Pierre Julien in Metro

Have a look at this brilliant article on one of our artists, Pierre Julien, in todays Metro newspaper,page 3.

It's full of some rather interesting puns, some stretching the English language to capacity.

"He rolls the pioneering popular free paper into 3,000 matchstick-sized tubes, glues them and covers them in varnish.
‘Each animal takes about a month to build,’ he said. ‘When you are working on such a minute scale you have to be extremely patient, making sure each tube is placed correctly.’
‘Each year more and more animals are added to the endangered list and unless we do something to stop it, we will lose some of our most treasured species included the polar bear, tiger, elephant, gorilla, giraffe and black bears.
‘It’s almost unimaginable that we have allowed these great animals to get to the brink of extinction,’ added Mr Julien from London.
The menagerie, named Endangered Species, is at the Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia, west London until Friday. There’s only one thing missing, a paper tiger."

 If you would like to see Pierre Julien's menagerie, including his paper Tiger, it will be on show in the gallery until Friday 23rd December.After that the collection will be moving to The Rectory Gallery for Menagerie at the Rectory http://www.therectorygallery.com/ until 9th March. Call Curwen Gallery for more information on 0207 323 4700.

The Christmas Show

Our Christmas show has now been running for two weeks and we are pleased to say it has been very successful.The Christmas show is an extremely important exhibition for us.  Our selections for this show try to reflect the gallery as a whole.Much of the work currently on our walls is the work of artists that we have been showing for many years, making this a good exhibition to reflect on the history of the gallery, as well as its future.

Keith Roberts, At Swim, £1500



Susie Perring Into the Sun

 This year we have attempted to include all of our gallery artists as well as trying out a few new additions to the usual core choices . Every artist we will be showing next year is represented in this show, with artists such as Susie Perring (showing in the Rectory Gallery next March- May) and Brendan Hansbro (showing at Curwen in April 2012) causing quite a stir. Lee Sellers also, who will be showing at Curwen next December, has been extremely popular, selling the five paintings we initially hung in one go! Other works such as Keith Roberts At Swim will be familiar to many and much loved by everyone here.



Pierre Julien, Gorrilla, £450

The Christmas show is also a great platform for us to look to the future and to try new artists. This year we have been delighted to show Pierre Julien’s Endangered Species series of sculptures. They are made in a very original fashion- from hundreds of rolled up bits of newspaper. Pierre has very kindly given us a brilliant collection of these animals which will also be showing next year in the Rectory Gallery, during the “Menagerie at the Rectory” exhibition running from January- March 2012.Look out for a short article in Metro newspaper on Pierre, hopefully printed at some point this week.