Tanja Devetak

Fashion and textile designer, Tanja Devetak has a showroom in the heart of Llubljana, Slovenia.  She prints her own fabrics before making them into garments.

Bread Project

The Bread Project in Llubljana, Slovenia, has travelled around 6 other cities in Europe and Russia.  This exhibition at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum connects different aspects of bread into a varied and stimulating display.  Thirty international textile artists from thirty traditions and backgrounds unified by the theme of bread.

Sculptures by Gwon Osang

Deodorant Type Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery by Gwon Osang shows recent sculptures by the Korean artist.  These lifelike sculptures are made up of photographs.  He usually takes photos of his model for three hours totalling 300 hundred frames.

RCA Degree Shows

These are the shows I particularly liked at the RCA show this summer:

Matthew Holloway - his project byte sized memory was particularly cool and with beautiful colour.

Mark Bereza who created re:voice.  Re:voice is an electronic musical instrument that you can play with your voice.

Ella Peters a printed textile designer

Chapman Brothers White cube

If the Chapman brothers have a new show on then you know there is going to be a big hoo ha whether it is warranted or not.  Their latest exhibition at the White Cube has created the usual storm.  The question though is are they saying anything worthwhile with their work?

Installation Display

This collection of 9 cabinets portrays different scenes of war...a bit like giant and macabre toy soldiers displays.

If Hitler Had Been A Hippy How Happy Would We Be

The Chapman brothers bought some of Hitler's paintings at auction and have then painted on to them.  A technique that they used with Goya's prints in 2003 with Goya's Disasters of War series. The difference here is the quality of the original works that the Chapman brothers are working with.  The title of this collection and the works on display do pose an interesting question.

Shop Window at Harvey Nichols

Matthew Ritchie, White Cube

White Cube's show for Matthew Ritchie utilised the whole space of the gallery, but I'm not really sure that that was really warranted.  Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that it is appropriate...The space somehow felt cluttered and the noise of the guitarists at the opening just lessened the experience too.  A shame, because the paintings on their own said as much to me as all the other stuff and Ritchie is very talented.