Through the Surface – The Work of Simon Lewty
Directed by Tom Hudson, published by Art First
Simon Lewty
Conjuring Images From Words
Saison Poetry Library and Members' Area, Royal Festival Hall (till 16 February)
Please check venue for further details.
Simon Lewty
The Self As A Stranger
Black Dog Publishing,
September 2010
This is the first extensive monograph on the life and work of Simon Lewty, published to coincide with the opening exhibition of Art First’s new gallery. The detailed overview of Lewty’s work is brought together by a distinguished group of writers, including informative contributions from the artist himself.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Scottish Artist in St. Ives
The Centenary year begins with this stimulating exhibition at the Fleming Collection, Berkeley Street, London W1. 10 January – 5 April 2012.
The final week of this show overlaps with the opening at Art First on 27 March of the next Barns-Graham Centenary event, 'A Line of Drawing, 1945 – 1993' which runs to 12 May.
London Art Fair 2012
Stand 6
18 – 22 January, 2012
Art First will be exhibiting on stand 6 at the London Art Fair from 18 January.
Will Maclean
Scottish Connections:
The Art of Marian Leven & Will Maclean
19 January – 24 February, 2012
Galerie Herold, Hamburg
In this two-person show,Will Maclean and his wife Marian Leven, make their German debut with a substantial body of work selected by Karen and Rainer Herold. A fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
The University of Aberdeen has commissioned Maclean and Leven to create a major sculpture, Waterlines, in Kilkenny Blue Limestone to be positioned in front of the new library in January 2012
Bridget Macdonald
Three paintings from her Malvern Hills Series were selected for acquisition by the House of Lords for their newly completed building at 1, Millbank in the Autumn.
Georgie Papageorge
Georgie Papageorge's magnificent trilogy of Kilimanjaro, Southern Glaciers works from her exhibition with Art First in 2010, Kilimanjaro/Coldfire, have now entered the collection of the British Museum where they will soon be on view in the African and Oceanic section.
Kevin Laycock
Collision is an exhibition which emerged from an imaginative collaboration between the artist and the composer, Michael Berkeley. Presented in public spaces - Gallery Oldham, Leeds Art Gallery, and at Cheltenham Festival - before coming to Art First. The show continues to tour to Rhodes, Bishops Stortford, then the University of Salford at Media City UK.
An extensive publication with an essay by Richard Cork, records Collision from every aspect. At Art First, Laycock and Berkeley led a fascinating discussion about the nature of the visual/verbal collaboration, the resulting projection and new musical composition, and hinted at further projects.
Joni Brenner & Karel Nel
Life of Bone
May 2011 sees the publication of a major new book focusing on the Taung Fossil and artists responses to questions of man's origins & existence through archaeology, genealogy and the wider study of the evolution of humankind and its near neighbours.
The book is edited by Karel Nel, Joni Brenner and Elizabeth Burroughs, and features work by Nel, Brenner and Gerhard Marx and poetic & academic contributions from Debbie Glencross, Donald Johanson, Kopano Ratele, Lynne Slominsky, Himla Soodyall & Bernard Zipfel.
The publication's launch coincides with a major exhibition at Johannesburg's Origins Museum in May 2011.
