The Orange Dot Gallery 54 Tavistock Place London WC1H 9RG
Opening Times Tuesday – Friday / 11 – 5, Saturday – Appointment Only
PREVIEW: 30th July 2011, 12-6pm
Founded by 17-year old Gabriel Noble, Origin London is an independent clothing company that will release four limited edition t-shirts in collaboration with UK art collectives TIMC (This Is My Costume) and Puck during summer 2011.
The tees, along with each collective’s work, will be exhibited at the Orange Dot Gallery situated in London’s Bloomsbury.
Puck Collective (www.puckcollective.co.uk) is a highly regarded group of illustrators on London’s graphic art scene. Following the success of their group show at London’s C.A.M.P, the collective exhibited at Somerset House’s Pick Me Up, which quickly cemented their position as one of the most exciting group of young illustrators in the UK.
Represented by Babycrow and Robbie’s Brown Shoes, the pair will exhibit a selection of rare illustrations and prints alongside their Origin London t-shirts.
TIMC (thisismycostume.wordpress.com) are a self-proclaimed “organised crime cartel” with a passion for drawing. They say, “We don’t really agree with un-fun artwork or think about things too much. We draw what we want and nothing too emotional.” The three gents and one lady that make up TIMC, who normally use London’s backdrop as their canvas, will mark their gallery debut with a selection of new works.
Origin will screen-print two designs from each collective. Limited to a run of 30 T-shirts for each design, the hand numbered and signed tee’s will be boxed in exclusive packaging and accompanied by a mixtape compiled by each artist.
The opening of the exhibition of Simon Wheatley’s book, that analyses the culture of London’s underground music and the contextual social conditions over the last decade, will be accompanied by a series of musical performances by artists who have made their mark on the genre of grime as it has evolved during this time into the UK’s most distinctive 'urban' art form.
'DON’T CALL ME URBAN! The Time of Grime' is a photographic record compiled over a twelve-year period, focussing on the youth of London’s inner-city at a vital time, taking as its prism the genre of grime - the most significant and controversial musical expression to emerge from the UK since punk.
Our friends Verena & Kara are exhibiting / launching their work this thursday @ the Pure Evil gallery...Verena showing her her Kids of Grime photography over the past 12 months, Kara launching her Y'OH menswear collection.
Most definitely one to check out, catch me at the afterparty (info & lineup below!)
Back in April WHATHEHELLE FONTENELLE told you about the Emerging Artist Award competition launched by Dazed and Converse. Mentioned was a sizeable prize for the winner and I can tell you that prize was a whole 6 bags and a Grand each for the four other short listed entrants.
Peters Winning Piece
It was Peter Ainsworth who managed to get his hands on the 6 large and his work will be on show along with the four other runners up in the Stephen Friedman gallery 25-28 Burlington Street W1S 3AN from 30th of July to 21st of August.
The culture of the Fried Chicken shop is something very London. I never realized until quite recently, when I had some friends over from South Africa, and they commented that it’s probably something which is most symbolic of London. I was stunned, the Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye are all dwarfed in iconic status by Big Maz’s franchise of Disco Fried Chicken on the corner?!
However, every 5 steps I took, I started to notice yet ANOTHER chicken shop, and I realized these South Africans were completely spot on. Mr Khan is actually the unsung Hero of East London, where else are you going to pick up a grease-spiked piece of not-so-fresh fowl carcass at 3.52 am, and STILL actually derive some pleasure from the experience?!
See, you couldn’t give me an answer...
Chicken Cottage, Sam’s, and any other rip off of the KFC franchise is one of young London’s collective late night guilty pleasure’s. The other being that post-clubbing booty call to that slightly over weight bird who always let’s you bus-a-nut on her chest.
It was a pleasant surprise to hear about an Exhibition in Shorditch which celebrated the Coronary-bypass-palaces as a True-blue cultural phenomenon of my fair city Londinium.
Bangkok (teehee) born Cathlove, is a creative fireball who gives birth to whimsical satirical art, which is accessible to everyone. Now based in Hackney, via Hong Kong, and Australia, Cathlove has quickly established herself amongst the scene as a major talent, having already worked with brands as diverse as Selfridges and WAH amongst others.
Her comical, cute, although often grotesque work, is always charming and thought provoking, without being preachy. The show entitled ‘Greasy Fried Dreams’ is not only a scathing commentary on the unhealthy western habit for gluttony and it's more-more-morementality, but one that pokes the potbelly of rampant capitalist consumerism, and tells it to wipe its dribbly chin, with a lemony-fresh complimentary wet-wipe.
I discovered her while skipping through the cyber-playground of Facebook one day, and was bowled over by the impact of the marriage of simple imagery, with complex, intelligent ideas. And when she invited me to the show at the Jaguar Shoes bar on Kingsland rd, and told me that the project was based around the yummiest of late night binge food, that’s the moment I realized I had found my soul mate!
The work itself include a couple of spectacular pieces, which are effectively wallpaper that take up the whole of the walls in the bar, they are psychedelic commentary on Hiphop, surreal consumer obsessed culture, including the late night smelly pervert, the Big Booty Chicken Head Diva, and even a fat-inflated heart ready for a triple bypass.
In short, what I imagine hell to look like, if Devil provided a Chicken Burger Meal for £3.29.
Catch the work at Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32-36 Kingsland Rd for the next couple of months. It’s well work going there to check out the work in all it’s glory, and studying all of the wonderfully ridiculous details.
Find more of her excellent work at www.cathlove.com
Also follow her personal journey through life on her blog cathlove-cathlove.blogspot.com
You want ketchup on your fries boss? What Kind of drink you want with your meal mate?
Check this amazing video on SpineTV, I think it pretty much says it all about the girls effortless talent!
For 30 days in the month of April Tate Modern’s Raw Canvas group will be taking over a disused travel agents in elephant and castle and will be turning it into an artistic centre for creative projects, workshops and events.
From the 24th – 25th April 2010 as part of project the space will be turned into a temporary Tate radio Station called Voxpirate. Open to the public to use unbarred by quality and industry filters.
The general public are being asked to donate any self made and music and sound records to be played on the station. There are no rules regarding style, genre, or form, anything goes. So if you are a bedroom producer, DJ, musician, shower singer, sound artist, commenter, loud mouth or poet then why not submit one of your recordings to the radio station to be played.
All work must be submitted in mp3 format and emailed to anything@voxpirate.co.uk then tune in on the 24th and 25th to hear your music along with a whole host of other sounds being played on Voxpirate Radio.
Our Friend Suz and the good people at Over It & Co present a solo show by Jennifer Crouch @ Arthur & Albert Studio on scrutton street (just off curtain road) Shoreditch.
This is a lightbox by Insa that will be displayed at the Red Bull Flying Eyeball pop up store & exhibition...details below
RED BULL PRESENTS FLYING EYEBALL POP UP SHOP
27 CORK STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON
DECEMBER 8TH -12TH
10 AM- 8PM
works by: Goldie, Shoe, Inkie, Einie, Mysterious Al, Sickboy, Insa, Zeus, Hush, Mau Mau, Kid Acne, Steff Plaetz, Chu, Shok 1, RYCA, David Walker, China Mike, Part2ism, Ben Allen, Andy Council, George Morton Clark, Milk, Dora and Don
Pictures on Walls have announced the date for their annual Christmas event “The Fiesta Resistance”, It will be held at 46-48 Commercial Street, see you down there.
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