April News

A relatively short entry this month . . . let's put it down to Easter.

Speaking of which . . . you may still be able to get hold of the Lisa Jones designed mug that Melt commissioned to hold their Easter Eggs. They had them in store last week filled not only with a chocolate egg but also with the option of other chocolates from their range. If you're in the market for a chocolate recommendation can I point you towards their dark chocolate discs with orange and fennel.



Lisa has also designed some new cards for her range - they are already available from her internet store.



Justin Hibbs has work in a group exhibition, titled Form Follows Attitide, at ArtRepCo in Zurich. The exhibition opened on March 27th and runs through until May 23rd.





Canon produced a short film last year partly based on Pip Hackett and London Fashion Week. It is being shown on BBC world, CNN and National Geographic over April and May, or you can watch it on this link.



Jay Burridge's one-off billboards for Levis were up all around London last month - one of them for an unexpectedly short time as it was stolen only the day after the day that it was installed. These boards based on Hokusai's wave were the 2nd batch pf billboards that Jay has done for Levis - the first were a series of denim butterflies.







The windows of the new Top Shop store in New York were designed by our very own Jo Ratcliffe. I haven't seen pictures of her air kissing J-Lo at the opening night but am sure she must have been there somewhere.





Sydney played host to a conference called Semi Permanent on April 3rd & 4th. One of the speakers was Kate Gibb. I don't know whether her talk was of her love for mark making, printed ephemera and Japanese food or whether she talked of her ongoing infatuation with Neighbours - maybe if I searched youtube thoroughly enough I could find out.

March News

Pip Hackett's studio has been immortalised for posterity in the pages of a book called London Ateliers which is published by the Japanese publishing house, edition Paumes. There are 8 pages devoted to her, unusually tidy (!), studio and in a game of spot the other GWS artists present you may also find work by Sean Alexander, Alice Tait, Andy Bridge and Julie Goldsmith in the same pages. The book also features Jacqui Roche in her home studio. If you want to get hold of the book you can do so here.











Mary Grant has a solo exhibition at Buckley Fine Art in Co Cork. The show opens on Thursday March 19th and continues until April 12th and is titled Journey To Breara.



I have a backlog of Brickett Davda news that I have so far failed to get on to these pages so . . . here goes.

Two editions of Elle Decoration in a row have featured Jo's work, mostly on the back of her work for Toast, who have just launched their new 'house and home' range.







And . . . the work was featured in the ES magazine as well.



Justin Hibbs has work in a three man show that is currently on at the gallery One In The Other titled Recession+Aesthetics and curated by Sami Jalli. It runs until March 29th at 4 Vyner Street, E2.



Following on from her successful joint show with Paul Vanstone at St George's Wharf, Lynn Parotti has secured another show at The Avenue Restaurant on St James's Street, SW1. The exhibition is already up and runs through until April 30th.



Sandra Shashou also has a show of her work opening in the centre of town at Robert Sandelson at 5 Cork Street where she will be exhibiting new paintings.



Kate Gibb is featured in the current edition of idn magazine which is published in Hong Kong. The magazine is stocked by Magma books among others, but when I checked last wasn't yet in stock. In the meantime you can see Kate's entry on the magazine's blog.



Darren Almond's new exhibition in Berlin is his fifth solo show with Max Hetzler. Somewherestill is on from March 14th until April 25th and features fullmoon photographs that he took on a recent trip to the yellow mountains in China inspired by the scroll work paintings by Jiang Tao that were made in the mid 17th Century.



Lastly . . . as mentioned in last months newsletter, here are the pictures of Jo Ratcliffe's windows for Top Shop in London.