I was recently given the arduous task of heading to the heart of Chelsea for a pampering session, as arranged by the marketing team at Art & Music magazine. I promptly dusted off my gold handbag, polished my designer shades and sashayed out west – on the number 19 bus. Hot on the heels of…
Beautiful Crime have been working with a number of up-and-coming artists for a while and have now taken the bold step to launch a permanent space above the Jealous Gallery in Shoreditch. I popped down to the debut show to see how they’d fare in their own premises. The group show had a few interesting…
Conquer Gear, the #illustratedstorytellers, are launching an exhibition for new ‘Memories’ illustration, postcards, photography and video collection. Exhibition: 26th March – 8th April, The Montage, 33 Dartmouth Rd, London, SE23 3HN Conquer Gear We love to share our travels on social media with the unlucky ones left behind in wet and windy England, but does…
Usually I don’t buy into any kind of spiritual healing stuff. Tarot cards, star signs, gems, and cosmic signs are more of a fun way to look at life, like a quick belief hit in something other than mundane rational reality. Recently, however, I came across something different. Something I instantly doubted with all my…
‘She Covered the Whole Street, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, in Vine Leaves and Rose Leaves’ By Steven Gontarski, blogger for Art & Music Magazine This is a painting by Kirsten Glass that was included in her exhibition at xero, kline & coma London [in 2012.] The painting is mysterious, dreamy and a little bit spooky.…
Artist Ayano Tskukimi returned after 11 years to her hometown of Nagoro – in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan – to find that numerous friends and acquaintances had either moved away or passed on. Paying homage to those that left the now less than booming population 35 town, Tskukimi has constructed life-size dolls to populate…
Experimental site-specific performance by BNNT (Konrad Smoleński and Daniel Szwed) Degrees of Freedom by Polish art group, BNNT, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, Tuesday 3 December 2013. Curated by Arts Territory. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Arts Council England, photo Miseongoa…
Tintype Gallery 12 March – 19 April Flora Parrott’s recent practice has been largely informed by an experience during a tour of a cave, where the guide turned off the lights, plunging her into overwhelming darkness. For Parrott the darkness was ‘both suffocating and immensely spacious. When the lights came back on I felt more…
“Je t’aime,” I whisper to the stranger. A grin explodes across his face on hearing the party password. “Oh, but darling,” he rejoins, flapping me over the threshold, “we’ve only just met!” This is David Carter, and I am going to a party at his house. He owns a boutique hotel in Stepney called ’40…