After a lively and stimulating meeting the Membership Committee have chosen five new members for 2019. The 5 artists have diverse practices and backgrounds and will bring valuable new skills and energy to the group.
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Our Creative Spaces
A peek into the diverse studio spaces in which London Group members create.
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OBSESSIONS #2: Gasometers
“I appear to be known as the artist who paints gasometers” Daniel Preece LG
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Jacob Epstein’s “Rock Drill” 1913-15
Rock Drill remains an awesome portrayal of the confluence and battles between humans and technology. London Group archivist David Redfern examines the work which was first shown in The London Group’s second exhibition.
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OBSESSIONS #1: To endow with animal qualities
Excerpt from an artist talk to be given by Tim Pickup (Genetic Moo LG) on Fri 18 Jan, as part of the exhibition In the Dark at the Cello Factory.
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after “POVERA”
The London Group Open 2017 President’s Prize recipients Micheál O’Connell, Jockel Liess and Stephen Carley reflect on their three-person show POVERA held at The Cello Factory in November 2018.
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The London Group in WW1
Remembering The London Group members who served in The First World War.
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And there you have it, we finally made it to St Ives!
1st show in Cornwall, 76 works, 1 van, 7 hr journey, 4 day install, 34 London Group members and quite a lot of wine. Suzan Swale LG captures the moment.
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Making Sunset
Nick Watson’s short film of Almuth Tebbenhoff LG making and discussing her steel sculpture ‘Sunset’.
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Drawing Distinctions
A collaborative exhibition of drawings between the Faculty of the Art and Design Department and invited Alumni of the University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie USA and The London Group artist collective in London UK. Clive Burton LG explains the concepts behind it.
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The Claims of Social Art, Forty Years On
James Faure Walker LG reflects on his 1978 Artscribe article which challenges a campaign against contemporary art and, in the process, illuminates how artists have responded to the changing climates of art criticism.
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Fifteen Questions
Our first Q&A candidate, Ece Clarke LG, provides Claire Parrish LG with some pithy responses.
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Photography vs. Painting?
The work of a great Jamaican painter, a catalogue essay and a long-passed member of the London Group answered the question… A reflective essay by Charlotte C Mortensson.
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Five new members
The Group have selected five artists with energetic, diverse and tech-savvy practices this year.
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A day in the life of Amanda Loomes
“My studio is not glamorous; no canvases or sculptures, just mounds of paperwork and books.”
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