AAF Battersea opens tonight

Affordable Art Fair

AAF opens Wed 19 - Sunday 23 October

The well-loved South London fair opens on Wednesday night & continues this weekend.
Liberty Gallery have 8 originals & several limited editions.

Stand A6 Liberty Galley
Affordable Art Fair
Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park
London, SW11 4NJ
email enquiries
07881 830 709

INUIT GOLD DMS FOR OLD BOOTS NEW LACES

Tomorrow will be the unveiling of 'Old Boots New Laces' in Vibe, Brick Lane.
10 artists have been picked off the streets to customise, paint, deface and generally prettify 1o pairs of Doc Martin boots. Mine were delivered as a nice shiny pair of size 6 cherry reds.... A few pieces of sandpaper, a lung ful of whitespirit, a heady daze of gold spraypaint, red leather laces and some golden flag poles later and my 'INUIT GOLD' pair are finished. Heres a sneaky peak

All ten pairs will be up for sale on the night including a pair by me Pam Glew, Jo Peel, Gonny Van Hulst , Agent Provocateur,Gary Alford, Everett Jaime, Yvonne Wayling, Ben Oakley, Rowan Newton and a whole lot more. Proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support.


The matching Inuit flag will also be on display:
Vibe Gallery, 91-95 Brick Lane, Truman Building, London E1 6QL

Old Boots New Laces
Dates: June 18th 2011 - June 26th 2011

Avoid disappointment and arrive early. Full details benoakley.com or on Tumblr

Beautiful and Damned opening night pics by Ben Eagle

Here's just a few photos from the opening at Blackall Studios by Ben Eagle.



Thanks to all who came!

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Photos of Beautiful and Damned solo at Blackall Studios

Thanks to Ben Eagle for taking these lush gallery shots. Here's a taster of the Beautiful and Damned show at Blackall Studios. Above from left is: Black Rose, Flapper, Double Portrait (just seen) and Bette Davis.

on the left After Hours, Shanghai Lily & China Rose.

Above is just one of the many pics from the opening night, it was pretty rammed and i only got chance to speak to people for afew moments, many thanks to everyone who came, great to see so many familiar faces and meet so many new ones too.

Beautiful and Damned opens its doors

(Ginger Rogers close up)

Thanks for everyone who came to the opening last night. It was a busy night, I was really touched by the positive feedback. Seriously I've never chatted to so many people at an opening night, and the reaction was a jolly firm thumbs up, nice one if you came.

The show is on til Sunday 29th. Open 10-6pm daily and theres a late night opening on Thursday

(Bette Davis close up)

All the show is now live on the website: http://www.pamglew.co.uk/gallery-209

Beautiful and Damned 25-29 May 2011 Mauger Modern • Blackall Studios • 73 Leonard Street • London • EC2A 4QS

Please contact richard@maugermodern.com for sales enquiries

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Who's Jack article

New article on Who's Jack

For the forthcoming Beautiful and Damned show
The show runs from Wednesday 25^th May until Sunday 29^th May 2010 at Blackall Studios, Shoreditch – Gallery Hours: 10:00am – 18:00pm with late night opening on Thursday 26^th May

Click here to read the article on Who's Jack

Beautiful and Damned

Cool, so the dates & venue has been announced, here's the full lowdown:

Mauger Modern Art proudly presents........... Pam Glew – ‘Beautiful and Damned’

Date: Wednesday 25th May – Sunday 29th May
Gallery Hours: 10:00am – 18:00pm (late night opening Thursday 26th May)

Blackall Studios • 73 Leonard Street • Shoreditch • London • EC2A 4QS

(Black Rose. 2011, Ink, dye & bleaching technique on heavy-weight vintage woven botanical fabric, u/f 123 x 93 cm)

Pam Glew’s forthcoming show features icons from the Roaring 20s, from silent movies to the golden age of cinema. The next generation post-urban pop artist uses her signature style of dyeing and bleaching vintage materials to create poignant portraits of the beautiful and the damned.

'Beautiful and Damned', the shows title, is of course taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 novel, which explores the listless lives of moneyed society during the Jazz Age. This captivating era, drenched in glamour yet tinged with tragedy is the decadent setting for this extraordinary series of work. The exquisitely beautiful movie starlets, society icons and characters on display capture the spirit of the age all who are caught in the unforgiving glare of the limelight and some sadly burn out before their time. As Pam states, “the tragedy amongst the beauty is what has inspired this show, the sharp contrast between a blessed life and one that ends in scandal, hedonism or destitution”.
(Josephine, 2011, Ink, dye & bleaching technique on heavy-weight vintage botanical fabric , u/f 87 x 58 cm)

For this latest series, the artist uses found materials from the same period. This is the first time she has incorporated antiques into her work. Each piece is deconstructed, dyed, and repeatedly bleached until a portrait emerges from the cloth. Rather than add pigment, Glew takes away the pigments in layers, creating ghostly figures, which appear almost woven into the cloth. This technique, mastered by the artist, can also be seen in the ‘Flag’ series and ‘Circus’ series, these prolific luminaries’ faded portraits are not only responsive to the vulnerability of the characters but are also loaded with connotations of the fragility of all human life and the transcendent nature of all our lives. However, in this new body of work Glew explores colour and pattern as a contemporary re-invention of found materials. The vintage materials and antique techniques used, such as crewelwork, further highlight and bring to the surface the precious and tenuous lives of the characters featured.

