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Chic Drawing: Showcase of Contemporary Drawing

Less is More Projects presents:
“La Collection de Monsieur X, ou les avantages d’être un collectionneur” (“The Collection of the late Mister X, or the advantages of being a collector”) at Chic Drawing Art Fair from March 26 to 29, 2010.

Professional preview opening: Thursday 25 March at 2pm. Vernissage opening from 6pm to 9pm

Public opening: Friday 26 March 2010

Opening Hours:
11am-8pm Friday 26 March to Sunday 28 March
11am-4pm Monday 29 March

Address:
ATELIER RICHELIEU
60, rue de Richelieu - Paris 01
Metro line n° 3, Bourse

The artists included in the exhibition are: Phil Ashcroft, Rodolphe Auté, Michel Boubon, Alberto Brusamolino, Hervé Garcia, Paolo Giardi, Ian Gonczarow, Iain Hector, Susana Lamberti, Alicia Nauta et Ceal Warnants.

For further information:
E: lessismoreprojects@me.com
T: +33 (0)6 74 15 43 94

Less is More Projects

'Chic Drawing' part of 'Chic Dessin Art Fair'

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New Products

A series of products made in collaboration with Jealous London. The first in the series of merchandise are currently on sale here and soon available at Top Drawer Spring/Summer at Earls Court One, 17th-19th Jan
here. with more vendors in the pipeline.

Products.
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London Art Fair - Business Design Centre, Islington 12th - 17th Jan 2010.

You can find my work at the Jealous Gallery Stand (G45) and the TAG Fine Arts stand (40).

LONDON ART FAIR

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"Manderley" chosen as "Pick of the Week" by the Guardian Guide - 12/12/09

HERE
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Christmas Show NOW ON

"Original prints, drawings and painting by established, emerging and prize winning London graduate artists.

Artists featured include Sarah Fotheringham, Jayoon Choi, Anka Dabrowska, Ceal Warnants, T.WAT, Angie Lewin, Adam Bridgland, Lucy Gough and Ashes 57."

Jealous Gallery

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MANDERLEY - THIS THURSDAY!

Don't Forget!

I have made two postcards for the RCA Secret 2009 exhibition that is on show from Friday 13th November - Friday 20th November 11-6pm, 11-8pm on Thursday 19 November. Free admission. Cards go on sale (£40 each) on the 21st 8am-6pm. You might pick up a Gerhard Richter, Bill Viola, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry OR a CEAL WARNANTS.

Enjoy.

RCA SECRET.
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PRESS

Some rather nice endorsements of 'Manderley' and my press release writing skills can be found at Dazed Digital
HERE
and at Spoonfed
HERE
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MANDERLEY

The John Jones Project Space,
4 Morris Place, London N4 3JG.

Private View - 26th November 6 – 9pm
Dates - 27th November 2009 – 16th January 2010
Open Hours - Thursday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm

ARTISTS
Matt Brown
Adam James
Dick Jewell
Ryan McClelland
Edd Pearman
Tim Phillips
Akiko Takizawa
James Unsworth
Chris Wraith
Ceal Warnants
Katsutoshi Yuasa

Curated by Edd Pearman, ‘Manderley’ represents duality - the characteristic of being two-fold: Lightness with Darkness, Life and Death, the tranquil amidst the dreadful. This collection of works presents such dichotomies - each individual artist extracting a sense of beauty from the profane. August yet imposing marquetry, warningly serene photography, and magnetically hypnotic but voyeuristic video work: all initially appear to embody one intention, yet possess in equal measure, opposite qualities. Each of the artists have either studied or taught in the Printmaking Department at the Royal College of Art, London.

‘Manderley’ is kindly supported by: FORSTER, Mark Jason Gallery, My Life in Art & TAG Fine Arts.

John Jones has a long history of supporting emerging artists and contemporary art. Our passion to generate new opportunities for artists has led to the development of the John Jones Project Space, which provides a series of contemporary exhibitions and facilitates innovative projects.

John Jones is positioned at a point where different sectors of the art world connect to use our services. The Project Space was founded on a philanthropic basis and has now developed a reputation as a resource, which introduces artists and curators to a new audience of gallery owners and collectors creating new opportunities across our creative network.

For more information please contact samantha.watson-wood@johnjones.co.uk 02072815439

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ART FAIRS 2009

This Autumn my work can be found at

Art London - 8 - 12 October 2009 (with TAG Fine Arts)

The Affordable Art Fair - 22 - 25 October 2009 (Jealous Gallery and Tag Fine Arts)

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SHOW THIS WEEK...

"ALLOTMENT" - The Street Gallery, UCLH, 235 Euston Road, NW1 2BU.

PV 6-8pm 10th Sept
Exhibition Cont. 11th Sept - 9th November 2009.

