Since its creation 30 years ago, the Pinault collection has grown quickly to become a major presence in the contemporary arts. This exhibition focuses on the British artists present in the collection. Artists include Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Wateridge, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Toby Ziegler, among others.
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Fashion Narratives
fashion curation consultancy
Fashion Narratives is a boutique fashion curation consultancy.
Founded by Gemma A. Williams it enables companies and designers to communicate their stories by curating content across a variety of digital and physical platforms. These include fashion exhibitions, events, presentations and films.
Gemma is the author of Fashion China, Thames & Hudson, and the former curator of Fashion Space Gallery, London. She consults to a variety of clients including Shanghai Fashion Week and sits on the mentor panel of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.
Upcoming projects include an exhibition of fashion from Ireland and Japan at the National Craft Gallery, Ireland in August 2017.
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Second Nature
Devised and designed a site-specific response to the country home of renowed English architect Sir John Soane RA, Pitzhanger Manor House & Gallery. Research of John Soane and conception of brief and design highlighted greenhouses as a focal point to investigate how nature inspires and informs fashion collections.
Second Nature featured over 40 garments and accessories loaned from designers worldwide including Giles, Peter Pilotto, Roland Mouret, Donna Karen, Zandra Rhodes, Michael Kampe and Tomihiro Kono. It was the third only fashion exhibition as part of the arts-focused program of arts and design exhibitions.
Head On
Co-curated and devised the 2012/13 academic programme of free exhibitions and events at Fashion Space Gallery, situted at the London College of Fashion’s flagship campus.
Head On explored the contemporary role of headwear in contemporary fashion, given that society no longer dictates milliners daily use. Their use in editorial, on the catwalk and even on the highstreet continues to flourish and Head On showcased contemporary collaborations, interpretations and subversions.
By displaying headwear as part of ensembles on mannequins, the exhibition illustrated how scale, shape, color and proportion is used by milliners, designers and stylists to reframe the body. It featured bespoke hairpieces by Bumble and bumble, created by Radio Hair Salon and Gallery.
Layer by Layer
Co-curated and devised the 2012/13 academic programme of free exhibitions and events at Fashion Space Gallery, situted at the London College of Fashion’s flagship campus.
Layer by Layer focused on 3D printing and its potential as a tool for design. By outlining some of the processess, stages of development and materials invoved in the printing, it outlined some of its most innovative uses in contemporary fashion practice.
The display featured an operational makerbot 3D printer as well as a collaboration with Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media lab printed by Stratasys.
Fashion China
Fashion China is the first illustrated book of its kind to detail the landscape of contemporary Chinese fashion designers. Showcasing designers on the mainland and working internationally, it features among others Uma Wang, Xander Zhou, Renli Su, Babyghost and Ms. Min.
Published by Thames & Hudson, it has received press worldwide including Forbes, the New York International Times, Vogue China, the Irish Times and Women’s Wear Daily. A panel of industry experts featuring global supermodel LiuWen oversaw the selection.
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Gerhard Richter: Painting After AllMarch 4 – July 5, 2020
This exhibition at The Met Bauer considers Richter Gerhard’s six decade long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting.
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ARTPIL / Assistant & InternPosition available
Artpil is seeking to hire a part-time, freelance assistant & intern in Lille, France. Research, create and cultivate relations with galleries and museums, general communications, social networking, general assistance.
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Interview with Saul LeiterBy David Gibson
“History of art is a history of great things neglected and ignored and mediocre things being admired. At different times things are different. The history of photography is a history of changes.” –Saul Leiter (more…)
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Adorned / The Fashionable ShowDec 12, 2019 – Mar 11, 2020
The exhibition Adorned – The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. (more…)
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In The Next Door RoomPhotography of Lise Sarfati
The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana Velicescu
Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
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Botanical Drift / Ebbe Stub WittrupJanuary 23 – May 17, 2020
As Ebbe Stub Wittrup follows in the footsteps of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, a narrative emerges on Western economy and scientific logic as opposed to local knowledge and experience.
