The UK’s Plan For A Green Industrial Revolution
6 May 2021 • Gaston La-Gaffe
It is the plan of the current UK government to invest heavily in a range of different technologies that are… Read More
GREEN STUFF
New exhibition uses the visual language of consumer-culture to reimagine the power of persuasion
23 April 2021 • Mark Westall
ClampArt (247 W 29th St.) presents Soft Powers, a new exhibition of photographs by Joseph Desler Costa, exploring the ability to attract and co-opt through popular media, algorithms, and advertising campaigns.
3 Bold Moves To Transform Challenges Into Opportunities
23 April 2021 • Gaston La-Gaffe
During the last year, we’ve all been challenged to find creative approaches to turmoil. Whether in the artist community, as… Read More
Nigerian artist Gerald Chukwuma creates a striking visual language that weaves together ancient symbols, contemporary and historic references.
8 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Through a frenzy of colours and symbols that are chiselled, burnt and painted onto panels of wood, Nigerian artist Gerald Chukwuma creates a striking visual language that weaves together ancient symbols, contemporary and historic references.
On Hannah Arendt: The Concept of History Peter Kennard.
7 April 2021 • Mark Westall
The solo exhibition ‘The Concept of History’ links Kennard’s work to the political thinking of Hannah Arendt through their shared belief that history is a construct managed and controlled by those in power.
Derelict 51,000 sq ft Fulham Town Hall to be given new lease of life with major post-lockdown art celebration: Art in the Age of Now.
15 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Fulham Town Hall a 51,000 sq ft Victorian space in West London, empty for over ten years, will be open to the public this May once the current lockdown is eased. Overseen by curator Ben Moore
Olafur Eliasson’s The Forked Forest Path in Brighton for Spring.
12 March 2021 • Mark Westall
In Spring 2021, Fabrica, Brighton’s Centre for Contemporary Art, will present ‘fairytale installation’, The Forked Forest Path by internationally renowned… Read More
8 new light sculptures created by lighting designers to be launched across the UK
8 March 2021 • Mark Westall
The Litten Trees are eight gifts to local communities around the UK: temporary light sculptures in everyday public settings that… Read More
E-Werk Luckenwalde launches Kickstarter campaign to bring award-winning beach opera to iconic Bauhaus swimming pool.
5 March 2021 • Mark Westall
E-WERK Luckenwalde have launched a major fundraising campaign to help bring the critically acclaimed beach-opera Sun & Sea to the spectacular neighbouring disused Bauhaus-era Stadtbad this Spring.
London’s RCA & UAL named top 2 universities in the world for Art & Design
4 March 2021 • Mark Westall
London universities have been named the top 2 in the world for Art and Design by the QS University World Rankings by Subject.
The Twelve Heads of Cerberus- Tighe-Mearns-Smith
23 February 2021 • Mark Westall
The Twelve Heads of Cerberus by Tighe-Mearns-Smith a Sustainable Fashion Collection, Animation, Song and Thesis which premiered at London fashion week
ESSAY: FROM NATURE
23 February 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Much modern art uses unusual materials. The primacy of paint, canvas and marble are long gone. Often the material feeds… Read More
Wearable art by Damien Hirst & Tetsuzo Okubo to be auctioned on Virgil Abloh’s “Canary Yellow”.
4 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Beverly Hirst Recycler is a collection of wearable art by Damien Hirst and Tetsuzo Okubo, that will be auctioned on Virgil Abloh’s “Canary Yellow” retail platform from February 7th.
BRILLIANT Ideas wanted:UK public invited to create artwork for leading light art festival
13 January 2021 • Mark Westall
The BRILLIANT commissioning scheme is open to creative individuals currently living in the UK who are aged 18 or older, and have a bright idea
Tenant of Culture – Georgics (how to style a chore coat)
8 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Tenant of Culture – Georgics (how to style a chore coat): The title of this exhibition is derived from The Georgics, a poem by the ancient Roman poet Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC).
Jewellery by Artists
16 December 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
Artist jewellery isn’t rare, but it is normally produced by specialists in collaboration with the artist using the artist’s motifs,… Read More
The artful dodger of punk, Illuminati Neon to open new exhibition in Chelsea.
25 October 2020 • Mark Westall
Box Galleries (402, King’s Road, Chelsea) forthcoming exhibition ‘ILLUMINATI’ by London-based artist, Illuminati Neon channels the vivacity and rebellion of… Read More
A new public art project Breath is Invisible launches today
7 July 2020 • Mark Westall
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 Oct 2020), launches today in Notting Hill with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24. Saye’s is the first of three site-specific exhibitions that comprise the project; Martyn Ware, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom and Joy Gregory will present new commissions created in partnership with the local community.
The exhibition WHAT’S UP TWENTY TWENTY looks at what it means to be a collector in the world today
17 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Opening Thursday 18th June, and curated by Lawrence Van Hagen, WHAT’S UP TWENTY TWENTY is an exhibition and art sale for our time, one that challenges the physical exhibition space as we know it and releases viewers from the confines of one gallery in one location.
Introducing soft mobility- poimo the electric scooter that you can inflate with air.
5 June 2020 • Mark Westall
poimo is an inflatable electric scooter developed by Mercari R4D in collaboration with Kawahara and Niiyama labs from the University of Tokyo.
India Nielsen Interview – “I see each work as a living avatar that I must feed with energy to survive, except here they run on emotion rather than electricity as their fuel.”
3 February 2020 • Hector Campbell
London based artist India Nielsen recently sat down Hector Campbell to discuss her use of visual and artistic sampling , her interest in language and use of text, how she employs writing in her painting practice and her current two-person exhibition, RedivideR with Yulia Iosilzon.
Ninebot MAX series from Segway-Ninebot
5 September 2019 • Mark Westall
The new flagship Ninebot MAX series from Segway-Ninebot further increases the range and comfort for the more frequent urban commute.
Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern
28 August 2019 • Lee Sharrock
Back in 2003 I, along with 2 million other art lovers, was mesmerised by Olafur Eliasson’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall installation ‘The Weather Project’
Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern with a major survey exhibition
9 July 2019 • Mark Westall
Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) returns to Tate Modern with a major survey exhibition of his career to date, following his world-renowned installation The weather project in 2003.