“Tamsyn Challenger broadly concerns herself with the steady march of time upon the body; on her own, on those whom she loves, male and female, and on the desperate ravages inflicted on a woman’s form by the warping of beauty into an ideology, where the natural becomes perverse.
As a documentarian she has born witness to gender violence and the subsequent lives no longer in extant. Inevitably, this colours a palette and she has recently been utilising body parts, actual along with representational, as a visceral reminder of mortality to a detached audience.

Conceptually led, her work toys with the forces of modern popular culture as blind-siding. The nipping and tucking of whatever is at hand to under-pin an image and the passivity of watching to create identity often moves Challenger to reunite fairytale such as The Snow Queen and Snow White with their gruesome roots.

Living up to her name Challenger wants to challenge the viewer to resist the all-pervading post-modern ethic whilst by her own admission being the most post-modern woman she knows.
At Transition Challenger will introduce The Tamsynettes. Forever versions of herself for you to play with.”

Tamsyn Challenger trained at Winchester School of Art and KIAD. She has worked as a collaborative artist with the Magdalena Festival in Barcelona and with Triangle theatre. Her work has been exhibited in the Truman Brewery and Candid Arts in London. She has also produced documentary work for the BBC, ‘My Male Muse’ receiving Radio 4′s ‘Pick of the Year’ accolade. For the past five years she has undertaken a conceptual installation based in portraiture that comes to fruition in November 2010 in Shoreditch Town Hall. This work includes collaborating with over 150 different artists and is a project she conceived of in Mexico that focuses on the murdered women of Juarez

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 7254 4202

The core of Verhoeven’s work are her drawings. Not just sensual and beautiful, but also tragic femmes fatales populate her creative world. Some display a hint of Beardsley, while others have a blatant Vogue stare or a constructivist physique.
Allusions tumble over one another, easy enough to find for those who care to look. Blaring pop music and fashion, paintings and interiors, hairstyles and films, anything can nourish Verhoeven in her search for inspiration.

Verhoeven likes her women to humorously meddle with the boundaries of aesthetics, because underneath, destruction grows rampant. With a mischievous pen and a lick of paint, she reveals the deeper layers in a raw manner, in the best traditions of punk. ”

On the occasion of the exhibition, MU will publish ‘A Bit of Rough’, a book dedicated to the work of Julie Verhoeven. This publication includes an essay by critic Francesca Gavin.

Emmasingel 20 – de witte dame
NL – 5611 AZ Eindhoven
+31 (0) 40 296 1663
www.mu.nl – mu@mu.nl

A Bit Of Rough is available from DonLon Books:

DonLon books
210 / Unit 3
Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9NQ
www.donlonbooks.com

OPENING TIMES
Thursday – Sunday 11am – 6pm

“Eighth Veil will provide artists with residencies to develop and oversee the creation of printed matter, as well as host a rotation of exhibitions and events. ”

The opening reception is happening tonight, April 10th, from 6 to 9pm.

E i g h t h  V e i l
7174 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
show from April 10 2009 to May 12 2009

This is the second issue of Interview under the editorial and creative direction by Fabien Baron. Check this out.

Photographer Tim Gutt and Art director Shona Heath have chosen B Store in London to show their latest project, “Previous Arrangements”.
The clothes featured in Previous Arrangements were selected from designer Peter Jensen’s archive. Tim Gutt and Shona Heath say that they are particularly attracted to Peter Jensen style. They have already incorporated his clothing in their previous work. To quote them, Peter Jensen’s clothes “seem to celebrate a cinematic iconography, they enhance narratives and they bring the cast to life. His pieces are beautiful, timeless and courageously simple.”

An earlier collaboration in 2006 between Gutt, Heath and Jensen created a stereoscopic photo story shot in Central Park, New York for a 3-D View-Master. Rarely seen in the intended format, the piece will also be exhibited with Previous Arrangements for the duration of the exhibition.

Tim Gutt is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in the Netherlands, his work often resists categorization as it shifts between the spheres of art and fashion. His recent exhibitions include Inner City at Claire de Rouen Books, London and Case Study at Plymouth Arts Centre. His work is featured in a range of publications for clients as diverse as the Henry Moore Institute and The Pet Shop Boys, while his editorial work features in French Vogue, Art Review and Another Man.

Shona Heath unique sensibility has led to some of the most visually arresting fashion editorials of recent years, most notably in Italian, British and American Vogue as well as Another Magazine and Dazed & Confused. She works with a range of photographers who include Nick Knight, Craig McDean, Tim Walker and Serge Leblon.

Collaborative projects between Gutt & Heath have been published in Kilimanjaro, 032c, British Vogue, Beaux Arts, and Dazed & Confused.

B Store has been selling Peter Jensen since opening in 2000.

www.bstorelondon.com

March 14 – April 12 2008

Tonight Riflemaker will host a special live performance “Mouth Off !” by Russian artist Andrey Bartenev.
If you can’t make it you still can view th exhibition at the gallery until March 11.
If you work or walked through Soho recently, you must have probably noticed the strange and hypnotic art installation in the windows of Riflemaker on Beak street.
Pay them a visit, it is interesting!

Bartenev’s ‘glass discotheque’ depicts a lake of mirrored light spheres with the words “connection lost” circling in endless orbit. A tiny heart planted inside each one symbolizes the frustration that awaits us all in this world of virtual and passive communication. The message endlessly reproduces itself within it’s virus-like blur; a whirl of letters and mirrors creating its own new connective structure. This microcosmic dancefloor, on which the revellers are almost touching yet still dance alone, becomes a metaphor for the alienation of today’s virtual, simulative communities. Disco-nnexion will be remixed at Riflemaker from December 2007 through February 2008.

www.riflemaker.org

London-based gallery IBID Projects started “Judith”, a series of projects curated by Vita Zaman (one of the gallery’s director).
The first commission has been created by RCA graduate and artist Anthea Hamilton, whose installation work has already gained some genuine interest in the art world. For “Judith” the artist created two almost surrealistic necklaces, “Brass Egg Necktie (Necklace)” and “Copper Lip Nipple Necklace (Bespoke)”.

www.ibidprojects.com

Christian Louboutin, one of the world’s most fetishised shoemakers, has just collaborated on a photo series with David Lynch, one of the world‚ most fetishistic filmmakers. The resulting photographs are quite astounding: nothing short of nihilistic, mysogynistic, absolutely stunning pictures that are, in fact, fetish-inducing pieces of art in their own rite.

The exhibition shows five limited edition pairs of shoes by Louboutin alongside five signed photographs of the shoes by Lynch.

www.galeriedupassage.com