Collect4 Painting Week

REVIEW OF PAINTING WEEK OPENING NIGHT COLLECT4 '08 HOSTED BY DegreeArt.com 30 VYNER STREET, E2 2nd OCTOBER 2008 Collect4 launched this week with the first of four weeks of exhibitions - The Painting Week. Sixteen emerging, graduate painters' pieces fill the gallery walls until Sunday displaying a wealth of concepts, styles, materials and fresh talent. Tuesday evening saw five DegreeArt.com artists presenting their recent work and ideas in the painting portfolio review to Catherine Dhullu (Modern Painters, LBT), Lee Mathews (Private Collector) and DegreeArt.com Directors Elinor Olisa and Isobel Beauchamp. Andy Owen introduced his plans and paintings for his forthcoming solo show 'in/ex/ternal' whilst Kostas Georgiou explained the importance of music, and the representation of this, in his canvases. Kate Marshall gave the audience a preview of her forthcoming limited edition book exploring the phenomenon of the 'celebrity artist' through printmaking. The First Thursday late night opening saw the gallery packed to the rafters with the usual eclectic mix of artists, art students, collectors and all round art private view enthusiasts! Click here to view selected photos from the night. The next late night opening will be held during the Sculpture week next Thursday the 9th October 6pm til late in association with Run Riot. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: DegreeArt.com kicks off its Collect4 season with a week of painting that cements the medium's reputation as one of the most engaging, intelligent, varied and approachable on the contemporary art circuit. The works on show largely deal with sense and experience, both real and perceived. Andrew Newton seeks the viewer's personal interpretation of his exquisitely rendered close-ups of oblivious sitters, whilst Zoe Crosse's expressive nudes both entice and repel the viewer in an art historical game of cat and mouse. Disparate social connotations and conventions are explored in the sensual surfaces of both Kate Marshall and Andy Owen's work, whilst the viewer's environment is questioned in the canvases of Gabor Gyory. SELECTED WORKS EXHIBITING ARTISTS Larry Achiampong, Johan Andersson, Ulrika I K Andersson, Zoe Crosse, Kostas Georgiou, Gabor Gyory, Anwen Handmer, Tom Houser, Kate Marshall, Andrew Newton, Kim O'Neil, Andy Owen, Beckie Reed, William Roberts WHERE DegreeArt.com Gallery, 30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ WHEN Painting Week: Tuesday 30th - Sunday 5th (First Thursday 2nd 6-9pm) Sculpture Week: Tuesday 7th - Sunday 12th (Late Night Thursday 9th 6-9pm) Photography Week: Tuesday 14th - Sunday 19th (Late Night Thursday 16th 6-9pm) New Media Week: Tuesday 21st - Sunday 26th (Late Night Thursday 23rd 6-9pm) PHOTOGRAPHER Joseph Upton Copyright 2008 For more photographs please click here FURTHER INFORMATION Elinor Olisa, 020 8980 0395, elinor@DegreeArt.com

Re: Art August 2008

Re: Art August 2008


In this issue:

1) Collect4 Update
Book tickets for talks and portfolio reviews and confirmed artists
2) Artists' News
Music Festivals to Mexican Martyrs
3) Now and Next at the DegreeArt.com Gallery
Don't miss 'Gullwing Mary and the Dannevirke Divas'
4) Things We Like
And think you might too....
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Collect4 '08



During London’s most exciting art month, DegreeArt.com will be hosting four one week long exhibitions connecting emerging graduate artists with buyers and collectors. Doing what they do best DegreeArt.com will open their doors making Art accessible, affordable and approachable. Each week a carefully select group of artists will be showcased.

Further details:

Thursday Night Openings
Each Thursday there will be a late night opening 6-9pm with drinks and music for the after work crowd.

Purchase
All pieces will be for sale and under £2000 and available to buy using an Own Art 10 month interest free loan.

Pre -Register to receive 10% off any purchase during Collect4 from the gallery. To pre register click here



Lectures
Each weekly exhibition will also incorporate a FREE Tuesday guest lecture with specific industry professionals, all relating to the medium on show. Online bookings will be available from mid September.

Portfolio Reviews
Prior to the Tuesday night lecture, the guest speakers and DegreeArt.com's Elinor and Isobel will conduct a limited number of portfolio reviews for student and recent graduate artists. Please send your CV to elinor@DegreeArt.com to apply for a review.

Guide
The gallery is producing a ‘How to Buy, Collect and Invest in Graduate Art’ booklet to aid visitors during their visits to galleries.

