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INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE

 

 

 

 

 

 

"it's such a pleasure to welcome a real sculptor who has a deft, playful touch, as well as an over-active imagination." Brian McAvera

   SCULPTURE magazine, July/August 2009, published by The International Sculpture Center, New Jersey, USA

 

 


Wednesday 16 January 2013

 

LONDON ART FAIR, BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE - REVIEW

 

 

 

By Ben Luke

A scaled-down version of the Downing Street door made entirely of sugar cubes by Brendan Jamison

 

The London Art Fair has been around for 25 years and remains a curious beast. It can be a fusty, spirit-sapping affair, with some truly execrable paintings exhibited by second-rate galleries. But there is also plenty to make it worth a visit.

The main fair is dominated by often humdrum modern British art, both abstract and figurative, interspersed with occasional gems — a sinuously curved canvas by Richard Smith at Piano Nobile gallery looked great among the middling abstraction elsewhere.

Younger galleries have given this main section an injection of energy — Jack Bell’s carefully selected booth of African contemporary art is a particular highlight.

But, as with the past couple of years, Art Projects, featuring 30 emerging galleries, is the fair’s best section. I loved Limoncello gallery’s typically cheeky booth based on reality TV show Take Me Out, where a hooded head in bronze by Sean Edwards is surrounded by a semi-circle of works by the gallery’s women artists.

Cole gallery has a group of eerily beautiful composite photographs of suburban New York state homes set in wastelands by Oliver Michaels, while Edel Assanti’s stand is dominated by Mauro Bonacina’s abstract made by hammering nails into balloons full of intoxicatingly coloured paint.

Photo 50, the photography section, is also strong — look out for Ian Beesley’s moving images of the casualties of Britain’s eroded industries, and Homer Sykes’s endearing shots of folk rituals.

Until Sunday

www.londonartfair.co.uk

 

LUKE, BEN. "London Art Fair: Business Design Centre - Review",

London Evening Standard, Wednesday 16 January 2013

 

 

 

   

Tuesday 29 June 2010

 

NEWS

 

 

By Sarah Getty

 

Cubism: sculptor Brendan Jamison got through more than 70,000 sugar cubes to build this model of Tate Modern. The sculpture which took three months to build, is part of the London Festival of Architecture at the NEO Bankside pavilion

 

 

GETTY, SARAH. "NEWS: Cubism: sculptor Brendan Jamison",

 London Evening Standard, Tuesday 29 June 2010, p. 2

 

 

 

 

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