Rescued and Revived

This lovely couple from the 1940's were promoting the Waterworks at War event at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, they kindly agreed to a photograph outside the Rescued and Revived Stall at the Kew Green midsummer Fete. Botkin and Galliers have been taking the make do and mend work ethic to wonderful lengths to create more of their stunning blankets, cushions and tea cosies. You can read more on their blog. Rescued and Revived will next be appearing at the Barnes Village Fair on the 10th July.

Waterworks

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

Bittersweet

I want to be clothed (detail)

Lisa Snook

The Walled Garden, oil on canvas 60x60cm

Bobbie Russon

Bittersweet, An Exploration of Innocence, new works by Bobbie Russon and Lisa Snook at

ST ART gallery, 13 Broadway Avenue, St Margarets TW1 1RH open daily 10.30am-3pm until 21st June.

Dust

Eel Pie Island open studios

Grenade, lead by Sarah Preece

Eel Pie Island open studios
Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th June
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June
11am-6pm

Twickenham Carnival

Twickenham Carnival, Sunday 13th June. The Carnival Parade sets off from York House at 12 noon and then proceeds to Orleans House for The Carnival Village.

The lovely poster design is by We Made This. They researched old posters from the London Borough of Richmond archive to arrive at this typographic beauty which has been printed using original woodblock and metal letterpress by New North Press.

David Jones

Monument

David Jones is showing his atmospheric, evocative paintings at Eleven Spitalfields until 24th June.

"As a young boy playing around my neighbourhood, I found the in-between places to be the most interesting... they were peaceful places where I could think, reflect, ponder, and just be..."

Behind the scenes at the palace

David Orme

Planting Flowers, collage.

Beautiful work by David Orme at the Royal College of Art graduate show.

Eleanor Bolton

Neckpieces, cotton rope and yarn

Eleanor Bolton makes unusual sculptural jewellery, constructed from rope to wear or hang on the wall.

Marta Mattsson

Bow, calf skin, silver

Nest, goatskin, butterflies

Flowerbeetle, beetle, electoform copper, plastic, silver and laquer resin

Jewellery by Marta Mattsson

"I make jewellery for adults but with a touch of inspiration from my childhood. When I was a child I played with stuffed animals, slugs and other living animals. I have always been drawn to both biology and art and in my work I am trying to combine my interests. Nature is a great source of inspiration but so is Pokemon…"

Martha Todd

Head and arm, slip cast porcelain, transparent glaze and wire

Toy box, slip cast porcelain, transparent glaze, gold lustre, textile and metal box

Work by Martha Todd at the Royal College of Art graduate show

"My work is primarily conceptual. I make objects that represent my thoughts and findings in life. I enjoy dark humour and am particularly interested in the audience’s reaction to the unusual and absurd. This work is a continuation of the theme of my recent dissertation ‘Confronting the Abject’, exploring human reaction to the abject physical form. Man has always been fascinated by people and animals with physical peculiarities. Although visually we are drawn to the unusual and unknown, we are most comfortable when we view them from a ’safe’ distance."

Hanne Mannheimer

Seventy four threads of life (detail) porcelain, wood, cotton, thread, wool

Bird in cage, Found objects, transfer

Work by Hanne Mannheimer from this years graduate show at the Royal College of Art.

"More often than not, it begins with a found object, like the texture of a thread or the memory of a porcelain figurine. Sometimes the found can be a story, even a few words describing something or a feeling that needs to be made in a tactile and fragile material."

Royal College of Art

A selection of postcards from the Royal College of Art end of year show which continues until Sunday 6th June, 11am-8pm daily. Work from the Applied and Fine Art departments of Ceramics & Glass, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery, Photography and Printmaking.

Louise Bourgeois

the house that held back its tears by Louise Bourgeois

Photographs from an exhibition in London, 2007.

Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010