This weekend: The Future Can Wait and New Sensations

October 14, 2011 by Georgia

Victoria House

Bloomsbury Ballroom

Southampton Row

WC1B 4DA

It is obviously hard to choose from the many, many brilliant art events happening all over London this weekend, but here are two – combined in one – that are definitely worth a visit. And not only because the work of Other Criteria artist Tom Ormond is included.

Both taking place for the fifth year in a row, New Sensations and The Future Can Wait say they aim to be a counterpoint to the Frieze Art Fair by providing a platform for new artistic talent.

New Sensations is the Saatchi Gallery’s mission to find, support and award imaginative and talented young artists in the UK. The Future Can Wait, conceived by art talent hunters Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley is an ambitious, curated, yearly exhibition of young artists with the aim to ‘offer an alternative experience to the traditional gallery and art fair systems’.

These shows are an opportunity for both ventures to present their new finds to an international audience during Frieze Week.

The exhibitions run from 11-17 October 2011 and entry is free. There will be a late opening on Saturday October 15th until 9pm.

Tom Ormond, Sol Space II, Oil on Linen, 2010

Francesca Lowe, The Breath of Epiphany, Oil on Linen, 2010

Chris Jones, Old Raa Boh, Magazine and book images, board wire dowel and polymer varnish, 2011

JURIED PRIZE EXHIBITION: ‘Anthology’ Thursday 4th August

CHARLIE SMITH London is delighted to announce the shortlist for its inaugural juried exhibition Anthology, in association with The Mark Clannachan Collection; re-title.com – the international directory service for contemporary artists and galleries; and spacedup.co.uk – specialists in the rental of artist studios and live / work spaces.

Selected and curated by Paul Carey-Kent, Zavier Ellis, Roy Exley, Werner Grub & Edward Lucie-Smith from 650 applicants, Anthology is a multi disciplinary exhibition that has reached out democratically to artists worldwide. Consisting of ten finalists, a cash prize of £1,000 will be awarded by The Mark Clannachan Collection to one winner for outstanding merit.

ANTHOLOGY

£1,000 Juried Prize Exhibition

Private View | Prize Giving | First Thursday
Thursday August 4th 6.30pm–8.30pm

Exhibition Dates
Friday August 5th 2011 – Saturday August 20th 2011

Gallery Hours
Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment

ARTISTS:
Jake Clark, Emma Critchley, Harold de Bree, Andy Harper, Alex Hudson, Enzo Marra, Steven Morgana, Suzanne Moxhay, Tom Ormond and Michelle Sank

Tom Ormond

Emma Critchley

Harold de Bree

Suzanne Moxhay

Alex Hudson

Michelle Sank

COMING SOON: ‘Fraternise – The Salon’ at Beaconsfield

March 28, 2011 by Kay

Fraternise – the Salon

Beaconsfield

2 April – 29 May 2011

Edwina fitzPatrick, Flights of Fancy, 2007, paper, cork pads, pins, image courtesy the artist

Fraternise – the Salon gathers a cohort of artists in a curated, fundraising exhibition, to support the future existence of Beaconsfield – the pioneering, non-profit organisation that has provided a laboratory and presentation space for artists since 1995.

Fraternise – the Salon is co-curated by the charity’s artist-trustees, Rachel Howard, Judith Dean and artist-directors A. David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.

Adam Dix, The Prophet of Zoom, 2010, Ink and oil on paper, 63 x 53 cms (unframed), image courtesy the artist

Artists involved include: Franko B, David Birkin, John Burgess, Tony Carter, Tamsyn Challenger, Adam Dix, Richard Elliot, Robert Ellis, Tracey Emin, Rebecca Fortnum, Eloise Fornieles, Stephen Fowler, Paul Fryer, Rachel Garfield, Lucy Gunning, Matt Hale, Damien Hirst, Rachel Howard, Sarah Jones, Simon Lawson, Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay, Maria Marshall, Ross McNicol, David Mollin, Paul Noble, Tom Ormond, Lily Paine, Tom Paine, Tamsin Pender, Boo Saville, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger, Amelia Whitelaw, Erika Winstone and many more.

To see the full list of artists involved, visit Beaconsfield website.

Damien Hirst, Big Love (Unique Proof), 2010, Silkscreen on paper, 61.97 x 60.31 in (1574 x 1532 mm), DHP 14091
Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates
(c) Damien Hirst and Hirst Holdings Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011

Beaconsfield is an artist-led entity that specialises in encouraging artists to pursue projects of ambition and to experiment without commercial pressure. The Salon brings together collaborators, patrons and protégés who have worked with Beaconsfield or who support its role in the artists’ community.

The Salon offers a rare opportunity to view a diverse range of contemporary works (many artists exhibiting together for the first time) and to start or expand a collection. Sales will benefit both participating artists and Beaconsfield.

Eloise Fornieles, Wanderlust III, 2010, Rocking horse, balloons, cord, rowing machine
Photography by Lynne Fornieles
Image courtesy the artist

Further information:

Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY +44 (0) 20 7582 6465

info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk

www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

THIS THURSDAY: Tom Ormond in Depot

September 7, 2010 by Kay

The New Light of Tomorrow

PRESS: Tom Ormond’s Surface Warp Factor

In State of the Art, John-Paul Pryor converses with some of the art world’s most creative behind the scenes players: the curators.

Surface Warp Factor is one of the most spaced-out shows you are likely to see this year. Despite a title that makes one instantly think of a battle scene in Star Trek, it’s a stunningly executed exploration of the relationship between science fiction, modernism and geometry, containing work by eight contemporary artists. I zipped up my spacesuit and stepped through the airlock to talk to the curator and participating artist Richard Ducker about sinister black objects, seven-minute versions of Kubrick’s 2001 and dystopian visions of the stock exchange… To continue reading the article at AnOther mag, click here.

Surface Warp Factor is on show at the Aubin Gallery until July 25

July 12, 2010 by Ellie

TONIGHT: Tom Ormond at The Aubin Gallery

July 1, 2010 by Kay

Don’t miss the private view for Surface Warp Factor tonight at The Aubin Gallery featuring Diann Bauer, Juan Bolivar, Gordon Cheung, Richard Ducker, Stewart Gough, Sheena Macrae, Ian Monroe and Tom Ormond.

The exhibition is curated by the Fieldgate Gallery and runs until 25th July 2010. For more information, including the official press release, see our previous post. To view more images of work in the show, click here.

UPCOMING: Tom Ormond at The Aubin Gallery

1st – 25th July 2010

Private View: Thursday 1st July 6-9.30pm

The Aubin Gallery presents Surface Warp Factor, an exhibtiion curated by Fieldgate Gallery and featuring Diann Bauer, Juan Bolivar, Gordon Cheung, Richard Ducker, Stewart Gough, Sheena Macrae, Ian Monroe and Tom Ormond.

‘There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived sub cults and replicated them at odd intervals… If the technology had been available, the Big Scientists would all have had sockets stuffed with microsofts. It was the style that mattered and the style was the same. The Moderns were mercenaries, practical jokers, nihilistic techno fetishists.’

The artists in this exhibition explore some of the paradigms between Modernism, geometry and science fiction, confronting utopias and dystopias. Within this matrix, human fears, fantasies and failings are set against vertiginous backdrops, information overload or sensory excess.

‘Then the drug hit him like an express train, a white hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch perfect and as clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicon. Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purist crystal expanding…’

*Excerpts from ‘Neuromancer’ by William Gibson (1984)

Gallery open: Mon-Sat 10-7pm, Sun 11-5pm.

June 24, 2010 by Ellie