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Back for a second year, Print Club London curate a series of screen printed film posters for the 10th anniversary season of Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House. A series of contemporary, limited edition screen prints, inspired by the films shown in the season, will be exhibited in the West Wing Galleries at Somerset House. Open daily as well as during each evening’s film event, this will be a unique opportunity to discover some of the UK’s brightest artistic talent and purchase a screen print.

Hattie Stewart, SPRINGBREAKERS.

Cassandra Yap, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.

Each exhibiting artist has reimagined a poster for one of the films in this season’s line- up, taking particular scenes, quotes or characters from their selected title as inspiration. The 16 artists on display include Rose Blake, Concepción Studios, Cassandra Yap, Hattie Stewart, Kate Moross, Steve Wilson, Kate Gibb and HelloVon. Each poster will be limited edition and exclusively available to buy for £45 at Somerset House as well as online at Print Club London.

Rose Blake, E.T.

Concepción Studios, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS.

Opening times: 10.00 – 18.00 daily and from 18.30 for Film4 ticket holders

Category: Art

Pete McKee has invited Horace Panter to exhibit at his gallery A Month of Sundays in Sheffield. Given that a lot of his new work, especially the cassette series, plays on nostalgia and memory, he came up with the title Nostalgia (ain't what it used to be). History moves forward!

Born in Croydon in 1953, Horace got his accrediation in Fine Art from Coventry's Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) in 1975. It was whilst there that he met up with Jerry Dammers and they formed The Specials, a defining band on the British music scene. However, he never dropped his art roots, using his time on tour to visit galleries/exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe and America. Before embarking on a career as a professional artist in 2008, he spent 10 years as Head of Art in a secondary school. He says that teaching art made him reevaluate his own relationship to art and when The Specials reformed in that year he found he had the time to explore his art practice.

His work is a juxtaposition between religious/political iconography and Pop Art. While exploring the ideas of elevation in both iconography and Pop Art, his aim is to question the narrative of the iconic subject; he chooses to portray objects/places/people that are considered ordinary or mundane and to elevate their status to icon, thereby realising the Pop Art trope of 'elevating the mundane' (Andy Warhol). The cassette paintings are particularly evocative of time and place; as well as having a strong historical context, they are imbued with meaning in terms of analogue recording studios and the humble 'demo-tape'. His work is full of colour and vitality and is as much about what is left out; the composition is often minimal so that the focus is on the central subject, like an icon.

This exhibition will feature some of the Cassette Series as well as some colourful collages which celebrate his relationship to music and his own musical icons. There will also be a selection of his very latest series on Americana. Horace says “I have to thank the highly efficient and very friendly McKee Organisation (PLC) for giving me the opportunity to show my work to the good people of Sheffield … can't wait!” Pete McKee says: “To have Horace Panter, one of my heroes, exhibit at my gallery is a massive honour. His culturally astute paintings have a great resonance with anyone who, like me, was brought up to love music.”

Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-5pm

Category: Art

Daniel Wheeler, J'arrive, Carbon on paper. All photography by Benjamin Cosmo Westoby.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their work alongside other leading contemporary artists in this field, and provides those selected with the opportunity to help define a wider understanding of drawing for future generations.

Bonita Alice, Beast dead, Acrylic on paper.

Selected from original drawings, it has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice within the UK. The longevity of the project is a testament to the appetite of the artists producing work, and the continued interest of audiences visiting the exhibition, making it one of the most popular shows in the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.

Kate Morrell, A.V.M. 1954 screenshot 2013-12-10 (3), Giclee print and drawing ink.

A total of 51 works by 46 artists have been carefully selected for exhibition by the 2014 panel; Gavin Delahunty, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum; Dr Janet McKenzie, author and Co-editor of Studio International; and Alison Wilding RA, artist. Their chosen works explore and celebrate the diversity, excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK.

David Cooper, PRE INFO No.15, Xerox ink, packing paper, card, pencil, biro, marker pen and rubber tape.

Opening times: Mon-Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat & Sun 10am – 3pm

Category: Art

Time Travel probably isn't possible, we just keep on moving forward, but we all experience the tick tock of passing seconds and minutes in different ways. Time can be elastic and sometimes art can stop us in our tracks.

