CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Name: The Signature Art Awards
Venue: The DegreeArt.com Galleries 12a Vyner Street London E2 9DG
Private View and Award Ceremony: Thursday 5th August 6-9pm
Show Runs: Friday 6th – Sunday 15th August 12-6pm daily
Based on the success of last year’s Signature Awards, this year’s competition has broadened its entry criteria to allow artists working in ALL artistic fields to enter to win, among other prizes, the opportunity to exhibit at The DegreeArt.com Gallery in Vyner Street, London, in summer 2010. Unlike most competitions, The Signature Art Awards gives the artist free reign over the form and content. Whatever the medium, whatever the subject, The Signature Art Awards present an invaluable opportunity to get your unique creative vision out of the studio and onto the gallery walls.
All submissions will be reviewed by our panel of industry judges who will shortlist finalists in each category to exhibit their piece at the DegreeArt.com Gallery, situated in the heart of London’s thriving East End, art scene.
Ten artists from each of the four categories; Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Mixed Media will be display during the exhibition and an overall winner from each category will be announced at the exhibition’s Private View evening of Thursday 5th August.
One of the ten artists chosen in each category will be the winner of the public vote.
Prizes : The winners of each category will receive, among other goodies from the award sponsors, a year’s representation by DegreeArt.com, the leading Art dealership for emerging artists
All competition entrants will receive free entry to the guest lectures and portfolio reviews chaired by industry experts taking place throughout The Signature Award Exhibition.
The Judging Panel:
Jennifer Francis- Head of marketing at the Royal Academy
Pip McCormac- Feature Writer for Sunday Times Style
Harry Holland- Leading British figurative painter of the Albemarle and Tinney’s galleries
David Waddington- Manager and co-founder of the Bistrotheque
Nick Galvin- Head of Archives at Magnum Photos
John Bassam- Head of Design at Brahm
Natalie Tkachuk- Photographer and previous winner of the photography still life category
Elinor Olisa and Isobel Beauchamp- Directors and Founders of DegreeArt.com
Visit www.DegreeArt.com for more details or contact joe@DegreeArt.com.
Andrea Tyrimos' paintings will be part of a group exhibition at the
'Candid Arts Trust Galleries'
3 Torrens St, Angel Islington
London EC1V 1NQ
T: 020 7837 4237
To view a map please go to: www.candidarts.com
Private View: Thursday 1st April, 6.30-9pm
If you would like to attend the PV please contact info@andreatyrimos.com
21 artists and designers come together for this
'Mixed Media Exhibition'
Your opportunity to view and buy the work of contemporary UK and International Artists & Designers.
Exhibition is from 2nd - 11 April
Open: Mon - Sun 12-6pm
Admission Free
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Departure Gallery
The Middle of Nowhere: Objects and Actions in the Abyss
Private View: Friday 5th March 2010, 6pm-9.30pm.
Refreshments will be served. Free taxi shuttle from Southall Station.
Exhibition: Saturday 6th - Wednesday 10th March, 11.30am-4.30pm daily.
6 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Southall, London UB2 5LF.
Artists:
Kayde Anobile, Louise Ashcroft, Helen Barff, Gabriel Birch, Justine Blau, Amy Brooks, Eitan Buchalter, Roisin Byrne, Sarah Casey, Ben Cave, Charlesworth Lewandowski & Mann, Justine Cook, Richard Cramp, Doris, Danielle Drainey, Everything is Number, Amy Ferguson, Rebecca Gould, Ben Heasman, Andrew Hladky, JooHee Hwang, Doug Jones, Helene Kazan, Jo Lathwood, William Mackrell, Clinton De Menezes, Ilse Mikula, Parlour Collective, Catalina Garces de los Rios, Mark Scott-Wood, Neil C Smith, Andrew Sunderland, Andrea Tyrimos, Jonathan Velardi, Josh Whitaker, Andy Wicks, David Snoo Wilson, Chris Wright*.
(click on names for weblinks)
Curated by Louise Ashcroft.
Getting there: Southall Station is 12 minutes from Paddington by train. Services run regularly until midnight.
Free taxi shuttle from Southall Station on private view night from Merrick Road (first left from Southall Station, please wait by the Departure Gallery sign). Parking is also available on the estate.
The Middle of Nowhere: Objects and Actions in the Abyss is the latest in Departure Gallery’s acclaimed series of exhibitions in the vast warehouses of The International Trading Estate. Amidst a labyrinth of factories and haulage depots, over 40 artists conquer this cavernous space with ambitious sculpture, video and wall-based work, each offering a different perspective on the idea of ‘the middle of nowhere’, through exploration of themes such as disorientation, transience, camouflage, liminal space, spectrality and non-place.
Departure Gallery reclaims empty urban space to provide unique architectural contexts for projects and exhibitions showcasing work by exceptional emerging and established artists.
