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Mary Reid Kelley, Priapus Agonistes, 2013, made with Patrick Kelley. Image courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery
Artist to Watch 23 Dec 2014 By CAS Team

Mary Reid Kelley

Mary Reid Kelley (b. 1979, Greenville, South Carolina, USA) combines painting, performance, and a distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in her polemical, graphically stylised videos. Performing as a First World War soldier, a…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, installation view, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (26 November 2014 - 25 January 2015). Photo: Mark Blower
Friday Dispatch 12 Dec 2014 By CAS Team

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 and Julie Verhoeven at ICA, London

The fortieth, and final Dispatch of 2014 reports from the ICA which on a dark, cold and blustery December night was absolutely hopping with energy yesterday.  For anyone crazy enough…
Joachim Brohm, Mies Model Study (Golfclub), BW III, 2013/2014, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 110 x 135cm, edition of 5. © Joachim Brohm, courtesy Grimaldi Gavin
Friday Dispatch 5 Dec 2014 By CAS Team

Joachim Brohm, Vernacular and Modern, at Grimaldi Gavin, London

For the penultimate Dispatch of 2014 I am back in the West End of London at the Grimaldi Gavin gallery on Albermarle Street. This is a gallery with no shop front, so you have got to know it is there, but counterintuitively, once you descend to the lower ground floor you find a gracefully proportioned suite of rooms flooded with natural light from a glass atrium roof. It’s a pleasure just to discover this unexpectedly delightful space in a street you thought you knew so well.
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Get 60% off ‘Weak Messages’ by David Shrigley

Get 60% off when you buy a copy of Weak Messages Create Bad Situations – a manifesto by David Shrigley – before Christmas.   A wonderful present for anyone interested…
Caragh Thuring, exhibition view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2014. All works 2014. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Andy Keate.
Friday Dispatch 28 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

Caragh Thuring at Chisenhale Gallery, London

It is always quite exciting when the Chisenhale Gallery turns itself over to a painter. We are more used to walking down the concrete ramp and entering a darkened space…
Nathaniel Mellors. Winner, in partnership with the Harris Museum & Art Gallery of the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award 2014
News 25 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

Nathaniel Mellors Wins the £40,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award 2014

Mellors will create a film that will form the centrepiece of a 15 month exhibition on the themes of Samuel Beckett and The Theatre of the Absurd.
Chance and Order, installation view, 2014. Courtesy The Eagle Gallery, London.
Friday Dispatch 21 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

Chance and Order at The Eagle Gallery, London

Andrew Bick, Katrina Blannin, Natalie Dower, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Jeffrey Steele  Emma Hill set up The Eagle Gallery, in a beautifully proportioned room above the Eagle Pub on Farringdon Road…
Julian Stair, Quotidian, 2014, still from video projection, duration 9 minutes 42 seconds. Courtesy the artist and Corvi Mora, London.
Friday Dispatch 14 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

Julian Stair, Quotidian, at Corvi Mora, London

I should declare my hand from the outset here: I have, until very recently, been a life-long craft-denier. I am in a process of rehabilitation, and must thank a number of patient individuals, who know who they are, for gently easing me out of this state of profound ignorance. I am therefore probably the least qualified person imaginable to address the most recent exhibition of work by the very distinguished ceramicist, and academic, Julian Stair. But I will plough on, with all the zeal of a recent convert.
News 13 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

CAS North – Future Operations from 1 April 2015

CAS North was founded in 2009 in order to stimulate the market for contemporary art in the region
Alexandra Bircken, Deflated Bodies, 2014 a new site-specific installation from her new exhibition 'Eskalation' at The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo by Stuart Whipps. Image courtesy the artist, The Hepworth Wakefield and Herald St, London.
Friday Dispatch 7 Nov 2014 By CAS Team

A Grand Day Out

This week I am going to try and tempt you out of London and up to Yorkshire, where in a day trip you can take in an amazing variety of…

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