The Over Time art project engages eleven contemporary artists to make ‘time pieces’ in a place that is about to change forever… the Greenwich foreshore. Each of the artists will make a response to spending precisely the same fixed amount of 'clock time' (five hours without watches or phones) in the very historically resonant and atmospheric riverside space at Enderby Wharf, the site of the first underwater telegraph cables. This is a site marked by time as industrial history, social development and the natural rhythms of the tides. Works will include sound, movement, performance, film, drawing, writing, conceptual, objects.

This project is a way to explore time in a place that is already marked by time…… by the natural rhythms of weather and tides, the marks of our London ancestors, of industrial heritage and the rapid progress of city development.

Rachel Gomme working on site Over Time, Photo by Anne Robinson 2014.

The initial part of the project will take place over the Thames Festival weekend with art and performance events on and around the Thames Path on both days. Over Time artists will be hosting drawing workshops with local people in Greenwich about their memories of and feelings about the riverside area.

There is an exciting list of internationally recognised contemporary artists taking parting in the project as follows: Jo David, Claudia Firth, Charlie Fox, Katharine Fry, Rachel Gomme, Victoria Gray, Birgitta Hosea, The International Western, Gavin Maughfling, Sarah Sparkes and Ian Thompson. See website for further details about artists.

Birgitta Hosea working on site Over Time, Photo by Anne Robinson 2014.

Over Time is curated by visual artist Anne Robinson working in collaboration with David Waterworth at the Greenwich University Gallery. Anne teaches film at London Met University and has previously curated 'One More Time' project, Supernormal Festival, and the project is further supported by Arts Council England.

Locations:
13th and 14th September: on Thames foreshore near Enderby Wharf/ Cutty Sark pub
19th September to 16th October: Stephen Lawrence Gallery Archive Space, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS.
26th October: National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House, Park Row, Greenwich
London SE10 9NF

Opening times: see website or Facebook.

Category: Art

50 Years of Illustration accompanies the launch of a new book of the same title by Professor Lawrence Zeegen, Dean of the School of Design. The book charts the rich history of contemporary illustration, from the rampant idealism of the 1960s to the digital explosion of the 1990s as well as the increasing diversification taking place in the twenty-first century.
 

HOPE poster by Shepard Fairey.

The exhibition is part of a trio of shows named 160, that includes Alan Kitching and Monotype: Celebrating the centenary of five pioneers of the poster and Stereohype 2004-2014, which celebrates a collection of 1,000 button badges.

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.

Dylan poster by Milton Glaser.

Speaking about the exhibitions, Professor Lawrence Zeegen explains: “160 at London College of Communication celebrates the work of numerous influential designers and illustrators across the past 100 years. Reflecting the disciplines of graphic design, typography and illustration, all taught and researched within LCC's School of Design, this trio of exhibitions has been curated to inspire and inform today's and tomorrow's generations of design creatives. Launched during the London Design Festival 2014, 160 aims to highlight the invaluable connectivity between design industry and design education, many of the exhibitors across all three exhibitions having studied or taught at London College of Communication.”
 

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John LP cover by Ian Beck.

Private View: Thursday 18 September 2014, 6-9pm
Opening Times: 10am – 5pm (Saturday 11am until 4pm and Sunday closed)

Category: Art

Veronica Rowlands is a London based practising artist and experienced art teacher and tutor who enjoys making her lessons therapeutic and highly productive.
 Have you ever wanted to be taken out of your comfort zone with your drawing to create cutting edge Fashion Illustrations in a short space of time?


Now you can….. Veronica Rowlands is running Fashion Illustration classes at the Debut Contemporary Gallery in Notting Hill, starting with the first one on Wednesday 14th May, another on 28th May and then one to follow on the second Wednesday of every month.
 
You will be introduced to a range of media and taught different methods of drawing to two minute deadlines and at the end of the session use your new found drawing style to create a unique piece of artwork.

The tight time deadlines leave no time to dither, meaning that you will work from the subconscious. By the end of the session you will have created an artwork unique to you and your tastes.
 Find out more here. 


Category: Art

Lynn Hatzius, Balance I (Green Portrait Series).

londonprintstudio launches its annual Summer Members show today with an exhibition of beautiful prints produced in the studio by established and emerging artists. The exhibition is an opportunity to see the range of prints produced in the studio by artists working in varied styles and with different techniques, from lithographs, etchings and woodcuts to screen prints. Studio membership is very varied with many younger printmakers working alongside well established names, using the full range of printmaking equipment which makes the studio one of the most comprehensively equipped artist’s workspaces in London. Some work in the exhibition has been created through the use of highly experimental techniques. The works on display reflect the sense of enquiry and exploration characteristic of the work of many of our members, and this approach is strongly supported and encouraged by the studio and its technicians.