Press reviews of Departure Gallery’s previous exhibitions on the estate:
“A warehouse party with a difference…There is loads to explore. If you’re looking for something different (and free) to do this weekend, I would highly recommend a trip to Southall to see the show.”
Hannah Collingbourne, VisitLondon.com, 11/12/09.
“Edgy art warehouse shows – no need to go to Brooklyn or Beijing, even if the Southall Project may seem almost as far. But the huuuge space is well worth it. I went to the last show two months ago and what an amazing selection filled it, from the subliminal…to the magnificently mad.”
Herbert Wright, Le Cool magazine, 10/12/09.
For more information, press requests and images please contact Louise Ashcroft on louiseashcroft@departuregallery.com 07861 375101
* Chris Wright’s installation is sponsored by Staffordshire University
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Louise Ashcroft
Director of Exhibitions
Departure Gallery
www.departuregallery.com
mobile 07861 375101
Futurism:
Figments of your Imagination
Thursday 28th January, 2010
Location: Open Arts Café, West London Synagogue,
33 Seymour Place, London, W1H 5AU
Four of Andrea Tyrimos’ paintings will be part of a
one night event in West London.
Come and join us at January’s Open Arts Café as we usher in the new decade, embracing the tides of change and testing our powers of prophecy as we explore ‘Futurism: Figments of your Imagination’.
Whether you think Google will take over our world, or your grandchildren will be fluent in Cantonese or actors will be replaced by Avatars… we assure you that our line-up of artists are ten steps ahead. We will explore the absurd, the terrifying, the funny and the surreal as we travel back to the future with our very own Docs to guide us.
The Café will be filled with…
Laughter from… Rob Broderick, John-Luke Roberts
Prose from… Faye Thomas
Interactive Installations from… Kirstin Smith, Shaun May, Pablo Rivera
Exhibitions from... Michelle Laing, Andrea Tyrimos
Poetry from our resident poet... James Hogg
Come and see the Open Arts Café as you have never seen it before!
Pay-what-you-can. Drinks and nibbles available. All are welcome!
Swan Song
A one-night exhibition in a building soon to be demolished
Curated by Rowena Chiu, hosted by Michael Pritchett
‘All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.’
Anatole France
Swan Song is a one-night group exhibition that will take place in an evacuated 19th Century townhouse off Dean Street, the last remaining in its block of buildings destined for demolition to make way for the area’s new Crossrail station. Loaned to the project by the last of the former occupants of the house, the exhibition will encompass a variety of suddenly empty spaces, cleared of possessions with only hints of its former domestic past, as though abandoned in pre-apocalyptic haste.
Carolina Ambida - Tereza Buskova - Romela Crnogorac - Keran Dee - Aidan Doherty - Katarina Forss - Mathilda Holmqvist
Katie Honan - Yolande Kenny - Henry Krokatsis - Amy Moffat - Jamie Partridge – Nathaniel Rackowe - Alex Roberts - Harry Scoging Beer - Yukako Shibata - Andrea Tyrimos
Date: Friday 15th January 2010
Time: 18.00 – 21.30 with afterparty on site
Location: St Anne’s House, Diadem Court, London W1D 3EF (Tottenham Court Road tube, off Great Chapel Street)
The exhibition will also be viewable by appointment on Saturday 16th January – please contact Rowena to book a viewing
For a streetmap of the location:
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=529578&y=181248&z=0&sv=W1D+3EF&st=2&pc=W1D+3EF&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf
For more information / to book a viewing please contact rowenachiu@rocketmail.com / 07796 266 388
2009, The Waiting Room, North London
2009, Central St Martins Degree Show, Charing Cross Road, London
5 new paintings were exhibited at the Central Saint Martins Fine Art degree show 2009.
Please go to www.csm.arts.ac.uk for more info
2009, Face to Face, The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London
2009, Face to Face, Forty Hall, The Panel Room, Enfield, London
2008, Light up Langthorne Park, Olympiad Event, Leytonstone, London
2008, Splash of Light - (solo exhibition), 'We Are Arts' gallery, Central St Martins, Holborn, London This exciting debut exhibition brought together a diverse group of paintings concerned with the phenomena of Artificial Light and its unique relationship with the Digital World.
2008, Illumini Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London
The Illumini exhibition brought together a variety of 14 artists, all sharing a passion for the subject of light. The opening night included extraordinary light themed performances.
For more information and images go to www.illuminievent.co.uk
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2008, Byam Shaw Gallery, Islington, London
This was a collaboration that took place at the Byam Shaw Gallery in Islington.
The paintings shown in this exhibition were: Back to Black, Death of a Star & Love is a Losing Game
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2007, Trinity Buoy Wharf, East London
This was a university group exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, in East London.
2005, Café Riva, Winchmore Hill, London
This was a small solo exhibition in a coffee shop in Winchmore Hill.