Category: Art
Photograph courtesy of David Adjaye
One of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. This collection of photographs is a personal quest through the eyes of an architect to address the scant knowledge of the built environment of the African continent.
Find out more at the Design Museum website here.
Category: Art
Chrystal Chan, Refined Purity
Atomica Gallery have got together with renowned international artist collective PRISMA to present a festive group show this December: Wonder Winterland. Founded by painter and curator Kaspian Shore in 2011, PRISMA is a group of international creatives working in a variety of mediums, with very distinct styles. For this show, ten young artists at the forefront of the global new contemporary art movement have drawn inspiration from the evocative season of winter, including our very own favourite Daria Hlazatova, who created The Empress print for my current exhibition at Tatty Devine.
Daria Hlazatova, The Many Faced Susan
Tom Bagshaw, Serena
Several of the most exciting artists to emerge from the current North American contemporary art scene are taking part, including Casey Weldon, Chrystal Chan, Jeremy Hush, Zach Montoya and Canadian painter Jen Mann will present one of her signature hyper-real portraits. Other works include a portrait from German artist and PRISMA founder Kaspian Shore and a delicate pastel-toned digital painting from Taiwanese artist Hsiao-Ron Cheng. Also showcasing new work are two of Britain’s most prominent pop-surrealist painters; Tom Bagshaw and Nom Kinnear King, who has also created work for Amelia's Magazine.
Jen Mann, Tangarine
Zach Montoya, Gatherer
“I founded PRISMA as a way to bring together a diverse group of people and watch them grow into a union, become friends, work together, and share our experiences with the art world. Within the past three years, we have done lots of shows together and are now excited to debut at Atomica Gallery in London, just in time for the festive season.”
Kaspian Shore, artist and PRISMA founder
Opening times: Mon – Friday 12-7pm, Saturday 12-6pm, Christmas Eve 11am-4pm, Closed Christmas Day & Boxing Day, Closed Sundays, except 28th December (last day!) 12-4pm
Thu 21st January 2010, 12:00pm–Sat 24th April 2010, 06:00pm
Category: Art
Schwartz Gallery, 92 White Post Lane, London E9 5EN
Image courtesy of Ralph Dorey
Schwartz Gallery starts the year with a series of five two-week two-person shows running back-to-back from January until April. They are not collaborations nor group shows but a platform for dialogue between two contemporary artists:
1. Ralph Dorey and Jonathan Lewis
The process-based investigations of Dorey’s site-specific sculptural installations relate a vision and evolution of thinking seemingly at odds with Lewis’ inkjet prints of luxury designer stores. What unites their respective methodologies is a denial of linear representational devices that push and pull perceptual fields to disrupt and merge categories of objects and drawing, image and representation.
Exhibition dates: 21-31 January 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Artists’ talk: 2pm, Saturday 30th January
2. Mark Selby and Kate Terry
Exhibition dates:10-21 February 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Artists’ talk: 2pm, Saturday 20th February
3. Rosanna Greaves and Richard Stone
Exhibition dates: 4-14th March 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Artists’ talk: 2pm, Saturday 13th March
4. Alistair McClymont and 2nd artist t.b.c.
Exhibition dates: 24th March – 4th April 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Artists’ talk: 2pm, Saturday 3rd April
5. Franz Ehmann and 2nd artist t.b.c.
Exhibition dates: 14th-24th April 2010
Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Artists’ talk: 2pm, Saturday 30th January
Category: Fashion
Mel Bles.
The Don’t Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next exhibition offers an exciting glimpse into the wealth of contemporary practices in fashion photography which result in a dynamic, colourful and multi-faceted display. Explaining the concept behind the show, curator Magdalene Keaney says “If someone tells you not to stop it means you must be doing something good to begin with! The title of this exhibition is intended as a clarion call”. Featuring photographers who push the boundaries of fashion photography and who are developing new and radical ways to progress their art, this exhibition brings together the industry’s most exciting and maverick talent. Presented in two parts, part 1 will take on the themes of Materiality and Play, drawing attention to a new generation of photographers returning to analogue processes and technology and employing irony and humour to highlight possible tensions between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’.
Baker & Evans.
Axel Hoedt.
Don’t Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next is initiated by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and co-produced with Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion. The exhibition was curated by Magdalene Keaney and is accompanied by a book published by Thames and Hudson, Fashion Photography Next, 2014.
Hanna Putz.
