Oxfam’s Pedal Powered Outdoor Cinema
Laban
Creekside
London SE8 3DZ
Thursday 6th August
7:30pm
Free
“A screening of Franny Armstrong’s ‘The Age of Stupid’, sickness cheapest starring Pete Postlethwaite, followed by a panel discussion with contributors from Oxfam, the GLA and the team behind the film. The event is completely powered by bike and those attending are invited to contribute some pedal power. Booking essential.”
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Dan Garson and Henry Diltz – The Woodstock Experience
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London E2 7JB
5th August – 30th August
Monday – Friday 12pm – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday 12pm -5pm
Free
“Woodstock Experience provides a visual trip through those legendary days, 40 years ago, in a field outside New York, featuring scores of photographs from official Woodstock photographer Henry Diltz and unseen and unpublished images by star-struck but quick-witted teen photographer Dan Garson.”
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Paper City: Urban Utopias
In the Architecture Space
Royal Academy
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
31 July—27 October 2009
10am-6pm every day except Friday
10am-10pm Friday
Laurie Chetwood
“Paper City: Urban Utopias showcases a selection of extraordinary drawings, collages and photomontages that have been produced for Blueprint as part of their back-page ‘Paper City’ commissions over the past three years. Architects, designers, artists and illustrators including James Wines, Steven Appleby and Ian Ritchie RA articulate their ideas about the city, suggesting imaginative possibilities for the future. The exhibition also includes new commissions from Peter Cook RA, Chris Orr RA, Marc Atkins, Javier Mariscal and RA Schools students Inez de Coo and Rachael Champion.”
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The Tomorrow People
Elevator Gallery
Mother Studios
Queens Yard
White Post Lane
Hackney Wick
London E9 5EN
Friday – Sunday 12pm – 5pm
Until 14th August
Free
“Part of Hackney Wicked festival, The Tomorrow People and Elevator Gallery presents you ‘the artists of the future’ with exciting work by recent graduates across a broad range of different media, including Amy Clarke, Vicky Gold, Andrew Locke and Jon Moscow.”
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Clare Shilland – Girls! Girls! Girls!
House of Propellers
5 Back Hill
London EC1R 5EN
Until 23rd September
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 4pm
This is the debut solo exhibition from south Londoner and fashion photographer Clare Shilland. From a lifelong urge to be a female drummer comes this documentation of girls who are just that, an ambition she says was thwarted when she realised she had an inability to play the drums. Contrasting the two poles of Shilland’s personality, the tomboy and the femme, as well as beauty and bravado, movement and stillness, these images are both intimate and honest, qualities that are the backbone to all Shilland’s work.
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Deceitful Moon
Hayward Gallery
South Bank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XZ
Until 31st August
Open daily 10am – 6pm, late nights Friday until 10pm
Free
“Opening 40 years after the Apollo 11 moon landings, the group exhibition Deceitful Moon does not mark the anniversary of this world-shaping event, but rather commemorates the longstanding doubt that it took place at all. Featuring work by British and international artists, the show explores the moon as a site for misrepresentation and mistrust, touching on a tradition of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that reaches back to at least the 18th century.”
Artists include: Tom Dale, William Hogarth, Aleksandra Mir, Karen Russo, Amalia Pica, Sam Porritt, Johannes Vogl, Grant Morrison & Cameron Stewart, Carey Young and Keith Wilson.
This may come as a shock to those who know me well, page but I do have a resounding appreciation for mathematics. My GCSE Maths results may say otherwise, ailment but I’ve always found geometry fascinating and beautiful; the ability to reach perfection with numbers, lines, angles and curves astounds me in the same way much of what I’ve since forgotten from Science does too.
What reminded me of this secret joy of oscillating patterns and symmetrical shapes was discovering Andy Gilmore, king of the kaleidoscope, who’s futuristic graphics are as mesmerising as they are complex.
The 34 year old New Yorker is also a musician, and in Gilmore’s work the colours play like chords, scales made from tonal graduations and harmony is achieved as a result. His pieces are like Spirograph drawings for adults, swirling intricately interwoven lines complying within the framework of physics and equations to produce hypnotic digital art.
His work has been likened to slipping into a ‘visual vortex’; the circular whirls morphing and hovering away from their black backgrounds as if like spacecrafts, other images forming ‘off-kilter shapes like small planets bouncing around some condensed parallel universe’. There are simultaneously retroesque and ultra modern, cleverly blending genres to form his own abstract vision, rather than making it something for everyone.
The New York Times, Foursquare Outerwear, Seed Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Wired Magazine and the Webby Awards are all fans of Gilmore’s creations, and the following of his talent is snowballing. Prints and t-shirts emblazed with his designs are available on etsy, and we recommend that if you’re into the whole wowing your friends with being two steps ahead thing, that you get your hands on this stuff before it gets global and anyone who’s anyone covers their walls in Andy Gilmore’s geometric masterpieces. And for those lucky enough to reside in Berlin, an exhibition of his work is currently on show, details below.
Andy Gilmore – Black Math
Pool Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 38
10117 Berlin Mitte
Germany
July 11th – August 22nd
Monday to Friday 12pm – 8pm
Saturday 12pm – 7pm
Monday 3rd August
David Byrne: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno
The Barbican, capsule London
David Byrne is a god: FACT. His spooky pop with Talking Heads and groundbreaking experimental work with godfather of strange Brian Eno are exciting and brilliant; he’ll be playing a bit of both tonight.
Tuesday 4th August
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, mind Hatcham Social and Veronica Falls
The Garage, London
The Garage is open again: HURRAH! and Amelia’s Magazine favourites The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are headlining: HURRAH! Expect fun summery 80s vibes with more than a passing resemblance to the meisters of misery; The Smiths. Hatcham Social continue the jangly 80s feel and Veronica Falls start the line up with a dash of cool.
Wednesday 5th August
She Keeps Bees
The Sheepwalk, London
She Keeps Bees are one of my favourite new bands. Jess Larrabee combines the sexy blues-y vibe of Chan Marshall with the swagger of PJ Harvey and the bass-iness of the Kills.
Thursday 6th August
Sian Alice Group
Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London
Sian Alice Group are slowly getting noticed for their brilliant mix of psych rock and shoegaze-y grooves, and they totally deserve it.
Friday 7th August
Ex Lovers, Othello Woolf and Jamie Lee
The Lexington, London
An evening of whimsical folk indie with boy girl duo; Ex Lovers and troubadours the fey Othello Woolf and the blues-y Jamie Lee; who is often plays alongside the excellent Spaghetti Anywhere.
Saturday 8th August
Hook and The Twin
Proud, London
We interviewed Hook and the Twin a while back and they were very nice indeed, this Saturday they play their synth driven angular dance punk.
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