News 2013
Ben Barbour - Qatar UK 2013
As part of Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture, Ben Barbour is travelling on Q-Flex Liquid Natural Gas tanker from Qatar to Wales tracing the historic pearl route, from 17 July - 5 August 2013, documenting his journey in a book. The journey will culminate in exhibitions at Katara Cultural Village in October 2013 and in Wales.
Sculpture Season - UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Sculpture Season at UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE, is showing from 5 June - 31 August 2013, 1 - 5pm. Sculpture students from the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL have been invited to create works in response to the Museum’s collections. See www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events and www.ucl.ac.uk/museums.
A review of the show is in The Telegraph, 6 June 2013.
A Crisis of Brilliance - Duwich Picture Gallery
Works by Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and David Bomberg are on show in A Crisis of Brilliance, 1908 - 1922, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD, from 12 June - 22 September 2013. See www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk.
Above: David Bomberg, In the Hold, 1913-14, oil on canvas, 196.2 x 231.1 cm, © Tate, London 2012
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist - Tate Modern
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist is showing at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9PN from 3 July - 9 September 2013. See www.tate.org.uk.
An account on his time at the Slade School of Fine Art is on the Slade Archive Blog.
Emma Hart - Dirty Looks - Camden Arts Centre
Emma Hart - Dirty Looks is showing at Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG, from 26 July - 29 September 2013. See www.camdenartscentre.org.
Artroulette at Hackney WickED
Princess Belsize Dollar (Helen Benigson) is at Artroulette for the Hackney WickED festival at The Glass Factory, Queens Yard, London E9 5EN, on Friday 16 August 2013, 6-9pm. See http://artroulette.tumblr.com/.
Open Arts Journal - Issue 1
An essay about Melanie Jackson's work, Parallel editing, multi-positionality and
maximalism – cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by
Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick, by Rachel Garfield is in Open Arts Journal - Issue 1, published by Department of Art History at The Open University. See http://openartsjournal.org/.
Open Cube - White Cube, Mason's Yard
Martin John Callanan and Nuno Direitinho are showing at Open Cube: Curated by Adriano Pedrosa at White Cube, Mason's Yard, 25 – 26 Mason's Yard, London SW1Y 6BU, from 12 July – 21 September 2013. See http://whitecube.com.
Read Ben Luke's review in the Evening Standard.
Great Men Die Twice - Galeria Mário Sequeira
Nika Neelova is showing in Great Men Die Twice at Mário Sequeira Gallery, Casa da Cultura, Herdade da Comporta, Portugal, from 3 - 30 August 2013. See www.mariosequeira.com.
Saatchi New Sensations 2013
Recent graduates Dana Ariel, Seán Boylan, Motoko Ishibashi and Sungfeel Yun are on the longlist for New Sensations 2013. The New Sensations UK 2013 exhibition will take place in October 2013 at B1, Victoria House, London WC1B 4DA. See www.saatchionline.com.
Carey Young - Subject to Contract
Subject to Contract presents an overview of Carey Young’s works from 2003 to 2013, including essays by Martha Buskirk, Raphael Gygax, and Tirdad Zolghadr is published on 15 September 2013. The monograph is published by JRP | Ringier and is produced in association with Legal Fictions, Carey Young's solo show at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. See www.amazon.co.uk.
Sean Edwards: Drawn in Cursive
Sean Edwards: Drawn in Cursive is showing at Chapter, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE, from 5 July - 22 September 2013. See www.chapter.org.
The show will tour to:
Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium: 8 December 2013 - 9 March 2014
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno: 17 October 2014 - 4 January 2015
Conrad Shawcross - Timepiece
Conrad Shawcross - Timepiece is showing at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH, from 1 August - 25 August 2013. See www.roundhouse.org.uk.
Kim Ji Seon - Hada Contemporary
Kim Jiseon is showing in Lee Jihan and Kim Jiseon at Hada Contemporary, 21 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG from 1 August - 1 September 2013. See www.hadacontemporary.com.