B.F.I

There are always great things going on at the B.F.I, if you have never heard of the BFI it stands for the British Film Institute, it is located at the Southbank in London is defiantly worth a visit.

In May 2013 the BFI have loads of different events going on and great films showing.

A few things that would defiantly worth seeing would be….

Doctor Who at 50

The 4th Fashion in film festival

BFI screen epiphanies

We are defiantly going to try and make it down to a few of these events. If you visit the BFI in the next few months please let us know what you saw and if you enjoyed it.

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art’s renowned annual graduate show, begins with the Fashion Show on 29 May, and continues from 20 to 30 June with various other events around all campuses.

The exhibitions are free of charge, so get yourself down there and see whats going. 

Sculpture Inspired by Brunel

Julia Dennis the extremely talented Art Director of London Art Portfolio is currently exhibiting her work at the Brunel Museum in London.

Julia’s research is often based on specific cultural artefacts and their relationship to society in the past and present day. Her interest in history, anthropology and society has always been evident in her work. Personal experiences of living in Papua New Guinea and later as a mother between Italy and the UK have led to a range of exhibitions in sculpture, photography, film and installation.

 

Her Brunel exhibition is a site specific exhibition celebrating the great engineering achievements of both March Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Their innovations include the Thames Tunnel in between Rotherhithe and Wapping,  the Great Western Railway, St.Pancras Station, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and numerous important bridges, tunnels and viaducts!

 

Julia has created a series of works consisting of found, ready made tools from the18th and 19th century that reflect a period of industry and craft skills in a range of metals and wood. The line and form of her works aim to capture a sense of time and place whilst maintaining aesthetic simplicity.

 

This introductory exhibition is part of a larger exhibition that will be held at the London Art Portfolio Gallery space nearer the summer at 185 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 2UF. 02074036881. 07919846746. London Art Portfolio runs a range of Portfolio Preperation courses and evening wokshops.

 

For prices of artwork please contact Julia:07919846746

http://www.juliadennis.co.uk and http://www.londonartportfolio.com

Feast for St George

This Saturday 20.04.13 from 12-6pm the Mayor of London presents The Feast of St George. London Art Portfolio is running creative art workshops around the theme of food to celebrate St George’s Day in Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery. Hopefully you will be able to come down to the event, create something new and have some fun!

For more information on the event please check  www.london.gov.uk/stgeorges

Current must see exhibitions

At London Art Portfolio we do love a good exhibition, so we thought it would be a good idea to share with you some of our must see exhibitions.

British Museum - www.britishmuseum.org

- Ica Age art: Arrival of the modern mind

07 February – 26 May 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

28 March – 29 September 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbican - www.barbican.org.uk

- The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns

14 February – 19th June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer

26 March – 18 June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tate Modern - www.tate.org.uk

- Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

21 February – 27 May 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tate Britain - www.tate.org.uk

- Schwitters in Britain

30 January – 20 May 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design Museum - designmuseum.org

- Designs of the Year 2013

20 March – 07 July 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Designers in residence

04 September 2011 – 14 January 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wellcome Collection - www.wellcomecollection.org

- Souzou: Outside art from Japan

28 March – 30 June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

Fashion and Textile Museum - ftmlondon.org

- Kaffe Fassett: A life in colour

22 March – 29 June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Cube - whitecube.com

Bermondsey

- Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration

06 March – 21 April 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Photographers Gallery – thephotographersgallery.org.uk 

- Claire Aho: Studio Works

19 April – 21 July 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully you wil go take a look at some of these exhibitions, if you do let us know what you think as its nice to hear other opinions.

Atlantis Art

This is every creative person’s heaven; infact, it’s big enough to be heaven.

Atlantis not only has remarkably good prices, real top quality stuff in such a range, but they also pretty much have everything (except glitter!)

Nothing can be said really to justify what this place is really like, only if you visit. It’s just off of Brick Lane so when you go make sure you have a purse full of money, and enough time on your hands to wander around for fun; it’s massive.

So on the website find out where it is and go, if not have a look on the shop gallery to see what all the fuss is about and also have a flick through the online catalogue.

www.atlantisart.co.uk

Address:

Britannia House
68-80 Hanbury Street
London E1 5JL

Telephone:

020 7377 8855

IT’S CHRISTMAS

So December is approaching, which means a new monthly theme and this month is a good one, are you ready for it…

Christmas Windows

Its simple, any window, any shop, any country but just one rule, it has to be Christmas related.

Through out the month we will show you our favourites from around London and give you a brief history on the subject. We want to see what you have to offer, share on our facebook, twitter and instagram your favourites from where ever you are.