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Category: Art

Joe Magee is an artist, filmmaker and illustrator, exhibiting solo in London for the first time at The Modern Warehouse with The Day of the Aloof Icon. The work comprises new and old limited edition prints, some rare, at The Modern Warehouse, a showroom dedicated to the highest quality Scandinavian design.

Included in the prints is a re-editioned silk screen of Magee's 'Thatcher' print, an image commissioned and published by The Daily Telegraph in 2003. The image accompanied a consumer item but, unbeknownst to the newspaper the series of dots spread around the image was actually braille, and a sharp reader decoded it as 'Thatcher Fucked Us'. When it became apparent that the artist had been doing this for several weeks, embedding messages countering the newspaper's right-wing philosophy, he was promptly sacked, unpaid for his last 6 images. For which he remains unpaid. The show's not on for long so don't miss it!

Opening times: Thu–Sat 12–6pm

Category: Art

The Artist by Rocco Malatesta.

I am very excited to announce that artworks from That Which We Do Not Understand will feature in a special collaborative exhibition with East End Prints. The exhibition celebrates True Romance through film, and straddles Valentines Day, but don’t worry, it won’t be all mush.

Drink Me by The Designer's Nursery.

Toy Stories by Jay Fleck.

East End Prints has tracked down the best movie inspired artwork from artists across the world, and the exhibition will feature the likes of Rocco Malatesta (Italy), The Designer’s Nursery (UK), Pine Pixel (Greece), Jay Fleck (USA), and Minimal Prints (UK). Alongside these new finds East End Prints has commissioned a selection of brand new film inspired artwork from their own artists, including Chris Wharton, Dale Edwin Murray, El Famoso, Christophe Gowans and Francesca Ianaconne.

Moonrise Kingdom by Chris Wharton.

Back to the Future by Minimal Prints.

True Romance will also feature a more traditional selection of Valentines Day themed artwork (perfect for last minute gift buying), and some exciting images found from my Open Brief (closing tonight), yet to be decided, so watch this space!

The Empress by Daria Hlazatova.

Moon Rabbit by Emma Farrarons.

The Magician's Assistant by Karin Soderquist.

Alongside this Romantic selection there is another chance to view the spectacular gold leaf prints from That Which We Do Not Understand (already on the wall if you are in the area). They have been beautifully framed and are ready to buy, but there aren’t many left so if you’d like to grab one of these limited editions make sure you pop along and visit 70 Paul Street soon.

Better still, come and meet us and some of the artists in the flesh on the official preview night, on Thursday 12th Friday, from 6-9pm. We would love to see you!

Category: Art

East End Prints are pleased to announce Worth the Wait, a gorgeous, shimmering range of Gold Prints! Director Helen Edwards has commissioned some of her favourite artists and illustrators to produce one offs and limited editions that will blow your socks off. Come take a peek for yourself for two weeks only, at a pop up gallery space right near Old Street tube station.

The East End Prints Gold Collection features many different styles and methods, including the use of amazing hand cut gold leaf and gorgeous golden metallic screen prints. Limited editions have been created from a wide range of subjects – from Golden Skulls inspired by El Día de Los Muertos, to hand-cut forests with golden creatures, there’s something for everyone.

The Worth the Wait exhibition at the temporary pop up gallery will be the only place to view the entire collection, making early shopping for Christmas gifts a breeze.

Find out more about Worth the Wait here.

Opening times: Monday-Friday: 9am to 6:30pm. Saturday-Sunday: 10am to 5pm.

Category: Art

From the sugary sweet to the downright debauched, Moniker Projects and Jealous Gallery & Print Studio wear their romantic heart on their sleeves, as they bring you a new show of Valentine art originals in Shoreditch this February.

Who can deny the romance of one of London’s top former graffiti vandals discussing Italian orgies with David Cameron and hanging art in Obama’s collection? Moniker Projects and Jealous are delighted to have a special release from the master of the font, Ben Eine, in the form of a classic Circus X (above). These are the second in the Moniker Projects/Jealous Gallery letter editions and come as a limited edition 6 colour silkscreen print in 3 different colourways, limited to 125 in each. Priced at a fun and wallet friendly £75 each, lower numbers will be available for purchase as matching number sets of 3 for £225.

Carl Cashman.

Benjamin Murphy.

Mark McClue (detail).

