William Balthazar Rose, his
works drawing on an eclectic
range of sources from Picasso
and Balthus to Italian
Renaissance to create dark but
often very witty narratives.
RandomGlance
The
Lime Tree Gallery
in the
trendy Hotwells district of Bristol
looks out over a splendid view of
the celebrated floating dock. An
offshoot of the Long Melford
based Lime Tree, it shows a wide
range of contemporary art, both
mixed shows and themed
exhibitions, currently a lively
group of painters from the ROI
(Royal Institute of Oil Painters).
Further east into Hampshire
and the Gilbert White village of
Selborne, ten enterprising
members of the
Hampshire
Artists'Co-operative
have now
taken over the whole of the
Selborne Gallery space to show
their work in two-monthly
changing shows – three artists at
a time. The gallery is supposedly
to be sold at some future date so
go and see them soon . . .
In London something very
much one of a kind, the
Tribal
Art London
fair (11-13
September) which has this year
moved to the
Mall Galleries
.
Billed as “the only tribal fair of its
kind in the UK”, with 15 top
dealers in the trade taking part
and proper professional vetting,
this represents a wonderful
opportunity for collectors and
the simply curious to get up
close to some extraordinarly
powerful and often alarmingly
beautiful and strange artefacts.
Sunny Space
The World's End – famously
found at the end of Chelsea's
King's Road has an established
concentration of galleries,
Cricket, Gagliardi, Tanya Baxter
and those in Langton Street
which make the area a
destination for collectors and
the glitterarti. Newly opened at
508 Kings Road
this
eponymous gallery offers light
South facing access to those
visiting and passing by on the
gallery trail. Owner, former
publisher Marc Burca brings his
art enthusiasms to this gallery
space which has a strong list
of facilities to smooth the path
of a hang including easy
parking. With the recent closure
of West End hire galleries in
Mayfair, particularly Cork Street,
it makes this opening in Chelsea
a welcome strengthening of the
area’s art draw.
Because of our limited space
and the large number of galleries
in the magazine, many of the
previews in
Galleries
focus on
specific exhibitions rather than a
broad area of stock in a certain
field – eg Modern British (or Old
Masters).
The Wenlock Gallery
,
run by Peter Cotterell from his
space in the centre of the
Shropshire town of Much
Wenlock, is a good case in point.
Peter is an enthusiast with a
remarkably original and
idiosyncratic eye for 20th C.
British Art. He shows major
figures like Keith Vaughan, Ceri
Richards (currently two rare and
cracking depictions of tin plate
workers), Alan Davie and Joe
Tilson, but also more forgotten
but equally significant artists
such as the American born St
Ives artist George Swan (up to
Hilton standard), Mary Potter,
Peter Kinley and Frank Beanland.
There are occasional formal
shows of current stock but
mostly you take your chance –
and you'll always end up seeing
something possibly life-
changing.
Now heading into the
Cotswolds
Brian Sinfield
in
Burford runs a handsome space
showing a mixed programme of
group and solo exhibitions
specialising in mostly 20th C.
British traditional and semi-
abstract artists – Len Tabner
and Fred Cuming among his
regulars. From mid-September
there is a solo show of the
eccentric visionary painter
fromleft: C
live Barker ‘For Rose XXX’ at
Whitford Fine Art. Peter Kinley ‘Standing Figure’
at Wenlock Fine Art. William Balthazar Rose
‘Vor dem Gesetz, Before the Law’ at Brian
Sinfield. Lucy McKie ‘Two Drifters’ at Lime Tree
Bristol. Untitled image courtesy of Tribal Art
London/Mall Galleries
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