Frank Bowling attended his exhibition at the Hales Gallery, Shoreditch with his OBE medal proudly on show. Admiring attendees gathered around his wheelchair for a handshake and a mobile phone pic as if in the presence of an art-God. The OBE was deservedly awarded for a distinguished career spanning five decades, which includes becoming an […]
THE POETRY OF PLACE exhibition, 17 August – 16 September brings together UK and Japanese artists working in print. Curated by the Wyllie O Hagan team and Rebecca Marcus-Monks at the Koppel Project, Baker Street, it focuses on the theme of place and presents different approaches to capturing the essence of environment. The curators felt […]
Exactly a hundred years after French poet Guillaume Apollinaire invented the term surrealism, The White Cube’s latest exhibition Dreamers Awake explores this art movement through the work of fifty female artists. Fellow Frenchman Andre Breton is credited with kick starting the revolution but today it has influenced the work of many artists, some of whom […]
FOR ALL those who believe modern art is rubbish just what will you make of a new London art gallery set up in a yellow building site skip? Not an enlarged building-sized version but an actual one. They’ll struggle to fit in the art works let alone the gallery attendants, but London-based artists Catherine Borokowski […]
The Saatchi Gallery is enjoying a very smartphone-friendly summer, with the recent announcement that its popular From Selfie to Self Expression exhibition has been extended to July 23rd and also the launch of their #SelfieExpression competition. It’s open to anyone with a smartphone regardless of whether you’re an artist, photographer or just your average mobile […]
THIS YEAR’S competition, as with previous year’s, had visitors scratching their heads at the dilemma facing the selection committee and judges. The fantastic standard ranged from meticulously lifelike representations such as Delfin by Jesus Maria Saez de Vicunho Ochoa, to Alejandro an impressionist-influenced painting of artist Anca-Luiza Sirbu’s six-year-old son. And there were 2,500 such […]
JUNE 20th was private view night for the fourth edition of the Young Masters Art Prize 2017 at Gallery 8, Mayfair. It celebrates contemporary artists whose work is in the spirit and methods of the Old Masters. Among the respected judges were Charles Saumarez Smith, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Art and Melanie […]
Due to the popularity of their current selfie exhibition which emerged from a competition, Saatchi have announced their second such open-entry call out. Submissions opened on June 12th for their #SelfExpression competition which calls on anyone over 16 with a smartphone who fancies themselves as an artist or photographer to turn their talents on themselves […]
Painting Dustman from Mile End Stanislav Geissler has just celebrated having his sculpture/painting Alexander McQueen v David Bowie-The Last Dress Up as the centrepiece at the recent Salon des Refuses exhibition organised by Happenstance Framing at the Candid Arts Trust, Islington. What’s Hot London? readers can take a peek in his studios to see his […]
From June 1st – 4th London’s version of the Salon des Refusés exhibition will run at Candid Arts, Islington. The original Salon emerged in Paris in the eighteenth century and featured paintings that were rejected by the prestigious Paris Salon. This 2017 exhibition shows works rejected by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. A violinist gave […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
