JERUSALEM at Charlie Smith London
Exhibition Dates Friday November 23rd – Saturday December 22nd 2012 Gallery Hours Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment Charlie Smith London, 336 Old St, 2nd Floor, London, EC1V 9DR Festival, or, First and Last of England Written for the forthcoming Dominic Shepherd one person exhibition Jerusalem What is now proved was once, only imagin’d. William Blake,...
The Devil finds work for idle hands at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
November 1 – 15 December 2012 Toomey Tourell is pleased to announce an exhibition of paper works by six British artists. It’s title: The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands , refers to the often repetitive and painstaking creative practices of the artists involved, practices highlighted by an intensely physical or manual interaction with the...
Exquisite Corpse
Shelley Mansion Bournemouth, 21st October 2012 Curated and compered by the Dominic Shepherd ‘Exquisite Corpse’ was a multifarious evening that explored the nature of the ‘gothic’ and the legacy that Shelley Mansion, Bournemouth, carries within it. Five artists/ collectives responded to this resonance in a variety of forms that reveled in disorientation; minutae; spectacle...
‘Black Mirror’ at Galerie Ambacher Contemporary
Dominic Shepherd and John Stark showed new work at Ambacher Contemporary in Munich during May. Stark created a ‘Black Mirror’ for the exhibiton, a ‘Claude Glass’ used as a drawing device in early landscape painting and well as an occult tool for scrying.
DRIFT at Lumen
Justin Hibbs takes part in the group show Drift this month. The show, which opened at the Lumen United Reform Church, a RIBA award winning Modernist building on Tavistock Road. It brings together twelve artists and designers that reflect on the urbanist legacy (and language) of postwar architecture and design. The show, curated by Blockwork Art,...
The Perfect Nude at Phoenix
Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs “The Perfect Nude” exhibition, which surveys one hundred contemporary responses to the nude, features the work of Intermedial’s Dominic Shepherd. The show at Wimbledon Space may now have closed, but the exhibition tours to the Phoenix Gallery in Exeter at the end of March. Cruel Sister (2012) is Dominic’s contribution to this review.
Drawing Lines in the Sand at Cockatoo Island
Drawing Lines in the Sand opened on the 19th February on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. The exhibition is an off-site project curated by Claire Taylor and Peloton Gallery. The show brings together the work of six artists, including Christian Edwardes, to engage with the various aspects of Cockatoo Island’s institutional heritage and topography. Each...
Saatchi’s New Sensations-The Future Can Wait
Exhibition just ended in London, have to say The Future Can Wait outshone New Sensations. Particularily liked Chris Jones’s ‘Old Raa Boh’, a rag and bone donkey constructed from magazines and images but then painted, it was like meeting a badly constructed digital avatar, slipping and sliding into some sense of reality and back again....
Moving Sight/Site at MeetFactory, Prague.
Julie Marsh’s solo exhibition Moving Sight/Sight at the Meetfactory, Prague provides an opportunity to see her current research practice, a new series of 4 16mm films that explore ways to capture, represent and re-present within the gallery space the ‘material’ and ‘physical’ qualities of place. Curator Dušan Zahoranský describes the work as “the boundary between live and frozen...