Adam Bridgland and UCLH Arts Curator Guy Noble, have collaborated with TAG Fine Arts and brought together twenty-three artists to each create a new wall based work in response to the term 'Allotment'. A full list of artists included in the exhibition is listed below.

All twenty-three practitioners are gaining widespread recognition within the art and design world and exhibit internationally. Many are part of major art collections in the UK and abroad. All the artists produce very different work and their approach to the subject has created a diverse exhibition of works. For a term that could be deemed quintessentially 'English', the exhibition has a cosmopolitan feel. Painting, printmaking, photography, drawing and collage will be showcased. The work will be for sale, with thirty percent going to the UCLH Arts fund to ensure the future development of UCLH Arts projects for the benefit of hospital patients. Participating artists include;

Adam Bridgland, Sarah Bridgland, Andrew Curtis, Erica Donovan, Lloyd Durling, Robin Duttson, Lucy Gough, Matthew Green, Claas Gutsche, Mark Hampson, Adam Hayes, Fiona Hepburn, Katherine Jones, Jack Kettlewell, Kwai Lau, Gary Mcdonald, Edd Pearman, Suzy Q and The Owls, Giulia Resteghini, Rob Ryan, Bronwen Sleigh, Ceal Warnants and Katsutoshi Yuasa

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UPCOMING LONDON SHOWS

10th September - 9th November 2009 - 'Allotment' - UCLH Street Gallery, Tottenham Court Road, London.

26th November – 16 January - 'Manderley' - John Jones Project Space, Finsbury.
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Fun Palace

A write up by Stephanie Grace at Jotta magazine for this weekends forthcoming activities as part of Hackney Wicked...

HERE.

Come and share in the art and festivities on the 1st and 2nd Aug @ 55 Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, E9 5LH (opposite hackney Wick Rail station)

"The alleyway that combines these two buildings lie at the heart of this community, two residents, Tana West and Ceal Warnants decided to transform this space into a ‘Fun Palace.’ A reaction against the Olympic authority and the London development agency suggesting this area is a blank space, devoid of value and in need of 'regeneration'. Cedric Price's unrealised 'Fun Palace' from the 1960's was to be sited in the Lea Valley, on the current Olympic site. It was to be a 'shed of infinite possibilities, light weight, ultimately disposable but always responsive to the needs of a leisure orientated society.’

In the spirit of Price's 'Fun Palace' and the Wick they are going to create something playful throughout the weekend, inviting all to participate as the alleyway is colourfully transformed using cardboard, plastic bags, palettes and other disposable items." - Stephanie Grace

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Culture Show

"A Fiddle" appears on the Culture Show 17.06.09
HERE.
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I've been FFFFOUND

My work can be seen on FFFFOUND.com
HERE.

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RA SUMMER SHOW NEWS

One of the edition of 'A Fiddle' can be seen gracing the walls of the RA Summer Show 2009 in the Weston Room from 8th June - 16 August. The work also features in this month's RA Magazine with a photograph taken by world-renown portraitist Harry Borden. To view the article online, go to RA MAGAZINE.

and also to the Royal Academy Illustrated 2009 on page 56.
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I have uploaded recent press clippings and articles including this piece by David Ferry:

Article written and published in the autumn of 2007.

'Stories for Bedtime…A True Crime of Passion

By David Ferry

“The nations morals are like teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.”

George Bernard Shaw, introduction to The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet.

“Hurry up, and come quickly Dick, for Fanny is getting impatient…” etc!

In fact almost anything can be taken to the extremes of the double entendre and from there, to public offence, political corrective infill and nationalistic awfulness.

Stories for Bedtime was made in 2006 and exists as a limited edition artist’s book by the contemporary artist Celia Warnants (writing and creating in this instance under the pseudonym of Edith Fryton). Celia made this book during her undergraduate studies in a British university art school. She became fascinated at the depiction of assumed childlike innocence in our modern times where every type of human avarice and perversion pervades. This seems to me to be a particularly prevalent subject to tackle in a seat of learning and I would always like to believe that the art institution and fine art studies in particular are the last bastions of liberal, eclectic and fantasy-laden learning left in an increasingly corporate landslide of devalued, overpopulated and expensive higher education.

Expecting the normal euphoria and celebrations that naturally come along at the end of a three year course of study Celia was very surprised when, with no prior warning, her entire undergraduate art school degree show was cordoned off, taken down, and ultimately confiscated by the C.I.D. This happened in a middle England cathedral city, and is a scary reminder of an ongoing assault of social and public righteousness that beggar’s belief. This incident took place only very recently. In this remarkable tale of ‘so called book art crime’, I want to set the scene, with the conditions and analogies, of which, most of us, will already be very familiar with....'

ARTICLE CONTINUES...

