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EXHIBITION INFORMATION: FPS Open 2014

EXHIBITION INFORMATION:  FPS Open 2014 WHEN:  1 st  – 13 th   December 2014 WHERE:   Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU WHO:   Open to all Private View:  Tuesday 2nd December – 6-9pm SUBMISSION DEADLINE Friday 14th December (see accompanying document for forms) DELIVERY AND COLLECTION OF WORK Delivery dates:   Sunday 30 th  November at the Menier Gallery – 10 – 11am Collection Dates:  Saturday 13 th  December – 5-6pm                              *Please note that you must collect and deliver your work in the allotted times – if you cannot commit to these times then please do submit.                  EXHIBITION FEES Submission fees:  Free to FPS Members - £5 for Non Members Hanging fees:  £100 per linier metre - £50 per plinth for sculptures *FPS takes 30% sales commission + VAT (on commission only)  All artists will be notified of their hanging fees upon selection Payments can be made upon delivery of wor

Come to a book launch of ‘Beaten But Not Defeated’

Come to a book launch of   ‘Beaten But Not Defeated’ by Merilyn Moos    on Friday 14th November 2014 at Bookmarks at 6.30. This biography charts Siegi Moos’s life, starting in Germany when he witnessed the Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and the later rise of the extreme right. The book then follows Siegi’s progress in Berlin between 1929-1933 as a committed Communist and an active anti-Nazi in the well-organised Red Front, before much of the German Communist party (KPD) took the Nazis seriously, and his deep involvement in the Free Thinkers and in agit-prop theatre. Siegi escaped Germany  in 1933 and, exiled in Britain, left the Communist Party in around 1937 and for the rest of his life, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism.The book describes Siegi’s life as an exile: the loss of family, comrades, his first language and the impact of exile on his personal relationships. This is a fascinating and often moving account of the life of Siegfried Moos, a German C

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LOVE AND MARRIAGE : an installation by artist Kevin Vincenzo Keating

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A centre piece of this years Cricklewood festival will be an installation by artist Kevin Vincenzo Keating. An art work called Love and Marriage will be displayed in Keyes rd NW2. The 10 ft sculpture made of a stainless steel arch and 35 wooden pegs is a humorous symbol of love, marriage, and human relationships in modern life. Kevin continues to exhibit his installations in the street and believes that here is a whole new audience of the public who never go to galleries or art events but love to see and interact with art in the street. The Cricklewood festival is on Saturday 20th Sept. 12-6pm. Activities will include an open mic and free portrait painting for the public by other Creative Cricklewood artists. The installation will remain at Keyes Road until the 23rd Sept. For info, Facebook, Creative Cricklewood or Kevin Vincenzo Keating. http://https://www.facebook.com/events/309686689216000/?context=create&source=49#

Solo exhibition by Henryk Terpilowski at the BAR Gallery, Willesden 17th - 27th Sept

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This week sees the opening of a solo exhibition by  Henryk Terpilowski at the BAR Gallery, Willesden 17th - 27th Sept Henryk has been using the skills, processes and compositional ideas he has learnt from his background as a decorative artist to develop a highly individual expressionistic style of painting. Some of the results are presented in this show.  All invited to the Private View Friday 26th Sept 6 - 9pm when further musical entertainment will be provided at the 'We Love the Blues' event at A Pop-up Wonderland - next door

Bettina Reiber residency at Brantwood: September 2014 to January 2015.

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For the catalogue of the exhibition please click  here . For more information on the residency and for images of my residency paintings, please visit  my  website .

“Spectre of Abandonment”: Exhibition and poetry

In “Spectre of Abandonment”, the three invited poets, Agnes Meadows, Sue Johns and Sarah Reilly, will perform poetry they created in response to Lorraine’s artworks. Conversely, Lorraine presents new artworks inspired by poems she selected from each of the poets’ anthologies. She also presents new sculpture with her own poetry. filmed at the The Candid Arts Trust, 3-5 Torrens Street, Islington, London, EC1V 1NQ.14 September 2014 by Eileen Perrier and PRMurry For more information contact lorraine@clarke-art.co.uk “Spectre of Abandonment” part 1 “Spectre of Abandonment” part 2