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News Until 1 August 2008 British Outsiders in Paris England & Co has lent works by Albert Louden, Farouq Molloy, Richard Nie, Perifimou and Ben Wilson to the major exhibition British Outsider Art at Musée La Halle Saint Pierre in Paris. www.hallesaintpierre.org March 2008 Clive James: browsing at England & Co What started as a personal archive has expanded into cyberspace as author, critic and collector Clive James shares his enthusiasms with a worldwide readership at www.clivejames.com. The site has sections entitled Text, Video, Audio – and Gallery, which features England & Co artists Albert Herbert, Georgia Russell and Geneviève Seillé.
24 February—16 March 2008 Persian perspectives in New York Samira Abbassy is one of the artists currently featured in the Persian Arts Festival in New York. Four of her new works can be seen in Weaving the Common Thread at the Queens Museum of Art. Subtitled Perspectives from Iranian Artists, the exhibition explores the influence of the post-revolutionary Iranian diaspora on contemporary Persian art. Persian Arts Festival > November 2007—13 January 2008 Performance continues… … in Cardiff where Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan and Tatsumi Orimoto are featured in Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion at the Chapter gallery. The exhibition brings together photographs, videos, drawings and ephemera documenting seminal performances of the 1970s, along with recent works. Chapter Gallery > November 2007—9 March 2008 Lijn collage at the British Museum Hanging/Floating Gardens of Rock City i, the collage acquired by the British Museum from Liliane Lijn's 2006 exhibition at England & Co, is now on public display. It is included in Recent Acquisitions Part ii, devoted to 20th and 21st-century works on paper, in Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90, the British Museum, London WC2, until 9 March 2008. October 2007—27 April 2008 Four map the imagination at the V&A Works by four artists acquired through England & Co are currently on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as part of the display Mapping the Imagination. Druksland—Physical and Social 15 January 1974, 11.30am by Michael Druks, Britain: March 2003 (Britain on Iraq) by Georgia Russell, and Which Direction (You Are Here ii) by Vito Drago are in the Julie and Robert Breckman Prints Gallery; London Lightbox by Jason Wallis-Johnson can be seen in the Prints, Drawings and Architecture Education Room. October—November 2007 Drawn to St Petersburg Works by Maliheh Afnan are featured in the exhibition The Dance of Pen and Ink – Contemporary Art of the Middle East at the State Museum of Oriental Art at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. September—November 2007 On the map in Ireland Works by several England & Co artists – inclucing Chris Kenny and Satomi Matoba – are included in (C)artography: Map-making as Artform at the Crawford Gallery, Cork. The exhibition takes the the work of early map-makers as its starting point for a survey of contemporary artists who use mapping methodologies, often for very different reasons. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring Map Circle (16 Typhoons) by Chris Kenny on the cover. Until 10 Nov 2007. www.crawfordartgallery.com September 2007 Cover note Morag Ballard's Noon has been chosen as the cover image for Peter Davies new book, St Ives 1975—2005: Art Colony in Transition, published by the St Ives Printing & Publishing Company. 11-16 September 2007 Best of British England & Co will be represented at the 20/21 British Art Fair again this year. Featured artists will include John Armstrong, Morag Ballard, Martin Bradley, Rolf Brandt, Benjamin Creme, Arthur Giardelli, William Green, Heinz Henghes, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Kinley, Liliane Lijn, Anne Rothenstein and Paule Vézelay. You will find us on Stand 23 at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7. During this time the Gallery will be open as usual with the current exhibition, Klaus Friedeberger: Works 1940-1970. England & Co at the fair > June 2007 Letting it all hang out: my life as a naked artist Grayson Perry writing in The Times recalling his experiences with the Neo Naturists, currently celebrated in their exhibition at England & Co (until 21 July). The Times, 20 June 2007 > Artist's page > The Neo Naturists are now on line at www.neonaturists.org.uk June 2007 Town in country Works by Vito Drago, Alberto Duman, Chris Kenny and Jason Wallis-Johnson are currently on view in Anytown, an exhibition exploring the urban environment through the eyes of artists, photographers and designers from across four continents. At Mascalls Gallery in Kent, 11 June—19 July. www.mascallsgallery.org May 2007 Two go to Exhibition Road The Victoria & Albert Museum, London has acquired one of Alberto Duman's screenprints from his English International Images series: View of Braziers Park, Ibsden, near Wallingford. Artist's page > The Museum has also acquired a second work by Gallery artist Georgia Russell, Britain: March 2003 (subtitled Britain on Iraq). The Museum already owns a cut-book work from her series Clans and Tartans of Scotland. Artist's page > May 2007 Druksland in London England & Co have sold an example of Michael Druks' iconic image, Druksland Physical and Social 15 January 1974, 11.30am to the Print Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. This image was featured in England & Co's exhibitions The Map Is Not the Territory ii and iii. Artist's page > Another example from the series is included in the artist's major retrospective exhibition Michael Druks: Travels in Druksland at the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (May–August, 2007). http://www.museumeinharod.org.il/english/exhibitions/2007/michael_druks/ April 2007 Last chance to see… four England & Co artists at the Courtauld Institute Works by four Gallery artists – Chris Kenny, Georgia Russell, Victor Drago and Jason Wallis-Johnson – can be seen in the Courtauld Institute of Art's East Wing Collection VII. This biennial exhibition is curated by a committee of Courtauld students and displayed in the Institute's East Wing in Somerset House, London. The full range of works will be exhibited until June. East Wing Collection VII is entitled Culture Bound and showcases the works of 39 contemporary artists. Culture Bound, write the curators, was born out of the premise that we are all essentially restricted within a specific and evolving cultural experience. The exhibition explores the ways in which contemporary art can prompt a reconsideration of cultural boundaries. Visits are only by appointment; call 020 7848 2687. East Wing Collection VII: Culture Bound > March 2007 Brisley goes to Leeds The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Museums & Galleries has acquired Stuart Brisley's Untitled wall relief, c1962-63 from the recent exhibition at England & Co Stuart Brisley: Works 1958-2006. The Gallery is planning an exhibition of his sculpture and installation work in February 2008, to coincide with his major exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Artist's page >
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