CDG | Past exhibitions

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Join us for our next Networking session at the Curious Duke Gallery in Whitecross Street, London,EC1Y 8QP.

The setting is very informal for business networking over a few beers along with our Artist talk from London Based Andrea Tyrimos.

Andrea Tyrimos graduated in Fine Art from Central St Martins in 2009, and has exhibited extensively since then. She has been mentioned in publications such as ‘Time-Out’ and ‘an magazine’, and has won awards including the ‘Signature Art People’s Choice Painting Award’ and the ‘Art & Escape Award’.

We\\\'ll update you with more info as we get close to the date, if anyone would like to talk about their business to our crowd in a future event contact me via meetup group.

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We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

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Curious Duke Gallery will be at the Grand Designs Live so come visit us at the stand E45

Private View Tuesday 30 April 6pm - 9pm

Art brings together eight people who would otherwise never have got together

In the exhibition Disparate Motives, Curious Duke Gallery shows eight artists from backgrounds that could barely be more different. Born across four decades, from self-taught to MA, teachers, mothers, engineers... but all driven to make art. Through Magenta Art in North London, these artists have met, bantered, argued and played off each other until someone suggested an exhibition. In some ways they share a theme, the only theme any contemporary artist has, their reaction to the time and place they live in - in this case London 2013, but the work they produce varies greatly. Driven by their experiences, the people in their lives, the places they have come from and the things they have seen: Disparate Motives.

Contributing Artists: Mary Ruggeri, Toni Ali, Michaela Latham, Christopher Ward, Brendon O’Hanlon, Michael Hutchison, Kate O’Hanlon, Ed Cousland.

www.Magenta-Art.org.uk

Twitter @MagentaArt

Curious Duke Gallery will be at the Affordable Art Fair in Bristol so come visit us at the stand E13

Cross Arts Projects presents

DIRTY LINEN

Emerging artist collective, XAP, recent graduates of Central Saint Martins, are airing their new works in public. What’s hidden down in the cellar, behind the closed door or the twitching curtain? Truths hinted at, truths exposed.... or swept once more under the carpet? Do we re-examine our complacency, or realise our complicity?
Visitors are invited to throw away their own dirty linen... an embarrassing object or a shameful memory can be tossed in with the laundry, or Tweet @xartsprojects or #dirtylinen.
XAP have been successfully collaborating on projects and exhibitions for over five years. Working across a variety of media, using different processes, ‘Dirty Linen’ showcases their emerging talent.

Private View: Wed 6.00 – 9.00

www.xartsprojects.org

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

One reason why art holds such a power over the human race is its ability to transport the viewer from reality to a fantastic, inspiring and landscape where for a moment reality is left behind and we are welcomed into the world of what the artist intended.

Wayfarer intends to explore different ways artists have been influenced by travel, the city they live in in their own style. Putting aside reality and interpreting landscapes and people how in their own unique style and fashion.

Exhibited Artists :

Agnetha Sjögren
Andrea Tyrimos
Bethe Crews
Emily Hannon
Hannah Adamaszek
KEF!
Mark Powell
Sam Peacock
Sue Young Lee
Sandra Jorden
Tannaz Oroumchi
Vicky Scott

Wayfarer will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 28th March – 19th April 2013.

Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP

Abstract painter Sam Peacock will be giving a short talk on how his experiences of travel have shaped his artistic practice, and changed his colour pallette, followed by questions and answers. Sam will be joined by Curious Duke Gallery's founder and curator Eleni Duke who will lead the evening, and briefly talk about the curation of Wayfarer- an exhibition on travel. This will be a ticketed event with a champagne reception. Wayfarer will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 28th March– 19th April 2013. Private View 28th March 6-9pm.

\"Kütmaan\" is the Arabic for the act of hiding or concealing

This work forms part of a five-year photographic project documenting the realities of life for some LGBT individuals in the Middle East between 2010 and 2012.
The images in this exhibition tell diverse personal stories and relate the experiences of those LGBT people who are forced to claim asylum based on their sexuality or gender identity.
The exhibition highlights the circumstances of Iranian and Iraqi LGBT refugees in central Anatolia, before their resettlement in Europe or North America, and also explores LGBT Kurdish identity in south eastern Turkey, and how these communities are seeking legal equality and acceptance.

