THE FREE SHIT CEE-LO SHOW, MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

THE FREE SHIT CEE-LO SHOW, MONEY NEVER SLEEPS
30th MARCH 2012 12-9p.m.

FREE SHIT...SPUN OUT from a group unknown artists, the unseen, the not to be bought, sold out or seen through.  Who knows what will hit the fan. Stand back and watch out as the sh*t provides the proverbial release.  MONEY NEVER SLEEPS even when taste nods off. SWING HI, CEE LO, GET DOWN COME ROUND, GET IN AS THE OUTSIDE WORLD SPINS ON ITS AXIS...THERE WILL BE BOOZE

'ALL THAT GLISTERS', ANNA ROOTES

ALL THAT GLISTERS

31st MARCH-1st APRIL 2012

THE OUTSIDE WORLD

www.annarootes.com

Rootes and Culture

Anna Rootes is a largely self taught artist, one of those rare birds who flies in the face of convention developing her own style that incorporates many different media.   Rootes takes as a starting point the iconography of contemporary youth culture.  By mixing her media and well as her metaphors Anna Rootes begins an exciting journey from reality to fantasy, bypassing the mundane.  She approaches the canvas with gay abandon and certain excess ‘dressing it up’, as she says.

She cites as influences ‘a variety of contemporary and vintage imagery and from the artistic genres of pop art and fashion illustration.’     By the use of the logo and it’s consequent notions of status, Rootes isolates iconic images. Then removes them from their original context and replaces them in a sometimes jarring, playful yet almost sinister setting.

Anna Rootes on her work:

I am fascinated by the interplay of art and therapy (looking ultimately to train as an Art Psychotherapist).  This relationship both naturally and methodically influences a lot of my work.  A central theme throughout my work is escapism, achieved through the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy.  Birds appear frequently in my work, an animal with no bounds, as being a medium through which human aspirations can be released.  My approach to work is generally freestyle, with no set plan; the final products appear as an evolution of thoughts and narrative. The compositions of my work are highly sophisticated.

C.A.Halpin 2012

CHARLES OF LONDON COCK UP SHOP: LAST DAY

CHARLES OF LONDON COCK UP SHOP: LAST DAY

CHARLES OF LONDON
Opened Today
44 Redchurch Street (07814 430 852). 
You may run into several people in the changing-room...THE OUTSIDE WORLD says many of its East End customers are buying the head-to-toe CHARLES OF LONDON look. 

To misquote The Telegraphwww.charlesoflondon.com

Rushes & Brushes

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and films by the dynamic duo from Damage and Disgrace.


Basarab and Hopkinson pop up at the Outside World to briefly spill their guts.Basarab has picked a selection of his paintings that employ text: vague tabloid headlines constructed to meticulous subbing rules; alphabetized pie-charts suggesting unlikely connections; mocking Venn diagrams and an errant polling station sign.Hopkinson sets out his unsettling 'oily lampoons', wounded class stereotypes with their origins animated; human rabbits that give up the Easter-egg Hunt for something else and twisted twee takes on ice-creams vans and hooliganism.


Show: Fri 23 March: 11am-6pm
Private view: Thurs 22 March 6-9pm

Hang - A Group Exhibition

HANG – A GROUP EXHIBITION

16^th 21^st March 2012

HANG comprises a group of London based artists, at different stages in their careers showing together for the first time.  Although the media used throughout the show including painting, photography, sculpture and even paintings that are indeed sculptures, may be diverse the theme is made cohesive through the simple device ‘HANG’.

Since her successful first solo show ‘Blue / Grey’ at The Outside World earlier this year Laura Fishman has made further explorations into the sculptural aspects of the material that is paint. Fishman pours, drips and teases out the plastic potential of the paint itself. The skins hung out to dry like the carcass of some visceral being. Their very form wrenched from the bones of the canvas and stretcher.  

Mathew Tudor’s paintings tell of other dark secrets, of thoughts half remembered. Certain shadows, glimpsed from the corner of a sleepy eye.  Tudor’s paintings are built up by transparent layers whose counterpoint is the deeply ingrained brushwork.  Bringing forth memories evoking past emotions of events that may have been.

The inspiration for Christina Pittarides work is the found, whether an object or a ritual. These are then transposed from the mundane and discarded to icons of commercial culture.  For HANG, Pittardes has chosen imagery symbolic of New York gang culture. In these paintings we see the shoes of drug dealers and drug users dead or alive singing their song as sweetly as a bird on a wire.

Madeline Fishman draws, in many different forms, using a blend of photography, line and sewn sculptured forms.  The loose threads HANG from the canvas leading the viewer to contemplate at certain times the random forms created when each piece is hung.

Imagine ripping the pages out of your childhood encyclopedia and remaking each body part for your own museum of found things that never were.  That is Julia Maddison with her paper heart throbbing as it is pierced by a multitude of screws and nails all trussed up, enclosed in a corset of wire, hung up for all to see.

Bernice Wilson starts with her face, herself and thus the greater sense of self-recognition.  For HANG she explores the notion of Prosopagnosia, or face blindness.  Through a series of twelve paintings all identical in size she deconstructs her own face and re-presents it to the viewer as a confused map of essential parts that form her own identity.

C.A.Halpin 2012

www.theoutsideworld.co.uk

Tim Silversides - Limbo

Tim Silversides new show LIMBO 5th-11th April
THE OUTSIDE WORLD, 44 REDCHURCH STREET E2 7DP
www.timsilversides.com

Tim Silversides paints from his guts, forcing onto the viewer a rebellious, anti peristaltic spew of paint and emotions on canvas. The CELL series is an exploration in oil of the innermost corners of the mind, a vision of the self, expressed or hidden from the world.  He uses the personal and then transposes it to the universal through his fascination with emotion and rebellion, the human condition exposed. Much of the inspiration for CELL comes from Silversides experience of working in a care home for the elderly, which led quest for to a deeper understanding of the human condition.

East West Gallery, Paintings by Cathy Fenwick

Private View Thursday 1st March 6pm -9pm.

2nd March - 7th March 12-6pm.

East West Gallery, based in Notting Hill West London, is paying a visit to the East End, bringing the work of painter Cathy Fenwick.  Cathy Fenwick studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools 1980-83 tutored by sculptor Bryan Kneale.  She won a Henry Moore Fellowship in 1982 and the Landseer Prize in 1983.  Fenwick exhibited with the Treadwell Gallery 1983-91, including ‘La Groupe Show’, of women artists in 1983. Cathy Fenwick has shown at East West Gallery since 1992 to date. The East West Gallery was established in 1990 is run by Jill Morgan it shows mainly contemporary, figurative works.

Woman Trying To Get Up
Oil On Canvas
80x100cms

Embrace No.64
Oil on Canvas
127x101 cms

For more information: Jill Morgan website


East West Gallery, 214 Kensington Park Road, W11 1NR