The Bookery Gallerie is a repository of mainly nonfiction secondhand books, embedded within a vibrant gallery space
The Bookery Gallerie is a repository of mainly nonfiction secondhand books, embedded within a vibrant gallery space
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The Bookery Gallerie is a repository of mainly nonfiction secondhand books, embedded within a vibrant gallery space
The Bookery Gallerie is a repository of mainly nonfiction secondhand books, embedded within a vibrant gallery space
The Bookery Gallerie is very excited and proud to present our 2022 winter exhibition:
'These Momentous Times'
The exhibition will run from:
Friday 11th November until Thursday 12th January 2023 .
We at the Bookery Gallerie would like to invite you to a very special night by artist and speaker Iona Scott.
We're sorry to say that Paul Friedlander can not make it this evening.
But light magic will be explore.
LIGHT, ARTISTS TALK
Thursday 1st of December
Doors open at 6.30pm Talk starts at 7pm
Iona, will discuss with us how light and colour exist in the hypnotic and pulsating world of phytoplankton, of which Iona has explored through an exquisite medium, to take on the form by representation, through the mastery of 3D sculpture.
Iona Scott will talk about her work Discosphaera. Discosphaera Tubifera is
a type of phytoplankton - incredible tiny lifeforms, invisible to the human eye and yet responsible for producing approximately 50% of the oxygen on our planet.
Through her Plankton Light Sculptures, which are linked to a virtual representation of their magical world, Iona Scott invites you to learn more about the importance of phytoplankton through visual and sensory experiences, guiding you on a seamless and mesmerising journey from our world, through the threshold, into the submarine realm.
The Bookery Gallerie is very excited and proud to present our 2022 winter exhibition:
'These Momentous Times'
The exhibition will run from:
Friday 11th November until Thursday 12th January 2023 . Do scroll down for more details.
We are, this coming Monday, the 28th of November, delighted to be hosting a musical evening:
'WILLIAM BLAKE
ANGEL OF REVELATION'
Event starts at 7.15pm door from 6.30 pm
“I have conversed with the Spiritual Sun; I saw Him on Primrose Hill”
William Blake
William Blake Fellowship takes us behind the scenes of the famous quote of Blake’s Vision on top of Primrose Hill, engraved in stone edging there today.
With a blend of storytelling, recital, song and dance the performance brings to life William and Catherine as they labour, love, laugh and live their everyday artist lives in 18th century London.
Leading the cast is Tim Bruce award winning actor, narrator and baritone, with Francesco Bucci, Carol Robertson, and musicians Devdut Scialo and Shanti Dahmus.
Come see Russell C Brennan's artwork in 'THESE MOMENTOUS TIMES' exhibition showing now.
Talks and readings will go on through out starting with a Talk on the 23rd November from 6.30-8.30pm:
A WORLD EXCLUSIVE TALK AT THE BOOKERY GALLERY by the
Innovative multi-platform artist & the world's only male Geisha, Russell C. Brennan, who will be doing an exclusive book signing of his new Limited edition Poetry book 'When Your Soul Begins to Glide' at The Bookery Galley. As well as the signing he will be performing works from the book, talking about his journey into poetry & doing a Q & A about his mind-blowing career in all the arts where he has made a significant impact and an insight into what a male Geisha actually is.
His photography/artwork also features at the gallery along with over 40 other great artists & there will be a guest appearance from his favourite poet (Maiko) as well.
Russell C. Brennan is an award-winning poet. Many poems have found their way into the 70 songs released worldwide. Others featured in his two limited edition Poetry/Lyric-Photo/Art books 'Voyeurs Welcome Vol.1 & 2 that have sold out and changed hands for tens times their original price.
With many new poems looking to bursting to life from his pen lately, 2022 saw him embrace poetry more than ever before with a series of live poetry concerts throughout the year with these getting a great reception and affecting many emotions of those who witnessed his words. So it seemed high time for a limited edition poetry-only book
His themes vary from social commentary, humour, erotica, autobiographical, love, loss, sci-fi and fantasy to some that defy category.
As a songwriter, John Lennon's last-ever manager Bruce Replogle (who also did PR for Paul Weller & Ray Davies) called Russell one of the best songwriters of his generation, particularly in the lyric department. Russell appeared recently on the front cover of Songwriter International magazine and his lyrics were cited as a major reason (many of them started life as poems.
Although he is very much a cult figure who shuns the mainstream you'd be surprised just how much he has influenced many arts from the shadows, particularly in music where he has had over 400 releases as a record producer and started new music trends & genres. The national newspaper The Independent even called him an Indie Production God and he has been nominated for UK record producer of the year before. He is also the editor/writer of an influential cultural publication 'Dedicated Follower' & Saatchi art called him an artist of recognition and this has resulted in many photo exhibitions.
