Holiday Group show exhibiting Curious Duke Gallery artists with prices ranging from £25- £3,000 . Buy yourself or someone special a great gift this festive season!
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Curious Duke Gallery hosts the launch of new luxury brand Roxyma Dream continental bed linen.
Roxyma Dream offers an exquisite bed linen, made from beautiful designs and exceptional fabrics. These include 200 thread count sateen, cotton sateen with jacquard and lace and the unique new era textile made from the wood pulp of Eucalyptus trees, called Tencel. It is anti-bacterial, hypoallergenic, acts as a natural skin moisture absorbent and has a silk like softness and gloss, making it desirable by all. Roxyma Dream is proud to be the first and only brand to introduce bed linen made from this incredible material, to the UK, along with its other ravishing collections, different in quality and style to anything seen in the country so far.
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Only found in dreams...
Roxyma Dream bed linen!
Fresh off from Bristol Affordable Art Fair and Manchester Buy Art fair, we will be joining the stalls at Battersea this October for one of the most anticipated dates in our calender! We're excited to be back, if you'd like to join us or have any enquiries don't hesitate to email us on [email protected]
Thursday 11.00am – 5.30pm
Thursday Late View 5.30pm – 9.30pm
Friday 11.00am – 6.00pm
Saturday 11.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 11.00am – 6.00pm
To buy tickets follow the link:
http://affordableartfair.com/battersea/times-tickets/buy-tickets/
Exhibiting artists:
Chris King
Constanza Isaza Martínez
Mary Jane Maybury
Paul Clifford
Toby Deveson
Vanessa Short
Styles on show will range from portraits and still lives, to abstracts and landscapes - all created using techniques ranging from traditional silver gelatin prints to photopolymer gravures and c-type prints on aluminium.
Another reason - if any were needed - to visit the show is that it is part of Photomonth, the East London Photography Festival. This has been running since 2001 and has established itself as a major international event, celebrating photography in galleries and venues across East London.
The Private View will be on October the 14th between 6 & 9pm.
The artists will be in residence for chats and Q&As all day on Saturday 18th of October.
The exhibition will be open daily from the 13th to the 25th of October between 11am and 6.30pm
Late night opening will be until 9pm on Thursday 23rd October. The artists will be present for drinks.
- See more at: http://www.tobydeveson.com/writing/Rooftop_Collective_exhibiting_at_Photomonth_2014#sthash.ZhujOD7k.dpuf
We are very pleased to announce that this year we will be heading to Moniker Art Fair. Held at The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, we'll be right next door to Other Art Fair where you will find Blandine Bardeau, Delphine Lebourgeois, Roy's People and Sam Peacock.
2 fairs. 130 unrepresented artists. 20 innovative galleries. 1 big weekend of art!
Exhibiting Artists:
Dan Rawlings
Hannah Adamaszek
Otto D'Ambra
Opening Hours:
Thursday 16th October 2014: 5pm - 9.30pm (Private View)*
Friday 17th October 2014: 11am - 7pm
Saturday 18th October 2014: 11am - 7pm
Sunday 19th October 2014: 11am - 6pm
Please Note:
Concession prices are available to students and over 60s.
Children under the age of 16 are free of charge.
For tickets please follow this link http://monikerartfair.seetickets.com/event/moniker-art-fair/the-old-truman-brewery/810165
The first ever group show featuring 15 bright artists, members of I Know What I Like. All visually compelling, autonomous and affordable art.
Alex “SR47” Walton
Ana Rita
Clara Copley
Dan Pearce
Ernesto Muñiz
Francesca Albini
Laura Iosifescu
Mandy McCartin
Michael Young
Mohammed Sami
Monsieur Sable
Noemi Roswita
Tony Scrivener
Vanesa Longchamp
Yola Kudela
Opening night: 2 October 2014
Exhibition: 3-9 October 2014
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8JT
Enquiries and expressions of interest: [email protected]
This September we're heading north! Manchester Buy Art Fair has grown immensely over the last few years, and we're proud to be a part of the biggest art fair outside of London.
For further details or to make an enquiry, don't hesitate to email us on [email protected]
Stand 42
Friday 26 September
11:00 - 19:00
Saturday 27 September
11:00 - 18:00
Sunday 28 September
11:00 - 17:00
General Admission: Free
Curious Duke Gallery will be presenting, for the first time the winner and runner-up candidates of The Secret Art Prize 2014 in this anticipated group show.
For some of these artists, it will be the first time they have been exhibited in a gallery space, achieving the Secret Art Prize\'s goal of giving street art a platform while at the same time exposing some incredibly talented but undiscovered artists!
PV: 4th September 6-9pm
Bristol Affordable Art Fair is back! This year we\\\'ll be hanging up our stall between the 19th and 21st of September. For information on tickets, or to make an enquiry do not hesitate to email us on [email protected]
Stand B7
To buy tickets, just follow the link:
http://aafbristol.seetickets.com/promoter/affordable-art/1426
Opening times
Friday 19 September 11.00am – 8.00pm
Saturday 20 September 11.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 21 September11.00am – 5.00pm
Curious Duke Gallery presents a group show of urban art meeting experimental landscapes. With 60 art works from the CDG artist family gracing the walls, a world of volcanic paint on steel will meet birds of prey taking flight. (60) Days of Summer is on at the East London Gallery from the 3rd July - 30th August.
This summer fiesta will celebrate a spectrum of disciplines and subjects. You will meet street artist Lowdown's beautifully forlorn portraits, David Bray's fine line kitsch drawings and Samantha Gare's brooding and bubbling landscapes. This isn't just another group show, it\'s a feast for the eyes.