For more information please contact the gallery on 020 8980 0395/ info@DegreeArt.com
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Artists' News

Moses Powers
London Metropolitan, BA Hons Fine Art, 2009
Student photographer extrordinaire Moses Powers teamed up with Alex Nobel to curate this year's Guardian Lounge at Glastonbury. Utilizing his skills at sourcing bizarrely complimentary object Powers and Noble created a fantasy hanging centre piece for the tent.

Moses's limited edition prints are available on the site.

Kate Marshall
Goldsmiths College, BA Hons Fine Art, 2004


'Mayra Reyes Solis'
2008

Kate has been invited to do a retablo portrait of Mayra Reyes Solis, a 17 year old Mexican high school student murdered in 2001. "400 Women" is a project featuring 400 portraits by Lomax, Tracey Emin, Annie Kevans, Maggi Hambling and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. It intends to make a serious political statement but also a fund-raising activity for the groups of activists that are supporting women's rights and continuing the fight to stop violence against women in Mexico and beyond.

Catherine Knight
Bath Spa University, MA Fine Art- 2008

Congratulations to 2008 Bath Spa graduate Catherine Knight who has won the the Royal West of England Academy student bursary prize.



Catherine Knight
'Moscow, 1975'
2007
Oil on Board
50cm x 40cm
£750
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DegreeArt.com Exhibitions
30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ
Open daily 12-6pm

On Now
Gullwing Mary and the Dannevirke Divas
David Le Fleming



First Thursday: 4th September 6-9pm
Show runs until 7^th Sept
For full press release click here
To view available work click here

Monsters and Grotesques
EllieMay Logan


First Thursday: 4th September 6-9pm
Show runs until 7^th Sept
For full press release click here

On Next - Sept

Vying for Attention
Broad, Mallatratt and Niland



Private View: 11th September 6-9pm
Show Runs: 10th - 14th September 12-6pm daily
For full press release click here
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Things We Like

The Vyner Street Festival

For the 5th year running The Eel Collective and The Victory Pub hosted the Vyner Street Festival. Its aim is to bring the new eastenders, the artists, new media workers, musicians together with the long-standing working class community. Over the past 4 years the Street has undergone a silent revolution seeing the influx of over 14 galleries and numerous studios making it the highest concentration of art galleries in all of London.

Proceeds are donated to Child Cot death charity FSIDS, chosen by Victory landlords Steve and Auring.

To donate to FSIDS click here

The Whitechaple Art Hunt


Sat 27 September, 1 – 5pm
Whitechapel Art Hunt III adventure

Explore East London's dynamic art scene in an exciting new way. Art Hunt will lead you through the maze of contemporary galleries hidden in the area’s back streets.

Discover amazing spaces and meet the scene’s artists, curators and gallery owners. Crack the code with the help of the people you meet to win prizes and find your way to a secret hidden gallery party.

All you need is a sense of adventure.
£6 per person

Booking essential to receive the first clue - click here

Waldemar Januszczak - The Sculpture Diaries



Waldemar Januszczak presents his definitive account of his all-time favourite art-form - sculpture - in this three-part series starting Sunday 31st August 7pm on Channel 4. __________________________________________________

Best wishes from Elinor, Isobel and the rest of the team

If you missed July's newsletter click here to read it

Review of Lewis Scott's Transient City

PRIVATE VIEW OF A TRANSIENT CITY
BY LEWIS SCOTT


HOSTED BY DegreeArt.com
30 VYNER STREET, E2
10th JULY 2008

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

DegreeArt.cpom presents The Transient City, the debut show from artist-on-the-rise Lewis Scott. Since graduating from Central St Martins in design, environment and architecture this June, Scott has built a reputation as an artist with an eye for urban landscapes. Looking beyond familiar landmarks to the darker, hidden aspects of cityscapes, he draws on the changing skies and weather. Scott's paintings are often heavy on foregrounding; it's as though you're looking at them from behind a wire fence or through gauze. This vantage point creates an eerie distancing effect, also evident in his photos of anonymous night skies. (Helen Holtom, Flavor Pill)

Click here for more photos of the private view
Click here to view available work by Lewis

ATTENDED GUESTS
Lewis Scott, Elinor Olisa (DegreeArt.com), Isobel Beauchamp (DegreeArt.com), Andy Owen,
Marcus Jaye (ChicGeek), Jamie McLaren (Run Riot), Anne-Charlotte Mornington, Ruth Holloway (GlimpseOnline), Esther Hardy (GlimpseOnline), Nasser Golzari, Matteo Mantavani, Gratia Zach, Katharina Eisenkoeck and Tom Newbound.