The Bookery Gallerie is very excited and proud to present our 2022 winter exhibition:
These Momentous Times
The exhibition will be on for a 2 month period from:
Friday 11th November until Thursday 12th January 2023.
There will be an Opening Event on:
Thursday 10th of November Doors open from 6.30pm. Music starts from 7.30pm and continues until 10pm.
For this we have a line-up of musical artists compered by Aaron Barschak.
Musicians:
Merry McCloud
Russell C Brennan
Holly Penfield
La Charawilla
Yellow Violin Man
A separate Private View will be held on:
Saturday 12th of November
Doors open from 6.30pm until 10pm
There will be better access to viewing the exhibition, as there will not be any performances this evening.
We have happily invited 42 artists to participate in this exciting exhibition. They will be sharing, in their individual ways, what the title invokes in response to our recent and current times.
It is a chance to interpret their views and thoughts on these times and to assess what they may signify and mean to them and how their various and different works can connect with viewers' own journeys and reflections.
We have been coming through Covid and the end of the Queen Elizabethan age towards a possible new dawn, a reset and new beginnings.
The following words can perhaps be used to describe aspects of the exhibition's title for artists and viewers to portray and explore:
Reflection, contemplation, new beginnings, coming together, creativity, frustration, anger, isolation, joy, power, energy and determination.
These and other thought provoking words may help us focus, emphasise, creatively engage, digest and adapt to our phenomenal and momentous times and move into a future of, very possibly, profound changes. Hopefully this exhibition will guide us moving forwards with versatility, intelligence, and acceptance to the ways we can adjust emotionally and physically to the challenges ahead.
We will be hosting talks, events and workshop which you may wish to attend over a two month. Please do check the website.
The Bookery Gallerie is pleased to invite you to our latest exhibition .
DISTORTIONS: PORTRAITS IN INK
By August Lamm
Tonight
Finissage 24th of September 6.30-10.00pm
Exhibition opens : From the 21st of September- 1st of October 2022.
Private view, Talk, Book launch and signing:
21st of September 2022.
From 6.30pm Talk at 7.30- 8.30pm, signing till 9.30pm.
August Lamm is an artist and writer from New England, holding a degree in art history. Her work explores the ancient art of Crosshatching, studying and gaining inspiration from the great engravers and master printmakers such as Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya
'CROSSHATCHGING in PEN & INK' is August Lamm’s first book, and the only book devoted solely to crosshatching. The book begins with a history of the technique, and culminates in an extensive practical guide. Subjects include anatomy, portraiture, still life, architecture, and more. Using a combination of fine art examples, illustrations, and step-by-step tutorials, August guides the reader through the entire drawing process from preliminary sketch to finished piece.
The launch event for Crosshatching in Pen & Ink will include an author talk and a book signing. Copies will be available for purchase at the event. Attendees are also welcome to bring in their own copies to be signed.
DISTORTIONS: PORTRAITS IN INK
This collection of ink drawings frames visual distortion as a catalyst for introspection. What happens when a face becomes unrecognisable? Is this a loss or a liberation? Through glass, water, screens, and other prisms, each subject is pushed to the very limits of recognition. The result is at once familiar and unnerving, logical and impossible: an artistic record of the eye seeing itself.
1st Anniversary event
Sorry for the last minute notice.
This is to everyone who knows and has been a part of Bookery Gallerie.
We would like to say a big thank you for passing over our threshold, by celebrating
our First Anniversary of this lively community platform for artists, musician, writers, and thinkers alike. There is a wonderful evening planned, filled with the magic and music and the spoken word with refreshments.
We hope you can join us.
Friday 12st August 6.30-10.00pm.
Rosey | Bookery Gallerie
We at the Bookery Gallerie would like to say thank you and are happy to announce to all the volunteers who helped build up the infrastructure and support to a level of a real collective bond. Thank you to our artists, curators, poets, writers and the live performers such as the singers, musicians and mime artists and many more and also to our amazing compare/MC, They have all come together like magical beings in many ways and forms, to give birth to the Bookery Gallerie. Their support has given an energetic explosion and pulse for us to help keep the momentum going for our first year since we opened on the 21st and 22nd of July 2021.
Thank you again.
Thank you too for believing in our experimental ways and the quirky and, eccentric presence
in presenting all our 118 artist who have graciously lined the Bookery walls with more to come this year. We wish to warmly welcome the public to join with us in our admiration for them at The Bookery. They have shared and constructed our shelves as a transporter and portal making new ideas possible along with immense mental stimulation.
The gallery honours the life and breadth of all the artists and the ways they have invited us freely to drive and explore with expansive minds, through a multiple of different mediums, from photography to sculpture. and painting and videography. Thank you all.
The Graphic Novels of Mary Talbot Exhibition runs now from the 11th of June finishes on Friday 15th of July 2022.