Artists showing:
Andrea Tyrimos
Beth Nicholas
Cherie Strong
Dan Rawlings
Darragh Powell
David Bray
Delphine Lebourgeois
Emily Hannon
Emma Hutley
Hannah Adamaszek
Kate Knight
Lowdown
Mark Powell
Mr Four Fingers
Otto D'Ambra
Paul Don Smith
Roy's People
Samantha Gare
Sam Peacock
Simone Truong
Tannaz Oroumchi
This August sees Curious Duke Gallery artists Roy's People and Sam Peacock's portfolios adorn the walls of Timberyard's newly opened Seven Dials café. The exhibition of art works will stretch over the reclaimed surfaces of the premises bringing, respectively, bashful and rustic artworks to the fashionable coffee shop. The exhibition will be from August to October.
Adding to the branch on Old Street, Timberyard's re-imagined café experience offers not only your traditional coffee on the go, but fresh juice and wholesome food, whilst being a go to point for start - up work places and meetings. The environmental awareness of the business sees it decked out in reclaimed wood, hence the name Timberyard. This sits perfectly with Curious Duke Gallery's artist Sam Peacock's reclaimed steel sheets layered in sugar and coffee, with Roy's People playing on the modern lifestyle offered by Timberyard.
Working with Curious Duke Gallery, abstract painter Sam Peacock has developed a portfolio concerned with trade routes and London's dock lands. Working on sheets of reclaimed steel, Peacock layers paint, Timberyard's brand of Has Bean Coffee and demerara sugar and liquorice in his Ironsea series. These layers are then scraped back and roasted to allow the natural materials to bubble and discolour in an evolving landscape that is enclosed in varnish. This collection of work focuses on the journey of these imports from their far flung homes to the UK's South Coast ports and London's Dock lands, seen in the linear demarcation of the steel sheets split into two horizons in both colour and texture. Peacock's Ironsea series embodies the arrival and dawn of coffee
It is from this city lifestyle, of packed schedules and meeting on the move offered by Timberyard, that Roy's People is inspired by. Roy's People creates installations that are photographed in and around London, celebrating the city's oddities and personality. For instance, Roy's London Life created for Time Out magazine makes light of city living with coffee culture as the fuel of London. These bashful scenes of miniature figurines, created by Roy's People, take on observational humour that gets a chuckle every time.
Get you order of art on the go.
You are cordially invited to Curious Duke Gallery at the Timberyard:
Private View Wednesday 6th August
6-9pm
Exhibition running from 6th August - 31st October 2014
Timberyard
7 Upper St. Martin's Lane
WC2H 9DL
To RSVP, as this event is invite only, contact: [email protected]
for more information re: the event/ interviews/ guest list.
Save the date for this years party! Saturday 19th July - Sunday 20th July 2014, plus a six week street exhibition starting on the 19th July. You’re invited to a massive twenty first century street party. This means you can expect all the delights of an old school street party with ouzels of community goodwill, but without the ration books and with lots more to boot. The six week exhibition is actually on the street (and on top of the buildings). Some call it post-post irony, but they call it a lot of bleeding effort to get the stuff hung up so high.
The ‘Whitecross Street Party’ and its larger than life street art exhibition ‘Rise of the Non Conformists’ started way back in 2010 when a small team of disorganisers took inspiration from the local dissenter’s graveyard. This hallowed ground where William Blake’s spirit was laid to rest provides the perfect setting for the event which encourages peaceful non-conformists to rise once again. The lively weekend party and two month exhibition is choreographed and curated by St Luke’s Community Centre and artist Teddy Baden, with the support of the London Borough of Islington, and is one of London’s most unique street art experiences. It’s been providing London with that rare cocktail which can only be made with interactive community spirits, mixed with a heavy splash of urban art and a large dash of the unexpected. Not to forget a very large self-deprecating cherry on top! It’s a brilliant family-friendly event for both the avid art lover and those that like something a bit different. If you have the desire, come dressed even more silly or weirdly as you do usually and don’t forget - ‘be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind’.
WXSP: 19th & 20th of July
Curious Duke Gallery launches a glowing tale of cities, from the crumbling decay of decadent buildings to the sparks of light that hang over the landscape after sunset, as told by artist Andrea Tyrimos. Roadz is on at the East London Gallery from the 5th-28th June.
Tyrimos' first solo show is a fiesta of colour and metropolitan melodrama exclusive to Curious Duke Gallery. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2009, Tyrimos paintings have grown in detail and fascination of urban lifestyles, with an emphasis on the emission of colour through light, most notable in her paintings of London and New York at night.
Her keen eye for the beauty of a cityscape has brought about three separate bodies of work; Notting Hill Carnival, City Lights and Brick. After taking inspiration from Charles Baudelaire's call for painters to focus on ‘depicting the fast-changing landscapes of life’, and described such an artist as ‘The Painter of Modern Life’, Tyrimos had found her niche. This oil painter does not stop at the eerie progress of a night bus though London's lamp lit streets, but sees the waiting people outside a late night off license on Brick Lane as secrets revealed by lights from shop windows; the city becomes a beacon of life no matter the time of day.
Tyrimos' latest series of works are more vibrant than ever, with The Brick project building ever more interest. The Brick project has spawned a series of live painting events, most recently at the Barbican and WXSP, with three events coming up in the realms of Shoredtich and Old Street, allowing the wealth of regeneration that butts against moss covered red brick to take on interdependent stories. The very walls that we live in, work in and walk past daily may lay dormant, but look closer and you'll find tiny details of lovers initials scratched in, and moss creeping over graffiti. Tyrmios will select three locations that she will then build a photo-realistic oil painting onto canvas that will blend into its brick surroundings. One of these events will continue into Curious Duke Gallery with a brick wall being built in the gallery space for Tyrimos to paint throughout the exhibition in June.
Andrea Tyrimos' solo show Roadz will be a cluster of colour and characters that make big cities the havens of gritty beauty that they are.
