Lots of very interesting gallery openings today and tomorrow, a sure sign that Summer is over!

Broken Minds Group Show

East in Hackney Wick a fascinating show opens with a mix of trained and untrained artists at The Outsider Gallery. The exhibition will feature previously unseen paintings, digital media, music, sound, poetry and spoken word items, and the launch of a new album mastered at Abbey Road Studios. I look forward to seeing work indoors from Neoh with whom I have had some thought provoking conversations about the use of art as a form of therapy for people suffering the misfortune of mental health issues.

 

Artists: Yap // Neoh // George Blake // Jon Hall // Dion Hitchings // David Darmanin // Emmanuel Adatsi // Gregory Derham // Sarah Johnson // Igor Tojcic // AP // Tom Ecologist // Javed Hassane along with contributions from members of the brain injury organisation Headway North London, the Teenage Cancer Trust and BEH Mental Health Trust.

Thursday 10^th – Sunday 13 Sept

Private View // 10 Sept
RSVP // outsidergallerylondon@hotmail.com

Outsider Gallery

Address // Mother Studios, White Post Lane, London, E9 5EN
Nearest Tube // Hackney Wick Overground Station
Stratford Station // 15 min walk that serves national rail and central line
Buses // 30, 26, 236, 276, 488

 

Underhand Group Show

Heading up North to Dalston a large cross section of some of the most active street artists in the East End have been assembled for a charity group show in aid of St Mungo’s Broadway, a charity which helps vulnerable people in getting off the streets and as well as recovering from the issues that cause homelessness.

BSMT Space

5 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH London, United Kingdom

 

Very Nearly Almost Issue 31 Launch

In Shoreditch StolenSpace hosts the launch of Very Nearly Almost magazine Issue 31 with special limited edition featuring NY artists Cyrcle.   Artists featured in this new edition include Auderi Chen, Charlotte Jansen, CYRCLE, David Shillinglaw, Eddie Zammit, Ermsy, Iain Macarthur, Kashink, Killpixie,Mark Whalen, Mysterious Al, Owen Dippie, Pastel FD, Pauline Foessel, Phibs, Tim Hans, Toowoomba, Turkesa, Underdogs, and Vhils; with photographers Ian Cox, Claude Crommelin, Mark Rigney, Dave Stuart (NoLionsInEngland), Paul Gray and Tim Hans. If you can’t make that, copies are available in the shop here for a very reasonable £6.99.

VNA Launch

STOLEN SPACE GALLERY
17 Osborn Street
London E1 6TD

OutsideIn #4

In Portobello Road CodeFC has put together a group show with a phenomenal line up of artists I have loved for many years from The Krah’s organic figures to the steampunk sculptural work by Wreakage of Mutoid Waste and Giles Walker, ceramic art by Carrie Reichart and the slightly sinister stuffed toys of Lucy Sparrow. Full line up: Demitri Krah, CODEFC, Kaes, Lucy Sparrow, Himbad Indestructomator, Giles Walker, Otto Schade, Teddy Baden, Carrie Reichardt, Alex Wreakage ( Mutoid Waste Co). Opening party Weds 9^th Sept (tonight!)

OutsideIn #4

4^th – 20 September

The Muse at 269

269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR London, United Kingdom

 

Jimmy C – Atomised

Nearby Jimmy C whose street art is a consistent show stopper on the Shoreditch Street Art Tour has a solo show launching today – publicised by the gallery as his first solo show for three years, which it might well be if we didn’t count the Riot Series show at the Pure Evil Gallery in October 2013. Features an interactive self generating portrait device which could be fun. Opens tonight.

Lollipop Gallery

58 Commercial Street, E1 6LT London, United Kingdom

 

Aiko, Edo City Girl

Finally, if I wasn’t so travelled out, I’d definitely head to Ink’D Gallery in Brighton for Aiko’s solo show, Aiko being a founder member of Faile and hugely influential on their direction both before and since her departure from the collective.

10 – 20 Sept

Ink’D Gallery, Brighton