(Swan. 2011, Dye & bleaching technique on vintage woven brocade fabric. u/f 122 x 90 cm)

Household names of the time feature in this ever so evocative exhibition, such as world famous vaudeville performer Josephine Baker, sultry screen goddess Marlene Dietrich and the pioneering aviators of the time Amelia Earhart the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic, who went missing attempting to fly around the world and Charles ’Lucky Lindy’ Lindberg, whose child was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in the ‘Crime of the century’. These highly iconic figures, each with their own personal distressing life stories, represent the true spirit of the age.

Hi-res image and interview requests
Please contact tory@fluffpr.com - 07984498990

Private View – Tuesday 24th May – 6pm – 11pm

RSVP is essential to be included on the guest list:
Tory Turk, Fluff PR - tory@fluffpr.com - 07984 498990

For sale enquiries:
Please contact richard@maugermodern.com - 07590527332
Or dan@maugermodern.com - 07779994160

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Taxidermy, skin and domes

Yesterday was London Art Fair day for me, had a thorough mooch on all the 3 floors with my good old mate from college Nina. Took a whole 5 hours to see all the Fair, 2 coffee breaks and necessitated a stiff drink afterwards.
above • Geza Szollosi • Fox • Taxidermy • Mauger Modern
in background • Pam Glew • Eden • Bleaching on fabric • Mauger Modern

I noted a leaning towards a more subtle pallet in the work on show. Much less shock & awe, more pastel and skin. London art Fair is on 19-23 January

Heres my highlights:

above • Martin C Herbst • Oil and Lacquer on steel ball • Mauger Modern

above • Tessa Farmer • Insects • Vitrines

above • Ione Rucquoi • Second Skin • Ultrachrone on alu-dibond • Bo-lee Gallery, Bath

above • Kelly Ratchford • Vanilla • Jill George Gallery

above • Valeria Nascimento • Pods • Porcelein • Woolf Gallery

Very nice day, although I nearly got into a shouting match with the mini-Hitler-jobsworth-security-nincompoop on the door as i didn't present him with a 'docket' for my purchase. I have a receipt, is that ok? No i am not going back up to the third floor for an f-ing docket. Can I now leave the building please? A strong drink was needed afterwards. You just cant get the staff these days. I recommend that the security men should watch an few episodes of Mary Queen of Shops.

London Art Fair opens 19 January

Happy new year,
After a good rest, plenty of Quality Streets and a good few rounds of Trivial Pursuit & over-eating & drinking, its back to the studio for me.
The First event of the year that I will have work at is London Art Fair (represented by Mauger Modern, which opens 19 January - 23 January at the Business Design Centre, London. For more info please visit www.londonartfair.co.uk

Circus Gallery shots

ere's some pics of the Circus Solo Show, Presented by Death by Daylight & Eddie Lock at Red Bull Studios, London Bridge.


The show was fantastic, thanks to everyone that came and made it wicked!


And here's some pics of the space after the Opening Night:
Gallery View from left: Dancer (Portrait of Francoise Dorleacas as Solange in 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort', with circus lights.) Hunter (Portrait of Hunter S Thompson with Vegas lights.) A Certain Kind of Love (Portrait of Edie Sedgwick from Warhol's Screen test.)

Gallery View from left: Kate - above the piano (Portrait of Kate Moss on vintage Union Jack), Twiggy (Portrait of Twiggy with bow tie.), Blondie (Portrait of Debbie Harry.) , Loop (Portrait of Jane Birkin.)


Gallery View from left: Kate, Twiggy, Blondie, Looop, Wonder Wheel (Portrait of Mia Farrow from 'A Dandy in Aspic' with Coney Island lights.), Erotica (Portrait of Jane Fonda as Barbarella.)

Check out the retro carpets.

The show closes December 2nd, but I have got a handful of catalogues left, so email me or get in touch with Eddie Lock.

Theres more pics on the FACEBOOK PAGE which I am much better at updating than this rather unkept and erratic blog!

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The circus is coming to town

Uncontrollably excited about my forthcoming show, its hosted by Eddie Lock & Death By Daylight, at Red Bull Studios in London Bridge. Yes a show south of the river, its like the new East End didn't you know?