Curious Duke Gallery presents Andrea Tyrimos : Roadz
PV Thursday 5th June 6-9pm
5th - 28th June
173 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8JT
Nearest Tube: Old Street (exit 6 - 2 min walk) Barbican (5mins)
Curious Duke Gallery will be at stand I2 at this years Affordable Art Fair Hampstead. We will be showing the work of :
Dan Rawlings
Kate Knight
Mark Powell
Otto D'Ambra
Roy's People
Sam Peacock
Samantha Gare
Simone Truong
For free tickets, email info @ curiousdukegallery.com
Curious Duke Gallery is proud to present Architect-Artist Tannaz Oroumchi's first UK solo show Hectified, this May. Having worked with CDG for two years, Oroumchi has bridged architecture and fine art and re-imagined the lines of London and how we use the city. Oroumchi will be showing 1st - 31st May, with ambitious new pieces focusing on St. Paul's and the Square Mile of the City, including CDG's Whitecross Street home.
Following her residency at Curious Duke Gallery in August 2013, Oroumchi will be taking over the gallery for one month with her solo show Hectified. Taking on the existing roads, buildings and landmarks, Oroumchi refuses to accept these as infinite layouts for London, instead drawing over existing maps on thin mylar to conceive a new city: seeing the capital as a playing ground for change and hecification. A word of Oroumchi's own making, hectify means to envisage, or re-imagine, a space by drawing over the existing design, breaking up what exists and starting again with carefully drawn plans. It is this concept that the Architect-Artist has applied to her own practice, asking the question, how could we be using the City to work, live and play in? For instance London Bubble questions our use of the Thames and its bridges; can we not imagine foot bridges as circular platforms reaching out over the Thames for community areas? According to Oroumchi the City could be a fluid space, rather than static and staid.
Tannaz Oroumchi's first UK solo show will see new work that not only continues with the labyrinthine City, but the swirling roads around St Paul's Cathedral that butt against the river Thames, the angular spikes of Oxford Street and the stretch of community around Whitecross Street will take pride of place at Curious Duke Gallery this May.
Have you ever wanted to get lost in the City? Take a Curious route.
Curious Duke Gallery presents Tannaz Oroumchi: Hectified
PV Thursday 1st May 6-9pm
1st - 31st May
173 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8JT
Nearest Tube: Old Street (exit 6 - 2 min walk) Barbican (5mins)
In its fourth Year, Clerkenwell Design Week will be complete with a Curious Duke Gallery stand in the Additions tent, with the work of Tannaz Oroumchi ( take a look here https://curiousdukegallery.com/artists/48-tannaz-oroumchi ).
CDW and CDG at stand 3!
Where: All over Clerkenwell, take a look at the map here http://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/visitor/all-map
When: 20th - 2nd May
Curious Duke Gallery launches a glowing tale of cities, from the crumbling decay of decadent buildings to the sparks of light that hang over the landscape after sunset, as told by artist Andrea Tyrimos. Roadz is on at the East London Gallery from the 5th-28th June.
Tyrimos' first solo show is a fiesta of colour and metropolitan melodrama exclusive to Curious Duke Gallery. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2009, Tyrimos paintings have grown in detail and fascination of urban lifestyles, with an emphasis on the emission of colour through light, most notable in her paintings of London and New York at night.
Her keen eye for the beauty of a cityscape has brought about three separate bodies of work; Notting Hill Carnival, City Lights and Brick. After taking inspiration from Charles Baudelaire's call for painters to focus on ‘depicting the fast-changing landscapes of life’, and described such an artist as ‘The Painter of Modern Life’, Tyrimos had found her niche. This oil painter does not stop at the eerie progress of a night bus though London's lamp lit streets, but sees the waiting people outside a late night off license on Brick Lane as secrets revealed by lights from shop windows; the city becomes a beacon of life no matter the time of day.
Tyrimos' latest series of works are more vibrant than ever, with The Brick project building ever more interest. The Brick project has spawned a series of live painting events, most recently at the Barbican and WXSP, with three events coming up in the realms of Shoredtich and Old Street, allowing the wealth of regeneration that butts against moss covered red brick to take on interdependent stories. The very walls that we live in, work in and walk past daily may lay dormant, but look closer and you'll find tiny details of lovers initials scratched in, and moss creeping over graffiti. Tyrimos will select three locations that she will then build a photo-realistic oil painting onto canvas that will blend into its brick surroundings. One of these events will continue into Curious Duke Gallery with a brick wall being built in the gallery space for Tyrimos to paint throughout the exhibition in June.
Curious Duke Gallery presents Andrea Tyrimos : Roadz
PV Thursday 5th June 6-9pm
5th - 28th June
173 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8JT
Nearest Tube: Old Street (exit 6 - 2 min walk) Barbican (5mins)
Contact: [email protected]
for more information re: new premises/ the event/ interviews/ guest list.
THE SECRET WORLD OF THE MINIATURE
Curious Duke Gallery are very excited to present Roy's People: Street Life, the artist's first solo show, running from 3rd - 26th April 2014. His soaring popularity over the last 2 years since his project began, centres on his cheeky humour and a rise in the world of the miniature, but it begs the question what is it that we love about these tiny worlds?
From our childhood games with doll houses, and imaginary worlds, we've all brushed with the world of miniatures in play, but we all secretly adore them as adults too. The infinite possibilities that we can give to scenes of miniature figures, such as Roy's People's We Come in Peace, beg questions of what has a snail done to be reprimanded, and how did the armed guards come to have this job? These flights of fancy remove normality, and lift the mundane making it hard to resist a chuckle. The world of the miniature is a tiny adventure.
Roy's People certainly leads into a realm of play as the surreal tangle and twist together as a new perspective of the world emerges. However, Roy's People adds an entirely new layer to the growing trope of artists working with miniatures: his witty word play. With titles such as Meal Deal, Rush Hour and Miracle, we are offered narratives that are threefold: we can apply any story we wish, any names or location- the story belongs completely to you. Our love affair with the world of the miniature is an adventure of our making.