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Jealous Editions

Shotgun Clare is now SOLD OUT

"Well, Really!" and "The Heroin(e)" still available but selling fast!

Jealous Gallery

or

JEALOUS GALLERY

27, Park Road
Crouch End
N8 8TE
London

‘Jealous Editions’

March 19th – April 12th 2009

In March, Jealous Gallery and Print Studio will be six months old. To celebrate this, we will be presenting a mini retrospective of all our editions produced in the print studio since the gallery opened its doors in Crouch End last October.

The first six months have been an exciting time for us in this new space. As well as finding our feet in the gallery world, we have been busy building a portfolio of prints under the Jealous label. Many emerging and internationally recognised artists have walked through our doors to work with Matthew Rich, our in-house printer, producing beautiful hand pulled screen printed editions.

The Jealous Editions Show will act as a documentation of our development and work so far as we move forward to establish our place as one of the highest quality water based screen print studios in England.

All our artists, from our very first Jealous print created by Michael Palmieri, to the latest works by Angie Lewin and Ceal Warnants will be on show. Other featured artists will include Ashes 57, James Flames, Adam Bridgland, Lucy Gough, Jeni Snell, Eddie King, Anka Dabrowska, Adam Koukoudakis, Samson Kambalu, Mighty Monkey, Razvan Anton, Chris Ould, T*WAT, Bert, Mike Marcus, Olivier Kosta Thefaine and Jealous INC.

Many of our editions are coming to the end of their run, so the show may well be the last chance to get your hands on these limited works before they sell out.

For more information on Jealous print editions and the print studio please contact the gallery on 020 8347 7688 or email info@jealousgallery.com

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The exhibition 'Beautifully Crafted' for which work was selected last year has won the Journal Cultural Award Best Event Sunderland 2008....

Mar 25 2009 By The Journal

WINNER: Beautifully crafted

"THE idea of this exhibition at the National Glass Centre was to show how we live with beautifully crafted objects and encourage us to look more closely at how objects are made.

The exhibition brought 70 artists together – including 15 from the North East – and served as a celebration of the craft, including lace-making, taxidermy, weaving, wood-turning and leather-working.

Alex Evans, creative producer, programme and communications at the Glass Centre, said: “Beautifully Crafted was an exhibition that taps into a need we all share for beauty and creativity in our everyday lives and celebrates what we can achieve from raw materials and techniques that have been handed down through the ages.

"We wanted to find artists whose work you don’t normally come across. Through word of mouth and plenty of research we discovered artists using art and craft techniques in some wonderful or unusual ways.” "

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"Shotgun Clare" - Two colour, embossed, Screen Print...

NEARLY SOLD OUT

at JEALOUS GALLERY, Crouch End!!!
"Well, Really!" and "The Heroin(e)" still available but selling fast!
Exhibition on until the 12th April 2009.

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Jealous Gallery Presents "Sketch Show" -> February 19th – March 16th 2009

"Jealous Gallery is proud to present the exhibition ‘Sketchshow’, bringing together a number of the most exciting artists working in the drawn medium today. The gallery will be exhibiting new drawings and prints by Francis Richardson, Lloyd Durling, Razvan Anton, Chris Ould, Jayoon Choi, Liz Charsley-Jory, Jack Kettlewell, Kwai Lau, Anka Dabrowska, Jeni Snell, Glen Williams, Ceal Warnants, Angie Lewin and Giulia Resteghini to name a few. All are emerging artists that are fast growing in reputation within the art world.

At Jealous we do not believe in the barriers and tags that mean the various artistic mediums are separated. We look to create interesting dialogues and relationships between the mediums. In this show we will be exploring a number of relationships, for example the original drawing and printmaking and the drawn mark within a printed work and that directly onto a piece of paper.

For the show Jealous have commissioned four new printed editions, all produced in house at our print studio. The editions have been created by Razvan Anton, Chris Ould, Ceal Warnants and Angie Lewin. We wanted to use a range of drawing and print techniques and the four artists we have chosen have very different approaches to the medium. Razvan Anton makes dominating graphite works of industrial objects, Chris Ould draws directly from photographs on the computer to create new visions of crime scenes and Ceal Warnants tampers with book illustrations from a bygone era to create miscued versions of reality. Our final edition is by Angie Lewin who creates stylized works of the natural environment, particularly of Norfolk and the Cairngorms, where she spends much of her time. Although Angie has produced many woodcuts and lithographs, she has not worked with screen print and Jealous are delighted to be producing her first one in the studio."

Jealous Gallery

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New Year, New Art Fair...

London Art Fair -> 14-18th January 2009

"British Collectors can see the cream of Modern and Contemporary British Art on their doorstep at the London Art Fair."
- Meredith Etherington-Smith

Represented by Waterhouse & Dodd, Stand G5 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. N1

http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/
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Jealous Gallery Xmas Print Show - 20/11/2008 to 23/12/2008

'Showing framed, signed, limited edition prints from £250 to £650 ready for you to take home this xmas Jealous will be showing works by a host of established, emerging, young, graduate and Jealous editioned artists.'

