Jim Kaufmann

Girl Is On His Mind by Jim Kaufmann

More happiness! This wonderful piece of mailart just arrived in my post box from Iowa to London. It arrived just like this, without any envelope or packaging - there is something magical about art travelling in this way. I met the work of Mr Kaufmann through flickr. You can see more of his work here.

Workshop at The London Art Book Fair

The books we made at the workshop.

Artists' book by one of the participants at today's workshop.

I went to a workshop organised by Kaleid Editions and led by artist Jonathan Ward at The London Art Book Fair today and made my first artists' book. It was such an inspiring workshop.
A very happy day. I will post some more pictures of the book once it is finished.

The London Art Book Fair

The London Art Book Fair is at the Whitechapel Gallery 24th-26th September. Held on two floors of the gallery, 90 publishers, rare book dealers, galleries, magazines, universities and small presses present their latest books. There are also talks, workshops, book signings and films. All in all a very inspiring place to visit and entrance is FREE.

Origin

Origin, the London craft fair has moved from Somerset House to Spitalfields market this year. I was lucky enough to win a ticket to last nights private view on Claire Loder's blog. It was a lovely evening with lots of inspiring things to see and people to meet. Thankyou Claire! The fair continues until 29th September and the entrance fee is £10.

London Design Festival

The London Design Festival is on until 26th September. This delightful poster is from the Victoria & Albert Museum which is at the hub of the festival this year.

Mosaic Monday

Mosaic Monday, originally uploaded by Feltbug.

1. Untitled, 2. Girl Is On His Mind, 3. When I look at this..., 4. Junker Jane WIPS, 5. airplane, 6. Just one more...., 7. Zaporogue 8, 8. Junk-Shipwreak-Kraft01, 9. abstract dye cloth, 10. 25th may: sentinel, 11. Untitled, 12. Shane Waltener 'Another World Wide Web' (detail), 13. Pays Basque, 14. Photocopier fun, 15. Kotex, 16. each day, 17. Talhando, 18. Princess-Mode, 19. OUBLIEE, 20. FOOTPATH ART, 21. Flanders, 22. Untitled, 23. Dia de los Muertos figures, 24. ZeichnungenBremen001_red, 25. splisch splosch above, 26. Woman with two boys and a female spirit, 27. le thé des écrivains, 28. cloth looking back, 29. like tracks, 30. brooches

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

Here is a selection of photographs and artwork by some of my lovely friends on flickr. Click on the image to go to flickr where you can find the featured artists or use the links above to go to the individual artist's flickr. Thankyou to all the artists for sharing their pictures.

Open House

Open House London, the capital's greatest architectural showcase, takes place this weekend, 18 & 19 September 2010.
The initiative is a simple but powerful concept: hundreds of great buildings of all types and periods open up their doors to all, completely for FREE. It is a truly city-wide celebration of the buildings, places and neighbourhoods where we live, work and play, and is your opportunity to get out and get under the skin of London's amazing architecture.

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood shoe retrospective at Selfridges in Oxford Street, London until 22 September.

The End of Summer

Time to put the Summer shoes away, there is a chill in the air.

Robin Grey

Strangers With Shoes is the second album by Robin Grey. It is a beautiful collection of songs, Robin asked if I would like to review the CD - my best recommendation is to go and have a listen yourself (not being much of a one for words) unlike Mr Grey who most surely is. You can listen here.

Sarah Praill

Work by Sarah Praill at Wimbledon College of Art MA Show, the show continues until Wednesday 15th September. Click on the photographs for more detail.

Marilena Melissinou

Self Portrait (born 1988) by Marilena Melissinou
Digitally altered image, Impersonation of family figures of the past

Wimbledon College of Art

Sorcha O' Brien

Ornamental

Sculpture by Sorcha O' Brien at Wimbledon College of Art MA show.

Sophie Duckworth

Let's Dream of Gold 2010 Beeswax, honey, wool & 23.5ct gold leaf

Sophie Duckworth, Wimbledon MA show

"The current concerns in my practice are impermanence, temporality and reuse. I am exploring issues of recycling, decay, rot and death: making ephemeral work that melt, evaporate, rot, disintegrate, darken and dissipate over time."

Nicholas Quenzer

Detail of work by Nicholas Quenzer, Wimbledon College of Art MA show

"This research is concerned with order and disorder. In a sense this is a chicken and egg scenario – which comes first is not of concern, more so, that regardless of an implemented order it will find a way to become disordered of its own accord." You can read more about the work of Nicholas Quenzer here

Dari Bae

Chandelier: Hair Filament, 2010 glass, human hair, LED, steel frame 120x150 cm

by Dari Bae at Wimbledon College of Art MA show.

Wimbledon MA show

Wimbledon College of Art MA until 15th September
CLOSED Sunday 12th September
more information can be found on their website

Online catalogue

The Surreal House

The Surreal House at the Barbican Art Gallery ends this Sunday, here is a short movie to entice you.

Drucilla Pettibone

, originally uploaded by Drucilla Pettibone.

I love my dragonfly wing necklace made by Drucilla Pettibone, you can visit her flickr page by clicking on the photograph or read her blog. There are some fabulous items in her etsy shop too.

Moth

I spotted this moth in the September sunshine on the way into work last week. Beautiful.

Melanie Miller

Hydrangea Ghost Moth, 2009 40x40cm, oil on gesso by Melanie Miller.

moth boy and bees, paintings and watercolours by Melanie Miller at Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip Street, London SW1, until 29th September. The gallery is just around the corner from Tate Britain.

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled 2005

Drawings by Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain until 16th January 2011.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge photographs at Tate Britain until 16th January 2011

Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner at Tate Britain until 3rd January 2011.

"I remember long sublime walks in the Welsh mountains with my father, when suddenly a fighter plane would rip through the sky, and shatter everything. It was so exciting, loud and overwhelming; it would literally take our breath away. The sound would arrive from nowhere, all you would see was a shadow and then the plane was gone.

At the time harrier jump jets were at the cutting edge of technology but to me they were like dinosaurs, prehistoric, from a time before words." – Fiona Banner