Roy's People will be taking part in the forthcoming auction organised by Big Issue, with a hunt for his Little People project in Convent Garden, more details soon!
Curious Duke Gallery will be relaunching in our new home with Curio-City this February 20th - 30th March. Having relocated only a few doors down to 173 Whitecross Street, CDG will be showcasing our brilliant band of artists with the best that surreal and street art has to offer. With gems from Otto D\'Ambra\'s etchings and Kate Knights dark romance, you\'ll find yourself in a world of contrasts and oddities.
Exhibiting Artists:
Andrea Tyrimos
Dan Rawlings
Darragh Powell
Hannah Adamaszek
Kate Knight
Mark Powell
Otto D\'Ambra
Roys People
Sam Peacock
Simone Webb
Tannaz Oroumchi
Private View 20th February 6-9pm
Nearest stations- Old Street exit 6 and Barbican (5 minute walk).
#bsaaff Be Smart About Art First Fridays (March)
Monthly peer networking event
Date: March 7, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - March 7, 2014, 8:30 p.m. UK time (see time converter)
Location: Curious Duke Gallery | 173 White Cross Street | London EC1Y 8JT
Speakers:
Price: Members go free | Visitors £15
BOOK NOW
More info here:
http://www.besmartaboutart.com/event/77/bsaaff-be-smart-about-art-first-fridays-march
Valentines Day at the Curious Duke!
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YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE ARTISTS.
THE SHOW IS ON.
We have been on a hunt to find awesome unsigned artists whose art, we think, needs to be hung in a gallery.
We asked them to submit one artwork and we asked the public to vote for their favourite pieces. And there we have it, our line up of 20 artists using mediums such as painting drawing and even sculptures.
The top 3 best rated entries won their ticket to be included in the show line up while we asked a bunch of established artists - Dan Baldwin , Pam Glew , Dave White, Andrea Tyrimos and Static to give us their personal selections.
The 20 selected artists artworks are - you will find the list below, alternatively you can find out in more details what the show line up is by clicking on this link - http://curious-show.artpie.co.uk/#show-line-up
TOP 3
AgentX - best rated entry
Veronika Ban - second best rated entry
Gibo - 3rd best rated entry
With no particular order, the remaining 17 selected artists are -
Coto2o | Ryan Kai | Timothy | Patrick Colhoun | Tom Waters | Ant Carver | Matt Crump | Wayne Chisnall | Samantha Gare | Stephen Whatcott | Karis Knight | Infected by Design | Catch22 | Benjamin Jensen | Artist Zina Adam&Eve | Airborne Mark
With the festive season beginning to glitter, it's time to reveal The Present exhibition at Curious Duke Gallery, 12th December - 30th January 2014. Our East London space will become a haven of brilliant blooms, dark shadows and quirky characters from Emily Hannon's achingly sweet canvases, Mr Four Fingers shady limited edition prints, to Agnetha Sjögren's Tintin dogs- we'll have your Christmas shopping wrapped up in no time, leaving you room for thought for the January the season of gifts for yourself! All art £20 - £500.
CDG will be picking the best gifts from 40 of our artists, all affordably priced, and ready for your perusal. Gift shopping can be a tricky business; endless lists of things to do, people to buy for, and hastily written down ideas that leave you feeling tired and in need of a cup of tea (keep those January sales in mind), but at CDG we make life easy, here are a few sneak peeks;
Kareena Zerefos stunning illustrations glow in a warm haze to give everyone a smile. With her latest series of works priced at £20, how can you say no? Particularly when there is an Elephant on the loose.
And don't forget the gift of humour! Roys People leaves his hand painted figurines in the dark corners of London for you to find, luckily for you here are a selection of his quirky scenes, from climbing the City's The Grate Tower grate-tower and apprehending a snail in I Come in Peace.
Now for the facts, Curious Duke Gallery opening hours: Monday - Friday 11:30 – 7:30 , Saturday 12-4, closed from 23rd December - 6th January.
Curious Duke Gallery presents The Present
Private View Thursday 12th December 6-9pm
12th December 2013 - 30th January 2014
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8JT
Free entry
Nearest Tube: Old Street (exit 6 - 2 min walk) Barbican (5mins)
Please consider this an invite.
Contact: [email protected]
for more information re: the event/interviews/guest list
Follow The Present\\\'s progress and the latest news from the exhibition on Twitter @CuriousDuke #ThePresent.
We have moved! Find us at the new location of 173 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8JP
A new type of pedigree.
Curious Duke Gallery and Agnetha Sjögren present : The Story: an exhibition of canine perfection.
Swedish born artist Agnetha Sjögren concludes the Curious Duke Gallery season of solo shows for 2013 with The Story, an exhibition of canine creativity narrating a ‘tail’ of Sjogren’s travels around the world. The Story runs from the 13th November - 6th December. Creating well behaved and poised sculptural dogs, Sjögren explores our fascination with our canine friends. Sjorgren does this by combining her well-travelled past with vintage Swedish and British comic books, Prada handbags and unique designs. All delivered in an inspired canine package complete with a personalised passport and dog tag. Who said having a pet dog was difficult?
Tired of hearing her friends talk about their marvelous pet pooches; Agnetha Sjögren's fear of dogs could lead to only one thing: creating the perfect version of man’s best friend subsequently Sjögren embarked on creating a 'nice' dog. Explaining that her “dogs don't eat, bark, jump, bite, drool or need to go out for a poop. They sit or stand 'nicely' all day long,”
Four years on the self taught artist Sjögren, works from ideas of childhood and memories and has now given the art world 35 beautifully designed dogs of which can be seen in 4 different continents.
