Maurizio Bongiovanni

Hedley Roberts

Beautiful paintings by Hedley Roberts

Lucy McRae

Probes Programme at Philips Design

Collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess - lucyandbart

Lucyandbart sculpted their 'Evolution' silhouette for American Vogue in an article about age, youth and plastic surgery.

Lucy McRae

Jan Von Holleben

Jan Von Hollenben

Tent London, London Design Week 2010

I have finally managed to find time to load up a few things that caught my eye in London Design week.

Simon Sawyer/Sasquatch and La Mesmer

Alex Randall

Mark Boyce

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

Newspeak: British Art Now - part 1 @ Saatchi Gallery

Yes I am bad and it really has taken me three months to remember to post up my photos from my visit to the Newspeak part 1 show.  Anyway here are my favorite bits from the exhibition...

Steven Claydon

Pablo Bronstein

Alastair Mackinven

And on the top floor of the Saatchi was an amazing selection of Korean art, including a beautiful piece by ...

Shin Meekyoung
(soap, oriental paint, varnish)

Gwon Osang

Bae Joon Sung

Plasticity - 100 years of making plastics @ The Science Museum

I love a good biro (or pen), and I think quite a few of my students can back me up on this statement.  There has been numerous occasions where I've found myself borrowing a pen in a tutorial and getting all giddy with excitement because it's such a dream to write with.  Perhaps I shouldn't express my geeky pleasures quite so openly, but a good pen does make a world of difference!

Volivic Bic Biro Chandelier

Ever since I was introduced to digital printing in a surface pattern sense I have turned into a bit of a technology geek, well actually I think I've always been into technology as I do recall being ridiculed by my friends for being the first person in my sixth form college with a mobile phone...who's laughing now?...well probably Steve Jobbs as most of us including me have all been suckered into contracting ourselves to a minimum 18/24month iphone contract, and I have already managed to crack my third iphone screen in just over a year...damn you flimsy 3GS, only a few months until I can upgrade to the 4!  Anyway I do get excited by technology and it does excite me somewhat more than biros and pens.  It's the excitement of what it can do for us, if of course it is used responsibly.  The Fad Home Printer allows an individual to print an object, which basically means that I can potentially print out the pen that I like when I need it...heaven!!!

Fab Home Printer and Torch

Shadow Catchers @ The V&A

Floris Neusüss

Susan Derges

Adam Fuss

Adam Fuss

Pierre Cordier

To Be completely honest I didn't love this exhibition but I did love the work.  I do believe that this is due to the last two exhibitions that I have experienced at the V&A (Telling Tales and Decode) were so mind blowingly amazing in terms of work and curation that my expectations before entering a V&A exhibition is now sky high and so much more difficult to satisfy.

The House of the Nobleman

Okay so it has taken me about a fortnight to finally add in my visit to The House of the Nobleman, but better late than never...I guess.
It is fantastic and such a rare opportunity to see such a varied selection of work in one exhibition from Picasso to Damien Hirst to Banksy.  All curated in a very swanky four/five floor swanky town house by Regents Park it was often un-nerving knowing whether I was actually allowed to enter certain rooms, which all adding to the excitement and adrenaline rush of the whole experience.  This is definitely by far one of the best exhibitions I have been to.

Tracy Emin - I kiss you

Vik Muniz - Praying

Joshua Bilton - Buckle

Sebastian Brajkovic

Damien Hirst - Sacred XX

Wim Delvoye - Cement Truck

Picasso - Buste d'homme a la pipe

Fan Chon Hoo - The blue and white collection

Peter Zimmerman

I had seen images of Peter Zimmerman's work in the past, but none of it prepared me for how breathtakingly fabulous his work actually is in the flesh.