THE ART OF ISOLATION Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG. 20th – 25th October 2020 Eddie Saint-Jean’s Uncanny2 photograph was amongst the works on show at the Art Of Isolation exhibition at the Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch, London. Curated by Adam Lucy, it features work by a selection of artists on the…
OTHELLO DE SOUZA-HARTLEY – Cataloguing Emotions Exhibition
CATALOGUING EMOTIONS: An Exploration of Body, Architecture and Memory Koppel Project Exchange, 193 Piccadilly, London W1J 9EU, UK. 9th – 20th October 2020 This solo show by Othello De Souza-Hartley is notable amongst the Covid 19 era autumn London exhibitions because of the body and architecture connection, poignant at a time when there is global…
UNCANNY ART At The Candid Gallery
CANDID CHRISTMAS SHOW Candid Gallery, Torrens Street, Angel, Islington, London EC1V 1NQ, UK. 11th – 20th December 2020, 12-6pm. Free admission. Artist Eddie Saint-Jean works with moving image and photography and all his creative work is influenced by Freudian theories of the Uncanny (explained below). His latest photographic work Uncanny2 was selected for the December…
PETRICHOR – Is it a play? Is it a film? Is it a VR video game?
PETRICHOR Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, London E15 1BN 8th – 12th December 2020 A theatre has stood on this East End site since 1884 so it has survived two world wars and the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918, therefore the coronavirus is unlikely to disturb its ongoing cultural and historic legacy. The…
RUQSANA BEGUM -UK’s 1st female Muslim Muay Thai champ-turned boxer. Lockdown training.
RUQSANA BEGUM training in a mini amphitheatre in the Olympic Park while awaiting the next BIG STAGE Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford Would you believe there’s a scaled-down amphitheatre in the Olympic Park complete with raised stage and seating area? The government recently announced that outdoor theatres are allowed to open but it’s proved pretty…
BLACKOUT MOVIE Selected for Mozi Motion Film Festival
Blackout (2020) a feature length horror-chiller has official selection for the Mozi Motion Film Festival. Written and directed by Eddie Saint-Jean, this British movie uses the council house waiting list as the focus for urban horror. Sounds pretty familiar, because a lot of Londoners have experienced the long wait on the housing list once they…
DENISE WYLLIE – National Original Print Exhibition
DENISE WYLLIE Attends National Original Print Exhibition Denise Wyllie’s ‘Cuthbert All Souls’ screenprint was amongst the selected works exhibited at the National Original Print Exhibition 18-29 September 2019, which is now in its 6th year. A judging panel from the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers selected 227 prints from the thousands of submissions and sought a…