Richly coloured and influenced by Agnetha Sjögren's travels, each experience has brought character-traits to each of her creations. The cork material of Rioja nods to her time in Spain, and Chocolate to her Grandma's secret hot chocolate recipe that warmed her childhood in Sweden. The beauty with which these tales are retold through these pooches is touching: these dogs become portals of fond memories, whilst taking on their own cheeky stance.
And of course, Sjögren's signature comic book series. Known for her TinTin dogs, the vintage comic book pages wind from the tip of the tail to the nose of the dog, keeping intact the text for your reading pleasure. Almost trumping your average pet dog with these communication tactics. Additionally, Love transports Sjögren to the 1970’s of her childhood reading 'Ung & Kär' with colours defined by an era and rosey glows of first loves. For the perfect dog and a story, you won't find better that a Sjögren dog.
The perky tails of her adorned dogs give you all the love of a giddy dog without having to clean up after it.
The Festive season doesn't start without a Glögg party.
Kick off your festive season in style with Agnetha Sjögren's swedish Glögg party. Set in Sjögren's solo exhibition of sculptural dogs- The Story, invites you to bring some Nordic christmas magic on Thursday 5th December at Curious Duke Gallery, East London.
To keep us company, Agnetha Sjögren continues our season of solo shows with her signature 'nice' dogs. Fighting against her friends declarations of how well behaved their pet dogs were, Sjögren was determined to create a dog that didn't need to be cleaned up; giving rise to her adorned canine friends. With the likes of swedish comic books twisting their way over her dogs, Tintin Bang and Marzipan will stand guard as you enjoy a swift glass of hot Glögg. Not to be confused with mulled wine, the vodka ladenGlögg and ginger biscuits will add a rosey glow to your festive season.
Christmas jumpers optional.
Agnetha Sjögren's Glögg party
Thursday 5th December 6-9
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London, EC1Y 8QP
Free entry
Nearest stations Old Street exit 6 and Barbican.
Please consider this an invite.
Contact: [email protected]
for more information re: the event/ interviews/ guest list.
Witness Agnetha Sjögren in action. Agnetha will be in residence for two days, creating her dogs live in Curious Duke Gallery.
On thursday 28th and friday 29th November between 12-3 pm
Agnetha Sjögren will be giving you an insight in to her art practice, how she got there and what her future holds, followed by questions and answers.
On wednesday 20th october from 6:30 to 8 pm.
Kindred
Antlers and Curious Duke are proud to present Kindred, a collaborative exhibition showcasing the most exciting artists handpicked from the stables of two young and fast-growing independent galleries.
Kindred grew out of a meeting between Curious Duke founder Eleni Duke and Antlers Director Jack Gibbon at last year’s Affordable Art Fair. The two gallerists recognised a natural connection in their approach and a mutual interest in supporting artists who bring contemporary interpretations to traditional, skill-based practices.
The large-scale pencil dreamscapes of Antlers’ Matthieu Leger, for instance, seem natural bedfellows of the surrealist etchings of Curious Duke’s Otto D’Ambra, whilst both galleries showcase artists that focus on the natural world and a sense of the uncanny. It is the recurring theme of the curious and uncanny that acts as one of the most prominent thematic links between Antlers and Curious Duke.
A focus on interesting and unusual practices also characterises the approach of these two galleries. Antlers’ Jessica Bartlett, for example, makes images of ephemeral natural objects such as leaves using a soldering iron to mark canvasses prepared in white or muted colours. Similarly, Curious Duke’s Ben Gooding uses a scoring technique on aluminium sheets to create his methodical, mechanistic work with lines and geometric shapes. Both artists will exhibit their work as part of Kindred, showcasing the distinctive methods that allow them to stand out amongst their contemporaries.
Kindred will also feature work by Charles Emerson, whose finely constructed, painterly photography was lauded by Affordable Art Fair Founder Will Ramsay earlier this year and recently graced the cover of international indie-rock act Editors’ latest LP. Alongside these will be Jonny Byles’ retro-futuristic graphite drawings which garnered much attention from the art blogosphere when they emerged as part of Antlers’ summer exhibition in August.
By using unique and unconventional exhibition spaces, discovering new and highly original talent and working closely with their artists, each gallery occupies a similar space in the art landscape of their respective cities, London and Bristol. The exhibition title, Kindred, therefore denotes the shared spirit in which these innovative galleries operate, and the common ground they find in each other’s practices.
Exhibiting Artists [Subject to change]:
Antlers: Charles Emerson, Alexander Korzer Robinson, Jessica Bartlett, Helen Jones, Tim Lane, Matthieu Leger, Jonny Byles, Kate Evans, Amy Timms
Curious Duke: Kate Knight, Simone Webb, Dan Rawlings, Mark Powell, Sue Young Lee, Kareena Zerefos, Vikram Kushwah, Otto D’Ambra, Richard Goold, Beth Nicholas, Ben Gooding
Antlers was founded by Jack Gibbon in Bristol in 2010 as a nomadic gallery, producing temporary exhibitions in interesting locations around the city and working closely with its artists. In October 2013 the gallery will take up residence in its first permanent home on Christmas Steps, continuing its commitment to showcasing a burgeoning collection of artists working across the mediums who explore natural history, narrative and folklore through compelling and impeccably executed work.
Curious Duke was founded by Eleni Duke in London in 2011, setting up in a 300 year old gallery space in Whitecross Street. It represents a rising scene of surrealist and urban artists in the UK working in a variety of mediums from mixed media to sculpture.
Every first thursday of the month, galleries all over East London opens late to allow you to enjoy an evening of art.
Curious Duke Gallery will be open until 9pm this thursday for you to discover our current collaborative show 'Kindred'.
Eleni Duke, Jack Gibbon, the artists Kate Knight and Tim Lane and the host, Tabish Khan will be discussing the difference between online & offline galleries, artist and galleries relationships and collaborations in the arts.
