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For the last leg of the Lumen Prize 2014-5 world tour, the exhibition has come to London, at the Crypt Gallery on Euston Road until 21st May.  For the opening event, the Lumen Digital Seminar invited eight speakers, including Douglas Dodds, senior curator at the V&A, artists and XAP’s Laura Dekker, whose interactive work, The […]

Alison Griffin’s drawings will be part of the next Contemporary Art & Design Show by Cavaliero Finn at their home gallery at 268 Croxted Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 9DA. The exhibition will be organised as part of the Dulwich Festival and will take place from May 9-10 and May 16-17 2015.

Nancy Victor Gallery announce their forthcoming exhibition, The Other Garden, with XAP artists Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, Laura Dekker, Liz Sergeant and Dina Varpahovsky. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, the artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification. 20th-25th April 2015, Nancy Victor Gallery, 6 Charlotte Place, […]

As the culmination of her residency at Tonbridge School, Jody Gilby’s solo show, Imprint, will be at the Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, from 24th April to 12th May. http://www.artistresidencytonbridgeschool.com/  

Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh will be one of the exhibiting aritsts at CHEMCRAFT – For Love of Chemistry: Aesthetic Forms and Their Opposites, an internaitonal group exhibition at Espacio Gallery, London, July 2015.

XAP’s Liz Sergeant has created a site-specific work for @TheOldCuriosityBox, a pop-up gallery in Herts. “Please Hold the Line (while we try to connect you)” plays with shimmering telephone wires to create a visible, open network within this historic public telephone kiosk. Tense, taut and eager to receive our words as electrical pulses, they criss-cross, […]

Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh announces her residency and exhibition at Hundred Years Gallery in Hotxon, 5th-15th February 2015. You are invited to contribute unwanted fabrics and to participate in transforming garments into a piece of art. Opening Thursday 5th Feb 7-9pm, in conjunction with Whitechapel First Thursdays.

Dina Varpahovsky has had a great start to 2015.  See her interview in Saatchi’s One to Watch.  She’s also featured in two of Saatchi’s online collections.

The Lumen Prize Exhibition will be in Amsterdam through January 2015, showing Laura Dekker’s Garden of Earthly Delights.  To coincide with the Amsterdam Light Festival, Art’otel Amsterdam have commissioned a special version of Laura’s work for their giant interactive curtain, which will be running throughout January.  All welcome to the Lumen Digital Seminar on 17th […]

Laura Dekker will be in New York during December when the Lumen Prize Exhibition is hosted by NYIT School of Visual Arts, at the Auditorium on Broadway, 1871 Broadway, between Columbus Circle and 62nd Street, New York. The show runs 1st-5th Dec.

Bananas: Women’s Food or Is Meatloaf for Men? Saturday 29.11.2014, 11am – 6pm Exhibition in the Kitchen in Catterick Garrison. Works on paper and other media will be displayed in the kitchen. Artists: Millie Findlay, Katie Hare, Lizzy Rose, Sofija Sutton, Ute Kirkwood Inspired by the book ‘Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food’, […]

20th Nov: As Jody Gilby goes into the second half of her residency at Tonbridge School, she announces her new group show, Lustre, which runs from 2nd December 2014 at the Old Big School Gallery, Tonbridge.

18th Nov 2014: Dina Varpahovsky will be showing her new paintings from the Round Dance series at Cavaliero Finn Christmas Show. Cavaliero Finn regularly showcases its extensive portfolio of affordable contemporary art and design at its home-cum-gallery in Herne Hill, SE London. The show is taking place on Saturday & Sunday 29th-30th November 10.30am-6pm at […]

9th Nov 2014: Liz Sergeant’s new works in paint are being shown in an exhibition at Wesley’s Cafe in Harpenden.

1st Nov 2014: XAP artist Jody Gilby has just started her residency at Tonbridge School, with a retrospective show at the Tunnel Gallery.

31st Oct 2014: The Lumen Prize Exhibition, including Laura Dekker’s new interactive work, opens at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens today, running 31st Oct to 30th Nov.

24th Sept 2014: Alison Griffin has three drawings in the trans-Atlantic exhibition ‘From Here and There: Drawings from Colorado and Wales’. Runs 26th Sept – 31st Oct at Clara Hutton Gallery in Colorado, followed at Elysium Gallery Swansea, 29th Nov – 20th Dec 2014.

22nd Sept 2014: The lineup for the Lumen Prize touring exhibition has just been announced, including Laura Dekker’s new interactive work, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights, or The Right to be Forgotten’. The show opens in Cardiff on 8th Oct 2014, then travels to Athens, New York, Amsterdam, London and returns to Cardiff in March […]

14th Sept: Dina Varpahovsky’s painting Ballard, oil on canvas, 45 x 55 cm, has been selected for Wells Art Contemporary Open Competition 2014. The competition was judged by Prof Anita Taylor – founder of the Jerwood Prize, Donald Smith – 45 Park Lane artist, and Prof Richard Wentworth CBE – Senior Research Professor at RCA. […]

2nd Sept: Voting is open for the Lumen Prize – “the pre-eminent digital art prize”, according to the Guardian’s Culture Blog.

20th August: ‘The Un-private House’ brings together works by Laura Dekker, Manuel Fernández and Davide Quayola, curated by Marina Maksimova and Sasha Burkhanova, at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 31st Aug-3rd Sept, 11-17.00. Site-specific works as part of DRHA 2014.

18th Aug 2014: Ute Kirkwood’s ‘We Put Out One Fire’ is part of Newcastle University’s MFA 2014 exhibition, opening Friday 22nd Aug 6pm, running 23rd Aug – 6th Sept, Fine Art Studios and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.

4th Aug 2014: Two paintings by Dina Varpahovsky are through to the next round of judging at this year’s National Open Art competition.

29th July: Jack Jones of The London Collection is curating Best of West London Art, promoting the cultural richness of west London. Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s new painting “A Smoker” has been selected for the show at Westfield main Atrium, 4th-10th August.

28th July: Laura Dekker’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ has been selected in the first round of the Lumen Prize, and will appear in the online gallery from 1st Sept for the People’s Choice voting.

5th July: The ZAP Summer Exhibition is showing new work by Dina Varpahovsky. 11th-12th July, New Cross, London SE14 6BL.

3rd July 2014: Laura Dekker’s new work, The Garden of Earthly Delights, or The Right To Be Forgotten and Nervous & Watchful is now on the Guardian Witness’s Byte Me collection.

24th June: Artslant are running a special feature on Jody Gilby’s practice this week: http://fb.me/2j8URoCwE.

18th June: Dina Varpahovsky invites you to Open Studios at Kingsgate Workshops: new paintings from Dina, and work from 50 other artists. Kingsgate Rd, London NW6 2JG, 12th-13th July.

4th June: See Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh’s new work – Artists at Home, ACAVA Studios, 62 Hetley Road, London W12 8BB, 14th-15th June.