A chocolate box collection of quality street artists will present one off valentine art originals sure to ease the path to romantic bliss. The list features the work of:

Benjamin Murphy • Ben Slow • Best | Ever • Boxhead • Carl Cashman • The Connor Brothers • David Shillinglaw • Hannah Dickens • Hayden Kayes • Inkie • Jon Burgerman • Jonesy • Jo Peel • Keira Rathbone • Kid Acne • Magda Archer • Malarky • Mark McClure • Mark ‘Mantis’ Stirling • Mobstr • Mr Penfold • Ryan Callanan • Static • Sickboy • Zeus

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 11th February with a private view, and runs until Saturday 14th February at Jealous Gallery, Shoreditch.

Opening times: From 6.30pm on Wednesday 11th for Private View. Private View RSVP: rsvp@monikerprojects.com
11.00am – 7.00pm Thursday to Saturday.

Category: Art

Cornershop-by-the-Sea by Lucy Sparrow of Sew Your Soul is an exhibition truly worth making a fuzz about. Lucy dedicated seven months to recreating the entire contents of a traditional British cornershop out of felt, in total making 4,000 felt versions of familiar grocery items by hand, by herself – everything from Alphabites and Anusol and Coco Pops to Canesten have been recreated in fabric, in signed, limited editions.

Back in February, No Walls director James Woodward was an early supporter of Lucy's Kickstarter campaign to raise the initial funding for her first Cornershop, opened in a derelict shop in Bethnal Green in August. Together they then hatched a plan to open Cornershop-by-the-Sea in Brighton, with the show opening on Friday night. James says of the show “When I first saw what Lucy was doing I thought it was one of the greatest things I'd ever seen. We met and Lucy blew me away with what she had planned for the project. To see it from those early planning stages, to Lucy then pulling it all together and creating what we now have installed in the gallery has been quite amazing.”

“It's rare for a show to have such a huge impact on the audience. We've had customers coming in wanting to buy scratch cards and lottery tickets and it takes a while for it to sink in that everything….. and I mean everything….. is made of felt. Cornershop-by-the-Sea makes you question your surroundings like nothing else I've seen, whilst at the same time leaving the audience with a huge smile on their faces…… it's pretty incredible.“

The majority of the contents of Cornershop-by-the-Sea have already sold, with much of it going into a major private collection and after Cornershop-by-the-Sea, the installation will be moved to it's new permanent home. Cornershop-by-the-Sea represents your last chance to see what has to be one of the exhibitions of the year and purchase some of Lucy's Cornershop goodies.

Opening times: Tues-Sat 12-7, Sun 12-5

Category: Fashion

Eliska Kyselkova, MA Fashion Photography.

Presenting work from the London College of Fashion’s Graduate School courses, the LCF MA15 exhibition reveals visions and pieces from the next generation of fashion designers, artists, business professionals and media makers. Expect fashion film, artefact, accessories, photography and garments. Enter a world that shows the possibilities of fashion, and looks to the future with creative hunger.

Sage Townsend, MA Fashion Artefact.

London College of Fashion has an international reputation as a leading provider of fashion education, research and consultancy. The unique portfolio of specialist courses range in level, from short courses to Postgraduate. The subject range corresponds to the process of the creation, production and promotion of fashion and the management and marketing of those activities. Many of the College’s courses are unique to the UK and offer students an experience unmatched by even a handful of specialist colleges worldwide.

Nadia Lee Cohen, MA Fashion Photography.

The College's work is centred on the development of ideas: its staff and students use fashion alongside historical and cultural practice to challenge social, political and ethical agendas. This, combined with its forward-thinking business and management portfolio and its relationship with the global fashion and lifestyle industries, is the underpinning of its mission to “Fashion the Future.”

Maria Lima, MA Fashion Artefact.

Every dimension of the fashion industry employs LCF graduates from established designers like Jimmy Choo OBE, Sophia Webster and Nicholas Kirkwood (footwear) to rising stars like William Tempest and Ryan Lo (fashion designers), and respected entrepreneur and former Chairman of the British Fashion Council, Harold Tillman CBE as well as fashion journalists Melanie Rickey and Sarah Harris.

Opening times: Wednesday to Saturday: 12 – 7pm, Sunday: 12 – 4pm

Category: Art

This week the Kickstarter team are in London! After two years of helping to fund creative projects in the UK Kickstarter hosts an exclusive week of talks, workshops and films – all designed to inspire creatives to make the most of crowdfunding.

The Buckitt Bag.