For more info :
email : [email protected]
phone : 020 7251 6551
Curious Duke Gallery will be at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea so come visit us at the stand C6
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Sam Peacock will be hosting an art class for 10 lucky people on the 19th October 2013 in the historic setting of Curious Duke Gallery
You will have the opportunity to learn to paint on steel, use a variety of unique methods and broaden your art practice
Each attendee will walk away with there own 35x35cm piece of steel art work during this 2 hour session.
Class will run from 1:00 - 3:00pm and are charged at £20.
Tickets are limited to 10.
For more info :
email : [email protected]
phone : 020 7251 6551
Sam Peacock and Curious Duke Gallery present to you Unseen Landscape. In Peacock's first solo show, he'll be unleashing a new collection of 26 signature paintings on steel. Running from 3rd - 19th October, the collection will be focusing on blurred lines, travel and speed; these industrial art works ooze with captured emotions and memories.
Building upon layers of gloss, matt and oil paint, Sam Peacock is not afraid of mixing industrial materials with unconventional pigments taken from your kitchen coffee and demerara sugar. Utilising food products to build earthy textures on stealth slabs of concrete and steel, unconventional beautiful can be found in these abstract landscape paintings. Inspired by memories of living in the North of England and frequenting Australia and Thailand, Peacock, scrapes back layers of paint to reveal the blur of horizon met in every journey. The series of scrapes revisit vast open spaces that butt urban regeneration, a rapid sprawling reflected in the pace of his frantic rolling out of paint and varnish. A flash of a memory quickly laid out on steel that settles as a calm spread of movement to evoke recollections.
Sam Peacock explains that “ I gorge on the speed and power of mark making, the rawness and the ferocity of paint”, making his work all the more intricate. The structure that gradually appears in these fast layers and scrapes reconstruct journeys. Making use of derelict and abandoned landscapes, Peacock, takes the patchy tomes and colours and recycles them into his frozen paintings. This idea of conversation built between layers creates an architecture of underlying motifs. This gradual realisation of a memory, a long lost scene, lend themselves to hazy earthen colours favoured by Sam Peacock, broken through with piercing blue and sunshine yellows.
Curious Duke Gallery presents Unseen Landscape: A solo show from Sam Peacock
Private View 3rd October 6-9pm
3rd -19th October
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP
Free entry
Nearest Tube: Old Street (exit 6 - 2 min walk) Barbican (5mins)
Witness Sam Peacock in action. Sam will be painting live in Curious Duke Gallery on thursday 17th October between 12-3 pm
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Sam Peacock will be giving you an insight in to his art practice, how he got there and what his future holds, followed by questions and answers.
On thursday 10th october from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
Curious Duke Gallery will be at Manchester for the buy art fair at the booth 42
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This September Curious Duke Gallery brings you the first solo show of Aztec inspired painter Hannah Adamaszek. From 5th- 21st September, Through the Minds Eye showcases a collection of large scale statement paintings, alongside smaller canvases and experimental pieces, exclusive to Curious Duke Gallery, with the vibrant characters of the canvases adorning the walls of our 300 year old gallery in East London.
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The gallery is turning 2 years old and to celebrate we are hosting an evening from 6 to 9 pm on the 19th september with champagne and sweet treats.
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Hannah Adamaszek will be giving you an insight in to her art practice, how she got there and what her future holds, followed by questions and answers.
On tuesday 10th september from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
Hannah Adamaszek will be giving you an insight in to her art practice, how she got there and what her future holds, followed by questions and answers.
On tuesday 10th september from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
This Summer (July/August), Curious Duke Gallery are discovering the Art of Curiosity. Exhibiting 18 artists from the Curious Duke family that work in a variety of mediums from painting to sculpture. Curious Duke artists are known to push boundaries with their unique subjects and art practice. Curious Duke will also be welcoming 5 new artists to the Curious Duke family, including Delphine LeBourgious, Roy Tyson and Simone Webb.
The exhibition will include affordable large scale statement paintings alongside original illustrations from the most investable and distinctive UK emerging artists of today. Running from 4th July-17th August, our 300 year old gallery space on Whitecross Street, will house incredible curiosities of the art world and play host to some fantastic events throughout
Architect and CDG artist Tannaz Oroumchi takes over the gallery window in a 5 day residency to coincide with the summer exhibition The Art of Curiosity. Drawing on film stretched over the gallery window, Oroumchi will be re-imagining London “to expose ourselves to ourselves” as new spaces and opportunities emerge from the inky lines, exposing us to new visions.The overlapping lines of purple ink will be visible from the street and will examine what else the city could be, or do- the perfect lunchtime film.
Starting from Thursday 1st August- Tuesday 6th, Oroumchi will be be using conventional drawing techniques to expose the existing streets of London by breaking the given rules and geometry of the city. The streets are hectified to trigger and break "visual idealisms, allowing the possibility for others to be revealed". These drawn shifts and warps allow for a reinvented London, ready for re-engagement. Architecture and society are broken down pushing forward new formations.
You can see Tannaz Oroumchi live drawing Thursday 1st August- 6th August 11:30-6:30, Saturday 12-4pm , and closed Sunday.
Welcome back to part four of the Whitecross Street party - 'Rise of the non conformists' - London’s favorite two day weekender celebration of the arts. Join the uprising and support the alliance to barricade and keep out the forces of grey mediocrity. Art exhibition, music, food, live painting and plenty of activities for all ages. Come and join the fun at our free party weekend 20th - 21st July 12pm- 6pm and visit the six week art exhibition. Everyone welcome!
The Curious Duke Gallery will be open on that week end with live painting from Sam Peacock! And don't miss out on our artists, Hannah Adamaszek, KEF! and Andrea Tyrimos painting in the streets for the occasion.
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Dannielle Hodson will be giving you an insight in to her art practice, how she got there and what her future holds on Thursday 18th July from 7pm in the basement gallery area at the Curious Duke Gallery. Hodson will be revealing tales from her days as a Women\\\\\\\'s Fashion student at Central Saint Martins and the people behind her beautifully surreal art work.
