Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Exhibition - Jameel Prize

The exhibition of Jameel Prize is all about exploring the style and movement of Islamic tradition, ranging from the usage of colours, pattern and design. The V&A contributes to one of the largest collections of Islamic art from the middle East and this collection has dated back from the 1850's. It began the exhibitions of Islamic work in 2009 and since then there has been three, including this one.

The fundamental idea of the Jameel Prize is gathering an understanding of various cultures and to take inspiration from them and their working practices. The V&A exhibition also helps in promoting diversity and allowing the chance for the public to explore parts of culture you may rarely see in Britain without such exhibitions. The Jameel Prize all creates a very modern and refined appeal for art that is typically associated with a more ancient themed style, it's an example of how the contemporary Islamic art still continues to be used to this day.

Opening times for Jameel Prize
11 December 2013 – 21 April 2014

Daily 10.00–17.30
Friday 10.00–21.30
Exhibition closes 15 minutes prior to the Museum closing

Closed 24 – 26 December 2013
Closed until 12.00 on 7 January 2014

By Helen Barnett

London Fashion Week. Ones to Watch.

CARRIE-ANN STEIN, Sarah Ryan, Hiroko Nakajima and George Styler have recently been named as Fashion Scout's Ones To Watch for the autumn/winter 2014 season and can be found showcasing their collections in the upcoming London fashion week.

A Central Saint Martins graduate, Carrie-Ann Stein won the first Umbria Cashmere District Award in 2012 and striking silhouettes and experimental textiles are her signature designs.

Styler, meanwhile, takes a sociological approach to knit wear exploring the sole idea of freedom through her work. Continuing with the knitwear train of thought is Central Saint Martins-trained Hiroko Nakajima; whose focus is on graphic outcomes, lots of colour and the idea that fashion is a wearable form of art… interesting.

The last person on the one to watch list is Sarah Ryan, who has already showcased work at both Berlin and London Fashion Weeks so far in her short career. The Limerick School of Art & Design graduate works to create form-flattering designs.

Previous Ones To Watch Fashion Scout alumni have included Eudon Choi, Hermione de Paula, Phoebe English and David Longshaw. A panel that included Hilary Alexander and designer Georgia Hardinge chose this year’s selection.

The Fashion Scout Ones To Watch show takes place this Friday, February 14, at 3.30pm.

Do not miss it.

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By Lili Gillespie

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

The Best of Terry O'Neill

Terry O’Neill is one of Britain’s greatest photographers. He is one of the worlds most collected photographers with work that hangs in national art galleries and private collections. Over six decades he has produced some of the most iconic images known worldwide. His photographs include photos from the frontline of fame, from presidents and prime ministers to the greats of stage & screen & rock stars. Not many living photographers have tried to embrace the span of fame and captured famous icons from Winston Churchill to nelson Mandela, from Elvis and Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse, from Audery Hepburn to Nicole Kidman.

The exhibition will take place between 14 January – 1 March and it is being held at the Little Black Gallery in London.

By Yasmin Garrett- Braden

Luke Pearson

Luke Pearson creates comics and illustrations and all his work that's been featured has this clean and crisp appearance. There is something about the works by Pearson that all seem incredibly fluid, nothing feels misplaced and his colours are often limited to a strict palette, enough to make them eye catching in a pop art and comic way.

Friends with Benefits by Luke Pearson and Erin Wallace

Pearson has made some simplistic pieces but has also done many clustered works that make a collage. The collage images are assembled in a very stacked fashion sort of way that compiles mainly of human faces and characters. These drawings limit the palette again to two colours on average as the works are very busy.

By Helen Barnett

Retro packaging

Here is a modern packaging, which is inspired by retro designs; I found this image on Pintrest, which was posted by a person named Heather Warren. Cadena and Asco in Mexico designed these packages. This is a well-known café company that has 16 locations in Mexico. These packages are by far one of my favourites, the layout of the words is well balanced but also the colours chosen make them much more noticeable. I can see that all of the colours complement each other, it’s as if its like it’s a puzzle, they all fit together well.

By Cameron Benn

James Gurney

James Gurney illustrated for a book series known as Dinotopia but did craft work like making masks, kites and puppets. Gurney has an understanding of many mediums as a free lancer who experiments with all the art specialist areas. His interest with crafts have quite possibly made all the illustrations appear three dimensional with the depth of shading, he's taken parts from all areas of art and combined them to make the illustrated pieces more projected.

James Gurney knows about realism and how well you can manipulate it, the drawing in Dinotopia appear similar to perhaps the bible illustrations at the beginning, with their lines, contour and colour which goes with the theme of Dinotopia. Gradually the art begins to lean towards an extreme style of realism, to recreate this world with his art rather than depict it.