Posts Tagged ‘Ideal Home’

Derek Jarman Valentine’s Study Day

Study Day poster including image of Derek Jarman's painting 'Avebury Series no 4' 1973 from Northampton Museums and Art Gallery

Our exhibition Almost Bliss: Notes On Derek Jarman’s Blue has been very well received and our Jarman Study Day on 14th February was a big success.

Neil Tennant, Karen Di Franco, and Phillip Hoare at the Derek Jarman Study Day

Consisting of a diverse range of talks, screenings, performances, and panel discussions the … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Thanks for 2013 and Looking Forward to Bliss in the Coming Year.

cover for Derek Jarman's 'Bliss' notebook. Estate of Derek Jarman courtesy K.Collins

As we prepare for our first exhibition of 2014, Almost Bliss: Notes on Derek Jarman’s Blue, CHELSEA space would like to say thank you to everyone who made 2013 another great year in our exhibition history.

CHELSEA space #48: second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS

We started last year with second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS which turned … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Stuart Comer & James Mackay talk about The Early Films of Derek Jarman + news on Nicky Carvell, Florian Roithmayr, Kit Craig, & Alice Channer

Derek Jarman 'A journey To Avebury' 1971 Super 8 Film

CHELSEA space and the CCW Graduate School hosted an excellent talk by Tate Modern Curator of Film Stuart Comer and film producer James Mackay on the Early Films of Derek Jarman (1942-1994).

James Mackay and Stuart Comer talking Derek Jarman in the Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art & Design

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STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS Private view + a talk with Henry Moore Institute’s Pavel Pyś

newly painted plinths awaiting video works by Sturtevant

Preparations for our next exhibition second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS continue apace.

Sturtevant's Medion TV monitors arrive at CHELSEA space

The silver/grey Medion Monitors that Sturtevant specified for her video installation have arrived from Berlin.

SECONDEDITIONS' Markus Eisenmann tunes a Sony Cube at CHELSEA space

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Elizabeth Price Turner Prize win + Mark Titchner, Black Sabbath, & Samuel Beckett. The last week of Red White and Blue

Elizabeth Price 'Monument to Dematerialisation' 2006 from the exhibition The Affirmation at CHELSEA space

Congratulations to Elizabeth Price on winning the Turner Prize at Tate Britain. Elizabeth, who featured in CHELSEA space #17, The Affirmation , gave a short but perfectly pitched speech remembering the late Mike Stanley and quietly sending the message to the Government and the State Secretary for Education Michael Gove that she would not have pursued a successful career as an artist had it not been for a strong arts curriculum at school and … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Neue Slowenische Kunst, Clyde Hopkins, Peter Fillingham, Roger Ackling, and Peter Downsbrough

New Collectivism 'Baptism Under Triglav'

Our exhibition Neue Slowenische Kunst has kicked off a season of activity around NSK and we are now looking forward to IRWIN - Time For a New State and NSK Folk Art at Calvert 22 and the symposium and Laibach concert at Tate Modern.

Clyde Hopkins 'Fiveacre'

Meanwhile, Clyde Hopkins’ exhibition of wonderfully hallucinogenic paintings at our sister gallery Chelsea Futurespace has been extended and … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Susan Forsyth exhibition and talk + Sir Terence Conran, Patrick Caulfield, and our ideal home

Neue Slowenische Kunst posters and photographs ready to install

Our good friend Michele Drascek arrived from Ljubljana with the rest of the archive for our next show Neue Slowenische Kunst 1984-1992 and now the installation begins in earnest.

Road works: Susan Forsyth's exhibition on the Old Brompton Road

Meanwhile artist and former CHELSEA space Assistant Susan Forsyth is stopping the traffic with her brilliant new exhibition Goldplay at the Royal Society … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

The Tennessee Two - CHELSEA space congratulates Jason Brown and Lori Odom on their Nashville Nuptials

Lori Odom and Jason Brown at their wedding last Sunday at the World Famous Station Inn in Nashville. photo: Laura Elkins

CHELSEA space is proud to announce the wedding of our great friend, CABGallery/CHELSEA cab curator and Art and Americana connoisseur Jason Brown to his Tennessee Bride, the wonderful Lori Odom. The two were married at the World Famous Station Inn in Nashville, Lori’s hometown and Jason’s favourite place.

Jason and Lori's wedding invitation designed by Paolo Crippacci

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Pop Talk

David Bowie 'Lodger' 1979

Derek Boshier, who is giving a talk as part of our CHELSEA programme of public events, designed the cover for David Bowie’s 1979 album Lodger in collaboration with Bowie and the photographer Brian Duffy.

Wallpaper design by David Bowie1995

A David Bowie wallpaper design was loaned to CHELSEA space for the exhibition Ideal Home by pop culture commentator Paul Gorman who coincidently will be … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

1913 - The CHELSEA space connection continues

Stephanie Williams and Crispin Chetwynd with Frederick Etchells' 1913 Omega Workshop Rug

CHELSEA space was honoured to be visited by 98 year old Stephanie Williams, the grandmother of Crispin Chetwynd who featured in our exhibition ideal home . By co-incidence Stephanie was born in June 1913 the same year as our Frederick Etchells Omega Workshop Rug shown in the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, October 1913, which gave us the title and theme for our recent exhibition. Stephanie was also one of … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here