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Burlington Arcade welcomes best of British art & design for Fabergé Big Egg Hunt
Central London’s iconic luxury shopping arcade showcases trailblazing UK creative talent for world’s largest charity egg hunt.
Unique creations from Jake & Dinos Chapman, Bompas & Parr, Caio Locke, Yuki Aruga and Robinson Pelham nest within the Burlington Arcade’s promenade for Fabergé Big Egg Hunt.
The Burlington Arcade is supporting the blockbuster charity event of the spring/summer season, The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, and championing the cream of British art and design by hosting a brilliant selection of five exquisite eggs within its elegant parade of luxury shops:
Controversial Turner Prize-nominated artists and brothers, Jake & Dinos Chapman, will rock the arcade with an explosive interpretation of the Egg form that’s sure to cause a sensation
Immortal Nature: Piers Secunda at Edel Assanti
Painter and sculptor Piers Secunda featured in Edel Assanti Gallery exhibition exploring modern apocalyptic anxieties
Following a ground-breaking solo show at the Aubin Gallery, Piers Secunda presents his politically explosive painting in a group exhibition exploring the prophesised end of the world in 2012, curated by Gordon Cheung.
Encompassing a range of media, Immortal Nature is split across Edel Assanti’s three floors, invoking the mythological prism of the Underworld, Earth and the Afterlife. These distinct realms investigate the tensions, conflicts and hopes surrounding civilisation’s ever-changing relationship with the natural world. International contemporary artists, Laurence Edwards, Robin Friend, Alex Honda, Nicolai Howalt, Hew Locke, Rui Matunaga, Richard Mosse and Kelly Richardson will be exhibiting alongside Piers Secunda and the curator Gordon Cheung.
Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Monthly Competition Terms and Conditions
In these terms “the Promoter” means Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) of Building 5,
Entrants may enter the competition by following the specific directions given in respect of each competition and as further detailed below.
The competition will open on 30th January 2012 at 00:01am and will close 26th February 2012 at 11:59pm. Entries received before or after this time will not be counted.
Competitions are open to residents of the
Entrants must be aged 18 years or over. Proof of age may be requested.
Only one entry is permitted per household.
Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Yearly Competition Terms and Conditions
In these terms “the Promoter” means Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) of Building 5, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YF.
Entrants may enter the competition by following the specific directions given in respect of each competition and as further detailed below.
The competition will open on Thursday 24th November 2011 at 00:01am and will close on Sunday 4th November 2012 at 11:59pm. Entries received before or after this time will not be counted.
Competitions are open to residents of the UK and Eire only excluding employees and relatives of employees of the Promoter or of its respective parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies, or of any other person or entity connected with the competition.
Entrants must be aged 18 years or over. Proof of age may be requested.
Only one entry is permitted per household.
Murmurs launches at the Southbank Winter Festival
Strange and yet beautiful, this enchanting tale of romance and illusion makes its UK premiere at Southbank this winter Murmurs, a dreamlike blend of theatre, illusion and dance, makes its UK premiere this Christmas at Queen Elizabeth Hall, as part of Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival.
Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival takes place this season 18th November 2011 – 11th January 2012 throughout venues both within the Southbank Centre itself and across the Thames-facing promenades.
Created by director and designer Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, last seen at the Southbank Centre with Le Cirque Invisible, Murmurs is the sequel to the internationally acclaimed Aurélia’s Oratorio, and stars Aurélia Thierrée as a woman fleeing from reality in a life filled with cardboard boxes.
Southbank Winter Festival 2011 Events Announced
Southbank, London Yuletide takes an alternative guise: traditional mulled wine and mince pies alongside enchanting and extraordinary spectacles from all over the world Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival takes place this season 18th November 2011 – 11th January 2012 throughout venues both within the Southbank Centre itself and across the Thames-facing promenades.
From an extravaganza of colour and movement in the dazzling musical The Bollywood Trip to the spellbinding, dreamlike enchantment of Murmurs, here for its London premiere, this year’s Winter Festival offers something for all audiences – from young to old and from the culturally curious to the most sophisticated of culture vultures – including music, theatre and comedy. Events throughout the festival are both ticketed and free.
As well as all this, the festival will display a special trail of festive lights, leading you to the Southbank Centre’s own roof garden, where for three weeks there will be the beautiful Winter Garden Grotto. Close within, the fantastic Forkbeard Fantasy have created a wild and yet wonderful exhibition in Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall.
Endless stalls of festive delights at the bustling Christmas markets complete the offerings, making for a festive celebration like no other you’ll find this year.