'Circus' wil feature 15 brand spanking new pieces on flags, vintage American, British, Italian, French and a Swiss flag & some new handmade wall pieces which are abit special.

Oh and if you'd like any further info about the show, please email Eddie at info@eddielock.com

Hope to see you there x

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Opening night at Moniker

So, we dropped in on Moniker Art Fair tonight, and I have to say thats the nicest and coolest Art Fair experience going, great vibe, the best urban art I've seen for a long time, friendly face... great to finally meet the Carmichaels & to chat with the lovely Jasmine & Falk of Herakut.

Big props to Frankie Shea for co-organising and ta for putting up 'Haunt' my flag on the Campbarbossa stand! Haunt has a new framing stylee- white background instead of the usual black. I took abit of convincing but it does looks pretty nice, so maybe I'll get afew more framed in white in the future.


The opening night was busy, heaving with the London Shoreditch cool sipping on the sparkling pink vino and having very engaging chats. With stunning art throughout, the Project spaces by Herakut and Polly Morgan were a particular highlight for me. Good to see some of the Art Star artists around too; the brilliant Matt Small had a wicked piece in Black Rat & Stefan Strumbel's clock was a nice treat.
Moniker is a perfect start to Art Fair season, check out the programme over the weekend...


The fair continues:
October 15th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artists HERKUT
- 11.30pm-12.45 / RJ Rushmore Inside/Outside Fair Walk-through
- 1.30pm-2.45 / RJ Rushmore Inside/Outside Fair Walk-through
- 5pm-7pm/ Film Screening - Guerilla Art by Sebastian Peiter
- 7pm-9pm/ Very Nearly Almost Magazine Launch - Guest List Only

October 16th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist CASE
- 7pm-9pm/ Film Screening - Beautiful Losers by Aaron Rose

October 17th
- 11am-5pm/ Open to the public/
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist TITI-FREAK
- 1pm-3pm/ Film Screening - Bomb It 2 by Jon Reiss

www.monikerartfair.com

I've added all my photos to Flickr here,

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Moniker Art Fair

As the nights draw in, Art Fair season begins again. The first event in the diary is Monker Art Fair, which opens in the enigmatic Village Underground (the cool place in Shoreditch with the tube trains at the top). Campbarbossa will have my new work, alongside galleries from LA, New York and Milan.

Village Underground • 54 Holywell Lane • London • EC2A 3PQ

October 14th LAUNCH NIGHT
- 5pm-7pm/ Private View - Guest List Only
- 7pm-9pm/ Open to the public

October 15th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist CASE
- 1pm-2.30 / RJ Rushmore Inside/Outside Fair Walk-through
- 5pm-7pm/ Film Screening - Guerilla Art
- 7pm-9pm/ Very Nearly Almost Magazine Launch - Guest List Only

October 16th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artists HERAKUT
- 7pm-9pm/ Film Screening - Beautiful Losers

October 17th
- 11am-5pm/ Open to the public/
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist TITI-FREAK
- 1pm-3pm/ Film Screening - (TBA)

Free admission through out the duration of the fair.

I have a limited amount of private view entries, please contact me at info@pamglew.co.uk.

For more info please visit www.monikerartfair.com

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Liberty & Fortune

Couple of new flags that made it to London Art Fair, with Mauger Modern.


Fortune. 2010
Flag size 168 x 107 cm
Bleaching technique & dye on vintage American flag in black box frame


Liberty. 2010.
Flag size 148 x 85 cm
Bleaching technique & dye on vintage American flag in black box frame

Back on the Drawing Project

... been a while since last blog, silly busy,

Been making large things in the studio, and have recently discovered the joys of having an assistant, marvellous times and much more productive at making flags now. So onwards and upwards, been sewing like demons in the studio making some beautiful things for the Sydney Show..... more complex and intricate flag-making. And a recent trip to Berwick Street was very fruitful, linens, denims and ticking, very authentic utility fabrics, for making new/ old flags. Delicious.

On a different tack, I'm getting back into the Drawing Project, I have set myself a mission to draw on every page of a french dictionary, more drawings added to new shop http://pamglew.bigcartel.com

Hope to get a chance to keep drawing most days, will keep u posted for progress reports!
xx

Noir Private View 5 March

PRIVATE VIEW 5th MARCH 2009

For guest list & press enquries please contact nina@stelladore.co.uk
For buyers enquiries please email stella@stelladore.co.uk

SHOW RUNS FROM 6th MARCH - 21 MARCH
Stella Dore Gallery, 47 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3QB 0207 739 3004

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Stella Dore presents NOIR, my London solo show.

The show features new work based on film noir; femme fatales, innocents and sinners. Expect to see vintage American flags, brocade and a very special antique coronation flag of Agness Deyn.
'Beautiful Nightmare' ed. of 10. 26 x 18cm

I will be releasing two tiny screenprint editions of 10, made with the magic bleaching technique on vintage 48 star flags. Bitter sweet and Beautiful Nightmare are like originals, but pocket sized.

