Dean Kissick

Firstly, I'd like to promote Hannah Barry Gallery's amazing 'Bold Tendencies III', 5 exhibitions of outdoor art spread across the top 4 floors of Peckham multi-story car park, accompanied by a stunning panorama across London and also Frank's Café/Campari Bar (Roast Ox Heart only £3.50)! Unfortunately I was too disorganised to blog about the opening last week, but the show runs all summer and is really really worth a visit.

Hannah Barry Gallery has organised a monumental rooftop sculpture garden featuring a variety of promising young artists: Awst & Walther, Tom Barnett, Hannah Barton & Xavier Poultney, James Balmforth, Tim Bouckley, James Capper, Bobby Dowler, Matt Holroyd, Myles Painter, Daniel Schwitzer, Bayly Shelton, Robin Shepherd, Molly Smyth, Theo Turpin, Jesse Wine and Jack Vickridge. Further details can be found on the Hannah Barry gallery website.

Even better, the exhibition also includes 4 projects by artist-run spaces from South London: Field, LuckyPDF, NEW MODEL ARMY and The Sunday Painter. and I curated the NEW MODEL ARMY show so I'd highly recommend it! 'INTO THE BLUE AGAIN/ (AFTER THE MONEY'S GONE/ ONCE IN A LIFETIME/)' features Samuel J Fouracre, Sohrab Golsorkhi, Melissa Jordan and Samuel Nias in.

"an exhibition proposing art as escapism for a bright summer of recession. into the blue again, after the money's gone, once in a lifetime, art should surely provide a fantastic escape. this show wishes to flee from worry, to construct a new reality in the floating cloud palace!"

Full details can be found on their Facebook event page.

MONDAY

Tonight there's an exhibition opening in a new slack space; 'A Touch Of Class' brings 4 diverse artists together in an unused shop in Camden Town, which was turned into an open studio for the first half of the project, and is now transformed into a gallery space. The show is "named after the infamous Camden brothel that was torched to the ground by an unsatisfied customer", and features Mark Davey (the winner of Saatchi New Sensations 2008), Candida Powell Williams, Jenny Rush and Thomas Yeomans. For more information see their Facebook page.

THURDSAY

Then Thursday night brings the most important (maybe???) degree show of the whole summer. the Goldsmiths MFA Art Graduation show in New Cross, featuring 45 cutting-edge artists. Please see the Goldsmiths website.

FRIDAY

And to finish the week, an exhibition of 5 young female artists at artist-run space Madame Lillies in Stoke Newington. 'This is the front room' is the first exhibition organised by London collective The Elephant in the Corner, a group founded in March 2008 through a mutual interest in "testing what female collectivism can evoke today". But what is the elephant in the corner? Anyway, this show presents new works by Zoe Anspach, Katie Aston, Amy Croft, Virginia Phongsathorn and Eira Szadurski, and more information is available on The Elephant in the Corner website.