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Exhibitionism: London Fashion Week Opening…
February 19, 2010‘Exhibitionism: The Art of Display‘ will be open over Fashion Week on Sunday 21 February between 11am and 5pm. If you are around Somerset House waiting for shows etc. make sure you pop in to The Courtauld Institute of Art (just under the arches on the Strand side) to get a free guided tour of this impressive exhibition. If you … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Oliver Clegg
January 1, 2010The next artist from EXHIBITIONISM is Oliver Clegg… Oliver Clegg is a multifaceted artist, capable of producing brilliantly conceived and meticulously executed works in a broad range of expressive disciplines with a history to them. For instance, Clegg employs heavily inscribed and paint-splattered ex-art school drawing boards or pages … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Harland Miller
December 31, 2009The next artist featuring in EXHIBITIONISM is Harland Miller… Harland Miller is both a writer and an artist living in London. He received critical acclaim for his novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty (2000) followed by still more praise for his witty and beautiful series based on Penguin dust jackets. Miller appropriated the … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Josef Sparrow
December 29, 2009The seventeenth artist from EXHIBITIONISM at The Courtauld Institute of Art is Josef Sparrow… Josef Sparrow is an illustrator/ animator student living and working in London. He is currently enrolled on a full-time illustration BA course at Kingston University. Sparrow has created three new pieces specifically for our exhibition. The … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Uwe Wittwer
December 29, 2009The sixteenth artist from EXHIBITIONISM is Uwe Wittwer… Uwe Wittwer is a Swiss artist, living and working in Zurich whose work features painting, watercolour and inkjet prints. Wittwer’s work often references the history of art as he explores the role of the artist as an image hunter and voyeur. His sources are chosen from digital … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Jacqueline Langfeld
December 29, 2009The next artist from East Wing Nine‘s EXHIBITIONISM at The Courtauld Institute of Art is Jacqueline Langfeld… In her work Straw Dogs, Paper Warriors Langfeld relates to the following verse from Tao Te Ching: ‘Heaven and Earth are impartial; They see the ten thousand things as straw dogs. The wise are impartial; They see the … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Tracy Satchwill
December 19, 2009The ninth artist in EXHIBITIONISM at The Courtauld Institute of Art opening 23rd January is Tracy Satchwill… Inspired by the dramatic setting of eighteenth-century Versailles and the infamously ostentatious lifestyle of Marie Antoinette, Tracy Satchwill’s series of mixed media scenes convey the theatricality of illusion, both in … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Nicola Nicks
December 15, 2009The fifth artist from EXHIBITIONISM at Somerset House and the first to be installed is Nicola Hicks Born in 1960, Nicola Hicks studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She had her first successful solo show in 1984 at the Angela Flowers Gallery and has been represented there since, though she has travelled … read more»
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display: Adam Bridgland
December 14, 2009The fourth artist from East Wing Nine‘s EXHIBITIONISM opening on 23rd January is Adam Bridgland, represented by TAG Fine Arts… Since graduating from his Masters in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in 2006, Bridgland has lived and worked as an artist in London, and has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Asia and America. His … read more»