Art Tag

Evening all! Hope your week has been filled with lovely things to see and do. I was meant to blog about ‘Covet’ as it was going, however, running a shop takes so much time and preparation that I never managed to do it! Side note about The Hackney Shop: it’s a pop-up retail space available for Hackney residents (or if you work there) and the whole concept behind it is giving creatives the opportunity to showcase their work for free. Yes, for free. As getting any kind of space is so cut-throat and expensive to the eye balls, The Hackney Shop is a not for profit enterprise that allows constant creativity to evolve every week. Also, bringing in local benefits to the community too.

Myself, The Illusive Eye (Chrissy Wallace) and Bilton Conceptual Design (Cris Cold) had the space for a week and whilst we were there, we were opening and closing the shop from 10 until 5pm every day. As the week went on we had a mix of people visiting the shop and, although it was generally quiet in the mornings, there was a fair stream of people coming in during the weekend.

I had a great week chatting to Chrissy about art, dogs, drinking beer and drinking even more beer as the week went on…!

Covet Pop-Up Exhibition

This month I’ve been pretty busy with work and so it’s been great to be able to do shows just to break things up a little bit.

I’m part of ‘House of Tigers’ exhibition at A-Side B-Side Gallery! Super stoked to be part of an awesome show for a great cause, Save Wild Tigers, as well.

The private view will be on Thursday 22nd October and the show will run from the 22nd until the 27th.

More about the show:

House of Tigers- A group exhibition

Curated by Adam Bartlett

Public View: Thursday 22nd October 6-9.30pm

Show Dates: 23-10-2015 – 26-10-2015

A-side B-side Gallery is pleased to present, ‘House of Tigers’ an exhibition curated by Adam Bartlett:

“The show came about through my love of tigers and painting them.  I thought it would be great to raise some money for our stripy friends, curate my first show and provide a platform for many artists who don’t get to show their work out much due to full time jobs etc.  Kind of bringing everyone great and small together, the emphasis is on fun with this show and getting involved in any way you can.”

Adam Bartlett | Ian Bartlett | Alexandra Miller | Amber Sinclair-Ray | Archie Proudfoot | Ben Wilson |Catherine Hall | Clare Wilson | Dan Feit | Ed Coy | Ellie Tate | Fabi Santiago | Géraldine Buckland | Ivy Mei | Jenni Desmond | Jo Cheung | Julie Ash | June Sees | Kevin Hope | Laura Gee | Lewis Campbell |Loui Stokoe | Lyle Saunders | Maxwell Paternoster | Mike West | Novemto Komo | Steph Parr | Steven Quinn | Xander Coy | Laura Hughes | Chay Morris

20% of all sales will go to savewildtigers.org

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Hello! I hope you’ve all been enjoying the sun and the glorious weather that we’ve been having over the past couple of days. I’ve had a rather hectic few days what with the run up to the show and another show I’m taking part in, which starts on the 1st July at W3 Gallery in Acton (more on that later in the week).

I have to say that the group exhibition ‘Into The Sun’ at A-side B-side Gallery has been really successful especially the private view. Sadly, I didn’t take any photos that night but I have managed to take some photos today when I was invigilating the show.

Firstly, here are my pieces for the show: ‘Luna’ and ‘Sol’.

Luna

Luna

Sol

Sol

And here they both are in situ.

Jo Cheung

My work for the exhibtion.

Augustin

Augustin’s work.

Gallery

Gallery Space

Adam Bartlett

Adam Bartlett

Ivy Mei (left) and Adam Bartlett (right)

Ivy Mei (left) and Adam Bartlett (right)

Kwok Pui Sai (left) and Paul Shinn (right)

Kwok Pui Sai (left) and Paul Shinn (right)

 

Whilst I was invigilating, I got the chance to speak to people about the show and my work as well. It was great to be able to connect with others about my interpretation of the theme itself. I think Ivy has done a fantastic job on curating the show and putting together the show so I’d just like to say a big fat thank you to Ivy for all of her hard work! I love the space too; light, airy and it’s not too big and not too small either.

The show is running until Tuesday 30th so get yourselves down to the gallery if you’ve still not seen it!