Wednesday, July 19, 2006

July News

Apologies for the lack of updates to this page. However . . .

Hot of the press:

Bruce Ingman's new book with Allan Ahlberg, The Runaway Dinner, has just been published and received a glowing review from the Independent on Sunday.


Liza Campbell's book/memoir 'Title Deeds' was published in June. She also wrote about the studios in the Londoner's Diary for the Evening Standard on June 30th.


Emily Young, David Worthington and Paul Vanstone have all had work at an exhibition at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire. The Sunday Telegraph reviewed the show and said that "Emily Young ... has inherited the mantle as Britain's greatest female stone sculptor from Dame Barbara Hepworth".

Next level magazine recently wrote of Blue Curry's work 'Like Taking Sand To The Beach' which was exhibited in a group show in Germany. Blue's piece for the group exhibition of contemporary Bahamian artists involved him mapping and cataloguing a section of a beach in the Bahamas and then tansporting and re-installing the sand in the same order in the gallery in Wiesbaden. At the end of the exhibition the sand was then mapped and packaged again and returned to the same section of beach from which it was first taken.

Sarah Dwyer has work in a group show which is currently on at 101a Kensington Church Street 'Heathen Threshold'. The exhibition runs until August 1st. For further details see here.

Opening this week is a solo show of Yukako Shibata's work at Light Contemporary at 5a Porchester Place, W2.

Katherine Lubar has a print in the Summer Show at the Royal Academy.

Lisa Jones has launched a new range of cards - see image to right.

Zakee Shariff's second season of designing for Freemans is online now.

Shöfolk have got a new website which allows you to see all of the current season of their shoe designs. It can be accessed here.

Finally, both Faye Haskins and Rhiannon Howells recently ran the 'Race For Life' in support of Breast Cancer. There sponsorship pages are stil active here and here.