The Bookery, wishes to invite you to come along to our end of show will be on the:
Finissage
Friday the 15th of July 2022
6.30-9.30pm
This fabulous, informative and iconic exhibition, which ends on the 15th of July, with music, conversation and the last chance to Purchase the inky pages of Bryan Talbot, Alwyn Talbot and Kate Charlesworth. Refreshments provided.
The Bookery Gallerie is tremendously excited to present to your original artwork from the graphic novels of Mary Talbot, featuring the works of cartoonists Bryan Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Alwyn Talbot. We are transforming the Bookery Gallerie walls into a landscape of collaborative joy in keeping with Mary Talbot's illustrated novels. so come along and for an evening of music and refreshments.
This evening will be dedicated to the ongoing collaboration of two creative minds, combining the expansive reach of Dr Mary Talbot's writings and the brilliance of Bryan's graphic storytelling. Together they have co-created thought- provoking graphic works that combine novels, memoir and historical biography such as Dotter of her Father's Eye's, Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia and Rain.
This evening will be hosted by Mark Stafford and Aaron Barschak , which will be on Zoom. For full details see in the events listings.
A fascinated looking at the author and illustrators practices around storytelling with Mary Bryan Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Alwyn Talbot.
The Bookery Gallerie is delighted to present an exhibition about the works of Dr Mary Talbot, an academic who has turned into a graphic novelist, writing in collaboration with artists Bryan Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Alwyn Talbot, some of whose work is on display. Her novels have ventured into memoir and biography, firstly contrasting her own younger life with that of the daughter of James Joyce, Lucia, in the Costa award winning work Dotter of her Father’s Eyes with art by husband Bryan. Then on to the life of Sally Heathcote, Suffragette’ which explored the travails of Sally, a composite character caught up in the birth throes of feminist activism in the Edwardian era, with amazing detail and powerful energies racing throughout, this time brought to life by Kate Charlesworth's expressive ink. With The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, Mary drives home the strength of one woman, Louise Michel. Set in 1871, the year of the Paris Commune, it was a time of revolution and ruin richly evoked by Bryan's two-colour art. Then Mary and Bryan co-created their latest, but not last novel Rain, with its environmental and climate issues under discussion weaving in and out of the expressive and changing landscape vistas Bryan created to accompany Mary’s words. Aside from the novels, Mary has collaborated on shorter pieces. She stepped into the world of SF with Kate Charlesworth with their contribution to IDP2043 and created a short strip with son Alwyn Talbot for Cross: A Political Satire Anthology. She has also worked again with Bryan on ‘Make Germany Pay!’ in Traces of the Great War and with both Kate and Bryan for Here I Stand, an Amnesty International anthology.
Enjoy the show.
'SHAMANS TURNED MASQUERADERS'
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHIARA CONTRINO
EXHIBITION ON FROM 21ST APRIL - now on till the 8TH May 2022
Finissage evening for Chiara Contrino 8th of May 2022, 6.30-9.30PM
We at the Bookery, would to invite you to come along to the last evening of Chiara Contrino's fascinating exhibition, with reception and to talk to the artist too. Her book is now on sale, which shows photographs from the exhibition.
It will also be the last chance to see the amazing video footage of carnivals and festival by the renowned anthropologies Giovanni Kezich too, which runs long side Contrino's Photograph's.
Chiara is fascinated by the events and practices around folklore which she has found flourishing in many parts of Europe over the last decades, the strength of these tradition which has seen out the hostility of the ottoman empire, the church and communist regimes.
