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8th February 2010 |
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We are delighted to welcome Lucy Davies, writer and photography critic for the Daily Telegraph, as our guest critic for February. Lucy has selected the work "Portrayal" by Victoria Hall as this month's featured work. Drawn to the novelty of Victoria's performance as both muse and artist, Lucy found the work "deeply moving; a fine thread of familiar beauty reaching across the centuries, toying with history, all the time analysing the value of artistic vision". Victoria has had a great start to 2010. Invited to submit work in January to the Arts Council for exhibition, Victoria is currently showing "Reynolds After Raphael" in the exhibition "Encountering Reynolds", at the Peninsula Art Gallery in Plymouth until 20th February 2010. Victoria will be giving an artist talk in the afternoon of February 10th. We are pleased to offer February's featured work "Portrayal" at a very SPECIAL price of 20% off each MEDIUM print making them available for just £280 plus shipping costs. To claim your discount simply enter the code DAVIES2010 into the discount box in the shopping basket before completing your purchase. Offer ends 28th February 2010. |
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Victoria Hall"Reynolds After Raphael" For Lucy Davies, Victoria's photographs operate on several levels combining photography's aptness for playing with the fictious. The paintings Victoria has chosen are often interesting in themselves. When he painted Caroline Duchess of Malborough Joshua Reynolds was imitating and intending his own audience to make the connection with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Madonna of the Sedia. |
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Victoria Hall"After Hockney" Furnished with meticulously matched props, an imported raffia chair, a period telephone, Victoria's version of David Hockney's "Mr and Mrs Clark" is both an homage to the original while allowing her own concerns to come into play. Recently married and not wanting to tempt fate Victoria decided to leave out the figure of the husband when making this piece; the Clark's marriage broke down shortly after Hockney completed the painting. |
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Victoria Hall"After Ross" Based on the portrait of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts by Sir William Charles Ross, "After Ross" is the first photograph Victoria made in her series "Portrayal". Re-Staged in the Mid-Victorian Period Room at the Geffrye Museum, Victoria adds an autobiographical element by placing a spy novel on the chair; a tiny reference to her childhood fantasy of becoming a spy. |
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We Recommend: Art BinIf you want to witness the possible death of modern art then pop down to the South London Gallery, where nihilist artist Michael Landy is throwing art into a rubbish bin. Famous for destroying his own possessions during an art performance on Oxford Street a few years ago, Landy has now turned his attention to other people's possessions and has invited artists to select some of their own art deemed worthy of destruction. |
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Artist NewsJust opened and running until the 21st March 2010, Christine Erhard has a new show at Kunstverein Peschkenhaus Moers, Germany. The British Library's is holding a series of workshops based on some of the photographs from its "Points of View" exhibition. Troika Editions artist, Jan Dunning will be leading a series of these workshops over half term, looking at the work of Muybridge and his use of thaumatropes, zoetropes and flip books in the study of movement. Kurt Tong's exhibition "Farewell to Labrador" is on until the 26 March 2010 at the Light House Gallery in Wolverhampton. Part of the empty shop initiative, Jo Holland is currently exhibiting her series Florescence in Richmond. You can view the work and talk to Jo about how she makes her unique lens based work at 38 Friar Stile Road, Richmond, Surrey. Show runs until the 26th February. |
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Next Week....Featured last year on Troika Editions with his series 360 Degrees, we are delighted to bring you a new work "Almost" by Isidro Ramirez, based on his home in Spain and in particular the coast line around the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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