The Assembly Rooms presents Yuki Mori - Inside The Outside - Watercolours 2009-2010

The Assembly Rooms present the latest exhibition from Yuki Mori.
After solo exhibitions in Sapporo and Berlin, The Assembly Rooms is proud to present the first exhibition of her work in London.

Born in Japan and working from Berlin since 2007, Yuki Mori's recent work has been an exploration of the way in which sensory input is translated by the individual to become experience and memory, and how this in turn becomes our basis for interpretation.

The paintings themselves engage the viewer in the role of interpreter, inviting you to enter a world of your own imagination in much the same way as a child finding forms in shifting clouds.

In effect the work acts as a catalyst, prompting a kind of child like daydream reverie that highlights the role of the observer as creator of that which is observed.

http://yukimori.jimdo.com

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

The Assembly Rooms presents An Exhibition of Portraiture

Let's Face It 6

The 2010 London Photographic Association Awards for portraiture demonstrates the vitality and excellence of portrait photography. As always we encourage photographers to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying their subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.

With entries arriving from twenty countries the exhibition is an eclectic mix of styles and peoples. From Russia to Africa, the Indian sub-continent and all points in-between photographers have captures their subjects with humour, intelligence and respect.

At The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: Thursday 31st March 2010 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Exhibition runs until 29th May 2010.

www.london-photographic-association.com
kevin@lpa-management.com
+44 (0) 20 8392 8557

The Assembly Rooms presents the work of Ben Jamie and Dan Beard

Already Not Yet
Ben Jamie

Already Not Yet is a reaction against artistic sensibility. Ben consciously isn’t painting a pretty ‘utopian’ seascape or a lifelike portrait; rather he draws the viewer into a world that might be. By desaturating perceived views of society; stagnation, directionlessness and apathy, Ben is exposing idiosyncratic fault lines in our ‘instant’ culture. Furthermore, juxtaposing these derelict scenes with the reality of nature, Ben is raising the question of what is powerful and eventually what will have the most power?

Further Adventures in Fluid Thinking

By Dan Beard

One of my interests as a painter is exploring the relationship and dynamics that exist between the artist and their materials. My role in this technique is to react to the movement and organic patterns that form. I allow the paint to flow around and mix and observe the chemical reactions that occur. Like a kind of dialogue between myself and the materials I will step in and assume control and begin shaping an image or idea that begins to arise in my mind from the associations of the forms appearing on the painting surface and from my own imaginative vocabulary.

At The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: Thursday 28th January 2010 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Exhibition runs until 26th March 2010.

www.benjamie.com
www.danbeard.info

FALLING IN LOVE IS A RISK Yang Du's whimsical fashion exhibition

"I am happy when people tell me that my collection made them laugh."

A painter from the age of five, Yang Du only devoted herself to fashion design when she realised that it could be a medium of artistic expression in itself. With her surrealistic world of knitted pork chop jumpers, cactus hats and tuxedos with elephant headwear and clever sense of irony, Du has effortlessly caught the eye of the press and public alike.

"My previous two collections are like my travel diaries..."

Influenced by Franco Moschino, Du maintains a legacy of the idiosyncratic, insisting on the narrative behind the design. She has a strong tendency to project her ideology through her work, based on a unique design process that often begins with a journey to exotic locales. There she collects the thoughts, objects, and sketches that lead to the final collection.

Falling In Love Is A Risk is not another exhibition of Yang Du's collections. It is an invitation to take an intimate look inside her whimsical mind and the unseen travel diaries that preserve the moments of inspiration for her wonderfully extraterrestrial fashion designs.

www.tien.org.uk

FALLING IN LOVE IS A RISK at
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: Saturday 10th October 2009 11:00 am to 9:00 pm.

Exhibition runs until 27th November 2009.

The Assembly Rooms present ALREADY NOT YET by Ben Jamie

With references to Ben's surroundings in Hackney his work is strongly influenced by Ballardian and Orwellian themes; creating dystopian worlds and questioning the distinction between our dreams and the reality of where we could be going.

"Already Not Yet is a reaction against artistic sensibility. Ben consciously isn't painting a pretty 'utopian' seascape or a lifelike portrait; rather he draws the viewer into a world that might be. By desaturating perceived views of society; stagnation, directionless and apathy, Ben is exposing idiosyncratic fault lines in our 'instant' culture."
(Ewan Eason, 2009)

ALREADY NOT YET at
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: Thursday 20th August 2009 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.

Exhibition runs until 2nd October 2009.

The Assembly Rooms present CONSTRUCTED EVIDENCE

A photographic exhibition by members of the London Photographic Association.

Curated by Kevin O'Connor the exhibition includes the work from twelve internationally known fine art and commercial photographers.

The Constructed Evidence exhibition investigates the influence that digital technology has on the making of photographic images today. The way in which we view, and perceive truth when looking at a photograph.

