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Denise Wyllie: English Collection Exhibition in Russia
Posted in: Concerts & Gigs, Events & Festivals, Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions, Travel & Leisure Tags: artist, Denise Wyllie, Exhibition, Karelia, Laura Van der Heijden, printmaker, prints, Russia

North London-based artist Denise Wyllie approached her forthcoming exhibition in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia in a quintessentially English way to mark her return to the former Soviet state she first visited just after the fall of communism. The show will feature her rose prints inspired by visits to the David Austin Rose Gardens, Shropshire and be […]
Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece

It’s a remarkable legacy to have completed only 15 paintings (known to be in existence) yet still be recognised as one of the greatest artists in history. This extraordinary polymath has produced work that survives today as undoubted cultural icons and his early working life in Milan provided the apprenticeship for much of these works […]
Sunday Art Fair 2019 Comes to Marylebone (Art)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: art review, Sunday Art Fair

The 10th anniversary of the Sunday Art Fair, Oct 3-6 promises a celebration of international young and emerging talent, with 30 galleries from all over the world exhibiting at Ambika P3, Marylebone. Amongst the UK contingent are London-based galleries Annka Kulty, Hackney and Roman Road, Bethnal Green. The art fair encourages experimentation and unfettered artistic […]
Parliament and Peterloo (Exhibition)
Posted in: Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Parliament & Peterloo

A summer exhibition in Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament covers the events of the Peterloo Massacre, 16 August 1819 when a cavalry charge into a crowd of Manchester protestors led to 18 deaths and around 500 injured. The display boards detail the unfolding political and social turmoil in calendar order, starting with the end of […]
Science Museum, Summer of Space Festival (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions, Technology Tags: Summer of Space

The Science Museum’s Summer of Space festival runs concurrently with the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. As well as their screening of the Apollo 11: First Steps documentary (a special edit just for museums), there’s other entertaining and educational exhibits and displays covering the early period of the space race, moon landings and space exploration […]
Get Up, Stand Up Now (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Somerset House

Nothing best illustrates the dissolving of social inequalities in Britain over the centuries than the venue for this exhibition. Somerset House was once owned by Georgian aristocracy and has retained much of its noble presence even though its Neoclassical courtyard is now just for the tourists and open-air arts events. Fast-forward to 2019, and the […]
Artists ‘Club’ Together For Disco Exhibition
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Features, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, nightclub, Shoreditch

SHOREDITCH is widely known for its trendy bars and nightclubs and a group of artists are hoping to capitalise on the club-hub connection with a piece of video-art themed around nightclubs – and, yes, it will be exhibited in a Shoreditch nightclub! The F.O.L.D. artist-filmmaker collective began working on FOLD5: Discotheque around spring of 2019 […]
Park Seo-Bo ZIGZAG: Ecriture (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews Tags: Exhibitions, Park Seo-Bo

When art critic John Ruskin saw an exhibition of American artist Whistler’s abstract paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he so disliked the work he accused him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public’. And if that paint was Dulux White and you accidentally stepped in it, the footprints […]
Salon des Refuses, Paris (1863) Comes to Camden Image Gallery, London (2019)
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Salon des Refuses

CAMDEN IMAGE GALLERY 12-15 June will be the venue for this year’s London-based Salon des Refuses exhibition, now a yearly event organised by Happenstance Framing. But some may be unaware that the original Salon emerged in France during the nineteenth century as an alternative for artists who had been rejected by the Paris Salon – […]
Bobby Moore: First Gentleman of English Football (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Bobby Moore, Exhibition

The National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the golden career of the first and only England captain to lift the World Cup. Former West Ham captain, Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore was born in Barking and signed professional for West Ham, his local club, in 1956 and went on to make 647 appearances for them in the […]

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