Posted in Art, Eccentricities, Interviews, South London People, tagged artist, clothing, deptford, design, fashion, london, recycling, south on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Recycling artist Lauren Shanley talks to East Dulwich based filmmaker and Dulwich OnView regular contributor, Laverne Hunt, about her designs.
Lauren Shanley, the queen of glamorous recycling lives in South London and has done since she moved here from New Zealand over twenty years ago. Inspired by art, history and a commitment to recycling, [...]
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Painter Bernie Victor introduces the Friends of the Horniman Museum’s art exhibition.
This weekend the Victorian Conservatory at the Horniman Museum is the venue for the annual Friends of the Horniman Art Exhibition. This is a selected show and features work by a wide selection of local artists. There are paintings, sculptures and prints in a [...]
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by Anna Maria Di Brina
I found out about Artichoke Print Workshop while looking for a place where I could print out my little zinc plate - a present for guests at my September wedding.
I discovered it, after a bit of wandering around for the right entrance, at the upper floor of a unique Victorian [...]
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As part of the “I love Peckham” festival, the Chronic Art Foundation, in association with the Chronic Love Foundation, is hosting an exhibition (14-20 July) of works by artists based in the Bussey Building, a warehouse studio in Peckham.
The Exhibition is open to the public so feel free to go along, enjoy the art and [...]
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By Clare Ferdinando, Education Outreach Co-ordinator at Dulwich Picture Gallery
When I tell people about my job they always amazed at the range of community work the Gallery is involved in.
‘I had no idea. You do all this from an art gallery?!’
A day in the life of the outreach work may start on an estate [...]
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Posted in Art, Exhibitions, New work - Exclusives, Reviews, tagged BP Portrait Award, Emily Faludy, John Moores Prize, Julie Bennett, Lee Maelzer, Matthew Stradling, portraits, portraiture, Saatchi new stars, South London Women Artists on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Reviewed by local artist Emily Rose Faludy as part of DPG Friends’ Celebration of South London Women Artists. View local artists’ work or add your own at www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk
The new show at Sartorial Contemporary art in Notting Hill shows work by three stylistically very different painters. What they have in common is the rawness, the directness of [...]
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Ian Dejardin, director, explains why he went to Poland and what he thought of the new Warsaw.
Dulwich Picture Gallery has some interesting Polish baggage amongst the jumble of its history. The last king of Poland, Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski, was the man who commissioned our art dealer founders, Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois (pictured left, [...]
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Jackie Ralph, a trustee of Access to Art (A2A), talks about this charity which makes it possible for disabled and frail older people to enjoy London’s galleries and museums.
Marion Reading is an art lover, and has been all her life. She remembers visiting the National Gallery many years ago, standing as a teenager in front [...]
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Posted in Art, Exhibitions, New work - Exclusives, South London People, What's On, tagged A Stain Upon The Silence, Beckett, Central St Martins, exhibition, Group Show on July 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By Chris Page, curator
The exhibition ‘A Stain Upon The Silence’ came about as part of the ‘output’ of a new collective called ‘Group Show’. The members of this collective met, by and large, in Central Saint Martins, where the majority of us graduated from last year. It began, as I’m sure many collectives do, as [...]
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Antonia Coonan, Head of Operations at Dulwich Picture Gallery, gives the background to the organisation of that amazing day.
Photos by Benedict Johnson
Friday 20th June. Knowing that the BBC Roadshow was coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery kept the Operations Department excited for weeks!
The preparations started months ago. I worked closely with the BBC Antiques Roadshow Directors [...]
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