UK Tour: Laura Ferreira Exhibition at Glasgow Café

Last stop Scotland once again, this time Glasgow. We've visited many exhibitions  here in the last three days but the highlight was definitely the work of Laura Ferreira. 

Big City Sunset

UK Tour: Manchester Open Exhibition

Back to Manchester for an open exhibition at the Blank Space gallery. There was quite a crowd. We missed the opening night by a week but it was still a great atmosphere and some brilliant work in a huge variety of mediums.

UK Tour: Harv Harvey Opening Exhbition

Another intensely packed and exciting opening show, this time in a city high in  the mountains of Wales. Listed high up in the arts pages we read in Edinburgh we just had to see hwat all the hype was about. All of young photographer Harv Harvey's work in the exhibition is inspired by 30s/40s Hollywood. He even has his own studio of stars who are featured in the artwork (above: Harv Harvey and guests at the opening (from harvharvey.com) I wish I 'd had the chance to speak to him.

Outside the exhibition.

Ville Kinos by Harv Harvey, this was featured on all the posters outside the gallery and was the picture which first grabbed my attention in the magazine back in Scotland. A fantastic portrait, my favorite of the whole show.

I got a chance to meet Zsa Zsa Den Dooven, one of the Harv Harvey stars.

Overall a great show and some fantastic black and white photography by an up-and-coming artist. If you're interested in the show it will be touring the UK this year. Another successful exhibition visit on my UK tour and a great introduction to Wales.

Stars In Cellophane

UK Tour: Text Festival Opening

An intensely packed and exciting opening weekend in Bury and Manchester for the Text Festival - various reviews, images, recordings, videos and reports will appear in the next few weeks but here is a selection of images to start it off here. Many of my photos look like there was no-one there, mainly because I was able to take shots before everyone arrived and once they did I was often too busy to think about the camera. (above: gallery view - foreground: I TELL YOU THE TRUTH by Kate Pickering)

Ron Silliman, Tony Lopez, Me, Barney and Christian Bök .

Sarah Sanders' beautiful performance from the ring balcony

Liz Collini's great wall drawing in the Bury Transport Museum.

As an encore following the Ursonate performances, an amazing world first - Christian Bök and Jaap Blonk improvise. A hugely successful opening and introduction to Manchester.

"If You Don't Fill It Full Of Stars And Falseness"

Mein schwules Auge / My gay Eye #6 Book Review)

I got given this book as a present for Christmas last month and have been glued. I'm very open minded being a bisexual female myself and find this book aimed at gay men to be a very take on the world. It also introduced me to the work of Rinoldo Hopf who's work is also of great interest. Check him out online.

Mein schwules Auge / My gay Eye #6 Edited by Rinaldo Hopf & Axel Schock, Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke
Booklaunch & Reading FRIDAY dec.11th 8:30pm at EISENHERZ Bookstore, Lietzenburgerstr.9A, Berlin-Schoeneberg

UK Tour: Patsy McArthur and Dylan Lisle Showdown

My UK visit and search for new arts starts with the Patsy McArthur and Dylan Lisle showdown opening in Scotland. It was a fascinating insight into this artist's work.  The people from the gallery have made a great job of presenting and publicising the exhibition.

Despite the intense heat generated in the gallery by the tropical colour of Patsy's frock, the packed gallery was spilling out onto the street until well after the preview was due to finish. An AMAZING turnout!

Here are some of the paintings. I suggest that you check out Patsy's blog or the UnionGallery website to see the other half of the exhibition. She really is an inspiration to young painters out there. Trult amazing work.