March’s Issue of South London Art Map is now online, get stuck into this months instalment!
Featuring:
REVIEW: of Adam Frank Walker’s exhibition at WestLane South gallery which is open until 7th April 2012 by South London’s tour guide Adam Walker.
SPOTLIGHT interview: Chantelle Purcell talks to Claire Louise Staunton curator and director of Flat Time House, (home and studio of the late British artist John Latham). We learn about how the space works to actively maintain an ongoing archive and research centre, what developments have been made and the forthcoming exhibition ‘The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair’.
PREVIEW: South London Art Map welcomes new tour guide, Rosalind Davis. Chantelle Purcell talks to Rosalind Davis and partner Annabel Tilley to find out more about the launch of ZAP and the upcoming show ‘Collectible’.
Ben Austin studied History of Art at Reading University. He started Catto Contemporary in Shoreditch where he was responsible for helping to launch the careers of several artists and showed Anthony Micallef and Banksy in a curated exhibition entitled ‘Perverse Pop’ back in 2001. Austin has worked at Art Review, before setting himself up as an independent curator and through Austin Enterprises he staged the legendary Frieze opening night show/party entitled ‘Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde’ at Home House in 2007, which featured art on loan from the Saatchi Gallery (Marcus Harvey, Liz Neal and Barry Reigate). He has also curated exhibition at the Blouin Foundation – ‘After Dark’ series, featuring acclaimed artists such as Alice Anderson. He has been on the judging panel for the ‘Young Masters’ prize. More recently he curated ‘Art Britannia’ during Miami Basel featuring a collection of contemporary British artists and acted as the initial curator and advisor the The Dot Project Gallery in Fulham. Ben Austin acts as an art advisor and dealer. He writes for numerous publications including Artlyst and FAD.
