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Concrete Hermit. 5a Club Row, E1 6JX London. UK.
talk: +44 (0) 207 729 2646 online: www.concretehermit.com
An art gallery, shop and creative studio in East London.
Opening hours: 11am to 6pm from Tuesday to Sunday.
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26.03.2010 - 24.04.2010
Pen to Paper showcases the key players of what is being labelled “DIY art” “fractured figuration” or “new psychedelic folk”. The exhibition will feature a fine selection of figurative drawings, watercolours and collages. Limited edition prints by selected artists will be presented and available throughout the show, as well as advance copies of the book, which is to be distributed within the UK by Concrete Hermit.
artists: Shoboshobo, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Seth Scriver, Andrew James Jones, John Casey, Luke Ramsey, Eric Shaw, Thomas Bernard, Lane Hagood, Kerozen, Ian Stevenson, Arnaud Loumeau, Fia Cielen, Frédéric Fleury, Matt Lock, Ola Vasiljeva and Yu Matsuoka.
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05.03.2010 - 20.03.2010
Cat Johnston creates scenarios where monsters in Napoleonic uniform wage hideous and gory wars against each other. Set amongst an illustrated environment, transforming the space at the Concrete Hermit Gallery into a nightmarish dystopia, Cat will be presenting a series of new handmade models inspired by recent drawings, and a series of limited edition prints.
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09.12.2009 - 01.01.2010
Concrete Hermit presents the launch of Amelia’s Magazine’s “Amelia’s Anthology of Illustration”. To celebrate this joyous occasion we will be letting some of Amelia’s hand-picked, masters of illustration, daub the walls of the gallery with their fanatical responses to the ever-present topic of climate change and making a sustainable future for our planet.
Artists: Karolin Schnoor, Merritt Studio, Laura Bird, Saffron Stocker, Thereza Rowe and Jess Wilson.
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05.11.2009 - 30.11.2009
McBess brings his delicate line and musical characters to the gallery. Prints will be available as well as an exclusive test pressing of a record with Mc and The Dead Pirates called ‘Malevolent Melody’. Nobrow publications will also be launching their new McBess Monograph during the show.
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01.10.2009 - 31.10.2009
Robert Rubbish and Chris Bianchi (of Le Gun magazine and Bare Bones tabloid) bring you a unique collaboration. They will be transforming the Concrete Hermit gallery into an interstellar installation that coincides with the 40 year anniversary of the first man on the moon. They will be showing their cosmic collections of curiosities. The artists will be exhibiting their own individual artworks as well as collaborative paintings drawings and assemblages made specifically for the show. The pair take their inspirations from the time they spent creating and running a modern day curiosity shop in Hackney in 2007 as well as many other sources including the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, space rock, dipsomania, the occult, magic, Catholicism, James Ensor, chemical memories, psychedelic experiences, death and Belgium. The exhibition will also have special events programmed including a requiem mass on the last day: Halloween.
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06.08.2009 - 29.08.2009
"I am a graphic artist. I live in Crystal Palace, London and I work in a studio in Hackney. Originally I came from Hinckley, Leicestershire.I am showing lots of new work at Concrete Hermit this August. The opening is on the 6th. Perhaps see you there. Many thanks to Chegworth Valley who will be providing drinks on the opening night. I am an apple juice fanatic and theirs is unsurpassable in my opinion." - Richard Hogg
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03.07.2009 - 31.07.2009
It’s a rare joyous thing when a clubnight’s promotional material is worth celebrating, which is why Concrete Hermit is delighted to announce a retrospective show of posters created for London night, Get Involved. The posters, created during Get Involved’s three year tenure at central London venue The Social, collected and exhibited here for the first time, were created by some of the most in-demand illustrators and designers working today.
Artists: Accept & Proceed, Ali Graham, Anthony Burrill, Build, Crispin Finn, Dan Huglife, Dave Oscroft, Dave The Chimp, Design Friendship, Eskimopush, Ian Stevenson, Intercity, James Joyce, Jeremyville, John Slade, Jon Burgerman, Kate Moross, Kavel Rafferty, Kerry Roper, Laura Southcott, Lazy Oaf, Lucy Vigrass, Matthew Hodson, Nat Shah & Rob Jones, Nils Leonard, Paul Pensom, Peskimo, Richard Hogg, Roo Walton, Rose Stallard, Sam Muir and TwoPoints.Net.