Curious Duke Gallery artist of the month Dannielle Hodson will also be discussing the reasons of her range of materials and mediums, from oil painting to her doodles and exploring the connections between the mediums she uses with the subject matters she portrays.
Drawing from the notions of the Absurd whereby, there is no meaning to be found in the world except for what we give to it, Hodson tackles values, belief systems and asks big questions who are we and what does it all mean? Identity is at the core of Hodson’s practice working between objectivity and subjectivity Hodson creates a body of work that depicts the time we live in and how we place ourselves in it.
The short talk will be followed by a Q & A session and accompanied with a champagne and canapés reception.
This is a FREE ticketed event, please follow the link to claim your free ticket.
The doors open at 6:30 and the talk will start at 7:00pm so please come early to ensure entrance and a seat.
Thursday 18th July from 6:30pm-8:30.
Art and Champagne at the Curious Duke
Join us on Saturday 13th July for our afternoon of art discussion and champagne sipping from 12-4. A perfect way to spend a chilled out Saturday afternoon, come and visit us for some creative conversation and an opportunity to speak to our expert team and founder of Curious Duke Gallery, Eleni Duke, about art buying and starting your own art collection.
Quench your thirst for creativity with the Curious Duke.
Private View : thursday 30th may from 6 to 9 pm
Global Street Art and Test Space are delighted to announce the first in a series of pop-up shows as the Insider Gallery from 28th of May to 13th June at 207 Whitecross Street in Islington.
The inaugural launch of the show will feature 15 artists, including Inkie, Dank, Hunto, Masai, Parlee, Benjamin Murphy, Pogger, Andy Corlett, Ferres, Captain Kris, SPzero76, International Nobody, Sliks, Branco and Matteus Bailon from Brazil. The names of more artists will be released in the coming days.
www.insidergallery.com.
About Global Street Art:
Global Street Art is the largest online archive of street art and graffiti in the World and has an important editorial voice with roughly 80,000 fans on Facebook. Global Street Art are also the founders of the Walls Project, which has gained permission for nearly 200 legal street art murals in the past year. Global Street Art supports a range of agency functions.
For more information please see
www.globalstreetart.com,
www.facebook.com/globalstreetart
or @globalstreetart.
About Test Space:
Test Space is a creative agency established in 2010, developing innovative and new ways to showcase artists and their work, making use of temporary, unusual and abandoned property to do this.
For more information please see
www.testspace.info,
www.facebook.com/testspace
or @testspaceUK.
CDG becomes the Little Art Shop for electic art finds.
Please note; This is not an exhibition, so please do bring your shopping bags and form an orderly queue.
Curious Duke Gallery will be turning it's two floor showcase into a coffer of affordable imagination and surreal orginal art.
From 7 pm
Join us for our next Networking session at the Curious Duke Gallery in Whitecross Street, London,EC1Y 8QP.
The setting is very informal for business networking over a few beers along with our Artist talk from London Based Andrea Tyrimos.
Andrea Tyrimos graduated in Fine Art from Central St Martins in 2009, and has exhibited extensively since then. She has been mentioned in publications such as ‘Time-Out’ and ‘an magazine’, and has won awards including the ‘Signature Art People’s Choice Painting Award’ and the ‘Art & Escape Award’.
We\\\'ll update you with more info as we get close to the date, if anyone would like to talk about their business to our crowd in a future event contact me via meetup group.
if you are on twitter, do follow us on @londonsbiznet and spread the word please:).
We are looking forward to seeing you all there.
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Curious Duke Gallery will be at the Grand Designs Live so come visit us at the stand E45
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Private View Tuesday 30 April 6pm - 9pm
Art brings together eight people who would otherwise never have got together
In the exhibition Disparate Motives, Curious Duke Gallery shows eight artists from backgrounds that could barely be more different. Born across four decades, from self-taught to MA, teachers, mothers, engineers... but all driven to make art. Through Magenta Art in North London, these artists have met, bantered, argued and played off each other until someone suggested an exhibition. In some ways they share a theme, the only theme any contemporary artist has, their reaction to the time and place they live in - in this case London 2013, but the work they produce varies greatly. Driven by their experiences, the people in their lives, the places they have come from and the things they have seen: Disparate Motives.
Contributing Artists: Mary Ruggeri, Toni Ali, Michaela Latham, Christopher Ward, Brendon O’Hanlon, Michael Hutchison, Kate O’Hanlon, Ed Cousland.
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Curious Duke Gallery will be at the Affordable Art Fair in Bristol so come visit us at the stand E13
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Cross Arts Projects presents
DIRTY LINEN
Emerging artist collective, XAP, recent graduates of Central Saint Martins, are airing their new works in public. What’s hidden down in the cellar, behind the closed door or the twitching curtain? Truths hinted at, truths exposed.... or swept once more under the carpet? Do we re-examine our complacency, or realise our complicity?
Visitors are invited to throw away their own dirty linen... an embarrassing object or a shameful memory can be tossed in with the laundry, or Tweet @xartsprojects or #dirtylinen.
XAP have been successfully collaborating on projects and exhibitions for over five years. Working across a variety of media, using different processes, ‘Dirty Linen’ showcases their emerging talent.
Private View: Wed 6.00 – 9.00
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One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
One reason why art holds such a power over the human race is its ability to transport the viewer from reality to a fantastic, inspiring and landscape where for a moment reality is left behind and we are welcomed into the world of what the artist intended.
Wayfarer intends to explore different ways artists have been influenced by travel, the city they live in in their own style. Putting aside reality and interpreting landscapes and people how in their own unique style and fashion.
Exhibited Artists :
Agnetha Sjögren
Andrea Tyrimos
Bethe Crews
Emily Hannon
Hannah Adamaszek
KEF!