Rankin: The Hunger
Rankin: THE HUNGER
Launch Date: 17th November 2011
New, self-published, biannual fashion and lifestyle magazine from internationally celebrated photographer and publisher Rankin Rankin, renowned photographer and publisher worldwide announces, with support from the Dazed Group, the launch of his brand new biannual, THE HUNGER and its live, digital embodiment, THE HUNGER TV. A pioneering magazine and website which are designed to inspire and incite the creative hunger in us all, Rankin also intends for them to become a platform for young emerging talent across all artistic fields.
THE HUNGER is unique in its strong and unfaltering visual identity, a result of Rankin shooting much of the photography and his being instrumental in directing the overall design and style. The magazine will feature a selection of individuals from the worlds of art, design, fashion, drama, music and more, who have also pushed at thecultural boundaries in their own fields. It is a celebration of artistic passion and enterprise, from the past to the up and coming. Articles on art, design, architecture, literature, entertainment, travel and world affairs go hand-in-hand with beautiful imagery to captivate the discerning reader.
Issue One includes in-depth, intelligent interviews with Rhys Ifans, Terence Stamp, Ray Winstone, Danny Dyer, Hayley Atwell, Plan B, Michael Sheen and Sally Hawkins - to name a few – as well as fashion stories with Kelis, Kelly Rowland, Sky Ferreira, Milla Jovovich, Erin O’Connor and Heidi Klum. As a statement of the broad creativity THE HUNGER seeks to inspire, each issue will be available with one female cover and one male cover with Issue One featuring Rhys Ifans and Sky Ferreira.
FLOW commissions Charles Monkhouse
Sywell Reservoir illuminated: a stunning installation by artist Charles Monkhouse, part of FLOW Northamptonshire and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Sywell Echo is the latest major commission within FLOW, a countywide visual arts programme delivering a series of new site specific artworks by leading British artists that explore and respond to the journey of water through Northamptonshire’s rivers, canals, water towers and reservoirs. FLOW is part of the regional IGNITING AMBITION Festival and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Launching on the 21st October, Sywell Echo will see the Edwardian Sywell Reservoir set alight by 128 LEDs on masts up to 10 metres tall. Standing high above the water surface, each of the lights will be directly above the bed of one of the old streams, which still define the confluence of three historic parishes.
Sywell Echo explores the history of the valley by redrawing its hidden geography – through this stunning and entrancing installation. Sywell Reservoir has two branches, both around one kilometre long and up to 10 metres deep. The lights are placed at intervals of approximately 18 metres along these branches. Each of the 128 lights, exactly the height above the surface that the stream once lay below, will precisely redraw within its watery reflection the century-old waterways and boundaries beneath.
Riflemaker: A Happy Show?
The Riflemaker gallery is housed in the West End’s oldest public building; a rifle-maker’s workshop dating back to 1712. At first I thought it odd and a little lazy that the original name and sign of the building was kept, considering that the current and original functions of the building couldn’t be further removed from one another. It is hard to see the link between weapon production and art exhibitions. I relaxed on this stance when seeing that the relationship between the space’s history and current art was in fact complimentary, and makes the gallery something very unique.
The space is understatedly stunning; the entrance room has a heavily wooden interior that holds traces of that eighteenth century feel. Here, the current exhibition is by the mysterious art collective, Artists Anonymous. Their collection aims to play with our perception of what makes a painting and what makes a photograph; using devices of negative and positive colour reversals, and paintings derived from photographs and vice versa.
It is named ‘The Happy Show’ perhaps ironically, as each of the pieces generally have a glum vibe. There is something frantic yet melancholy about each of the works, whether it is a depiction of a room, a studio or a head study. There is the sense of the recent passing of some reluctant action by each of the characters illustrated. I got the sense we were witnessing the aftermath of some private or embarrassing happenings.
Metro & Royal Academy of Arts Announce Eyewitness Photography Competition Winners
The winners of the Eyewitness Photography Competition, launched by Metroprint in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, have been announced.
The competition, hosted by Metroprint, Metro Imaging’s new online print service, coincided with the Royal Academy’s exhibition: Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century - Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi.
The competition was designed to encourage budding photographers to upload and share their images based on four separate categories: Street, Portrait, Fashion and Abstract photography. Each category was based upon an individual photographer from the Royal Academy’s exhibition: Brassaï for his classic portraits, Capa for street
photography, Moholy-Nagy for abstract photography and Pécsi and Munkácsi for fashion photography The competition, which launched in July and was open to entries for 6 weeks, has received great levels of interest and a magnificent response of 5560 submissions.