Margaret Ashman, Lifted III.

Aga Tamiola, The Silent Keepers.

The prints were selected by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The final show was selected from over 80 submissions, many more than submitted last year. John Phillips, Director of londonprintstudio said ‘We saw a great deal of high quality work among the submissions, and this is a focussed and attractive exhibition. There is an impressive range of work produced by artists in the studio. We were very pleased to receive so many submissions, not all of which could be included.'

Farina Alam, Dance of the Taliban.

The artists showing work in the exhibition are: Farina Alam, Jim Anderson, Margaret Ashman, Jacki Biddulph, Alice Valentina Biga, Emily Bornoff, Alex Brady, Colin Burns, Michelle Dow, Lauren Fynn, Clare Grossman, Lynn Hatzius, Adam Herbert, Jennifer Jokhoo, Catriona Leahy, Marianne Keating, John Macaulay, Tim Major, Janet Milner, Tom Moore, Ralph Overill, Sumi Perera, John Phillips, Rennie Pilgrem, Nicola Arkell Reed, David Studwell, Chisato Tamabayashi, Aga Tamiola, Katherine Van Uytrecht, and Claire Weinstock.

Opening Party: 26th June 2014 – 6.30 – 5.30pm
Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday – 10.30am -5.30pm

Category: Art

From May until July 2014, venues in Brighton and London will be holding arts and theatre performances for a range of interests. LIFT Festival, in its 33rd year, brings together performers from all over the world to look at key issues in today’s society. Brighton Festival aims to transform the city of Brighton into a hub of artistic activity, with exhibitions and performances from local and national artists. A few of the shows coming up over the next few months include:

Bring the Happy at ONCA Gallery, Brighton. Running from the 23rd – 25th of May, the exhibition invites members of the public to add their own happy memories to a giant 3D map of England. Invisible Flock and Hope & Social will then accumulate all the memories into a performance at The Old Market.

Information is Beautiful, a show by author & designer David McCandless, discusses the potential of visualised information to help us understand, navigate and find meaning in a complex world. Taking place on the 15th of May at Brighton Dome, it demonstrates the challenges of presenting necessary information to audiences in an age of information overload.

For anyone who’s interested in the philosophy of art, Symphony of a Missing Room is a must-see. Taking place at the Royal Academy of Arts from the 19th of May until the 8th of June, Lundahl & Seitl’s work discusses the imprints left on a room once the art inside it is taken away.

Museum of Water by Amy Sharrocks [https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/amy-sharrocks] looks at the intricate challenges surrounding climate change, international development and human nature, by asking people to give their own unique perspectives on the most common substance on the planet. It runs from the 6th – 9th of June at Somerset House, Strand.

International artists collaborate on a takeover of the Battersea Arts Centre for After a War, an exploration of the first world war and its impact on the 21st century. Twenty-five artists and companies from around the world discuss the global impact and legacy of WWI alongside contemporary issues of war and peace. Taking place from the 27th – 29th of June, its highlights include the use of several thousand dominoes to demonstrate the impact of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, and Lucien Bourjeily’s new maps of the middle east.

Follow @LIFTFestival and @BrightFest on Twitter for more info.

Category: Art

Delaine Le Bas first met artist/photographer Tara Darby at the Transition Gallery during her solo show Room in 2005. Tara along with Alex Michon and Cathy Lomax at Transition, became one of her ‘comrades’ as she calls them. 'To be an Artist you need these comrades,' she says 'We are not with each other all the time but as soon as we are it is like the time in between just disappears. Our minds and ways of working are linked in a way that cannot not be defined. We always pick up where we left.' The exhibition is something of a homecoming, after all the collaborations and all the activism which is always implicit in her practice she wanted to work with people she could trust on an exhibition which was more personal and where she could explore facets of her own quixotic persona.
 


