Hurray! It is finally happening. We are opening our gallery doors on April 12th at 12 pm.
It has been two years since I purchased The Royal Fish Bar at 23 Brockley Rise. Sadly, it was an institution past its sell by date and was puttering along wtih a one star hygiene certificate and an owner who looked as if he wanted out asap.
Once I had the property we had to knock the entire building down and start afresh, which has proved to be the best option for us and the terraced row we are on. Since buying the property, the William Hills next door has closed and a new building of 4 flats and a retail unit has been erected, our buildings compliment each other and have changed the look of what was once a somewhat bland, if not miserable looking, corner of Brockley Rise. Also, we have had a lovely organic deli open, and the wonderful Pizza-arte. The whole neighbourhood seems to be getting a well deserved facelift. Cities are in constant growth and change and this area is no exception. A lot of new people seem to have moved in recently as well.
The long haul experience of 2 years has had a lot to do with the Covid pandemic. It was hard to get supplies for the building and many of the builders would not work, which was fair enough. A disgruntled neighbour also did us no favours but we have managed to, it seems, overcome all that and we are finally where we wanted to be from the beginning.
We are looking forward to once again being part of this community and offering our art gallery exhibitions, events and framing service to our neighbours and beyond.
Our first exhbition will be a mixed one with works by Lisa Henshall, Kate Felton-Hall, Iain Nutting, Chris Kendrick, Claudia de Vilafames, & Gill Hamilton. Most of the art can be seen and purchased on our site.
NOW YOU CAN BUY DIRECTLY FROM OUR SITE
Art works and sculpture from most of our artists is now available to buy directly from our site.
While nothing compares to the actual gallery experience buying online has become a popular option, especially in the last few months. For those of you who have purchased from us, you know that our artists are all hugely accomplished and are very reasonably priced.
If you are considering buying from our site and you have any questions, do feel free to contact me directly and I will be happy to email or phone you and discuss any queries you have. My email is pippa@artdoglondon.co.uk. I am in the Suffolk countryside with little phone signal but if you send me your phone number I will ring you from my landline.
NEW GALLERY
The reason I am deepest darkest Suffolk at the moment is because our new gallery is being built in Honor Oak at the moment. If you are in the area the address is 23 Brockley Rise, se23 1jg. If you are strolling or driving by have a peek. We are now scheduled to be finished by the end of October.
it does seem to have taken ages but in reality it has been less than 2 years from purchase to this point and that has been with some huge hurdles along the way and then Covid, so in retrospect it was not too bad. Fingers crossed for no more holdups in the coming months.
I will be announcing the opening via mailchimp and all the ArtDog social media and I will have a full list of our exhibition schedule soon.
YELLOW DOG - Welded metal sculpture by Iain Nutting.
47(h)x 55x 20cm
11.8kg price
£2400
ART IN THE TIME OF LOCKDOWN - REBECCA FONTAINE-WOLF & DARREN LYNDE MANN
REBECCA FONTAINE-WOLF
ArtDog London has 5 new mixed media and digital artworks available from London artist Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf. Rebecca has been stuck in Lisbon during the Corona Crisis, here is her story:
"This CoVid-19 Lockdown has been quite challenging, as it has no doubt been for all of us. After coming to Lisbon for my first solo show here in March, I was due to start a 2 month residency. The show was closed early and the residency cancelled. I have now found myself alone in an airbnb in Lisbon, where I will stay until June".
"Thankfully, I have enough space here to have been able to create a make-shift studio in my flat by moving furniture around and was also still able to order materials online. Due to the nature of being in an airbnb I can’t create using my normal working methods and have had to adapt my practice to this new situation".
"The current crisis and the very isolated state I find myself in have also impacted the subject matter of the work I’ve been creating. A new direction which will lead towards a full body of work eventually has begun to emerge. I've turned in on myself, and in this act of self reflection I have once again become the model, and subject of my own work. The main focus is on themes around isolation, self-reflection, the strange sense of self-othering which occurs when every interaction you have with other people is mediated by a screen in which you can see yourself reflected back at you".
You can see Rebecca’s art work from Lockdown here: http://www.artdoglondon.co.uk/#/template-6fmlr/
DARREN LYNDE MANN
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE OLD BANK VAULT GALLERY
Just as we were planning to hang Darren Lynde Mann’s debut solo show, ‘Renaissance Echoes’, due to open in March COVID-19 came closer to home than we ever imagined. Whilst we had to cancel the Private View and postpone the exhibition not all is lost! We are offering one lucky winner the opportunity to own an original drawing beautifully framed by ArtDog London and join us for the Private View of the re-scheduled show (date to be confirmed).
Go to our instagram page for details. This is only running for the weekend of May 2/3 and winner will be picked at 2 pm on the 2nd.
Go to our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/artdoglondon/?hl=en
Introducing Darren Lynde Mann
Please join us and meet Darren at his first exhibition at The Old Bank Vault in Hackney. Please RSVP if you plan on attending the evening event on March 19th: pippa@artdoglondon.co.uk