My new black tote bags will be launched for the show, printed with an image of Marlene Dietrich, the bags are Fairtrade in a limited edition of 200.

If you haven't already seen the new Stella Dore gallery in the urban art hub of Rivington Street, their raw brick walls are the perfect setting for the new work, they also have a tempting lounge-come-print shop downstairs.


'Bittersweet' ed. of 10. 26 x 18cm

Stella Dore
47 Rivington Street, London (Old Street Tube, exit 3)
EC2A 3QB

Private View is Thursday 5 March

Image above : 'Numb' Bleaching on Vintage American Flag 148 x 83 cm

FOR GUEST LIST & PRESS please contact nina@stelladore.co.uk

FOR BUYERS enquiries please email stella@stelladore.co.uk

Hope to see you there xp

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Noir

OK, So its 2009, its gonna be a good year,

First up is my London solo show titled 'Noir'

I'm the newest addition to the extraordinary and wonderful family of artists at Stella Dore Gallery and am busy working on my show 'Noir' which opens the evening of February 26th, so put that in your diary now....

The work in the show is an exploration of the cinematic imagery of Film Noir. More sophisticated and richer than the horror series, where as the women in the 'fear' work always seemed beautiful but scared, and were basically 'beautiful bait'..... victims....

Times have changed, and America has changed, I'm no longer looking at US as a country run by a loon, no Obama is now in control and I hope the biggest of hopes that he can sort out the can of worms he has inherited, I think he has an incredible job ahead, no one is perfect, and it will take time .. Now our attention is drawn to economy, the money system, banks, corruption and how very fragile our systems are. Corruption, crime, deviousness and winter have led me to watch a lot of Film noir. For it is the movie genre which is set in the darkest of underworlds, dens, gambling joints, seedy clubs, court rooms, its 1940-50s America in the post war era, yet Noir is a seductively delicious feast for the senses.


In quite a reversal, the women in Noir are bad girls; femme fatales, murderesses, adulturers, criminals, hussys.... you get the idea. Dark.

Brocade, flags, and some other surprises will comprise the show.. no more secrets

Check out the 'noir quote of the day' on the homepage:

My current favourite:
"I know you like a book, ya little tramp. You’d sell your own mother for a piece of fudge. But you’re smart with it. Smart enough to know when to sell and when to sit tight. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart." The Killing (1956)


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Very Exciting

The brand spanking, new, spangly and rather sexy Stella Dore gallery space is opening on Thursday 27th (open 6-9pm), its a group show including:

Eine
Pure Evil
Cept
Modern Toss
Cat Johnston
Chu
Eelus
I-Lib
Shok 1
Kid Acne
Pam Glew
Rugman
Tinsel Edwards
Twinkle Troughton

So certainly one to see, its also the same night as the Herakut show, which is certainly another show to check out on Thursday.

If you would like to go on the guest list for the Stella Dore show, contact : stella@stelladore.co.uk
maybe see you there x

(click here for map for the new Stella Dore space)

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Affordable Art Fair London agogo

A very, very early Friday morning saw me frantically bubble wrapping and labelling massively big framed flags for AAF london. The work looks so sexy in its new frames that tim at Fairtrade Gallery has made, beautiful black box frames that really pop.

So, 5 spanking fabric works are going to be at Art-file gallery stand at this years AAF london.

I will be there at the opening night on Wednesday 22 October

These original works will be at Artfile Gallery stand at AAF.
'Crime Scene' and the new 'Shock Awakening' print will be launched that night at Artizan Editions at AAF too.

www.affordableartfair.com

Opening Times

Wednesday 22 Private View 5.30pm - 9.30pm

Thursday 23 11.00am - 5.30pm
Drinks Reception 5.30pm - 9.30pm

Friday 24 11.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 25 11.00am - 6.00pm
Sunday 26 11.00am - 6.00pm

So heres a sneak peek at whats in the show:

Pause 2008 143 cm x 83 cm
Discharge, bleach & dye on vintage appliquéd stars American flag – framed in glazed deep set Black box frame
£2995
Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October

The Key 2008 141 x 81 cm
Discharge, bleach & dye on vintage appliquéd stars American flag – framed in glazed deep set Black box frame
£2995. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October









A Sound 2008 42 x 70 cm Bleach & dye on vintage American flag - framed in Black box frame
£1495. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October












Fairground 2008 Approx 80 x 50 cm
Bleach & discharge paste on vintage Union Jack – framed in glazed deep set White box frame £1495
Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October

Kook 2008 approx 24cm diameter, Hand embroidery on dyed black found fabric, Attached with brass tacks, in glazed white box frame, £395. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October