June 12 2004, Saturday, 11am-8pm (continues until June 13 2004, Sunday, 11am-6pm)
"artLONDON" CONTINUES WITH ANOTHER TWO DAYS TO VIEW EXHIBITS BY ARTISTS FROM: FRANCE; LIMERICK; MOROCCO; NORFOLK; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; YORKSHIRE PLUS MANY MORE COUNTIES & COUNTRIES
We enjoyed our visit to this year's "artLONDON" exhibition, which we visited on Tuesday last. Highlights at the current artLONDON exhibition include: Bernard Chauchet - who concentrates of 19th-20th century & contemporary paintings - is exhibiting works by French, Spanish & Moroccan artists. These include abstract works by Hernandez, from Spain plus mosaics and still lifes by Yamou - who we met, from Morocco; East London gallery, Vertigo, is exhibiting works by artists from Norfolk, Yorkshire and the West Country. Look closely for the amusing man on stilts in Andrew Crocker's, wonderful combination of landscape and humour in, "He'll Get the Message" painting; Gloucestershire-based Compton Cassey Galleries/Jonathan Poole Gallery's large-scale chess set, on a suitably large chess board, measuring approx. 5ft x 5ft; Landscapes & Nordic seascape paintings by the talented, Arabella Johnsen RCA (who we got to autograph MacLean Fine Art's brochure about her work, when we saw her at the Collector's Preview), at MacLean Fine Art's stand. Her recently painted, Viking-inspired, oil on canvas, "The Gokstadt" (3ft x 3ft) is on view, along with many of her other fine works, which - according to MacLean's brochure, .'..pulsate with colour and are built up with powerful painterly brushwork resulting in an expressionistic intensity'; South Korean, Lee Kang Wook's finely-created networked pieces at Galerie Suty's (gallery based at Coye la Foret, a suburb of Paris) stand; Stephen Lacey Gallery - another gallery in East London - is showing a variety of plants and birds with backdrops of Limerick (county, in south west of Ireland) landscapes by Limerick-born artist, Michael Canning, who we also met and chatted to for a while. The gallery's press release begins on with news of two impressive achievements, 'In 2003 Michael Canning (b.1971, Limerick, Ireland) won the Hennessy Craig Painting Prize at the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Irish equivalent to our Jerwood Painting Prize. His work was also acquired by the Irish Government Art Collection.'
The release also includes a statement by the
artist about his work, which includes the following extract, 'Formerly, these paintings of
hedgerow plants confront certain traditions of northern European painting. My practise,
however, is as concerned with the manipulation of material in order to question memory and
experience as it is in addressing representation, classification, order, disorder, the
landscape, and my painterly heritage;' Go along and enjoy, because we did and if we write
anymore about the event we will not have time to get back and see it - and works from 75
galleries - again, this weekend!
MENU A: £10 (£15 for double ticket) to include catalogue
B: 11, 19, 22 or 137
E: (see website)
L: artLONDON, Burton's Court, St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, London, SW3
N: 020 7259 0700
RSVP: tel./text 07881 505 347 (to accompany hteL art editor, on your choice of day)
T: Sloane Square (Circle & District lines)
W: http://www.artlondon.net/
http://www.galeriesuty.com/
http://www.jonathanpoole.co.uk/
http://www.macleanfineart.com/
http://www.modern-paintings.com/
http://www.stephenlaceygallery.com/
http://www.vertigogallery.co.uk/
