Street artist Michael Mantis tames the beast and makes his way indoors Boldly marking his return to the London street art scene, Michael Mantis has painted a striking, 12m mural along one side of Department of Coffee and Social Affairs as the background to his exhibition Leviathan. The mural took over two weeks to complete [...]
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Tales of the Faether
Playing creator with her mixed European and New Zealand heritage, artist Gretchen Jacobsen has created a set of intricate illustrations based on fabricated folk stories mixing the common fairy tale with the native fauna of New Zealand. The result is immediately accessible and strangely familiar, despite the often peculiar species of birds that adorn the [...]
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Albam Angels
To mark the arrival of the festive season and the opening of their new Seven Dials shop, Albam Clothing commissioned friend and illustrator Zoë Barker to draw a series of Christmas jersey clad guys enjoying the season. Drawn in her distinct and considered style with beautiful line work, it’s always a pleasant surprise to stumble [...]
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Building a View for the World: Façades, by Carita Laamanen
With engineering precision London-based, Finnish photographer Carita Laamanen crafts images in her liking of the world. In her current exhibition Façades, Carita explores how we carefully construct first impressions in a less than honest way. All her images a deftly and delicately framed and shot on 35mm film, but deliberately, and slightly disconcertingly, revealing about [...]
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Saturday night at the movies
Tacita Dean shines a light on film.
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A Vista to Things Unseen: Imagined Cities
As part of the London Design Festival 2011 Imagined Cities showcases the freshest and most intelligent architectural design talent London has to offer. Celebrating London Design Festival 2011, Dainow&Dainow have selected the best work of London’s most recent graduates placing it alongside the work of established talents in a unique exhibition Imagined Cities. Curated by [...]
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A Wonder of the Natural World
Cartographer-turned-portraitist Leigh Glover brings a fresh eye and authentic painting skills to capture a moment of wonder in the natural world in ‘From the Air’. From the Air runs at Department of Coffee and Social Affairs until 13 August 2011. You can find out more about the exhibition at www.leighglover.com and at Coffeesmiths Art, where [...]
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From the Air
Leigh Glover delivers a breath of fresh air to challenge a daily cliché. Despite being recently selected for the BP Portrait Award 2011, Leigh’s feet were firmly planted when Anna from Coffeesmiths Art and I called by his West London studio to observe him prepare the last of his works for his exhibition, From the [...]
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Saga Studios
Light and colour are gently manipulated in Saga Arpino’s South London studio workshop to form a forthcoming installation at Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. See the full gallery on Posterous Royal College of Art trained artist Saga Arpino will be exhibiting a site specific installation ‘Gatherings’ at Department of Coffee and Social Affairs [...]
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