Shows & Exhibitions

  • Artists of the Future
    Artists of the Future 2017
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    DegreeArt.com are an online and offline gallery based at Vyners Street East London. Their focus is art graduates and emerging artists and this exhibition is their selection of the cream of undiscovered talent. The opening night was a celebration of the eight below who were short-listed from hundreds. SELECTED ARTISTS: Archie Proudfoot Berkin& Mika Gareth […]

  • Candid Arts Portrait (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

    An open invitation for portrait artists from all fields drew work that varied from life-like oil depictions to sculptures of bog-rolls wearing judge’s wigs. Celebrity culture was well represented with paintings of Prince, Jay Zee and Rita Ora – the R&B singer fast becoming the preferred celebrity muse for contemporary artists and poets in place […]

  • Ian Treherne: Release (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Photos, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

    Essex-born photographer Ian Treherne has a degenerative eye condition which vignettes out most of his peripheral vision. This perspective on the world echoes some of the creative choices in his work. You’ll notice pretty quickly which of his works best capture this unique perspective. Indeed, ‘Simi’ one of the first photos you see as you […]

  • Icons of Hip Hop (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

    BoxPark in Shoreditch is increasingly making a name as the place to be for buzz gigs, pop up art exhibitions and all manner of in-store creative cool. The Icons of Hip Hop exhibition by photographer Eddie Otchere is one such urban gem, documenting as it does, his experience snapping rap royalty throughout the decades. These […]

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    Gideon Mendel: Dzhangal (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

    On October 26th 2016 the French authorities announced they had completed a clearance of thousands of migrants from the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. The debris and remnants of this makeshift village for those desperate to get to Britain have been collected and photographed by Gideon Mendel acting as a documentary on their tragic circumstances. This modern-day […]

  • Tutankhamun
    January 3rd: Explorer Howard Carter Discovers Tutankhamun’s Tomb
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

    Make this a culture-filled New Year in our capital city! And if ever you needed motivation to head off to the British Museum in 2017 then the glorious but mysterious circumstances of Tutankhamun’s life and death might give you just that. For it was on this day in 1924 that English archaeologist Howard Carter discovered […]

  • Marcus Sprigens
    Artist Marcus Sprigens
    Posted in: Features, People, Promotions, Shows & Exhibitions

    North London based artist Marcus Sprigen’s work caught many passing glances at the recent Islington Art and Design Fair. The similarity with the Dutch Master Vermeer in his displayed paintings was on further discussion not coincidental. His art is inspired from a wide-range of movements including Surrealism, Fantasy and elements of the dark psyche of […]

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    Gavin Turk: Who What When Where How & Why (Exhibition)
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    Artist Gavin Turk has hooked up with his fellow YBA pal-turned gallery owner Damien Hirst for this retrospective at Hirst’s impressive £25 million Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. The YBAs (Young British Artists) emerged in the 1990s as a Hirst-led movement that challenged the art establishment, so decades later this modern-day Turk-Hirst tie up has […]

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    Painters’ Painters (Exhibition)
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    Don’t get the two mixed up. Painters’ Paintings at The National Gallery (Sept 2016) was an exhibition of paintings owned by the great artists while Painters’ Painters at the Saatchi (Nov 2016-Feb 2017) celebrates the work of contemporary names who have imposed their own styles on a medium challenged, reinterpreted and sometimes traduced and reduced […]