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04.06.2009 - 04.07.2009
Wagner Pinto presents his own pictorial world for the first time out of his home country, Brazil, in a Eurotour of 3 complementary solo shows (London, Barcelona and Milano), entitled "Floating", to present drawings, paintings and silk-screen prints inspired by the act of believe and faith, in different religious and folklore´s concepts materializing imaginary situations, mental impulses and fine energies which are represented by the artist vocabulary which brings out the forces of the nature, "orixas" mythology, "candomble" religious icons and the mistery about the "Ayahuasca" culture.
To Wagner Pinto, this sensory universe is an inexhaustible source of possibilities that fills in the imagination and makes possible an original representation, without esthetic stereotypes, on a very common issue of brazilian culture. The shows will transform in a fertile and dreaming landscape free of any interpretation. The idea is bring up to the surface, to the senses and views of visitors a floating universe, where even waves of thoughts have a rhythm, harmony, body and color, becoming the invisible visible to human eye, and in this way, try to give a new direction to abstract art.
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07.05.2009 - 29.05.2009
Concrete Hermit has selected 10 incredible artists to launch "We Stride Worldwide" a riot of illustration and graphic installation, as the 8th of the OCHO group exhibitions series scheduled to take place this year, in different cities around the world. More than 150 artists are part of this ®artspace network world group show, that runs through world class galleries until end of August 2009.
Artwork by: Ian Stevenson, Gareth Bayliss, Jody Barton, Jasper Goodall, Anthony Burrill, Jon Burgerman, Supermundane, Andrew Rae, Holly Wales, Phil Ashcroft.
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05.03.2009 - 02.05.2009
MWM Graphics is a design and illustration studio based in Portland, Maine USA. Working across a range of disciplines, from colorful vector illustrations style, to freeform watercolor paintings, and large-scale aerosol murals. Matt has been constantly evolving and expanding his visual vocabulary over the years, incorporating distorted shapes, rich textures and vibrant patterns into his unique graphic language. Matt also has a passion for logo design and typography, viewing alphabets as a set of shapes and “a world of infinite possibilities.” MWM designs have featured on t-shirts and skateboards and have also drawn attention from a diverse selection of names such as The Guardian, Nike and Rojo Magazine in Barcelona who published a recent book of his works. MWM's Concrete Hermit show is a personal celebration of his art and design across disciplines and will include a range of striking prints, murals and colourful installations. We invite you into an exciting world of scrambled geometry, vibrant colors and psychedelic abstraction.
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05.02.2009 - 28.02.2009
Concrete Hermit's first exhibition of 2009 is opening on Thursday February 5th and will include work by five artists creating prints, drawings and sculptures in the style of the ‘contemporary grotesque’ - a trip into the unique and intoxicating worlds of Andrew James Jones, Kate McMorrine, James Unsworth, Seth Scriver and Mudwig Dan
Andrew James Jones’ prolific output of paintings, drawings and low budget self published photocopy books are gaining him an ever increasing global following, clashing together many diferent elements into his work to create a truly unique and disturbingly dark, humorous vision.
Kate McMorrine is an artist from the Isle of Skye. Her practice is grounded in the discipline of drawing and deals with narratives found in misheard conversations and the story-telling tradition. Activating the visual with the use of such things as automatic drawing, old photographs and cut outs she forms characters and narratives which inhabit a personal world.
Mudwig Dan’s unique combination of “borrowed” photographs and illustrations make for some very surreal collages. Dan is inspired by things such as animal’s bodies, blitzkriegs, hills, triangles and trees. He finds photos (usually of dogs or women), crops the bit he wants to use, then draws on top of the photos using a combination of Brushpens, Acrylics and other tools
RCA graduate James Unsworth cites Daniel Johnston as one inspiration for his detailed depictions of dark worlds. He draws upon historical images of folk culture and the popular press to show a world where elderly transsexual page three models, faded glamour and popular culture all share the same space, within these images questioning current ideas of taste, beauty, attraction, highness and lowness.
Seth Scriver is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who records his personal journeys through the eyes of bizarre and active stenciled then drawn characters who feature in his animations, sculpture, painting, and drawing.