Curious Duke Gallery, show off some of the UK’s biggest emerging art talents who are bringing mastery back to the ever evolving contemporary art world. Curious Duke will be showcasing incredible new talents that use traditional techniques in a manner that is more relevant to popular culture. Young Masters will be bridging the gap between street art and fine art, using old techniques on new surfaces and rediscovering that emphatic desire and ambition that so many old masters displayed in their paintings, in a more contemporary fashion. Curious Duke, aim to show Britain that mastery is still apparent in today’s young emerging art world.

Exhibiting artists:
Andrea Tyrimos
Ben Levy
Dannielle Hodson
Darren MacPherson
Hannah Downing
Kate Knight
Kareena Zerefos
Mark Powell
Otto D'Ambra
Richard Goold
Paul Don Smith
Sam Shendi
Sue Young Lee

Young Masters will be exhibiting at Curious Duke Gallery from the 7th February – 7th March 2013.

Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
London
EC1Y 8QP

Whilst the focus is on getting to know your art fellows, we like offering more. You are given Top Networking Tips each month, and additionally, you learn about the art on display with the Curator's talk.

#bsaaff is a Members-only event.
Guests pay £15 each to attend and are allowed to visit once prior to committing to Membership.

The Key to Your Art

For over a hundred years, Lewis Carroll has been enthralling readers with his fantastical writing and ingenious word play. Though most famed for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, Carroll penned a number of books and nonsense poems, as well as being a renowned photographer, logician and mathematician. Now, to celebrate his 181st birthday, a group of nineteen illustrators will be exploring his work through a weeklong exhibition at the Curious Duke Gallery running from January 24th to 30th.


JANUARY 24th- 30th

(Private view complete with Mad Hatter’s tea-party January 24th, 6 – 9 pm)

NOW CLOSED!!

MONDAY- FRIDAY: 11:30am – 6:30pm

SATURDAY: 12:00am – 4:00pm

SUNDAY: closed


Curious Duke Gallery, Whitecross Street, London, EC1Y 8QP

Nearest Tubes: Old Street, Barbican

This Christmas Curious Duke have everything to make your present buying experience as easy as possible, we will even gift wrap each item for you for FREE.
Curious Duke Gallery will be gathering unique delights for everyone for under £500 with prices starting at as little as £3 there is something to thrill the creative taste buds of your work colleagues and family member’s alike.
Our walls will be packed with affordable original presents from November 22nd - December 22nd with handmade jewellery, original illustrations, original paintings and delicate ceramics. There will be something for everyone. Don’t believe us…you will have to see for yourself.
This Christmas there are no excuses for bad presents, let the Duke be your guide.
Under the Christmas Tree.
Curious Duke Gallery
207 Whitecross Street
EC1Y 8QP
22nd November 2012 - 22nd December 2012
PV: 22nd November
(mince pies and mulled wine will be available to those who have been good throughout the year, we have the list)

The Curious Duke Gallery takes over Hoxton Hotel.

Following last years success, Curious Crafts will be back in our gallery showcasing the work of Designer – Makers in all it’s glassware, ceramic, jewellery, crafty goodness.

We are pleased to announce that we will be taking a number of our artists to this years Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. More details coming soon…

We will be celebrating our first year of art life this september! To mark this milestone we will be exhibiting our artists alongside welcoming some new to the fold. We also have some very exciting news; Premiere Art will be merging with its sister company Curious Duke Gallery!

Exhibiting artists:

Agnetha Sjögren
Andrea Tyrimos
David Merta
Hannah Adamaszek
Joanna Rose Tidey
Kareena Zerefos
Karoline Rerrie
Katherine Tromans
Mr Four Fingers
Otto D’Ambra
Patrick Collier
Silvia Krupinska
Tannaz Oroumchi
Vicky Scott
Vikram Kushwah

Art in Flux is Premiere Arts and Curious Duke gallery biggest exhibition to date. Working with 22 different artists, Premiere Art and Curious Duke gallery aim to introduce the viewer to the many manifestations that an image can take.



Premiere Art aim to show the public how one can alter the interior of your home and office with a whole range of different styles and concepts for you to select from. Premiere Art is offering the opportunity to see how one artist can change the theme of a room/space. With each wall representing a different artist the viewer can witness their impact and effect upon an atmosphere.

Cave consists of two artists exploring the notion of a Dystopia, Showing a body of work focusing on themes of evolution and mutation within fabricated worlds.

This show coincides with the Prophesized end of the world this year, brought about by the end of the Mayan calendar. Praying upon the hysteria and madness this myth has inspired within our culture, this show will be two artists’ attempts to visualise and explore what may be left after the end of the world.
The spaces cave like interior seems the perfect place for this setting, as creativity started upon the walls the cave, it seems a fitting place for it to be at the end of the world.