The use of digital post production techniques have become key to the aesthetic and styling of photographic images. From the subtle conditioning of a picture to the seamless ability to create illusions.

London Photographic Association at
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: Thursday 25th June 2009
Exhibition runs until 15th August 2009
View: Every Wednesday from 10:00am - 3:00pm

The Assembly Rooms present the latest exhibition from Philip Diggle

Born in Manchester, Diggle's early work was a reaction to the political climate of the late 70s and early 80s. He became immersed in the punk movement, painting live on stage, capturing the zeitgeist of that era.

Diggle has carried this live energy through to his present day work.

As Mel Gooding puts it:

'Diggle works continuously with chance but leaves nothing to it. His paintings are the sum of a multitude of split-second decisions, interspersed with hours of contemplation, over weeks or months. Their rhythms and counterpoints of colour, and of light and darkness; their textual complexity; their structural tensions; their objective density and weight: these are the pay-off of a fiercely commited energy and of an undivided attentions to the work in hand.'

His latest exhibition, 'I IS SOMEONE ELSE: Soho Review' is part of a series known as 'The Camden Chronicles'. It stems from his experience living in a squat in Camden in the early 80's. He became interested in the idea of the outsider. He was influenced by the work of French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, who had lived in the area. They had posed existential questions, seeking the real truth as opposed to the truth fed to them by the establishment. These themes have proved to be very significant in Diggle's work and are at the forefront of this new exhibition.

The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London
W1F 0JU

Tel: 020 7437 1052

Exhibition runs from 11th May until 20th June 2009

Private View: Thursday 14th May 2009

Open Day: Saturday 16th May 2009

The Assembly Rooms present the work of Chris Orr, one of Britain's best-known printmakers

Chris Orr studied at Ravensbourne and Hornsey Schools of Art before completing an MA at Royal College of Art, graduating in 1967.

He was elected Royal Academician in 1995 and Professor of Printmaking in the Royal College of Art in 1997.

He was awarded an MBE in the 2008 Honours List and was also honoured as a Senior Fellowship and Professor Emeritus from the Royal College of Art.

His work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. He has had regular solo shows at Jill George Gallery since 1978.

Chris paints and draws what he sees inside his mind and outside in the world he lives in. Within his mind is a teeming panorama of remembered and re-invented images, outside in the fresh air, he works with an investigative eye that gets into every nook and cranny.

The hallmark of his work from his earliest drawings to the present day is a love of detail. If he is drawing Manhattan or his native London, he gives attention to every last drop of detail in front of him. Equally, when he confronts his inner world, no scrap of memory or idea is ignored. The apparently trivial may be given as much attention as the important. The viewer is presented with a riot of images. Ribald humour co-exists with deadly seriousness.

His many collectors report that when they have filled their houses with his work (and before they move to a bigger place in order to expand their collection) they find that the pictures go on revealing themselves. Just when you thought you had got the measure of what Chris Orr is all about, you notice something new in the work and that raises a whole new set of questions.

The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Tel: 020 7437 1052

Exhibition runs until 8th May 2009

In association with:

Jill George Gallery
38 Lexington Street
London W1F 0LL

Web: www.jillgeorgegallery.co.uk

The Assembly Rooms and Gallery 1839 introduce new Israeli talent to London market

Gallery 1839 is hosting an exclusive, solo exhibition of 'Exile: an image of women, women as an image' by acclaimed Israeli artist and photographer Lea Golda Holterman at The Assembly Rooms in Soho.

Golda Holterman, BA honours graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, spent 18 months documenting the lives of prostitutes in the region. Until 2008, prostitution was a punishable offence in Israel. Golda Holterman explains what's behind her images:

"I decided it was important for me to look at this community of women of lost identity not as segmented bodies but as whole individuals. I wanted to code the genetics of prostitution. I feel that prostitution is a concept, a cultural legitimate behaviour and a common myth that should be reviewed."

Golda Holterman believes, women's bodies have become normalised as sexual objects in the media of Western society, particularly photography. The danger of this approach is that the person becomes an object which can be used and disposed of.

"For me, photography is a medium of observation. Through photography, I create an alternative way to observe that a pattern of myth exists in reality: women as a perishable object of desire. If the viewer can stay with the sense of humanism, I will have achieved my goal."

Gallery 1839 at
The Assembly Rooms
8 Silver Place
London W1F 0JU

Private view: 27th November 2008

Exhibition runs until 13th February 2009

View by appointment only: Every Wednesday from 10:00am - 3:00pm

Open Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th January 2009

Telephone 0208 392 8557

Online at www.gallery1839.com from the 26th November 2008.

Prints can be purchased from the online gallery.

All enquiries should be addressed to Kevin O'Connor

Tel: 020 8392 8557
Mob: 07768 275075
Email: kevin@gallery1839.com

Sponsors:

The London Photographic Association (LPA)
The Assembly Rooms