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Hugo Dalton - The Victoria & Albert Museum Lightdrawings, Friday 24 February, 6.30-10pm
As part of the Friday night late series, artist Hugo Dalton has been chosen to exhibit a selection of his Lightdrawings within the world famous collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The works will be projected across the epic Great Court and Raphael Room at large scale using theatrical lighting that the artist first used to created his stage set at Sadlers Wells for Christopher Wheeldon in 2010, which critic Edward Lucie-Smith termed “…a rebellion towards elegance.”
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London
Rob and Nick Carter design neon egg for The Fabergè Big Egg Hunt – 21 February to Easter Weekend
Starting today, London has become home to 200 giant and uniquely crafted Easter eggs for The Fabergè Big Egg Hunt including a fantastic new work by Rob and Nick Carter. The first event of its kind, it aims to raise vital funds for charities by inviting tourists, locals and visitors to hunt down the strategically placed, giant eggs, which have been exclusively designed, bejewelled and decorated by some of the world’s leading artists, architects, jewellers and designers including the Chapman Brothers, Marc Quinn, Zandra Rhodes, Polly Morgan and Diane von Furstenburg.
The handcrafted eggs, which are designed to become highly collectible works of art, will be available to buy at auction, with proceeds going towards leading children’s charity, Action for Children and Elephant Family. You can find further details and maps at www.thebigegghunt.co.uk - Happy Hunting!
Emily Young in Berkeley Square: Six Stone Heads keep watch
Six gigantic stone heads by Emily Young FRBS will stand and keep watch over Mayfair's Berkeley Square from 7 February-29 April. With some measuring two metres tall, and weighing as much as four tonnes, they represent the largest and most complex project of Young's career to date.
In addition, a group of Young's sculptures are on show in the The Fine Art Society’s Contemporary gallery at 148 New Bond Street. This group, alongside the Heads in Berkeley Square, show the sheer diversity of Young’s production – her different approaches to sculpting, and her fascination with the seemingly limitless variety in the stones she works with.
www.itv.com/london/new-berkley-square-art37963/
The Fine Art Society Contemporary exhibiting at the London Art Fair
The Fine Art Society Contemporary are exhibiting at the London Art Fair, Islington from 18-22 January. The selection includes work by Stuart Semple, Giles Alexander, both new represented artists for the department, and recent work by Rob & Nick Carter, Alex Katz and Melanie Comber.
A monumental sculpture by Emily Young, Heraclitus, is previewing at the fair in advance of her forthcoming installation in Berkeley Square, 'The Metaphysics of Stone', which opens on the 7 February.
Katie Pratt exhibition reviewed in The Independent
'Doglegs, Chicanes and Beelines' is reviewed in The Independent, Tuesday 29 November 2011. The exhibition, in The Fine Art Society's Contemporary gallery, runs from 1 December to 7 January 2012.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/doglegs-chicanes-and-beelines-6269469.html
FAS unveil new flag designed by Hugo Dalton
Artist Hugo Dalton has designed two new flags for The Fine Art Society’s Bond Street facade - only the fifth and sixth designs in our 135 year history.
Dalton, who is best known for his Wall paintings, has completed public commissions which include a stage set for Sadler’s Wells in London. His work covers an entire floor of the Barneys store on Madison Avenue, New York. The artist has also created a new restaurant at the Park Hyatt, Beijing.
Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller brings together eight contemporary artists with Modern British forebears who have inspired them in The Strawberry Thief
‘‘Artists are art lovers’, says Jeremy Deller, ‘and it’s nice to give my contemporaries’ work an airing alongside artists we’ve all looked at since adolescence - I’m interested to see friends and contemporaries alongside them.’
The eight contemporary artists Jeremy Deller will exhibit are Tasha Amini, Steven Claydon, Peter Doig, Stephen Fowler, Ed Hall, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili and Nick Pankhurst. They will be shown with works by Edward Bawden, Edward Burra, Richard Dadd, Morris & Co, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Piper, Eric Ravilious, Walter Sickert and Christopher Wood.