Sooo excited to announce another contemporary visual arts festival, the Deptford X. Accordingly September’s Last Friday is going to be a special tour to galleries, studios, one-off projects, and events. They also seem to know exactly how we mingle best, with a complimentary glass of wine and lots of other artsy folks after party and all. The place to visit would be Bearspace gallery.
Archive for September, 2010
If you are looking for a captivating unique experience, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki showing at Wilton’s Music Hall should be at the top of your list. Peter Case’s adoption of the original Japanese love-suicide play includes puppetry, anime featured video clips, music and stage performances. And not just that, Wilton’s will also be serving sushi and saki in the bar! Definitely worth a visit.
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This scheme is just such a wonderful way of gathering potential artists and designers from an array of disciplines such as fashion, film, music, photography, and architecture to name a few. So basically, once you’re a “resident” you have the opportunity to dip your toes in unknown waters and mingle with an exceptionally talented bunch.
A brilliant opportunity to open the door to new experiences.
It is indeed that time of the year, with creativity fluttering in the air of the world’s design capital, London. Fittingly enough, the London Design Festival has spread its tentacles across the entire city with shops, galleries, museums hosting pieces of work from leading designers from around the world.
It will be interesting to see the response from people as the Anti-Design Festival will also be taking place concurrently.
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If asked to define design, would you refer to the Anti-Design Festival? From unpredictable prints to raving mad explorations in film techniques to performances, this festival showcases an incredible range of mind-boggling experiments. Directed by Neville Brody, the Anti-Design Festival really challenges the confines of so-called art and design with names like Sagmeister, Barnbrook, Le Gun, Bazooka and many more.
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The ever clever Alison Turnbull has just launched her latest collection, Observatory, a series of paintings representing margins and transitional spaces of human world. That was certainly a mouthful, however these paintings translate all this technical detail, specialist star charts and plans into a spectacular display of colors and textures.
If this seems to be your cup of tea, you would also like these other pieces from Matt’s Gallery.
As David Shrigley rightly says, the government needs to save money and Tracey Emin won’t save you if your house is burning down, so why worry about the arts?
By using a slightly disturbed little farmer to show that the arts are one of the few exports the UK can be really proud of, this sweet little animation explains why cuts to art funding could really damage Britain.
So sharing this film and signing the campaign petition
Finding it hard to get your voice heard in this era of interactive babble?
Vivienne Westwood’s latest project recognises the power of meaningful self-expression and gives 100 people the chance to be heard above the chatter. 100 Days of Active Resistance is a showcase of 100 pieces of art over 100 days from 8th of September, giving anyone the chance to express themselves through fashion and art.
If you’ve been looking for a way of being heard, this project is for you.
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As ever, Damien Hirst finds a way to impress. His latest exhibition, ‘The Souls’ is centred around his fascination of soulful butterflies symbolising life and death. For Damien, the butterflies (or souls) have deeper theological meaning which he reveals through his illustrations. If you want to find the answers, he has an installation featuring 120 framed prints of butterflies at the Paul Stolper Gallery from the 7th of October filled with images of the beautiful beasts flight.
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