PART 1 features work by: Charlie Engman, Jacob Sutton, Hannah Putz, Laetitia Hotte, Baker & Evans, Harley Weir, Daniel Sannwald, Mel Bles, Axel Hoedt, Jonathan Hallam and Ruvan Wihesooriya.
Fashion Space Gallery:
First launched in 2010, Fashion Space Gallery is a contemporary space situated within London College of Fashion’s Oxford Circus campus and has hosted a number of small but internationally recognised fashion-related exhibitions such as Yohji Yamamoto At Work and Jean Paul Gaultier: Be My Guest. The ethos behind the exhibitions at Fashion Space Gallery is one of excellence and innovation, supporting both established artists and cutting-edge and emerging talent. The exhibitions programme is free of charge and is supported by a programme of events, artist talks, lectures and performances.
Opening times: Monday–Friday: 10.00am–6.00pm, Saturday: 12.00 noon–4.00pm (during term time), Sunday and Public Holidays: Closed
Category: Fashion
We are now accepting fashion/photo submissions for our
Big Fashion Issue. The deadline is 20th February.
Any photo shoot must be between 6-10 images and your work must form a cohesive story. We will not accept single images.
All contributors must submit a title for their photo series along will all credits.
For us to use the work it must fit in with the vibe and style of the Double aesthetic and be representational of our fresh and contemporary approach to fashion and style.
Please email a zip folder of low res images to info@doublemagazine.co.uk
Category: Music
The Magic Lantern by Ollie Hammick.
Here at Amelia's Magazine we are massive fans of The Magic Lantern and are very excited about the new album Love of Too Much Living, which features the beautiful voice of Jamie Doe set against a lilting picked guitar. You can read our review of his album A World in a Grain of Sand here and an interview with the man himself here. Below you will find all The Magic Lantern upcoming tour dates so you can catch them live: highly recommended.
“The Magic Lantern is the musical moniker of Jamie Doe. Touring in support of his second album 'Love of Too Much Living', a record stripped back to the essentials of voice, classical guitar and piano, it allows his immediately arresting voice to soar. With his tales addressing the difficulties of coming of age, navigating ambition, love, loss and our perennial search for acceptance, he has been compared to Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley, with a unique guitar style that takes elements of folk fingerpicking, Flamenco and West African music.”
The Magic Lantern – 'Love Of Too Much Living' – Tour!
4/10 – St Mark’s Church Hall, London – ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY – TICKETS^ –
6/10 – The Prince Albert, Stroud^
7/10 – House Gig, Newcastle^
8/10 – Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lincoln^
9/10 – The Speak Easy at Fudge, Hull^
10/10 – The Fuel Café, Manchester^
11/10 – Community Centre, Burntlaw
12/10 – The Independent Cafe, Scunthorpe^
16/10 – Catweazle Club, Oxford
20/10 – Old St Pancras Church, London tickets
24/10 – Grain Barge, Bristol* tickets
25/10 – The Goods Shed, Stroud*
26/10 – The Lexington, London* tickets
27/10 – Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich* tickets
28/10 – Portland Arms, Cambridge* tickets
29/10 – LAMP, Leamington Spa* tickets
30/10 – Railway, Winchester* tickets
31/10 – UCLU Folk Society, London
12/11 – The Green Note, London tickets
19/11 – Bath Gallery, Bath
5/12 – House Show, Fife
10/12 – The Carlton Cinema, Westgate^
11/12 – The Lighthouse, Deal^
13/12 – Irregular Folk, Oxford
^with Alabaster DePlume
*with Cocos Lovers & Hot Feet
Category: Art
Jerwood Encounters: The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage is the next exhibition in the Jerwood Visual Arts’ Encounters series curated by The Grantchester Pottery, an artist collaboration between sculptor Giles Round and painter Phil Root.
Founded in 2011 The Grantchester Pottery takes the structural framework of an artist’s decorative arts studio, drawing historical precedent from Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops. It seeks to produce a series of utilitarian ceramics together with other decorative household items such as printed & woven textiles, wallpaper, painted furniture and hand painted murals. It draws inspiration from Cambridgeshire and specifically on the rich heritage of Art & Literature that surrounds Grantchester as a historic meeting place for writers, poets, artists & philosophers. The Grantchester Pottery is a fictitious nod towards this specific history whilst at the same time using it as a basis for conceptual departure.
