Get out and about and see some great art, craft and design this Summer. Here's this year's Muswell Hill Creatives top picks.
Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling - SOAS
Over the years our Japanese textiles artist - Rob Jones of Romor Designs has educated and inspired our collective about the beautiful and ancient craft of Boro Mending. Michele at Wyckoff Smith Jewellery has been to check out the Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS. She loved it and says it is well worth a visit.
The exhibition "highlights the beauty of Japanese recycling, showcasing objects made of cotton, hemp, bast fibres, washi (handmade paper) and pottery.
Exhibiting over 100 objects from the Karun Thakar Collection - mostly dating from the Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai) or Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai) - the exhibition includes exquisite examples of ‘Boro’ and ‘sakiori’ textiles, washi and kin-tsugi or gin-tsugi pottery."
The exhibition runs until 23 September.
The exhibition "highlights the beauty of Japanese recycling, showcasing objects made of cotton, hemp, bast fibres, washi (handmade paper) and pottery.
Exhibiting over 100 objects from the Karun Thakar Collection - mostly dating from the Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai) or Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai) - the exhibition includes exquisite examples of ‘Boro’ and ‘sakiori’ textiles, washi and kin-tsugi or gin-tsugi pottery."
The exhibition runs until 23 September.
Summer Exhibition at the RA
Held every year since 1769, the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy displays works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists. We were very excited when we found out that two former members of Muswell Hill Creatives - Lito Apostolakou and Jo Angell - had been selected to exhibit this year.
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| "Sleep Beast" graphite and oil stick on Khadi paper by Lito Aposolakou. Room V. | ‘We’ve never met, but…’ 29 x 21cm by Jo Angell. Gallery IX, (number 1364). |
The exhibition closes on 20 August. Book your tickets here
- Herzog & De Meuron at the Royal Academy from 14 July - 15 October 2023. "The exhibition, features 400 objects from architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron's design process, and is a chance to find out how their projects come together. Explore their open archive shelves, sit on their latest furniture design, walk around life-sized architectural mock-ups, and use augmented reality to experience a new children’s hospital in Zurich."
- The National Portrait Gallery recently re-opened after a transformational building project and we can't wait to check it out.
- The formerly named Museum of Childhood is re-opening on Saturday 1 July as the Young V&A to rave reviews. The school Summer holidays will be a great time to visit "the museum where children, young people and families can imagine, play and design."
- The Crown to Couture exhibition at Kensington Palace runs until 29 October 2023. "This brand-new fashion exhibition takes over Kensington Palace's State Apartments and Piggott Galleries, featuring over 200 items from ball gowns to court suits and handbags to jewellery. The exhibition draws fascinating parallels between the world of today’s red carpet and the Georgian Royal Court in the 18th century."
- Klint and Mondrian at the Tate Modern until 3 September. "This is a unique chance to discover the visionary work of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and experience Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s influential art in a new light."
- Andy Warhol: The Textiles at the Fashion + Textile Museum until 10 September. "Discover the unknown and virtually unrecorded world of textile designs by the influential pop artist and icon Andy Warhol. Dating from his early career as a commercial designer and illustrator in the 1950s and early 1960s, Warhol’s textiles are now considered an important part of his body of work."
- Brian Eno/Dan Flavin exhibition of light works and sonic sculpture at Paul Stolper on Museum Street until 25 September. Dan Flavin also has a show at the Serpentine Gallery from 24 August to 23 September 2023.
Further Afield
Nestled in beautiful Sussex Downs is the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft showcasing the artists and craftspeople who made Ditchling a creative hub in the 20th Century.
 Running until 3 September is a great little exhibition - Signs of the Seaside. The exhibition explores "how lettering and typography have evolved to play a fundamental role in our experience of the English seaside providing a historical and contemporary perspective on the role of graphic design in identifying our coastal towns." |  Member of our collective, Rob Jones of Romor Designs teaches Japanese textiles at the Museum from time to time and you can find a selection of his Shibori accessories on sale in the Museum's shop. |
MHC founder and original Sussex girl, Rachael spent a windswept afternoon visiting the excellent Barbara Hepworth Art & Life exhibition at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
This exhibition, which has garnered rave reviews....... displays some of Hepworth’s most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large-scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career.
Open until 3 September.
This exhibition, which has garnered rave reviews....... displays some of Hepworth’s most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large-scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career.
Open until 3 September.
Our street photographer Barry Bottomley recommends the fantastic Soutine/Kossoff exhibition at Hastings Contemporary - "major figures of 20th century painting: one a master of the School of Paris, the other a master of the School of London."
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