The October Gallery Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Wijdan: Calligraffiti

Contemporary Art at the Crossroads of Europe

2004

5th November 2004 to 29th January 2005

Intelligence Now!

October Gallery in Bloomsbury is celebrating its 25 year anniversary this Autumn, with Intelligence Now! A spectacular exhibition of work by contemporary artists from around the world. Intelligence Now! includes the work of some of the most gifted established and emerging artists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas, presenting 'a distillation of a world of artistic creation'.

8th September 2004 to 23rd October 2004

Rosella Namok - nother side

Rosella Namok is the most widely-acclaimed and best known of an emerging group of young Aboriginal artists commonly referred to as the Lockhart River Art Gang. A member of the Aankum language group Rosella began to paint early whilst helping her father decorate the bodies of dancers with ochre paints at traditional ceremonies. In 1999, Rosella was nominated as the Young Australian of the Year (Arts Section) and, in 2003, received the Australian Centenary Medal for "distinguished services to Indigenous art." Still more recently she has awarded the prestigious High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize. The October Gallery is delighted to present the first-ever solo exhibition of this talented young Australian artist to audiences in the U.K.

23rd June 2004 to 31st July 2004

Frantz Lamothe - together with photos, metalwork and vodou flags

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Haitian Independence - this show combined the work of the exciting modern painter Frnatz Lamothe (who grew up in New York and worked with Basquiat) and more traditional examples of Haitian art-work, metal sculptures cut from old oil drums and the sequinned flags used to decorate vodou temples and sacred spaces. There was also an exhibition of black and white photographs of the Haitian Carnival by the UK-based photographer Leah Gordon.

20th May 2004 to 19th June 2004

Aubrey Williams - Dreams and Visions

To commemorate the work of the Guyanese artist, Aubrey Williams, the October Gallery made a selection of early abstract works and drawings, by one of the founding members of the Caribbean Artists' Movement (CAM) who was also a highly influential member of the London Arts scene from the Sixties to the Eighties.

1st April 2004 to 8th May 2004

Spring Show - A Selection of Artists from all Around the World

To mark the change of seasons the October Gallery showed a colourfully eclectic mix of artists from all around the world. On display were vibrant canvases by the Austrian artist Elisabeth Lalouschek, paintings in oil by Ablade Glover from Ghana, silk-thread pieces by Chief Z.O. Oloruntoba (Nigeria) and pen and ink work by Julien Sinzogan (Benin).. To further flesh out the wide range of work on exhibition the work of numerous sculptors could also be seen, comprising pieces by Richard Jack (Zimbabwe) Ruki Fame (Papua New Guinea) and Théodore Dakpogan of Benin.

18th February 2004 to 27th March 2004

Wijdan: Calligraffiti - Calligraphic Poems in Colour and Paper

In her first return to London for several years Wijdan (the artistic name of the Princess Wijdan of Jordan) showed and successfully sold a large proportion of her latest series of works in which colourful papers are displayed covered in places by her abstract arabic calligraphy depicting the writings of the Lebanese poet Charbel Dagher.

6th February 2004 to 9th February 2004

Contemporary Art at the Crossroads of Europe

The October Gallery took part in the annual Strasbourg Fair of Contemporary Art in the Wacken Exhibition Centre Strasbourg in association with Ames d'Afrique representing five African artists: El Anatsui - West Africa, Ablade Glover - Ghana, Chief Z.O.Oloruntoba - Nigeria, Richard Jack - Zimbabwe, Osi Audu - Nigeria/UK

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The Gallery is closed during official holidays and for the entire month of August.

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