Running the Open
With The London Group Open just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to hear just what it takes to plan and run this amazing event, which has run since 1916. It’s quite a commitment!
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Category: News
Beginnings and Endings
Not all London Group members live in London. We have members across the UK and even a few abroad. In Beginnings and Endings, Victoria Arney discusses her move to France, the liberty of artistic reinvention and wine making in the Languedoc.
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OBSESSIONS #3
In the year of his 71st birthday, Peter Clossick LG elucidates his obsessions around work, process and practice.
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Exquisite Corpse
Tim Pickup from Genetic Moo discusses a novel collaborative art work which was made by London Group members for the recent In the Dark exhibition. Experiments in collaborative film making
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“Self-Service” call for entries NOW CLOSED
Our open call has now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted work. We are now looking forward to viewing all the films and we’ll let you know our selection at the beginning of May.
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New Members 2019
After a lively and stimulating meeting the Membership Committee have chosen five new members for 2019. The 5 artists have diverse practices and backgrounds and will bring valuable new skills and energy to the group.
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In the Dark 2019 video walkthrough
The group show In the Dark took place in the Cello Factory, Jan 2019 and was a collaboration between The London Group, the Computer Arts Society and Lumen Prize. The 40 contributing artists are all represented in this short video walkthrough.
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The Art of Caring
Now in its 5th year The Art of Caring is an open submission exhibition celebrating Nurses, Carers, and the NHS in London.
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Collectives and Federations: Why do artists collaborate?
Peter Clossick will be a panelist in this special talk at the Mall Galleries this weekend.
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Our Creative Spaces
A peek into the diverse studio spaces in which London Group members create.
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OBSESSIONS #2: Gasometers
“I appear to be known as the artist who paints gasometers” Daniel Preece LG
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Jacob Epstein’s “Rock Drill” 1913-15
Rock Drill remains an awesome portrayal of the confluence and battles between humans and technology. London Group archivist David Redfern examines the work which was first shown in The London Group’s second exhibition.
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OBSESSIONS #1: To endow with animal qualities
Excerpt from an artist talk to be given by Tim Pickup (Genetic Moo LG) on Fri 18 Jan, as part of the exhibition In the Dark at the Cello Factory.
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after “POVERA”
The London Group Open 2017 President’s Prize recipients Micheál O’Connell, Jockel Liess and Stephen Carley reflect on their three-person show POVERA held at The Cello Factory in November 2018.
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The London Group in WW1
Remembering The London Group members who served in The First World War.
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And there you have it, we finally made it to St Ives!
1st show in Cornwall, 76 works, 1 van, 7 hr journey, 4 day install, 34 London Group members and quite a lot of wine. Suzan Swale LG captures the moment.
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Making Sunset
Nick Watson’s short film of Almuth Tebbenhoff LG making and discussing her steel sculpture ‘Sunset’.
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Drawing Distinctions
A collaborative exhibition of drawings between the Faculty of the Art and Design Department and invited Alumni of the University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie USA and The London Group artist collective in London UK. Clive Burton LG explains the concepts behind it.
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The Claims of Social Art, Forty Years On
James Faure Walker LG reflects on his 1978 Artscribe article which challenges a campaign against contemporary art and, in the process, illuminates how artists have responded to the changing climates of art criticism.
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Fifteen Questions
Our first Q&A candidate, Ece Clarke LG, provides Claire Parrish LG with some pithy responses.
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