WHERE
DegreeArt.com Gallery, 30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ
WHEN
Thursday 10 July 2008
Show runs until the 20th July 12-6pm
PHOTOGRAPHER
Jo Upton Copyright 2008
For more photographs please click here

Re: Art July 2008

Re: Art July 2008



In this issue:
1) Presenting Collect4
DegreeArt.com launches its Four Week Art Event
2) Artists' News
New recruits and DegreeArt.com Artists' News
3) Now and Next at the DegreeArt.com Gallery
Transient City extended and our Summer Calender
4) Things We Like
And think you might too....
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Collect4 '08


During London’s most exciting art month, DegreeArt.com will be hosting four one week long exhibitions connecting emerging graduate artists with buyers and collectors. Doing what they do best DegreeArt.com will open their doors making Art accessible, affordable and approachable. Each week a carefully select group of artists will be showcased.

Each weekly exhibition will also incorporate guest lectures, conversations with the artists and portfolio reviews from specific industry professionals, all relating to the medium on show. A list of these events will be available shortly.

The gallery is producing a ‘How to Buy, Collect and Invest in Graduate Art’ booklet to aid visitors during their visits to galleries.

-Each Thursday there will be a late night opening with drinks and music for the after work crowd.

-All pieces will be for sale and under £2000 and available to buy using an Own Art 10 month interest free loan.
-Exhibiting artists will be confirmed in next month's newsletter. Please visit the website for further details.

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Artists' News

We have started registering our new graduates on the website and will be showcasing a selection during Collect4. Here's a pick of three of the latest to be uploaded:

Charlotte Mclaughlin
University of Wales Institute Cardiff, BA Hons Fine Art 2007

'Tu Tu'
2007
Oil on Paper
100cm x 139cm
£700

Maria Colom
City & Guilds Of London Art School , BA Fine Art Painting- 2008

'Animation'
2008
Oil on Canvas.
160cm x 240cm
£1900

Laura Stocker
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design , BA Hons Fine Art 2007


'Untitled 7 (star)'
2007
Painted Matchsticks on Board.
100cm x 100cm
£1200

Congratulations to MA Winchester graduate Caroline Hall who has been chosen by juror Manon Slome, the chief curator of Chelsea Art Museum, in the 2008 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. She will also be exhibiting in Chelsea and New York this year.



'Attempt to Capture Moving Pixels Number 10 (detail)'
Oil on Canvas

£Sold

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DegreeArt.com Exhibitions
30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ
Open daily 12-6pm

On Now

Transient City
Lewis Scott


Show extended until 27^th July
Lewis Scott’s ‘Transient City’
review by —Emma Holtom (Flavor Pill July 2008)

Since graduating from Central St Martins in design, environment and architecture, Scott has built a reputation as an artist with an eye for urban landscapes. Looking beyond familiar landmarks to the darker, hidden aspects of cityscapes, he draws on the changing skies and weather. Scott's paintings are often heavy on foregrounding; it's as though you're looking at them from behind a wire fence or through gauze. This vantage point creates an eerie distancing effect, also evident in his photos of anonymous night skies.

To read our review and see photos from the opening click here
To view Lewis's new and available work click here

On Next - July

Main Gallery:
- Andy Wicks and David Northedge - New Paintings



Semi figurative smears and acidic geometric fields combine in Andy Wicks and David Northedge's New Paintings. Both artists articulate a wasted dystopian landscape in which Wicks' liquid thin veils of colour corrupt and obscure floating geometric forms as though we are seeing alien planets through toxic condensation gathered on the window of our bathyscaphe. Northedge's semi abstract islands of slickly smeared silhouettes, scarred surfaces and flat planes of colour, depict an ambiguous junction between the figurative and the abstract. The cultivated application of paint gives his work an attraction which contradicts the apocalyptic subject matter.

Private View and First Thursday: 7th August 6-9pm
Show Runs: 7th - 10th August 12-6pm daily

Vestry Room:

- Fiona Athanassaki - New Paintings



Fiona is a London based painter and this is her follow on exhibition after her successful solo show at the Spitz Gallery in 2006.

She works with a mixture of paint mediums, using traditional techniques such as gilding combined with a variety of other materials to explore their interaction, contrasts and textures producing images radiant with colour and vibrancy. Her painting is influenced by landscape primarily from the Mediterranean. Using simple abstract forms and colour, surfaces are worked on with glazes to build up a layered transparency and to create a sensation of depth. These paintings are explosive experiments into the world of colour.

