All Things Considered

Julia McKenzie
by Simon Lewin on August 31st, 2010

Artist Julia McKenzie has an open studio event in south east London on Saturday 11th September 2010.

This new screenprint, 'China Sea', will be one of the works on show.

For full details visit Julia's Facebook and Tumblr pages.

Frank Kiely
by Simon Lewin on August 29th, 2010

"London", an exhibition of paintings and prints by Frank Kiely, is now open at the Bankside Gallery and runs until 5th September.

Between 6-8pm on Thursday 2nd September you can join Frank at the gallery for a 'Meet The Artist' event and throughout the exhibition children visiting can enjoy Frank's map of the exhibition and enter a draw to win one of his prints and a goodie bag.

Open daily from 11am - 6pm, admission is free. The Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH. See The Bankside Gallery website for more details.

One for Sorrow
by Simon Lewin on August 25th, 2010

Richard Ardagh has been in touch about another letterpress print produced with Graham Bignell of New North Press.

"It's another in the nursery rhyme series Graham and I have been producing, referring to the superstitions associated with seeing magpies. This poster has been set in wooden and metal type, inked and printed by hand in an edition of 150"

The print is available from the New North Press.

Southwold town sign
by Simon Lewin on August 12th, 2010

Our friend Brian Webb of Webb & Webb has just designed a new sign for this Suffolk coastal town.

The sign is a ‘slice through the sea making a plinth for the town name, stacked on the waves. People walking over the bridge will see the golden-eyed fish in the waves’, Brian told the Eastern Daily Press.

Find out more about the work of Webb & Webb.

Ed Kluz
by Simon Lewin on August 10th, 2010

'Cambusnethan Priory' (below) is one of the original collages that Ed Kluz will be exhibiting at Hornseys from 12th August 2010.

We're busy working with Ed on his first screen printed fabric for St. Jude's which will be available later this year.

And Ed will also be taking part in our November St. Jude's In The City exhibition in London at The Bankside Gallery. For an invitation to the opening please sign up for our e-mail newsletter.

Liberty fabrics
by Angie Lewin on August 1st, 2010

I recently designed these two dress weight cotton fabrics for Liberty and they've just been added to the Liberty website.

Winter Stem and Winter Thistle are each available in four different colourways.

French Macaroons
by Kate Sullivan on August 1st, 2010

For a few years now, French Macaroons have been well documented on the blogasphere. I first made a batch some time ago and rather freakishly my attempts were pretty good. You see, the French Macaroon is notoriously tricky to perfect. For me it’s a bit of a Holy Grail - like achieving the perfect sourdough loaf. The many different recipes found on the web are both daunting and inspiring - it seems that I’m not alone in wanting to perfect the perfect ‘feet’, sheen, crunch and chew, that isn’t too garish in both colour and flavour (unlike the lavender ones I recently made - very Haze Air Freshener).

Over the past few weeks I have made around 350 of the dainty coloured biscuits for a big family gathering. Approximately three dozen eggs later and with fridge full of egg yolks I am quite willing to never make another macaroon again. I would however love to experience the authentic French Macaroon at the glamorous Laudree concession in Harrods or Pierre Herme’s shop in Selfridges who I first discovered through the inspiring food blog Foodbeam.

RAMP
by Angie Lewin on July 27th, 2010

I've just unpacked this huge plate made by our friends Alice and Roop at RAMP. Alice's painted decoration of this piece prompts thoughts of the Festival of Britain and Ravilious' firework illustrations on his Coronation mugs.

Find out more about Alice and Roops work at Ramp Ceramics

Adam Bridgland
by Simon Lewin on July 22nd, 2010

'You Will Have Dignity If You Come Here' is Adam Bridgland's first public art commission in the United Kingdom. He was awarded it in 2009 by Futures Community College and Commissions East. A year in development and fabrication in collaboration with AJ Wells on the Isle Of Wight, the work is now installed and will be unveiled to the public later in the summer.

The title for the work is inspired by a line in a poem by a student at Futures College. The poem was a response to someone coming to Southend for the first time and was completed when Adam was doing workshops with the students in preparation for the commission. As well as the link to achievement and awards,  he star references the lights on Southend's famous prominade. This is emphasised by the photoluminescent paint around the edges of the aluminium frame, that will bring the artwork to life at night.

View further images or visit Adam's website.

Jonny Hannah
by Simon Lewin on July 19th, 2010

We had a great day at the gallery on Saturday for the opening of Jonny Hannah's solo exhibition with us.

Plenty of work sold but we still have a few original pieces plus lots of prints still available.

The show will run until at least mid-August and we'll post some extra images of the unique work on our Facebook page over the next week or so (you'll already be able to see some of the cut-outs and a few photos of the work in the gallery).