Events from Thursday 1 April 2010

• Spring Exhibition at The Colomb Art Gallery, London
  Friday 2 April 2010 - Thursday 29 April 2010
  by The Colomb Art Gallery
  Starts Friday 2nd April - Friday 29th April
  
• EXPOSITIE
  Saturday 10 April 2010 - Thursday 1 July 2010
  by klaas h
  Geachte dames en heren, heb 10 april een expositie op de 3e Oosterparkstraat 201 bij STORM gallerie van negen schilderijen en het begind om 13.30. ik zou het heel eg leuk vinden als jij komt kijken. met vriendelijke groet, Klaas Hartzema
  
• 'Skin and stories' sketches and works in progress by Karin Gunnarsson
  Tuesday 13 April 2010 - Sunday 18 April 2010
  by 10 Gales
  Karin Gunnarsson is a recent photography graduate from the Royal College of Art. The exhibition at Ten Gales contains sketches and new works in progress, where we encounter peculiar and monstrous characters situated in entropic minimalist narratives.
  
• Neigbourhoodies @ 10 Gales
  Monday 19 April 2010 - Sunday 25 April 2010
  by 10 Gales
  The Neighborhoodies Exhibition Your habitus is your habitat, your neighbourhood. It reflects who you are, what you do, how you live your life. Your neighbourhood has an impact on your stride, your gestures, your actions – the tacit signals of your body techniques. Like the tones of music, it resonates with the surrounding, capturing the suggestive qualities of the neighbourhood. How do you dress for your hood and how does it dress you? The Neighbourhoodies is a project at the intersection of fashion design and cultural studies that attempts to visualize belonging and questions of habitus in contemporary street-wear cultures, emanating from the today highly contested hoodie garment, considered “intimidating” by authorities. As we see a global culture appear across the planet, identity politics simultaneously gravitate towards issues of the local. In society’s top strata people strive to live in posh areas with the right postal code. Subversive counterculture activists try to keep their own multi-ethnic spaces free from yuppies who in turn try to gentrify the same areas into authentic bohemian-chic quarters. In the urban fringes gangs protect their territory and even tattoo their hood names as a sign of authentic pride. Caught in the line of fire of identity politics is the hoodie, an average street-style garment, the canvas on which social conflicts and criminal stigmata are drawn, but also where local pride and reconciliation can be brought about, inspired by its connection to the resonance of musical milieus. In a time of liquid consumerism and fear, the habitus of the hoodie seems to frame a problematic identity which has been exposed in the ban on such garments in some British malls. The Neighburhoodies expands on a practice-based endeavour where the wonderful MA students from the MA Fashion and the Environment course at London College of Fashion reflected on their glocal London identities through the design of a special hoodie – a Neighbourhoodie. The project, instigated by visiting research fellow Otto von Busch, examines how the hoodie, today a highly contested garment, considered “intimidating” by authorities, can be a representation of local pride instead of representing stigmatization or provoking fear. Photo credits Neighbourhoodies: "IvanDauriz" Name: Ivan Dauriz Photographer's Name: Dean Tanner Where photograph was taken: West Hampstead Story: Summarising architecture, transportation, sounds, green spots and habits.. "Kate Wakeling" Name: Kate Wakeling Photographers Name: Chang Zhu Where photo was taken: Brixton covered market Story: Brixton is exciting, vibrant and very culturally diverse; as a result it is often misunderstood. I wanted to portray the buzz of everyday life, which although chaotic, helps to maintain a friendly and cohesive community. The mosaic of images seen through the honeycomb pattern represents the constant hive of activity that can be witnessed any day of the week in Brixton. "Saida Bruce" Name: Saida Elsie Catherine Bruce Photographers Name: Matthew J Humphreys Where photo was taken: Seven Sisters, Markfield Park N15 Story: My print is a photo collage of the aspects I am surrounded by everyday. The mayhem of my industrial street, the shops represented by many different cultures, the graffiti that covers the local skate park, and the trains that criss cross the marshes. "Zoe Fletcher" Your Name: Zoe Grace Fletcher Photographer's Name: Nicol Vizioli Where photograph was taken: London Fields, Hackney Story: Whilst travelling on one of my many bus trips into the city I realised most people who live in Hackney spend a huge chunk of their day travelling. I used this as a catalyst for my design, incorporating a set of headphones into the hood symbolising the escape from the monotony of everyday travel into our own little worlds, contrasting with the background of escaping back to nature in London Fields.
  
• anu sama rüütel _ Freehand
  Thursday 29 April 2010 - Monday 3 May 2010
  by 10 Gales
  anu sama rüütel _ Freehand an exhibition of fashion, textile print and illustration 10 Gales Gallery, Bethnal Green, London April 29th - May 3rd 2010. Opening hours Mon-Sat 12-19, Sun 12-18 Opening party April 29th, 18.00 In the end April and early May East London gallery 10 Gales is hosting an exhibition called “Freehand” by East London based fashion designer and illustrator Anu Samarüütel. Anu graduated from London Central Saint Martins Colllege prestigious MA fashion course in 2004. Since graduation she has been working as a free lance fashion designer. The exhibition gives a sneak preview to her work process for the 2011 spring -summer collection that she will show during the September London Fashion Week under the label anu sama rüütel. In the exhibition there are hand drawn digital fabric prints, illustrations, sketches and a small pre-collection- that will be a starting point to the main collection. Anu says about her exhibition: “For me the most interesting part of a designers work is what the wider audience does not usually see - the inspiration, the research, drapes, toiles and sketches. Since my graduation from CSM I have been looking for a different way of working in fashion - and I think I have found it. That’s why I finally have decided to come out with my own label this autumn.“ 10 Gales is an exciting new gallery space that opened in the end of 2009. It’s just seconds from Bethnal Green tube, off the Bethnal Green Road, in a refurbished railway arch. It has been hosting many exhibitions, from fine art to fashion projects. Exhibition is supported by Estonian Embassy in London and A Le Coq drink company. anu sama rüütel, PR Riti Kallas: info@samaruutel.com 10 Gales Gallery Arch 10, Gales Gardens, E2 0EJ London Phone: 0207 729 8416 , Email: info@10gales.co.uk Open: Tue- Sat 12-19, Sun 12-18 HOW TO GET THERE 10 Gales Gallery is situated in railway arches, off Bethnal Green Road, seconds from Bethnal Green tube station. Walk past Salmon and Ball pub, after approx 10 metres pass under the railway bridge and turn immediate left down the narrow alleyway alongside the railway arches.