The Outside World: BORN WICKED

This year The Outside World will be showing in a caravan gallery space with The Outside World All Stars at HACKNEY WICKED festival London 29^th-31^st July. We are also looking for open submissions for our souvenir stall ‘THE END OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS NIGH’. Artists are invited to submit up to three souvenirs based around this theme, however loosely. Each submission is £10. Contact… for further details

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Art Car Boot Fair 2011

Featuring The Incredible Edible Art Series 'THE END OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS NIGH'. Individually boxed chocolate biscuits bearing images from The Outside World All Stars. Artists who have shown at the gallery including Tony Lee, Mat Ducasse (X Ray Fog), Craig Hunt (MAD DOG TV Dinners), J H Adame, C.A.Halpin. The boxed biscuits were a numbered edition of thirty, each containing a biscuit and a print both on the biscuit and in the box, in case you ate the biscuit.

There were also a set of unboxed biscuits wrapped in foil each with a print on the biscuit and on the foil wrapper.

The Outside World Photographic Tombola was brought out and fought valiantly against the elements.

Backyard 4

Backyard 4. Christmas tree and bells. I think that I have been growing this tree since 2004. The bells I bought at one of the first Brick Lane Mela's not sure what year

Backyard 3

Backyard 3 All smoke and Mirrors April 2011

Unstately Home

As you may know, THE END OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS NIGH'. so over the next few moths as I wind the place down I will be letting you see what is going and indeed going on. I have lived and worked in this space for almost twelve years and have seen Redchurch Street change significantly during that time. It has gone from a run down backwater where you could get a relatively cheap place to live and work, to a busy shopping street full of stuff that I could never afford. So inevitably time has caught up with my style of life on this street so I have to leave.

During this time I have had more visitors through my doors than a small Stately Home, so I am letting you in on the unstately side of things, it may turn out to be just pictures of piles of things that gather when I am not looking. Dirty dishes piles of washing and blocked drains, who knows?

In the scheme of things it is time to move on, but before do...

‎'REDCHURCH FACTORY POP UP' If you would like to take part in this event either as an artist or a joiner in to support a very worthy cause, then please contact Jemma Foster through the Facebook events page.

Did I mention that the infamous OUTSIDE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC TOMBOLA will be making a show of itself at this do. please come along and show some support , children need books and you came help them achieve this.

£10 on the door

This is everything that I dislike about the very idea of 'cup cakes'. The are made to raise a wry smile from people who find some foods 'fun'. By cooks who like pasting up jokes above the oven, such as 'you don't have to be mad to work here but...'

Victim Fashion Pop Up Shop www.victimfashion.com/shop

This week sees the return of Victim Fashion Pop Up to The Outside World. Taiwan born Mei hui Lui began making one off pieces in 2000 in a tiny space in Fashion St, just off Brick Lane in London's east end. The name Victim all of a sudden seemed appropriate as this soon became a venue and meeting point for young creative talents. Mei Hui inspired and was inspired by the artists, fashion designers and musicians who all passed through her shop.

Victim Fashion works reconstructing vintage lace and Victorian prints, changing, dyeing and becoming reborn with a nod and a wink to today's street style.

The Outside World would like to publicly state that by reproducing five images of each artist's work from the ...SHE SAID exhibition was meant in a spirit of good will. The images were meant as an aid in promoting the artists, not as postcards or to be sold. Artists were asked before the show whether they agreed to having their work produced although one artist who had not contacted the gallery directly had her work reproduced without her permission. She now feels that her work is under threat due to breach of copyright. I have been asked to remove all traces of her work from the website and from the blog. This has been done. The Outside World regrets any infringement that this artists may feel has occurred and wishes her luck in her future career.

Chrissie Dalziel Braille 2011 Photograph
LEAH CLEMENTS, Printed Stickers 2011 signed editon

Check out some of the work in the upcoming '...SHE SAID' group show opening at The Outside World' this Thursday

... SHE SAID

We now have over thirty artists showing a very wide variety of work at the ...SHE SAID show which opens this Thursday 10th March at The Outside World. The show celebrates the joy of text, a show about communication, clarification and coming up trumps. Come to the opening on Thursday from 6 - 8.30, or over the weekend until the 13th March 12 - 6 p.m.

Hedge Script by Zachary Beer

Zachary Beer's show is going great guns, his small but perfectly formed oil paintings that explore the significance of the hedge social, political and historical. He sees in the hedge a form of natural calligraphy and through his paintings traces the intricate and infinite patterns that these tracings provide. I have included here images of the works sold so far. If you would like to see the rest of the work the show is up until Tuesday 9th March and from then will be featured on The Outside World website.

HEDGE SCRIPT by ZACHARY BEER

Hedge Script, the new show by Zach Beer opens tomorrow evening 6 - 9p.m. at The Outside World, 44 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP. Runs until Tuesday 8th March 12 - 6 p.m. or by appointment.

“Whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him”

A hedge can be the product of a structure set in motion a thousand or more years ago. A network of nature, a political barrier on fertile land, a corridor for wildlife, a folkloric path for witches; life teems, twists one against the other, the ages are marked by the addition of new species.

Zachary Beer treats these forms as a natural calligraphy demarking the land, creating paintings that explore these intricate patterns, complex structures and synecdoche.

Bambi Essex Hairpin 'The People's Chihuahua', Drawings by C.A.HALPIN. The story of a wee dog with big ideas. Commissions undertaken.

James Drury, The Virginian. I have always loved a good 'cowie', especially on a saturday afternoon.

Mary Tyler Moore

Isn't she lovely, such teeth, such hair. I remember watching her on the Mary Tyler Moore show, glamorous single woman, living in her own apartment getting into all sorts scrapes, and she was funny!

This from a series of found Photographs that I picked up in a market in Barcelona

Movie Stars

The new webbie is finally up and running, join in, step up and play out. You will be able to browse through the annals of The Outside World, be made aware of everything that C.A.Halpin has ever done ever, which wont take long because most of it she can't remember. Invetiably some stories will be embellished and there may be some downright lying going on, but that my friends is the beauty of all of this it's my ball, it's, my game and there wont be no crying. Come with me before they switch the lights back on and we all see what's really happening.