Mark Powell
Sam Peacock
Sue Young Lee
Sandra Jorden
Tannaz Oroumchi
Vicky Scott
Wayfarer will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 28th March – 19th April 2013.
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP
Abstract painter Sam Peacock will be giving a short talk on how his experiences of travel have shaped his artistic practice, and changed his colour pallette, followed by questions and answers. Sam will be joined by Curious Duke Gallery's founder and curator Eleni Duke who will lead the evening, and briefly talk about the curation of Wayfarer- an exhibition on travel. This will be a ticketed event with a champagne reception. Wayfarer will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 28th March– 19th April 2013. Private View 28th March 6-9pm.
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\"Kütmaan\" is the Arabic for the act of hiding or concealing
This work forms part of a five-year photographic project documenting the realities of life for some LGBT individuals in the Middle East between 2010 and 2012.
The images in this exhibition tell diverse personal stories and relate the experiences of those LGBT people who are forced to claim asylum based on their sexuality or gender identity.
The exhibition highlights the circumstances of Iranian and Iraqi LGBT refugees in central Anatolia, before their resettlement in Europe or North America, and also explores LGBT Kurdish identity in south eastern Turkey, and how these communities are seeking legal equality and acceptance.
Curious Duke Gallery, show off some of the UK’s biggest emerging art talents who are bringing mastery back to the ever evolving contemporary art world. Curious Duke will be showcasing incredible new talents that use traditional techniques in a manner that is more relevant to popular culture. Young Masters will be bridging the gap between street art and fine art, using old techniques on new surfaces and rediscovering that emphatic desire and ambition that so many old masters displayed in their paintings, in a more contemporary fashion. Curious Duke, aim to show Britain that mastery is still apparent in today’s young emerging art world.
Exhibiting artists:
Andrea Tyrimos
Ben Levy
Dannielle Hodson
Darren MacPherson
Hannah Downing
Kate Knight
Kareena Zerefos
Mark Powell
Otto D'Ambra
Richard Goold
Paul Don Smith
Sam Shendi
Sue Young Lee
Young Masters will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 7th February – 7th March 2013.
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP
Whilst the focus is on getting to know your art fellows, we like offering more. You are given Top Networking Tips each month, and additionally, you learn about the art on display with the Curator's talk.
#bsaaff is a Members-only event.
Guests pay £15 each to attend and are allowed to visit once prior to committing to Membership.
For over a hundred years, Lewis Carroll has been enthralling readers with his fantastical writing and ingenious word play. Though most famed for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, Carroll penned a number of books and nonsense poems, as well as being a renowned photographer, logician and mathematician. Now, to celebrate his 181st birthday, a group of nineteen illustrators will be exploring his work through a weeklong exhibition at the Curious Duke Gallery running from January 24th to 30th.
JANUARY 24th- 30th
(Private view complete with Mad Hatter’s tea-party January 24th, 6 – 9 pm)
NOW CLOSED!!
MONDAY- FRIDAY: 11:30am – 6:30pm
SATURDAY: 12:00am – 4:00pm
SUNDAY: closed
Curious Duke Gallery, Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8QP
Nearest Tubes: Old Street, Barbican
This Christmas Curious Duke have everything to make your present buying experience as easy as possible, we will even gift wrap each item for you for FREE.
Curious Duke Gallery will be gathering unique delights for everyone for under £500 with prices starting at as little as £3 there is something to thrill the creative taste buds of your work colleagues and family member’s alike.
Our walls will be packed with affordable original presents from November 22nd - December 22nd with handmade jewellery, original illustrations, original paintings and delicate ceramics. There will be something for everyone. Don’t believe us…you will have to see for yourself.
This Christmas there are no excuses for bad presents, let the Duke be your guide.
Under the Christmas Tree.
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
EC1Y 8QP
22nd November 2012 - 22nd December 2012
PV: 22nd November
(mince pies and mulled wine will be available to those who have been good throughout the year, we have the list)
The Curious Duke Gallery takes over Hoxton Hotel.
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Following last years success, Curious Crafts will be back in our gallery showcasing the work of Designer – Makers in all it’s glassware, ceramic, jewellery, crafty goodness.
We are pleased to announce that we will be taking a number of our artists to this years Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. More details coming soon…
We will be celebrating our first year of art life this september! To mark this milestone we will be exhibiting our artists alongside welcoming some new to the fold. We also have some very exciting news; Premiere Art will be merging with its sister company Curious Duke Gallery!
Exhibiting artists:
Agnetha Sjögren
Andrea Tyrimos
David Merta
Hannah Adamaszek
Joanna Rose Tidey
Kareena Zerefos
Karoline Rerrie
Katherine Tromans
Mr Four Fingers
Otto D’Ambra
Patrick Collier
Silvia Krupinska
Tannaz Oroumchi
Vicky Scott
Vikram Kushwah
Art in Flux is Premiere Arts and Curious Duke gallery biggest exhibition to date. Working with 22 different artists, Premiere Art and Curious Duke gallery aim to introduce the viewer to the many manifestations that an image can take.
Premiere Art aim to show the public how one can alter the interior of your home and office with a whole range of different styles and concepts for you to select from. Premiere Art is offering the opportunity to see how one artist can change the theme of a room/space. With each wall representing a different artist the viewer can witness their impact and effect upon an atmosphere.
Cave consists of two artists exploring the notion of a Dystopia, Showing a body of work focusing on themes of evolution and mutation within fabricated worlds.
This show coincides with the Prophesized end of the world this year, brought about by the end of the Mayan calendar. Praying upon the hysteria and madness this myth has inspired within our culture, this show will be two artists’ attempts to visualise and explore what may be left after the end of the world.
The spaces cave like interior seems the perfect place for this setting, as creativity started upon the walls the cave, it seems a fitting place for it to be at the end of the world.
