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Review Jan 26 2009 « | »
Some great shows for the coming week This Tuesday 27th harbors the private view of a show at the Alan Cristea Gallery on Cork Street titled......

James Honey

This Tuesday 27th harbors the private view of a show at the Alan Cristea Gallery on Cork Street titled (all be it rather uninspiring) 'Young Contemporaries'. This should be an interesting show. It runs for a whole month and exhibits the work of four artists all under the age of thirty and based in the UK. The four artists exhibiting are Kate Atkins, Marie Harnetts, Nathalie Guinamard and Eilidh Young. All are influenced by film and photography. They source threads of inspiration and material from these captured visions to create elaborate works on paper in other media. This is a great opportunity for the artists to display their talent in a central London space. The show will run until the 28th February. For more information click here.

The 28th is a very exciting date for my calendar. The exceptional Boo Saville will be showing a new body of work at the Trolley Gallery. I have been very interested in Boo's work ever since my first encounter with it over a year or so ago now. It is superbly drawn and dripping with depth and insightful explorations. 'Butter Sunk' explores the symbolic and ritualistic images of human remains and archeological remnants. Her breath taking use of the humble biro and pens to recreate a parched bone or a coarse thread of hair is striking and manages to capture the echoes of regrets and apologies resonating from the post-human forms she depicts. For more information click here.

Thursday 29th is as always a busy one. There is a private view at the Forster Gallery in celebration of the opening of Xenz's solo show titled 'Unforscenery' where one can expect to see bold and colorful canvases. Xenz's work is imposing and somewhat suffocating both in its style and subject matter. It will be interesting to see how this large body of work sits together upon the walls of a gallery. Also happening on the same evening is the private view of the very impressive Laura Oldfield Ford's exhibition 'Drifting Through the Ruins'. Her show will be at the Hales Gallery. All who are unfamiliar with her work should follow the link to her superbly made 'zine' at the bottom of this paragraph. It carries a true voice of the present and is aesthetically splendid. She is also a very talented painter and her work is always wading up to its waist in political and sociological slants. This show is most certainly a must see. It will be showing at the Hales Gallery until the 14th March. For more information click here.

Click here for the zine.

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