London exhibitions April 11th -17th

With the sun shining this weekend, you must leave the house and enjoy some vitamin D. So here are your top 5 events and exhibitions to visit in London. Sorted.

 

Street Life

Roy's People continues to woo us all with his miniature worlds of people sailing cigarette butts in One Man's Trash and holding for dear life with Life Large 1 as little people fly taxidermied butterflies. Need I say more?

Now- 26th April

Curious Duke Gallery

173 Whitecross Street

London

EC1Y 8JT

Open Monday – Friday 11:30 – 6:30, Saturday 12-4, closed Sunday.

Nearest stations: Old Street exit 6 and Barbican

Free

 

The Shape of a Right Statement

Artists Cynthia Maughan, Ben Kinmont and Wu Tsang worked from the statement 

“ They were two superior eels

at the bottom of the tank and they recognised each other like italics.”

for this exhibition. Video work from the post punk era look at how we use language and we it can be misconstrued from sincerity to manipulation, with Tsang focusing on citation and appropriation of phrases.  

Now- 25th May

Cubitt

8 Angel Mews

London

N1 9HH

Open Wednesday – Sunday 12-6

Nearest station: Angel

Free

 

 

Now you're lucky here, Camden Arts Centre  are treating us to two very exciting exhibitions.

 

Life without sheets of paper to be scribbled on is masterpiece

Now - 29th June

Artist Moyra Davey has been sending Camden Arts Centre sending letters drawings on paper that she has completed on the Subway of New York that she posts immediately. These pieces of mail  detail isolated incidents  from throughout the day, giving tiny insights of a filtered life. Upon arrival, these pieces would often be damaged and wrinkled, giving a passage of time to the post that make up the exhibition.

 

Besides

Now- 29th June

Philip Lai's site specific installation has reworked objects that through processing loose their original function and form as they reach a level of abstraction. Focusing on the theme of the aesthetic and what it is that we recognise fills gallery 3 with estrangement.

Camden Arts Centre

Arkwright Road

London

NW3 6DG

Open Tuesday – Sunday 10-6

Nearest stations: Finchley Road and Hampstead

Free

 

 

London Chessboxing 

Set in a sweaty boxing ring you'll find under the spotlights two intensely concentrating people fighting it out over a chessboard. Putting down the boxing gloves, Chessboxing sees not just check mate, but cabaret and generally glamour- certainly a change to your average Saturday night out!

Saturday 12th April 7-11pm

Scala

275 Pentonville Road

London

N1 9NL

Nearest station King's Cross

Tickets start from ï¿¡15, book here.

 

Happy weekend!- Sinéad x