Wednesday, February 11, 2009

February News

Firstly, the photographs from Open Studios back in December last year taken by the very lovely Sam Robinson.



















Emily Young's show at the Fine Art Society is on until the end of February and was also marked by the launch of a catalogue to support her exhibition at Salisbury Cathedral.



Joy Richardson has an exhibition at the Orange Tree Theatre which is on until March 21st. The acting strand of Joy's life also gets an airing at the same venue as she is appearing in a new play called Greenwash which is on for the same period as the exhibition.



Alice Alexander's (neƩ Tait)
work is appearing on a number of new book covers including How To Meet A Man After 40 by Shane Watson.



The opening of Altermodern at Tate Britain, and featuring Darren Almond was somewhat tempered by it being on Monday February 2nd, that day that will henceforth be referred to as Snowday. Anyway . . . the critics did manage to see it at some point that week including Laura Cumming for The Observer.



The 20/21 Art Fair is taking place at the Royal College of Art this forthcoming weekend (February 19th - 22nd) and The Art Movement will be showing new work by Cristina Rodriguez.



Jo Ratcliffe has been busy gaining prestigious commissions including working on the windows for the new TopShop store in New York. If you want a glimpse of what she might be doing for the New York store then the windows at the Oxford Circus branch have also just been Ratcliffed.



Lastly - click here to see Pete Gleadall and Smokin Jo talking about they came to name one of their collaborative tracks under the TRNSSTR moniker.