Blackout (2019) a feature-length horror-chiller written and directed by Eddie Saint-Jean has official selection for the Straightjacket Guerilla Film Festival 2019. 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 dreaded housing list once they are old enough…

DENISE WYLLIE Attends Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Denise Wyllie’s Into the Renaissance Garden screen print passed all selection stages for this year’s RA Summer Exhibition. There were 12,000 submissions from 5,000 artists with only 1,500 selected. In keeping with RA custom, she had previously attended the official Service for Artists at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly…

SOLY CISSE: Men and Lives – Sulger Buel Gallery Senegalese painter and sculptor Soly Cisse presents a body of work which drives expressive channels through figurative subjects – with a tilt towards abstraction. Humour, irony and, of course, colour are underscored emphatically. The work is an examination of human relations and the human psyche. His…

INTRODUCING THE WORKS OF STEPHEN ANTHONY DAVIDS – 508 Gallery Stephen Anthony Davids is an East Ender whose paintings, drawings and sculpture are vital tools in the exploration of black identity and history. His latest exhibition examines topics as diverse as East End masculinity, slavery, the natural hair movement, gentrification and social mobility. His sculptures…

DENISE WYLLIE: Fete De L’Estampe Festival of Printmaking For the 2nd year running, artist Denise Wyllie hosts an open studio event for Manifestampe’s Fete De L’Estampe Festival of Printmaking. Sunday 26 May 2019 and after that date by appointment only. Studio address: 407 Long Lane, East Finchley, London N2 8JN. Contact djwyllie8@googlemail.com for further details  https://www.wyllieohagan.com