Highlights include an evening social with It’s Nice That at the Design Museum on Tuesday 14th October, a series of conversations with successful creators at Mother London and Kickstarter for Filmmakers at the Hackney Attic, both on Wednesday 15th October.

Here Today Here Tomorrow fashion collection.

How to Set Up a Successful Kickstarter Pitch is a Guardian Masterclass on Thursday 16th October, and features talks by Stephanie Pereira from Kickstarter, Rachel Jones of Buckitt bag, Julia Crew of Here Today Here Tomorrow fair-trade fashion collection and Andrew Ranville of Analog Book.

I will be attending some of these talks to discover the best way to ensure my Kickstarter campaign for That Which We Do Not Understand is a success. Find out more about my project and how you can get involved here. Book your tickets for all events and find out more here.

Category: Art

Johann Lester, Chloe and Jade

Although just over one year old, Leyden Gallery is fast building a distinct reputation for showing work by both new and established artists, with recent shows featuring Paula Rego (Oct/Nov 2013) Antony Micallef (Dec/Jan 2013/14) and Henry Moore (March/April 2014). Leyden Gallery has also had new work, which was commissioned by them for their inaugural exhibition Fabricate on show at the Tate Liverpool in April 2014 – Fournier Street by Sue Clayton. As a young gallery Leyden is gradually building a select group of represented artists – The Platform programme is one of our preferred approaches of seeking out new talent.

Conor Flynn O'Donnell, Not a fish tank.

Leyden Gallery is delighted to present their fifth Platform for Emerging Arts exhibition. It is their largest Platform show to date, with an impressive range of artists working in mediums as diverse as wool, biro and oil. The Platform for Emerging Arts exhibitions are an important and distinctive element of Leyden Gallery’s on-going dedication to the discovery and development of emerging artists.

The Platform for Emerging Arts Exhibition show is part of Leyden Gallery’s ongoing programme of events. This group show features unrepresented artists once every quarter, allowing new and emerging artists to be introduced to the art world.

Daniel Hosego, Calf print

The call out is not limited to any specific medium and as such attracts applications from artists, who work in mediums that might otherwise struggle to be shown in a commercial art gallery context. This also provides a dynamic encounter for visitors to the gallery. Leyden Gallery is committed to offer this opportunity to a full range of emerging artists to exhibit work at a reputable London gallery, with full support from the curator and its directors.

Lydia Brockless, Open holes (One, Many)

Silvia Battista
The cultural references for Battista’s exquisitely detailed pencil drawings are early Italian renaissance painting. Her re-thinking of the work of artists such as Pontorno, Antonello da Messina and Masaccio, especially their understanding of the human figure is re-interpreted through a contemporary lens

Lydia Brockless
Much of Brockless’ sculptural work deals with paradoxes, these complex contradictions are materialised in the combinations of processes and forms.

Daniel Hosego
In his series called Melancholia, the artist Daniel Hosego explores the anxieties of living artists as they attempt to forge an original artistic vision. Each work comprises a triptych of images that have been painstakingly drawn across the pages of leather bound books; placing the work in a liminal state between object and image

Margherita Isola
In this Platform show Isola will show works which belong to her new project called Hamlet in Harar, which is presented here as a series of embroidered collages of mixed technique.

Johann Lester
Lester presents a body of work that has been produced by only using the marks of black biros, creating interplay between shadow and light.

Conor Flynn O’Donnell
Through his abstract painting practice O’Donnell engages the question of perfection, in what way it may exist, and how we may continually seek it.

Olexandra Solomka
The artist draws her influences from Tudor-age portraiture, as well as Eastern European iconography and folk art

Sintija Vikmane
Through her art, the Latvian Vikmane researches the convergence of history, beliefs and mythology from diverse cultures

Private View: 17th Feb 2015, 6:30 – 9 pm
Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-7pm
Find out more here.

Category: Art

MADE LONDON exhibits long established and well known makers alongside new emerging makers, so the mix of work is truly varied and exciting. Colourful glassware, knitted textiles (Hikaru Noguchi), functional ceramics (Adam Frew) dazzling jewellery (Emma Calvert), classic furniture, beautiful fashion and more. MADE LONDON offers something for everyone. R & A Collaborations will be screening their craft collection of films in the Cinema of Making each day between 1pm and 2pm. The films celebrate a wide range of designer / makers, sharing their personal insights.

Elaine Bolt tea bowl.

Emma Calvert Layered Necklaces.

Hikaru Noguchi AW13.

Adam Frew.

Opening times: 11am – 5pm

Category: Fashion