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06.11.2008 - 21.12.2008
Concrete Hermit is pleased to present ‘Revolution Deformation’, the first U.K. solo show by Fons Schiedon, an exhibition of original paintings displayed alongside prints and animation. Central to Schiedon’s work is the figure of Jesus, not the Son of God, but a small mouse-like cartoon character previously dubbed by Schiedon as ‘Badboy Lensflare – the albino in a wheelchair’. He explains: "For a long time there has been one figure popping up in my work; whenever there was a fanzine spread to fill, a sticker to make or simply an unattended moment he would be there."
Previously the character of Jesus had not strayed far from the traditional cartoon/character design, the style of which Schiedon is already well known for; with his history as a designer and animator for Nickelodeon, MTV Asia and Submarinechannel and his characters frequently appearing in books and international conferences. You might expect his work to stay comfortably in that bracket of design/animation, but instead it takes a much more interesting path.
The character is removed from the traditions of modern animation and projected into the traditional medium of painting on canvas. Schiedon stretches and distorts the character until it is hardly recognisable – the images becoming almost expressionistic as the character is twisted and pulled. He says, ‘The character Jesus is an anamorphic figure that lends itself to the projection of ideas, without losing it’s features.’
The story of Jesus is further explored in the exhibition catalogue, which details the characters journey to abstraction. A process neatly described by the shows title: Revolution Deformation.
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04.09.2008 - 31.10.2008
Juju’s Delivery was founded by the Berlin-based artist Julia Schonlau. She studied Media Art at Chelsea College in London before moving into illustration and character design. Schonlau began her career designing covers, flyers and posters for musician friends. She moved on to collaborate with Rojo, Pictoplasma, MTV and Mercedes Benz, published drawings in magazines like Lodown, Modart, Kid’s Wear and Yen Magazine. Her work has been exhibited in New York’s Cinder’s Gallery, Colette in Paris and throughout Berlin. For Her show at Concrete Hermit Juju will be producing new work including drawing and collage. She will also be creating a site specific installation in the gallery.
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07.08.2008 - 30.08.2008
Concrete Hermit presents its summer group show of selected prints and affordable work by both young and established international graphic artists we have presented and collaborated with. The exhibition will include new works and pieces which have never been exhibited before in the U.K. from well–known artists such as Jon Burgerman, Ian Stevenson, Andrew Rae, Anthony Burrill, Neasden Control Centre, Jody Barton, eBoy, Supermundane, Cody Hudson, MWM Graphics, Andrew James Jones and many others…
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03.07.2008 - 03.08.2008
New work from two young london based artists. Kate McMorrine is an artist from the Isle of Skye, a tiny island just off the coast of Scotland where she "learned to play magical instruments and see colors no other can ever see". She now lives in London, speaks in a dull monotone Scottish accent and eats a lot of meat. She hates hippies, does not trust people with thin teeth, and likes fighting on Saturday nights. She also makes creepy weird art. Alec Strang is a design & illustrator based in London studying Illustration at the London College of Communication. Alec's drawings focus on the darker aspects of modern youth culture using mostly black and white figurative pen and ink drawings.
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09.05.2008 - 30.06.2008
Eboy is Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. From their Berlin studio they create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. Entire cityscapes, rich in detail have been created for London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and others. This exhibition sees the latest city to get the Eboy
treatment: Los Angeles. There will also be a chance to see the development of the Peecols – Eboy’s series of toys, which have become highly collectable, with a rare chance to see the ‘Blockbob’ prototypes and special limited editions of the figures. Exclusive Eboy prints, T-shirts and products will be available at the exhibition.
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04.04.2008 - 30.04.2008
The exhibition will see new work produced for the gallery including large sculptural pieces as well as prints and original pieces. The work featured will offer visitors a chance to worship and share private prayers with the idle Idols. Redemption, salvation and salivation are all promised. The show will also see the UK launch of his new 160pg monograph book entitled "Gribba Grub" published by ROJO®.
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07.03.2008 - 30.03.2008
"Tri Hard Err" is an exhibition by Chris Knight, Supermundane and Kate Moross (work pictured). The three artists share a fascination with line, geometry, pattern and colour. The show includes solo pieces by each artist as well as freeform collaborative work applied directly to the gallery walls.
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