13 May 2014
Studio 17, Unit 0, Second Floor Studios and Arts
Mellish Industrial Estate, Warspite Rd, London SE18 5NR
15th May (opening night) 18.00 – 21.00
17th – 19th May 11.00 – 18.00
My paintings, printmaking and drawing will be on show and for sale in my studio. Over 300 studios will be open: artists, printmakers, craft makers and designer makers. Cafe overlooking the river, parking available. Directions.
May 1 2014
Studio 75 Pop Up Gallery
75 Lassell Street, Greenwich, SE10 9PJ
Opened yesterday evening, the pop-up gallery was full of visitors, sales were made including my etching of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – lots of interesting work to see
May 2nd – 5th, 10am-4pm
Private View, Thursday 1st May 6-9pm
1a Greenwich Market, Greenwich, London Se10 9HZ
16th May 2014. 10.30am-5.30pm. Tuesday – Sunday
This is an Artist led gallery which I have recently joined. Each printmaker has been selected by the other members to join the Greenwich Printmakers Association. The group exhibition of members prints changes every 2 months, the new exhibition will go up next Tuesday which will include 2 framed etchings of mine, there are extensive browsers which contain many interesting unframed prints. I have recently had greetings cards printed which are also on-sale at the gallery.
Made In Blackheath. Pop-Up Shop
Business Centre, Kidbrooke Village
16th May. 9 am -2 pm and 6pm – 9pm
I am the only visual artist in this eclectic group, also jewellery, fashion, speciality cakes, a Personal Trainer and an Interior Designer. I will show small works: etchings and cards
Studio 17,Unit 0, Second Floor Studios and Art
Mellish Industrial Estate, Warspite Rd, London SE18 5NR
15th May (opening night) 17th -19th May
My paintings, printmaking and drawing will be on show and for sale in my studio, 300 studios on site, most will be open. Cafe overlooking the river, parking available
Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN
20 – 22 June 2014
On my stand I will display etching, drawing and painting
Friday 6.00pm – 8.30pm – Private View
Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm – Open to the public
Sunday 10.00am – 5.00pm – Open to the public
26 April 20014
The Supper Room: Hakeem Onibudo at Greenwich Dance
The charismatic Hakeem Onibudo invited me to join him and his vibrant dance company Impact Dance, at The Supper Room, Greenwich Dance, to capture the evening through Live Drawings of the event, I was to draw a large sketch that the guests to The Supper Room would be invited to interact with by adding their thoughts and comments to.
A small selection from the many drawings I made during the evening
It was a wonderful evening of Hakeem’s visually arresting choreography from the fabulous Impact Dance, delicious Caribbean food (from Island Flavours) and music you want to dance to
Some of the drawings will be at the next Art Show that I am taking part in:
Studio 75. 75 Lassell Street, Greenwich, SE10 9PJ
12 Artists. Bank holiday weekend. May 2nd – 5th, 10am – 4pm
Private View: Thursday 1st May 6 – 9pm
6th April 2014
As they arrived the audience added to The Interactive Wall and made more wire figures to add to the City Scape
An evening of short dance works followed, completing with a disco. Performers included: Cathy Waller Company, Maxwell Golden, Dickson Mbi, Fully Functioning Individuals as well as a group from local school St Ursulas and the Laban Contemporary Level One.
Here’s a few drawings from the evening
Dickson Mbi
Above and below: Fully Functioning Individuals (FFI)
On Saturday I joined the young people in the classes at Greenwich Dance Saturday classes where they worked towards the City-Scape to be part of Divercity
The work made at Trinity Laban and Greenwich Dance was mounted together to make a large City-Scape Interactive Wall for the visitors to add to on the night.
Luggage tags with comments about our City were tied to a lit up wire figure made by Maxim McKay-Jones
The wire figure ‘selfies’ were added to the Wall
Divercity at Greenwich Dance, Saturday 5th April 6.30pm
29 March 2014
Greenwich Dance Today
Are you a teenager interested in joining me at Greenwich Dance today between 11 and 3.00pm to create a large City-Scape which will be part of Divercity on 5th April, tag, draw, make a wire figure to add to the artwork write comments about our city to tie onto life size wire sculptures.
See what the youth dance students created at Trinity Laban last Saturday
DIVERCITY 5th April. 6.30pm
10 March 2014
Read a great review given by Luke Jennings in The Observer plus 5 stars given to Yorke Dance Project’s triple bill, I designed and painted the backdrops for Charlotte Edmonds No Strings Attached, the first dance of the evening. I worked from drawings I had made during the rehearsals last summer.
5 March 2014
Yorke Dance Project perform Figure Ground at the Lilian Baylis, Sadler’s Wells
A week ago at the Lilian Baylis, Yorke Dance Project performed a wonderful preview performance of their touring programme: Figure Ground, an evening of 3 dances from the company. I was commissioned to create the set for the first work of the evening: No Strings Attached, choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds. I spent 3 weeks drawing during the rehearsals in the summer of 2013. Working from the drawings I painted 3 backdrop panels using acrylics each measuring 4m x 2m. I negotiated 6 days in the high ceilinged No Format Gallery near my studio, to paint the canvas so had to have them complete in this time-frame.
It was great to paint on such a large scale – a first for me! In 2012 I created figurative wire sculpture to be on stage with Yolande Yorke-Edgell in Noted.
On Tuesday evening fellow Greenwich Dance Resident Artist, Theo Clinkard, will perform with his company of 6 his life affirming and heart wrenching dance Ordinary Courage, at Laban S. London. I drew this work in 2013 when it was performed at Greenwich Dance in February with Amstatten choreographed by another Greenwich Resident Artist, Robert Clark. I displayed the drawings of Amstatten during the evening and entered the sketchbook into the selected exhibition Sketch 2013 at Rabley Drawing Center. The exhibition has now moved to Black Swan Arts in Frome, Somerset until 8 February.
So see Ordinary Courage, the dance, in London and the sketches of the dance in Frome.
26th January 2014
On Wednesday I completed the 3 canvas’s for the back-drop to No Strings Attached, the dance choreographed by Causeway Young Artist in Residence Charlotte Edmonds for Yorke Dance Project‘s upcoming performance at the Lilian Baylis theatre February 27th and 28th. They measure 4m x 2m, too big for my studio walls, so I worked at No Format Gallery, which is on the same site as my studio, with a high ceiling and lots of wall space.
Because of the size I worked in a landscape format, even though they will hang Portrait. Although tricky, easier than climbing a ladder, because Charlotte Edmonds, the Choreographer and Yolande Yorke Edgell, the Artistic Director, haven’t seen the backdrop yet I cannot post a picture, however I’m sure its ok to post a close up of me in action.
I have never worked so large, but I hope I have the opportunity to so again, I loved it.