and a mother caught up in the central contradiction of life under the Cameron coaltion: do we look out from the summit and let sunshine rule the day - or keep it real? And what does it mean if we lick the Bunty...? Over two acts, Barefaced theatre reveals all, introducing you to thrusting 'A list' (and wannabe A list) candidates and the effects of their ambition on themselves and others around them. A play about relationships, dreams and the nature of reality itself, with laughs along the way. A play for now. Innit, though... Playwright Stuart Barrow is a former adviser and speechwriter to numerous politicians including Michael Portillo, Michael Howard, Francis Maude and Jeremy Hunt. "Candidates for Change" is his first play.

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COLCHESTER INSTITUTE, School of Art, Design & Media - 6th - 11th July 2010

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.Meta Tauta This show represents the culmination of three years of study in fine art: its conventions and techniques; its idioms and styles; its mediums and its craft. These students have not worked collectively or collaboratively, but there is a certain coherence here, echoes and crossovers between each personal project and the artefacts and images displayed. There is a fascination with medium that grounds and regulates artistic production and with materiality, the indexical and the real; a preoccupation with the crafting of styles and the learning of craft: we see tentative but increasingly confident steps within it. These students exhibiting here operate within and against histories and traditions of craft, art and aesthetics. They labour and have laboured to make surfaces: sewn, handmade and laborious, repetitive and overwhelming, delicate and dense, textural and textual, but always compelling. These surfaces can be impassive and bleak: post-Soviet cityscapes or the glamour of the images of fashion juxtaposed and cascading with the appearances of war.

A second exhibition of works from a selection of the artists will be on show at Slack Space, 19-29 Queen Street, Colchester 28th July-7th August 2010 www.iheartslackspace.blogspot.com For information about the B.A. Art and Design: Fine Art programme Email: info@colchester.ac.uk

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JULIA CAPRARA SCHOOL OF TEXTILE ARTS - 24th -27th June 2010

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BA Graduate Show. This is an exhibition of 6 graduates in contemporary textile art practice who studied at Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts. This private, independent art school has built an unrivalled reputation for stimulating the creation of innovative, contemporary textile art. In existence since 1998 it offers a unique, distance-learning course which leads to a BA (Hons) in Embroidered Textiles, validated by Middlesex University. For further information see: www.jctextilearts.com or contact E: alix@jctextilearts.com or T: 01787376746 01787376746

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DAVID MARSH - SOME PEOPLE ARE ON THE PITCH - 6th-18th June 2010

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'Some People Are On The Pitch' is the first London solo exhibition of artist, David Marsh.' The project traces the movement of the players throughout the 1966 World cup final between England and West Germany to create a 'portrait' of the nation's most treasured sporting victory. Created by mapping archive footage at 1/2 real speed, using the pitch markings and the stripes of the cut grass as a coordinate system, the work follows the movement of each player against time, on and off the ball, as they move across the 'field' of play throughout the full 90 minutes, plus extra time. The recorded information is then coded through a system of line type, weight and colour to allow the narrative of the recorded information to be represented and read graphically, producing a work latent with information, yet seemingly abstract in its aesthetic. The exhibition consists of each player's individual traces, split into playing segments, and culminates in a final piece which combines the full team, stitched from the red fabric of the 1966 shirts, to form a collective 'team portrait.' www.davidmarsh.info email address: contact@davidmarsh.info

.email address: contact@davidmarsh.info

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THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IN A GLASS OF WINE -4th & 5th June 2010

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THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IN A GLASS OF WINE is a poem by the physicist Richard Feynman. Through the use of ink, print, music, performance and film, this event reacts to his exquisite dissection of the Universe into physics, biology, geology, astronomy and psychology. A show created and curated by Jennifer Crouch, Penelope Klein, Rosanne Eveleigh, Natalie Kay-Thatcher and Raine Allen-Miller Join us and enjoy the metaphor, while examining the artwork and listening to the live music and lectures. The festivities will begin at 6.30pm . Full cosmic soundtrack provided. Live music from Johnny and the Chemists (more to be confirmed) Spoken word from Adrian Holne and Steven Smyth. http://thewholeuniverseinaglassofwine.blogspot.com/

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EBERHARD ROSS -25th 30th May 2010

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Four Square Fine Arts are delighted to announce the first London solo exhibition of German artist, Eberhard Ross. Ross (born 1959) has been exploring and researching organic geometry, the rhythms and patterns that occur in nature through painting and drawing for the past twenty years. Calling himself a scientist in art he makes an "attempt to understand the system of nature," by comparing his personal observation and intuition with scientists which he meets at the Max Planck Institute in Northern Germany. The Space Between will focus on a selection of paintings, drawings and photographs depicting organic pattern and non-symmetrical order that we find in nature. A revealing and thought provoking film, commissioned by Four Square Fine Arts, entitled, Organic Geometries, has been released in advance of the exhibition in which Ross talks about his artistic practice and can be viewed at the gallery during the exhibition.