27, Park Road
Crouch End
N8 8TE
London

Bus services to Crouch End: Numbers 41,91, W3, W5 and W7
Rail services: Crouch Hill (12 minutes)

Opening hours
10am-6pm Thursday to Saturday, 10am-4pm Sunday.

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RCA Secret Exhibition

'Your opportunity to view an extraordinarily diverse snapshot of art today, and to start your own collection affordably. You may need to study hard though, because the SECRET remains - the author of each work will not be revealed until after the cards are purchased.

Last year Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst were among the artists who made original postcard-sized art for this unique exhibition. It also included the work of some of this year's RCA prizewinning graduates: Bruce Ingram – winner of the Merlin Studios Award; Ocean Mims – winner of the Conran Award; Ruth Murray – winner of the Sheldon Bergh Award; and Thomas Haywood – winner of The Photographers’ Gallery Award.

The Exhibition will open at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU from Friday 14th November until Friday 21st November 11-6pm, with a late opening on Thursday 20th November until 8pm. Free admission.

The postcards will be available for viewing on this website from Friday 14th November.

The Sale will be on Saturday 22nd November from 8am.

You must be registered as a buyer to purchase. Click here to fill out registration form. Please note registration closes on 18th November. If you have already registered in the past, it is not necessary to do so again.

First-Fifty Raffle tickets for a chance to win a place at the front of the Sale queue will be on sale at the Exhibition, until one hour before the close of the exhibition on each open day.

Price per postcard: £40. Postcards will only be available to purchase in person at the Sale. If you would like to make a purchase, it is recommended that you prepare a list of cards in advance, as the exhibition will not be open for viewing on the morning of the Sale.'

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My work for the upcoming show 'Make Believe' can be seen in the Autumn Art Spectacular (October 2 - 8 2008) Time Out on page 41 or alternatively online HERE.

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*Four Upcoming Group Shows*

'Make Believe' part of 'Concrete and Glass' 3rd - 20th Oct. PV 2nd Oct. Curated by Catherine Loewe. Nicholls & Clarke Building, 3-10 Shoreditch High Street,London. E1 6PG (Entrance at Blossom Street). See www.concreteandglass.co.uk for map
Artists include Jacqueline Brown, Jodie Carey, Ruth Claxton, Katarina Forss, Robert Fry, Nick Hornby, Ryan Mosley, Daniel Pasteiner, Boo Ritson and Ceal Warnants.

RSVP catherine@loewecontemporary.com

'If Art concerns the manifestation of an idea through the handling of material, this exhibition presents a renewed emphasis on the productive gap between practice and product. Tyco track, icing sugar, feather, lard, wood, plaster, paint, paper, porcelain, video and photography: in a seductive array of media, this show highlights the artiwork’s passage from base materiality to symbolic form.'

'10', 1998-2008 The Chris Orr Years, Private View Thursday 16th October 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Exhibition dates - 17th - 26th October 2008. Open: 10am - 6pm daily (except Sunday 26th, 10am - 3pm). The Entrance and Upper Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, Kensington, London. SW7 2EU.

RSVP printmaking@rca.ac.uk

Celebrating a decade of printmaking at the Royal College of Art, in conjunction with the work of notable artists including Tracey Emin, Paula Rego, Edd Pearman and Michael Craig-Martin.

'Affordable Art Fair, Recent Graduates' Exhibition', Battersea Park. 23rd - 26th Oct.

'Situated at the front of the marquee, the Recent Graduates' Exhibition showcases the range of diverse talent emerging from Britain's art schools. Curated to reflect the excitement of what is being produced, the emphasis is on work which achieves a balance between concept and craftsmanship. The exhibition provides a valuable platform for the participating artists to exhibit their work to a large audience, and for you, an opportunity to enjoy and buy work produced by potential stars of the future.'

'Beautifully Crafted', National Glass Centre, Sunderland. 25th Oct 2008 - 22nd Feb 2009. PV 24th Oct. 10th Anniversay celebration weekend 25/26 October.

'A showcase of ingenuity, exquisite workmanship, innovation and delight, ‘Beautifully Crafted’ explores the way contemporary artists and designers create works that fuse cultural histories and ancient techniques with new technologies and new ways of working. This exhibition pays homage to artisan techniques, from glass making to taxidermy, lace making to marquetry, and objects that have been created with meticulous attention to ‘making’.'

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28 July - 3 August 2008

Picked as one of Saatchi Online's 'TOP 10' chosen by REBECCA WILSON (Editor of Saatchi Online). HERE.