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Until 4 April 2010
Paper under the knife in New York
This month is the last chance to see works by two England & Co artists, Georgia Russell and Chris Kenny, at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Slash: Paper Under the Knife is the museum's third exhibition in its international survey series Process and Materials. Curated by David Revere McFadden with Laura Stern, it explores unusual paper treatments, bookworks, cut paper and includes works by Kara Walker, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Demand, Tom Friedman. Exhibition >
16 January—14 March 2010
Stuart Brisley at Kettle's Yard
The drawing Pig Wars (2008) by Stuart Brisley can be be seen in Modern Times: responding to chaos, an exhibition at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, of drawing and film selected by the painter, film-maker and curator Lutz Becker. The exhibition will later travel to the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex (1 April–13 June). Artist's page > Exhibition >
| January 2010 British Museum acquires Kenny's Philosophy circle Following the Zoo Art fair, Chris Kenny's three-dimensional construction with text Philosophy can damp down the hottest flames of lust was acquired recently from England & Co for the collection of the British Museum. Artist's page > |  |
 | 30 October 2009 Brian Griffin: The Road to 2012 With 1000 days to go until the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, Brian Griffin's were the first six portraits to be unveiled in the National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012. The project has commissioned photographers to celebrate those around Britain who are making the Olympics possible. Brian Griffin is pictured left with Dame Kelly Holmes, Lord Coe and Jonathan Edwards at the NPG. Artist's page > |
 | 18 October 2009 Stuart Brisley at the Serpentine Poetry Marathon On Sunday afternoon, Stuart Brisley was one of the prominent artists, poets, philosophers and musicians participating in the Serpentine Gallery's weekend-long Poetry Marathon in Kensington Gardens. It was the final event to take place in the Serpentine's 2009 Pavilion designed by SANAA. Report > Exhibition > Artist's page > |
| 11 September 2009—3 January 2010 John Dugger's banner art in Belgium Two historic banner works by artist John Dugger are featured in a major new exhibition at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (M KHA). Textiles: Art and the Social Fabric is curated by Grant Watson and also includes works by James Lee Byars, Goshka Macuga, Hélio Oiticica, Rosemarie Tröckel and Yang Fudong. Installation view, right: Great Wu Shu Kwan (Martial Arts) Banner 1975-77, and Chile Vencera, 1974. Artist's page > |  |
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| 24 July 2009—17 February 2010 Chris Kenny and Georgia Russell Cut It Out Chris Kenny and Georgia Russell are among the artists whose work is featured in the exhibition Cut It Out: Contemporary Paper Cut Artists at the Southampton City Art Gallery until 18 October. The exhibition then travels to Maidstone Museum, where it can be seen until 7 February 2010. |
 | 2 June—29 August 2009 Chris Kenny at Dr Johnson's House Chris Kenny is one of seven artists commissioned to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of British writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. The exhibition, The House of Words, is at Dr Johnson's House in Gough Square, London EC4, and is open to the public. Artist's page > |
| 1–23 May 2009 Constellation in cyberspace Artists including Yoko Ono and David Medalla who feature in Constellation: Clay Perry’s photographs of London’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s are among those who have responded to the exhibition on their own websites and blogs. Yoko Ono > David Medalla > Tjebbe van Tijen > aiu: Yoko Ono News > |
| 26 March 2009 Harald Smykla's new Metropolis for City X Harald Smykla marked the City X exhibition at England & Co with a performance of his Movie Protocol: Metropolis in which he used a monitor and overhead projector to make a simultaneous transcription of Fritz Lang's 1927 film onto rolls of clear acetate; his pictographs were projected onto the gallery wall behind him as he worked. To see more images of the event and the work, go to Harald Smykla's Artist's page > |  |
 | 12–14 February 2009 Stuart Brisley on stage in Lausanne Stuart Brisley is one of the artists invited to take part in this year's Performance Saga Festival in Lausanne. Curated by Katrin Groegel and Andrea Saemann in collaboration with Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain, the festival brings together artists from different generations. Open Dialogues: Performance Saga invites writers to respond to these performances online and in print, in English and French. Performance Saga Festival > Open Dialogues: Performance Saga > Artist's page > |
| Mid-February—April 2009 Contained at the Courtauld Institute Works by five England & Co artists—Maliheh Afnan, Vito Drago, Chris Kenny, Georgia Russell and Jason Wallis-Johnson—are currently on view in the exhibition Contained Thoughts in the Courtauld Institute Library Exhibition Space. |
 | February—June 2009 Georgia Russell: international dates Gallery artist Georgia Russell will be included in two new international exhibitions early this year. Firstly, The Book Borrowers: Contemporary Artists Transforming the Book at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington, USA (24 February—14 June 2009); and second, the exhibition of book works Novel Ideas at the Oakville Galleries in Ontario, Canada (7 March—31 May 2009). Artist's page > |
