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Archives: Posted: 2008
Oliver Clegg
The surface and the subject are the key elements to Oliver Clegg's art work. Rather than using a canvas he opts to utilize salvaged materials such as pages from a book or discarded old drawing boards peppered with scars and marks gathered over time. Often large parts of the......

Posted: Sep 30 2008 | More...

Concrete and Glass
It's the start of 'art month', and marking this point is the first of a new and thrilling annual art and music festival in East London - Concrete and Glass. The two-day event will bring together new talent in 35 galleries, venues and disused spaces from Hoxton square to Brick......

Posted: Sep 28 2008 | More...

Cock A Snook presents: A Goddamn Good Time Exhibition.
The artist David A. Smith will be exhibiting some of his work alongside Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson, Matt Burden, Maria Varela and Wirrow in what is sure to be an interesting group show starting from 25th Thursday and running until 28th Sunday. Many of the artists I am......

Posted: Sep 23 2008 | More...

"Banks fall over, art triumphs"
Yesterday was always going to be a big day for the larger art world: the first ever auction of art from the primary market - that is to say Hirst putting his work directly into auction at Sotheby's, and so cutting out his dealers Joplin and Gagosian, and promoting......

Posted: Sep 16 2008 | More...

Oliver Rafferty
With the current trend of 'ready made' sculptures sweeping across the capital in a suffocating flood of blandness it is becoming increasingly difficult to decide what I find engaging and thought provoking. Oliver Rafferty however is an exception to this predicament of mine. He does unremarkable things with unremarkable objects......

Posted: Sep 11 2008 | More...

Alexis Harding
We went to visit Alexis Harding in his studio in Bow late last week. A very worthwhile trip: he has a great space and we were fortunate that there was a good body of his latest series of work around. He's a very interesting guy to talk to. We......

Posted: Sep 09 2008 | More...

Michael Murphy 'Pencil Shavings'
A vertical sculptural composed of hundreds of pencil shavings placed delicately on top of each other in a seemingly impossible endeavor of balance and foundation daggering up towards the ceiling. The piece has a fragility to it that draws the viewer in and engages our senses. Due to the......

Posted: Sep 01 2008 | More...