Two good shows here...

The Hut Project in Bermondsey. 

The Biscuit Factory is well worth a look as they have art spaces to hire.

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Private view next week at DickSmith Gallery. 

Sarah MacIllop has very interesting work.

A great exhibition coming up...

Ian Kiaer at Alison Jacques Gallery (just of Oxford St) opening next Thursday 6-8pm

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/

I thought this might inform some of your installation ideas. I LOVE this artist...

Hannah

Feedback from Crit: 11/05/09

• Proposals - I have attached a digital copy of the proposal form, there is also a copy posted on blackboard. Could everyone please have a completed form by this Friday so we can start to plan the spaces. It would also be nice to present these forms to Jamie when he discusses curation logistics with you next Monday. I think myself and Elle will place you in a space provisionally which can then be more structured and re-worked as final work is introduced and installation develops (with Jamie, tutors and first years) at a later date.
  

• 1st year studios - The first years will have vacated their studios by June 1st. This gives you one week to prepare (paint, sand, plan installation) and a week to install. Plenty of time. I recommend that all work is completed by June 1st - this is the date of our last crit. I will be available as much as possible to help with any final installation problems you may have.
  

• Walls and lighting - both removing the walls (near the sink area) and arranging spotlighting is possible. However, both issues need to be carefully considered and planned. If you have an idea for either issue then please include it in your proposal and bring it up with Jamie on Monday (any later and it may not be possible).
  

• Catalogue - I am willing to put together a simple catalogue for you. I don't want this to take away from the box set but just thought that something very simple and all inclusive would be good for visitors to take away with them as a means of gathering your contact details post show. It would include an A4 print out for each person with and image and contact details. The first few pages would include a floor plan of works depending on how quickly the show comes together. For this i would need a small contribution from you all for printing. If you all ok this then i will get a quote and start working on it in the next couple of weeks. If you want to take this further and get business cards then that can be up to the individual.

Hannah

Last week to see this...

Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return
28 February – 10 May 2009

Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages and mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995). Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images, inadvertently inventing the ‘mail art movement’. He made art out of social life – both real and imagined – gathering celebrities, the art world, and friends into his work. His influence on twentieth century art far exceeds the recognition he receives.

‘Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return’ is significant in representing Johnson’s mailings, objects he regarded as gifts and thus contrary to the market, equally with the collage works he made for gallery exhibition in the sixties and seventies. Also included are the collages he subjected to a seemingly endless process of reworking and overlaying, which were found signed with multiple dates and neatly arranged in his house at the time of his death.

http://www.ravenrow.org/current/

Hannah