| January 2009 Abbassy acquired by the British Museum Unravelling by Samira Abbassy has been acquired from the Gallery by the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. Artist's page > |
| Until 4 January 2009 Georgia Russell in Oklahoma Georgia Russell is one of the artists included in the exhibition Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things at Price Tower Arts Centre, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The exhibition explores the role of art in environmental awareness through 'object reassignment'. Exhibition > |
| November 2008 Liliane Lijn: Let There Be Light Liliane Lijn was one of the five artists (who included James Turrell and Anthony McCall) whose primary medium is light and who were featured in the BBC1 programme Let There Be Light directed by Tim Kirby. The programme was part of the Imagine series presented by Alan Yentob. Artist's page > |  |
 | October 2008 Photographs at Zoo Photographs by Gallery curator and director Jane England are exhibited at Zoo Art Fair, London, with Ancient & Modern gallery. |
| From October 2008 Paule Vézelay on view at Tate Modern Paule Vézelay's painting Curves & Circles (1930) is currently included in the new display Poetry and Dream: Surrealism and Beyond at Tate Modern. |
September 2008
Eric Clapton opens
Philippe Mora's exhibition
The Gallery's new exhibition, Philippe Mora:
Then and Now – Works from 1960s London
to Los Angeles Today, was opened by the artist's
old friend Eric Clapton.
Hollywood Today >
The Age > The Spectator Australia >
Artist's page >
| The year 2009 Jason Wallis-Johnson and the Moderne Calendar The New York company Mrs John L Strong has a long tradition of hand-engraved stationery. Each year they produce a range of limited-edition desk calendars and, in the first of a series of collaborations with artists, they have chosen 12 of Jason Wallis-Johnson’s meticulous drawings for their 2009 Moderne Calendar. Mrs John L Strong > Artist's page > |  |
Until mid-October 2008
Paule Vézelay at the Courtauld
A display of work by Paule Vézelay – including paintings, sculpture and works on paper – is part of the Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary celebrations, and marks the Paule Vézelay Essay Prize and the donation of items from the artist's library to the Courtauld Institute. The display, curated
by Jane England, is installed in the exhibition space outside the main library in the East Wing of the Institute in Somerset House, Strand, London WC2.
| Until 14 September 2008 Georgia Russell in Holland Gallery artist Georgia Russell is currently included in the Holland Paper Biennial 2008 at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. |
 | 10 May 2008 Albert Herbert 1925–2008 England & Co is sad to announce the death of Albert Herbert. He has been associated with the Gallery since 1988—a great friend and inspiring artist who will be very much missed. The Independent > The Times > The Guardian > Artist's page > |
| April—May 2008 Photographs by Jane England Gallery curator and director Jane England has an exhibition of her early photographs, together with vortographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn, at the Ancient & Modern gallery, London EC1. Ancient & Modern > Flavorpill review > |  |
| April 2008 Rego acquired by the British Museum A rare early work on paper by Paula Rego from a private collection has been acquired by the British Museum through the gallery. |
| April 2008 Brisley in the British Museum The British Museum has acquired five works on paper from the Gallery by Stuart Brisley. They address polititcal issues, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ireland and the IRA, and the British monarchy. Artist's page > |  |
 | 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. |
| 12 February—5 April 2008 Stuart Brisley: Crossings The artist's new exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton offers 'a compelling account of two tragedies that both fed and reflected the anxieties of the age in which they occured the sinking of two famous 20th-century ships RMS Titanic and MV Estonia.' |  Touching Black Ice |  Estonia |
| In the sound installation Touching Black Ice, Brisley explores the legacy of the Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage after leaving Southampton in 1912 with the loss of 1523 lives. His new film Estonia retraces the story of the sinking of the ferry in the Baltic with 852 on board in 1994 and 'combines the dread of the event with the strangeness of revisiting a site of disaster.' John Hansard Galley > Artist's page > |
| 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. |
| 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. |
 | September 2007 Cover note Morag Ballard's painting 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—July 2007 Letting it all hang out: my life as a naked artist Grayson Perry writing in The Times recalls his experiences with the Neo Naturists, currently celebrated in their exhibition at England & Co. The Times > Artist's page > The Neo Naturists are now online 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. |
| 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). |
| April 2007 Culture Bound... four England & Co artists exhibit 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. England & Co sponsored the production of an artist's map designed and hand-drawn by Jason Wallis-Johnson as a guide for visitors to find their way through the warren of rooms and staircases in the East Wing and to discover where individual works are to be found. 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. East Wing Collection VII: Culture Bound > |
| March 2007 Brisley sculpture 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. Artist's page > |