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UNTAPPED 18th -23rd May 2010

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'Untapped' is an exhibition on photography by 15 graduates from the University Centre at Blackburn College (UCBC). The exhibition will depict different types of photographic media, ranging from photojournalism to fashion and everything in-between. You can actually trace people's development, both artistically and emotionally, as you follow their work along the wall. Each student uses photography in a different way and for a different reason; the work is a snapshot of their progress over 3 years and showcases the wide range of ideas, interests and ways of working that give each person a special identity. Each person will be using their creative potential by undertaking a final integrated project. This practical body of work is supported by writing which will help critically inform those viewing. The work shows diverse images that have been taken in areas very different to London and will provide an interesting contrast. The ideal outcome for the end-of-year show is to create some professional opportunities for those involved. The capital city, at the centre of creativity and new talent, creates contacts and as, new graduates, enables each student to find creative and important roles within the wider art community. The students involved are Alicia Maughan, Alistair Francis, Arifa Patel, Emma Sudall, Giovanni Ruggieri, Grace Tatlow, James Brown, Joe Walsh, Matthew Osgood, Megan Goodwin, Penny Willcox, Richard Forsdick, Josh Vosper, Sam Kenworthy, and Ryan Peacock. Opening night of the show is Tuesday 18th May 2010, 18:00pm start. For more information email: untapped2010@hotmail.com or ring 07773688936 07773688936.

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Kicks n Canvas - 9th- 18th April 2010

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Soleheaven.com and Zero Cool Gallery present Kicks n Canvas. 21 artists including Goldie, Ben Frost, Anthony Lister, Copyright, Inkie, Dan Baldwin, and Meggs will be decorating a nice new pair of all white Nike kicks as well as having a matching 50cm X 50cm canvas piece on show. The official line is: "We've locked down a scorching line-up of 21 artists primed and ready to paint. The concept of the show is to confront traditional graffiti writers and artists with a new canvas, and that's a pair of pristine all-white Nike kicks. We are throwing down the sneaker gauntlet to see them transfer their styles from the metal shutters, concrete bridges and underpasses on to a pair of trainers. Every artist will be hand painting and customizing a pair of kicks and teaming it up with a 50x50cm piece"

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BRICK 12th-21st March 2010

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The Gallery chose 9 artists from over a 100 creative types working from studios in The Chocolate Factory, the former Rowntree sweet factory, now a thriving centre for creative industries known as Haringeys Cultural Quarter. The Exhibition BRICK consists of Sadie Lee, Robert Goldstein, Mark Entwisle, Sandra Turnbull, Roni Sarraf, Mark Oliver, Bernard Swift, Mark Longworth and Hilary Barry. Between them, they have clocked up shows at the National Portrait Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Cork Street, MOMA NY, Barbican Festival Hall, and the gentlemans toilet at Arnos Grove. Thenine have also featured in magazines including Vanity Fair, I.D. Harpers Bazaar and Italian Vogue; and in Fine Art books Art Today and Erotica The Best Modern Erotic Art. BRICK employs traditional disciplines of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture but with an emphasis on a clash between high and low culture. Sculptures of classic nudes rest uneasily alongside bravura pole-dancing strippers: traditional family snapshot groups grin proudly at New York drag queens. In BRICK, the real world jostles for position with the imagined world of fantasy and sensual desire - jarring pieces that together make a coherent whole. BRICK artists are: Sadie Lee , Robert Goldstein, Mark Entwisle, Sandra Turnbull, Roni Sarraf, Mark Oliver, Bernard Swift, Mark Longworth and Hillary Barry.

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Epoh Beech The Marriage of the Thames and the Rhine- The Masque of the Inner Temple and Grays Inn 2nd -7th March 2010

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A hand drawn animation and charcoal drawings. Epoh Beechs solo show consists of a hand drawn animation and 40 charcoal drawings depicting the relationship between the Thames and Rhine. The images are influenced by the mythology and music that surrounds the rivers and explores that they were once one single river. The work is inspired by the etchings of Samuel Palmer, the animations by William Kentridge, the music of Wagner and a 17th Century play by Francis Beaumont. For more information see www.epohbeech.co.uk or contact lee@watch-this-space.org

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GUYS N DOLLS 10- 21 February 2010

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Linked by a mutual fascination with dolls, artists Cathy Watkins and Daniel Barnard explore the sexualisation of childhood and beyond through a series of 2D and 3D constructions featuring Barbie and some of her less celebrated imitators. Playful subversions of gender stereotypes combine with explorations of the perils of consumer culture. For more information see: www.cathywatkins.co.uk or contact dollymixes@hotmail.co.uk

Tel: 07981716367 07981716367

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AN ADVENTURE IN BEADS by Lebeado 12th January - 5th February 2010

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The quiet contemplation of an East London art gallery is about to be shattered these weeks by one of the countrys fastest growing jewellery retailers, Lebeado. With their full range of stock at the exhibition, everything from the simplest make-it-yourself kits to their top-of-the-range designers like Jackie Brazil, Sorrelli and Swarovski. Also on hand will be the Lebeado Bead Artists ready to help you design and make your very own jewellery.

For More information: www.lebeado.co.uk , Email: info@lebeado.co.uk Tel: 07766165544