Saatchi Art-backed artist Hormazd Narielwalla’s Chelsea exhibition had a touch of the ‘Golden Child’ about it. With the art organisation’s chief curator Rebecca Wilson in attendance and champagne glasses being filled from a seemingly limitless supply you immediately got the sense you were in the presence of an unwrapped gem there in the Foundry Gallery. […]
This joint exhibition at the Africa Centre featuring work by Zimbabwean artists John Hlatywayo and Tafadzwa Gwetai is presented as an exercise in juxtaposition. An opportunity to experience how their unique approaches to people watching can be both complimentary and individualistic. Hlatywayo with his majestic but haunting metal sculptures marshalling the gallery space and Gwetai’s […]
So the group exhibition is called Exceptional. As adjectives go it’s certainly neither humble nor self-deprecating and sets an expectation of awe-inspiring talent. But hey if Sensation worked for Damien Hirst and the Young British Artists back in 1997 then who’s to say… No sharks suspended in vats of formaldehyde but the tenets of abstraction […]
An open call for artists aged 18-35 from the UK and the Ukraine resulted in 10,000 entries of which 30 were shortlisted for this exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, South Kensington. It marks a collaboration with the Firtash Foundation and follows on from their Days of Ukraine in the UK Festival. The entries ranged from […]
The Lucian Freud exhibition, the Fourth Plinth statue and a hidden cafe with real tombstones! 3 reasons why Trafalgar Square is worth an autumn visit. . The West End’s world-recognised culture square has an autumn of major openings and the added attraction of hidden delights such as under-the-radar eateries. Make a day of It, by […]
The I Matter Exhibition, curated by Lincolnshire-based Olu Taiwo, sought work by minority ethnic artists themed around the title I Matter and all its iterations. The submissions, from all over the world, included paintings, photography, sculpture, video and mixed media – and talented London artists were amongst those selected to show their work. The exhibition […]
East London artist Eddie Saint-Jean works in moving image and photography and up until now most of his art has had underlying cinematic cultural references. But now in a slight departure from that style he has produced a new body of work which he describes as Un-ReadyMades. Eddie Saint-Jean with his photographic work ‘We’re All […]
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 […]
Artist Pablo Malick (in title photo with gallerist Christian Sulger-Buel) is interviewed by What’s Hot London?’s editor and arts writer Eddie Saint-Jean and discusses his collage, mixed media style which is inspired by DaDa and the Surrealists. His Young Guns exhibition alongside Larry Amponsah (Ghana) and Colin Sekajugo (Uganda) is on at the Sulger-Buel Gallery, […]
The Saatchi Gallery has been at the vanguard of cometlike young experimental upstarts since the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the Nineties and is inextricably linked to the genesis of art superstars such as Hirst and Emin. Well circa 2017 and it’s a trend that continues with these thirteen artists who claim to be iconoclasts […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
