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

Richard Wilson proposal drawing for 'Hang on a minute lads...' 2011

Our brilliant Richard Wilson exhibition No Formulas continues at CHELSEA space and we are eagerly awaiting Richard’s public talk with Jane Won, curator at the De la Warr Pavilion, on the 18th October (click here for details and booking info). Meanwhile we are busily working on our next exhibition Hatch Show Print: Nashville Calling

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Richard Wilson’s No Formulas opened with an excellent private view on Tuesday 17th September.

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This has been an incredibly busy period for the artist Richard Wilson culminating in 1513 A Ships’ Opera on the River Thames and the exhibition No Formulas at CHELSEA space
The Thames Festival documentation says “1513 A Ships’ Opera is a spectacular night-time, water-borne performance for the 2013 Mayor’s Thames Festival, staged by an armada of historic vessels from the age of sail, steam and diesel. A live, moving operatic concerto of ships’ whistles, bells, horns, sirens and cannon-fire will recreate the … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

The end of Oswaldo Maciá’s Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space was the beginning of a series of changes for us at Millbank.

Following Oswaldo Maciá came the closing of the superb Peter Blake: Four Decades at Chelsea Futurespace. We are very grateful to Sir Peter and to Brad Faine for their careful selection of the … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Lynda Morris’s Dear Lynda exhibition and archive, shown at CHELSEA space in July 2012, is now opening at BQ in Berlin. The show was initiated by Matthew Higgs at White Columns in New York then came in a new version to CHELSEA space followed by shows in Dundee and Norwich. The brilliant image of Lynda on the Berlin invitation is by David Lamelas … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

An assault on the senses this week as Oswaldo Maciá opened his new audio-olfactory work The Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space.

This spatial installation made especially for CHELSEA space incorporates sound and smell and encourages a heightened sensory perception in encounters with art and ideas. Oswaldo has also been showing this week in the Modern … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

An uncanny addition to the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion

As we mentioned at the end of our last blog something has come unhinged in the pleasant south coast town of Bexhill on Sea.

Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea...

Look up at Eric Mendelsohn’s and Serge Chermayeff’s 1930s modernist masterpiece, the De La Warr Pavilion, and you will see a full size passenger coach teetering precariously … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Mark Leckey gets 'Touchy Feely' at Chelsea

A week is a long time at CHELSEA space and once again we have been packing in some great events. We broke off from installing our new show to host an excellent lecture by Mark Leckey entitled ‘Touchy Feely’. Mark is currently busy working in the studio and was very generous in coming to talk with us and candid in sharing his ideas, even showing us his work in progress - a film portrait of an immaculate chrome … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Champagne crowd for Richard Wilson at the Saatchi Gallery

The CHELSEA space team had fun at the Saatchi Gallery for the preview of Richard Wilson’s Hold The Line, a new commission for bespoke mobile phone company Vertu.

Richard Wilson's 'Hold The Line' at Saatchi Gallery

For the commission Richard had made a new film and a ‘cityscape’ model both made using parts from Vertu “luxury” phones. The film was a kind of puppet … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here