We want to celebrate and learn more about the characters driving the renaissance of the London gallery scene, and what better way than to resurrect THAT’s Interesting.
Last time we had Fraser Brough this time we have Ted Targett.
I’m the Co-Founder and Director of Brunette Coleman in Bloomsbury, which I run with Anna Eaves. Our gallery presents UK-based and international emerging contemporary artists with a focus on first presentations in London.
What’s interesting in Art:
Anyone who knows me is aware of my appreciation for the late British painter Prunella Clough. I’m always uncovering new works and obsessed with her broad approach. We were lucky to have loaned a painting titled ‘Sequence’ from 1992 in our second exhibition at the gallery.
What’s interesting in Design:
We recently replaced the furniture in our gallery with Bruno Rey chairs from 1971. They’re really sturdy and relatively comfortable (as gallery chairs often aren’t!)
What’s interesting in Culture:
Books@ in Amsterdam. It’s an impeccably stocked shop of art books, paraphernalia, flyers and posters. Matt really has his finger on the pulse. I love making lists of books I’d like to eventually buy…
What’s interesting in Style/ Fashion:
Camiel Fortgens. Also from Amsterdam, every piece is made with the right level of distress.
What’s interesting in Tech:
A fairly uneventful but key tech investment recently was an Anker power bank. Described by fellow gallerists as ‘chic for a power bank’ and ‘resembling some kind of weapon or implement’, we relied on it heavily at Frieze last month.
What’s interesting in Music:
Everyone needs to subscribe to Floor Length Skirts on YouTube. His YouTube page is an important resource for uploading super rare mp3’s of vinyls both old and new. There’s something for everyone on there. I recently discovered the EP ‘Peculiar Glow Vol.1’ by Turnend Tapes. The track, ‘Zoé Couppé & sigh Nova’ is very beautiful.
Museum / Gallery show recommendation:
Monet and London. Views of the Thames . I’ve loved Monet’s paintings of Houses of Parliament since I was a painting student. The exhibition at The Courtauld is an important survey of his time in London between 1899–1901. Monet to me is like a photographer, documenting subtle changes of environment over periodic passages of time. At the time he was studying the influence of pollution over the London skyline.
Next person:
I’m nominating friend, fellow Bloomsbury gallerist and tennis opponent Julia Gardener of Hot Wheels Athens London.
