Results tagged “artist”

A punk is juggling and a man who claims to have had a client list including Angelina Jolie and Dannii Minogue is roller blading through the bar. This is not the entertainment in a trendy Hoxton drinking den but the regulars on a Monday night in an unassuming Stoke Newington pub.

In the midst of the mayhem, artist Alan Coulson is attempting to taking photographs of a friend he has plans to paint.

AN artist from Hackney hopes to make it into the record books with a piece of art aiming to be the longest photograph in the world, to be displayed in 2012 at Excel London.

Clare Newton's latest idea involves recruiting 10,000 people to jump in front of the camera to create a final photograph that could measure as much as 10 metres high by 1.5km long.

When supermarket staff found a woman on the floor, clutching a bag of dried chickpeas, they were initially concerned for her health.

The woman was sculptor Wendy Taylor and she hadn't been working too hard, she had just discovered the perfect material to recreate the shell of a dung beetle with, so naturally was working out how much she would need to buy.

A childhood brush with a football icon has inspired a part-time artist to stage a charity exhibition in Canary Wharf.

The artist, who goes by the name of Popkin, has 17 paintings on display at First Edition in Cabot Square, which he hopes will be sold to raise money for the Bobby Moore Fund for cancer research.

Harry Low meets the latest artist to make One Canada Square her own

BRINGING a little of the natural world into the sleek marble lobby of One Canada Square may seem like a challenge.

But one Sussex-based artist is set to do just that when a collection of her work goes on display later this month.

Alison Crowther is best known for creating imaginative seating and benches from English oak. But between September 15 and November 22, a selection of her striking wooden sculptures will be on show at Canary Wharf’s iconic tower.

WHILE most nature photographers go to the far-flung reaches of the world to find beauty, a Docklands artist finds her subjects much closer to home, writes Rob Virtue.

Anna Hillman, who has a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf, will have her work displayed in Greenwich for five weeks.