In this exhibition works by The Grantchester Pottery’s associated artists will be presented together for the first time and framed by an adaptable stage set designed by the company. As with the convention of stage theatre, all works will face the same vantage point, towards a hypothetical audience. The visitor enters centre stage and is immersed in the set of a three act melodrama singularly aligned for an ideal and impossible vista.
The exhibition will comprise printed fabric, paintings, tapestries, ceramics, sculpture, and the realisation of three large painted murals by The Grantchester Pottery directly onto the gallery walls.
For further details about the exhibition and accompanying events visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
Opening times: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat – Sun 10am – 3pm
Category: Fashion
Register now for this great bike ride from London – Paris in aid of sustainable fashion, hosted by the Ethical Justice Foundation! 
This July a team of style-savvy adventure loving cyclists will saddle up for EJF’s Great Fashion Cycle riding 300 miles between two of the world’s most iconic cities – London and Paris – in aid of the Environmental Justice Foundation’s work defending the environment and protecting human rights in the cotton industry.
Whether it’s getting fit for fashion week or an excuse to be out of the office for a few sunny days in July, join us and get your friends and colleagues involved too!
Everything you need to know is on their website www.ejfoundation.org/londontoparis including a fantastic video from the 2009 ride to really get your motivated and get a feel for the spirit of this exciting event which includes a dress-up day in Paris as you cycle down the Champs-Élysées to finish under the Eiffel Tower (where a well earned glass of fizz will be waiting!).
Anyone can make it and the route, although challenging, is designed for people who don’t perhaps spend all their spare time on international cycle trips!
Get on your bike and together we can protect people and planet!
Category: Art
Sarah Gillett, I think I am an ominous decoration 2014.
The Loomings is an experimental exhibition of work by Sarah Gillett, the Pushing Print Solo Show Prize Winner 2013. It begins with her interest in landscape, memory and mythology… and ends in new imaginings of both real and fictional worlds. Unstuck in time, a strange collection of objects, drawings and prints warns of events long gone and events still to come. Nothing is quite what it appears to be in this installation at Margate Gallery.
Sarah Gillett, Palm Bay Cliftonville.
Sarah Gillett says 'I have started seeing meteorites everywhere; little interruptions or interventions in the pattern of life. In oil spills on tarmac, in ruins, in dirt splashes on train windows, in shattered mirrors.
Recently I walked past Tate Britain in London and spent ages studying the bomb-blasted, shell-shocked walls, damaged in the Second World War. Remnants of broken time, like a stopped clock.
I see these ‘loomings’ as occupying both fixed and hypothetical spaces, like the noonday shadow. At noon, objects cast a shadow on themselves, the shadow and the object becoming indivisible, two versions combined. The loomings have a physical reality, but when is this? Their presence is layered into my work before the event, during the event and after the event, as I alter old postcards and tapestries to shift perspectives. Like my shadow in the picture, the loomings are coming, but they have already left their trace.'
Sarah Gillett, Monoprint, Loomings.
Sarah Gillett, Newgate Gap And Bridge, Cliftonville.
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm, Sunday 12noon to 4pm, Closed on Monday.
Category: Art
The first show of 2015 at Brighton's No Walls Gallery is Masquerades and Silhouettes, the first solo show by renowned Bristol based artist Mr Penfold, focusing solely on the abstract side of his work.
Over the years, Penfold has gradually stripped back his work, focusing on the contrast between colour, texture and line work. Drawing inspiration from classic abstraction and minimalism, Masquerades and Silhouettes explores his love for iconic pop culture and clean crisp graphic painting.
Originally from Cambridge, Mr Penfold currently lives in Bristol. After leaving school he started working in a professional collaborative printmaking studio, making work for and with a number of internationally renowned artists and has developed a distinctive way of working and a range of imagery that is as striking as it is unmistakable.
Operating outside the traditional gallery system, No Walls Gallery represent some of the most exciting and innovative young artists, designers and illustrators working today. 2014 saw them host solo shows with Hattie Stewart, Lucy Sparrow, Ben Frost, Megamunden, Supermundane, Hayden Kays, Billy, Supermundane and Lynnie Zulu.
Their Brighton gallery, a beautiful 19th century former chapel in the heart of Brighton’s cultural quarter, can be found at 114 Church Street, directly opposite Brighton Dome.
Opening night Friday 30th January 6-9pm;
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 12-6; Sunday 12-4