Private View and First Thursday: 7th August 6-9pm
Show Runs: 7th - 10th August 12-6pm daily

On Next - August

Main Gallery:

- Gullwing Mary and the Dannevirke Divas
David Le Fleming

David Le Flemming's work for the most part is conceptual in that each piece is hinged with some sort of inherent visual pun. The characters are central to the themes, with close attention to detail being payed to the faces which then peaters out to flat colour fields of the surrounding environment.

Private View: Thursday 21st August 6-9pm R.S.V.P.
First Thursday: 4th September 6-9pm
Show Runs: 20th August - 8th September 12-6pm daily

Vestry Room Gallery:

- Monsters and Grotesques

EllieMay Logan

The Grotesque Style: ‘…in which parts of human, animal, and plant forms are distorted and mixed…’ (Harper Collins Dictionary 2003)

Inspired by the book ‘Demons, Visions of Evil in Art’ ( by Laura Ward and Will Steeds, Carlton Books) EllieMay is mixing the grotesque style with her 3d paper cut-out style, to delve into the medieval world of monsters. With the wonderful space at DEGREEART GALLERY, EllieMay has produced work especially for the space, recognizing it’s gothic character.

Private View: Thursday 21st August 6-9pm R.S.V.P.
First Thursday: 4th September 6-9pm
Show Runs: 20th August - 8th September 12-6pm daily
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Things We Like
Gallery Swapping

A brand new idea that links up galleries from Buenos Aires to Paris and New York to Dubai. This exciting initiative looks set to gain international artists unique exhibiting opportunities. We've signed up so watch this space for our forthcoming swaps.

Click here to visit the website

Shoreditch Shuffle


Incorporating live music, art, burlesque, theatre, fashion and comedy the Shoreditch Shuffle is going to be huge. Running over 2 days in September the founders of Who's Jack magazine have put together an amazing line up that offers something for everyone. A weekend pass is £35.

13th and 14th September

Various venues throughout Shoreditch
Click here to visit the Shoreditch Shuffle site

Art Commodities Beating the Credit Crunch
Radio 4s finacial guru Alvin Hall investigates how art is defying the effects of the economic slowdown caused by the credit crunch.

Listen here

Psycho Buildings

An incredible show to mark the Hayward's 40th anniversary, the exhibits have taken over not only the Hayward Gallery but it's three terraces. This is an exhibition that really puts your brain to work. Novely they are running a 'lucky dip' entry system to the upper levels of the show so keep your fingers crossed...

Click Here to visit the Hayward website

N.B. Ends Monday 25th August

The Hayward Gallery
South Bank, London

Haberdasherylondon


We were really impressed by Haberdashery London's installation 'Untitled 13' currently on display at Selfridges on Oxford Street, London. Made up of 663 reclaimed columns of Victorian pine wood, steel and red perspex the installation represents a considered, sprawling cityscape.

Selfridges & Co corner window,Oxford Street, London
And coming soon to GlimpseOnline.com

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We hope everyone is enjoying the start of the summer.
Best wishes from Elinor, Isobel and the rest of the team x.

Review of Kate Marshall's 'Blue Stockings'

PRIVATE VIEW OF A BLUE STOCKINGS
BY KATE MARSHALL

HOSTED BY DegreeArt.com
THE EMPIRE GALLERY
30 VYNER STREET, E2
05^th JUNE 2008

Kate Marshall returned to DegreeArt.com's gallery almost a year to the day after her 2007 solo debut was singled out as a must-see by the Sunday Times. Her signature figures in acrylic and charcoal “flirt between painting and drawing” and feature alongside work that shows a new bent for printmaking.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Bra-burning strip artists, suffragette jockeys and voyeuristic glances through the glass ceiling offer a “smutty, seaside postcard humour” take on feminism, femininity and the sexualized female image in popular culture. Her inspiration comes from images of women “culled from a glossy magazine, a fairy tale, historic art and literature, trash culture, ancient myth and coffee table erotica.

Click here for more photos of the private view
Click here to view available work by Kate

ATTENDED GUESTS
Kate Marshall, Jack Coriggall, Elinor Olisa (DegreeArt.com), Isobel Beauchamp (DegreeArt.com), Patsy Lima, Gregory Smart, Lorna May Wadsworth, Nathan James, Marcus Jaye (ChicGeek), Jamie McLaren (Run Riot), The Grunbergs, Ruth Holoway,
DRINKS
Duvel Vedett
AFTER PARTY
The Hoxton Pony, Curtain Road
MUSIC
Alex Gromadzki

WHERE
The Empire Gallery, 30 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ
WHEN
Thursday 5 June 2008
Show runs until the 14th June 12-6pm
PHOTOGRAPHER

Joe Upton Copyright 2008
For more photographs please click here