LAUNCH EVENT: ALTER US PUBLICATION / NOT THE END OF US Date: Thursday 5th of May 18 – 22hrs Publication Description: Alter Us is an emergent London-based multidisciplinary collective that attempts to question and offer solutions regarding our contemporary context. The collective’s concerns relate to the challenges we encounter in a world impacted by humanity including sustainability; dis/connection; individualism, capitalism and inequality; and the relationship between nature and new technologies. The collective aimed to find solutions to face the Anthropocene. To counteract contemporary arts practice, where the individual ego of the artist prevails; the name “Alter Us” was selected to highlight the ego of the collective over the individual ego. The collective was founded on November 2018 as a non-hierarchical organisation without rules. It has worked almost as a social experiment, to understand social dynamic’s flow. There was no entry requirement to belong in Alter Us, rather than wanting to participate. Monthly meetings have been held since. After the pandemic hit on 2020, meetings changed to an online format. The collective has organised talks, panels, exhibitions, performances, online events among others. This publication is the last Alter Us project which compilates all the activities organised together. Rather than an ‘end’ this publication comes across as a ‘long goodbye’ which seeks to open new collaboration opportunities. Read more about Alter Us: https://www.terechad.com/alter-us Tickets: As the publication is being funded by the artists of the collective, the group would like to sell drinks and the publication during the event to recover the money invested. Of course, that the earnings would be shared with the venue. (The venue will get the 15% of the sales / Eventbrite fee needs to be considered) EARLY BIRD: - £7 Publication + complimentary drink - £4 complimentary drink SALES ON THE EVENT: - £10 Publication - £5 Drinks (tokens for complimentary drink) *People can attend to the event without pre-booking tickets Itinerary: 18 – 22hrs - 18:00 – 18:30: Reception - 18:30 – 18:45: Opening speech (Alter Us member) - 19:45 – 19:00: Break - 19:00 – 19:30: Teresa Paiva performance (performance format tbc early April) - 19:30 – 20:00: Break - 20:00 – 20:15: Closing speech (external review/ tbc) - 20:15 – 22:00: Drinks & socialising
'SHAMANS TURNED MASQUERADERS'
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHIARA CONTRINO
EXHIBITION ON FROM 21ST APRIL - 5TH MAY
Finissage evening for Chiara Contrino 8th of May 2022, 6.30-9.30PM
The Bookery Gallerie presents the Magic and rituals of Bulgarian and Romanian folkloric festivals through the art of photographs by Italian born, London based artist Chiara Contrino, in her solo exhibition.
Chiara is fascinated by the events and practices around folklore which she has found flourishing in many parts of Europe over the last decades, the strength of these tradition which has seen out the hostility of the ottoman empire, the church and communist regimes.
Chiara has had the great privilege of being allowed to be present, witness and to have documented the intriguing and fascinating photographs exploring the costumes which feature in her work, from frightening masks to heavy bronze cowbells worn by the performer, which create deafening noise in the villages to chase out evil spirits with performances of auspicious fertility rituals in exchange. These practices can be traced back to the agrarian cults in the ancient Rome and even further to primordial shamanic religion.
The photos presented in this exhibition are part of Chiara's work in progress on the winter traditions of carnivals, which she hopes to resume when the pandemic will allow travelling more freely.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue of the photos with introduction by Giovanni Kezich one of the world's leading experts on this subject, whose fascinating research , 'Carnival King of Europe' has been a great inspiration for Chiara's work.Giovanni will be giving a lecture at the exhibition opening night.
Chiara studied painting and photography in Perugia, Italy, graduating in Fine Arts before moving to the U.K. in 1995.
Believing that photography can be a very effective way of capturing the incredible variety of the world as well of expressing her own thoughts and emotions, in her work she seeks to reach a balance between documenting and interpreting reality. In so many occasions photography has been for her a kind of passport, a great tool for exploring reality and for entering in contact with others.
In the year 2000 Chiara started photographing Gipsy horse fairs in Great Britain and Ireland, where English Romani and Irish Travellers, against all the odds, are keeping alive their traditional culture of horse breeding and horse dealing.
Since 2005 Chiara has been working with the community of Tamils here in London, just on her doorstep. Chiara documented rituals, traditions and life stories of the Sri Lankan refugees. This work resulted in several exhibitions and a photo-book, “Voices of the Diaspora”.
Chiara also has been an in-house photographer at the Camden People Theatre and at the art space and ' The Shunt Lounge', London.
In recent years she has been exploring winter festivals and masquerades in Eastern Europe, interested in folklore, popular customs and religious rituals, has prompted her to travel to several European countries, perhaps in search of something she feel is missing in the modern world.
Chiara's latest project, presented in this exhibition at the Bookery Gallerie, is the returned to her favourite media, black and white film, which also allows her to do her own printing in the darkroom.
I also would like to thank support of Firak di Bello, visual and performing artist, for his brilliant ideas, time and advice.
Bookery Gallerie is tonight holding a Finissage for the final evenings event for Paul's solo exhibition.
‘A Spaceship for the Imagination’.
Paul Friedlander is an extraordinary explorer of light and form stretching the boundaries of mathematical equations and bending them into colour and light, by pushing waves into a mastery of other worldly shapes and etherial figures.
You will be transported into a realm of calculations transformed into visual landscapes and undulating forms of Friedlander’s acrylic light artworks.
Along with the static pieces, there is a dancing kinetic coloured light waves sculpture, at the back of the gallery, so preparer to be amazed.
There are also multi-media screens, sequencing through Friedlander’s collection of around 20,000 photographs and videos documenting earlier work. Where the physics mind collaborating with the artistic, brings together the hypnotic through to the exquisite. We do hope you enjoy the journey.
Paul Friedlander was raised in Cambridge on a diet of relativity, cosmology and contemporary art.
One time aspiring cosmologist and interstellar propulsion expert, inspired by kinetic art and psychedelics, he metamorphosed into stage lighting designer, scientific artist and light sculptor.
His work has been shown on four continents and more than twenty countries.
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