London Life - January 2018

14 February 2018

Great to back in London after so many weeks away!

London Life - January 2018
I dove straight into BFAMI where there was to be a big fundraising event the next evening at The Dorchester. Fatima Maleki hosted us with a wonderful dinner at home. The art ladies – myself, Fatima and Muriel Salem founder of the Cranford Collection
London Life - January 2018
At The Dorchester our hero for the night was Alex Israel, his work ‘Wave’. 2017 was a big success!
London Life - January 2018
Alex’s presence and support sprinkled magic upon the whole evening
London Life - January 2018
Lisa Tchenguiz not only supported BFAMI with the acquisition of her first major work by Ai Weiwei, she was there to lend a hand to Simon de Pury who had injured his leg
London Life - January 2018
I was proud of Dale Lewis who recently finished a residency with Tif Zab in New York
London Life - January 2018
His new show at Edel Assanti was so great. Seeing his work deservedly hung to shine out with insane narratives
London Life - January 2018
Serpentine gave a wonderful screening of the feature film ‘SPF-18’ by Alex Israel followed by a delicious dinner hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist accompanied by Philip Tinari from the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
London Life - January 2018
Back at ZC and our annual Testing Ground project kicked off. MA Culture, Criticism and Curation and MA Performance Design and Practice courses at Central Saint Martins curated a wonderful show, ‘A Minute Ago’. They showed only video works such as Gillian Wearing, ‘Dancing in Peckham’, 1994
London Life - January 2018
All the future art kids and their Daddies were out and about for the opening - Ed Greenacre of Rokeby, David Bebber and Haroon Mirza
London Life - January 2018
I was proud that the students had chosen to include Rachel Rose’s work ‘A Minute Ago’, 2014, shown at Serpentine last year
London Life - January 2018
The next day was the opening of Glenn Brown at Gagosian. The art works were fine art masterpieces. ‘Hot Love’, 2017 was one of my favorites
London Life - January 2018
The sculptures were magnificent, I discovered the basis of the work were pre-existing sculptures and then blobs of paint added to the object
London Life - January 2018
Then it was Master Class time, our annual weeklong workshop offering guidance to a pool of emerging artists. East day they had tutorials with a variety of people in the art world along with established artists, Richard Wentworth, Jake Chapman, Ericka Beckman and Michael Dean. Each artist gave a public lecture at the end of each day. Here is Richard Wentworth showing us his world of walkabout
London Life - January 2018
I then rushed from ZC to Hayward for Andreas Gursky’s opening and dinner. Sadly all I got to see was an outdoor Jeppe Hein bench
London Life - January 2018
Finally, I caught up with Martin Boyce at Tate Britain to celebrate his new light installation