Thus with Tara Darby she has created a performative series of photographs. Her relationship with the gallery, shared interests in clothes and music and particularly a punk sensibility were central to this as she says, 'Keeping it real to me is what it is and will always be about. The artists who run Transition get this, Tara gets this. It's not about being fashionable even though the irony is that that is where I started, on a Fashion and Textiles MA at St Martins 1986 – 1988. Through music and clothing I could truly be me. It was not about attracting the opposite sex, it was about identity and forming that identity for myself. I brought magazines when I could, and music papers. I dressed up in a mish mash, crossing what I saw with the old musicals I watched with my Nan and Great Uncle, with Jumble sale finds and old clothing my Mum had. Even before Dennis Potter I dreamed of people 'singing in the rain' and breaking into song instead of speaking, dressed in fantastic outfits that had the glamour of the films and energy of Polystyrene.'
 

In the lead up to the show Delaine and Alex Michon (who have collaborated on a special publication for the show entitled Sister and Comrade) were both reading Viv Albertine’s recently published memoir Girls Girls Girls, Music Music, Music, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Much of the inspirational spirit of punk and especially the girls in punk lie behind this immersive show which also includes paintings, music and film. So often the media want to put Delaine in the box marked 'exotic Romany' as she herself says 'In the series of portraits with the Kabuki make up I wanted to play with who and what I am. I was taught to do the make up by my old friend Suzi Skelton from Worthing, she was part of the Kemp company. I have much to thank her for regarding how the make up works and what you can do with it. Life is not black and white, as human beings we are complex and multi faceted creatures, we are not flat pieces of paper but living three dimensional objects moving in space. As a child, I grew with music blasting in my head and with clothing and make up I realised that you could be whoever you wanted to be and the best thing to do was not to give a fuck no matter what anyone else said or tried to impose upon you. Free spirit, comrade, sister, Portrait Of An Artist is about keeping it real, for yourself and always remaining true to who you want to be no matter how the rest of the world tries to confine and restrict you in the words of Polystyrene “Oh Bondage Up Yours!!'

Opening times: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

Category: Art

An eclectic collection of contemporary tiger-inspired art launches today at Sanderson Hotel. The collection is not only set to raise significant awareness of the plight of the wild tiger but also raise desperately needed funds to help to save the wild tiger before it’s too late.The artwork will then be auctioned at a Save Wild Tigers fund raising dinner at Belgravia’s Mango Tree on 20th May.

Art by Shannon Rose Lane.

Twenty artists have contributed artworks for Thrive, curated by Lauren Baker, a London artist who recently created an installation at Tate Britain. She also exhibits in galleries across the US and Europe and has art directed the windows of Selfridges. You can read more about her on our website here. Lauren Baker's most intricate work yet, The Crystal Tigress, will be launched at Thrive – a stunning life-size sculpture of a tigress head, encrusted with 50,000 Swarovski crystals.

Lauren Baker's Crystal Tigress.

Lauren says, 'I am honoured to be working with such a talented array of artists who have all joined forces to create this very intriguing and special one-off tiger-inspired exhibition in London, all in aid of Save Wild Tigers. Sanderson offers an ideal back-drop for this exclusive collection and it’s so heartening to get the contemporary art community together to protect our tigers.'

Art by Mark Powell.

Save Wild Tigers is a global initiative set up by Simon Clinton in 2010, with profits going to tiger conservation charities including the Born Free Foundation (BFF), the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society of Malaysia (WCS). Developing creative and engaging marketing campaigns – it boasts support of global celebrities such as Joanna Lumley, Brian May, Gok Wan and Jimmy Choo.

Art by Magnus.

Founder of Save Wild Tigers, Simon Clinton comments: 'In 1900, there were believed to be 150,000 wild tigers in the world. Today there are fewer than 3,500 across 13 countries. With a constant threat of poaching and a decrease in habitat, this majestic species could be extinct in less than 10 years if we don’t act now.'

Art by Chapter.

Artists exhibiting at Thrive include: Cassandra Yap, Chapter, Chiara Lisa Perano and Bellerby & co, Claire Bentley Smith, Clara Bacou, Chris Wright, Gary Hodges, Jane McCracken, Laura Lian, Lauren Baker, Magnus Gjoen, Mark Powell, Mikey Brain, Otto Schade, Pampa Louzao, Rohan Chhabra, Roger Hooper, Shannon Rose Lane, Thomas Knights and Yanskiy.

Private viewings of Thrive are available between 9am and 9pm daily.