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The screensaver was produced in conjunction with Rob Carters London show at the Cork Street Gallery April 2008.

A Great Night at the Private View of 'Wonderful Winter'.

Wednesday 5th December saw the opening of the Eyestorm Christmas Exhibition.


Entitled ‘Wonderful Winter’, the show represents a personal view of the winter season by each artist.


The staff served up a treat of homemade mulled wine to a vast crowd gathered in the gallery, escaping the cold winter weather outside.


Feedback from the artists present at the viewing and from our clients, was exceptional. The artwork in the show was discussed and noted by many as a collection of great artworks.


As the last exhibition of the year, Eyestorm wanted to celebrate with a bang as we are moving to a new location in the New Year. Our current gallery space is being knocked down to make room for flats and a proposed shopping centre.


We will all be sad to leave the gallery, but look forward to an exciting new space for Eyestorm in 2008.


Claire Cleverly

Web Master

CONCEPTUAL TALK BY CURATOR, GACHI PRIETO

Eyestorm was proud to offer last Monday evening, a tour and talk by Gachi Prieto about our current exhibition, BUENOS AIRES ART FOR EXPORT.

This exhibtion is an in-depth look at the contemporary art of Argentina as influenced by the tumult of the past 40 years. BUENOS AIRES ART features the work of fourteen of Argentina’s most innovative and imaginative artists: Miguel Mitlag, Claudia del Rio, Claudia Mazzucchelli, Andres Waissman, Carla Bertone, Nessy Cohen, Carlos Herrera, Rafael Gonzalez Moreno, Maria Noel, Leonel Luna, Chino Soria, Sebastiano Mauri, Juan Martin Juares and Josefina Robirosa.

Gachi Prieto enlightened us with a informative conceptual guide through the display of some 80 works in different media - including sculpture, installation, collage, assemblage, photography and painting - and she remarked that this is the first time many of these artists, some of the boldest to emerge from Argentina in the past decades, are being shown in the UK. Prieto also suggested that their work often challenges prevailing political, cultural, social and aesthetic discourse in Argentina by incorporating reflection, humour and even irony.

Some of the artists also address issues of memory and cultural identity, although universal meaning may be gleaned from their biting, playful and skillfully crafted works, meanings that transcend the specifics of Argentinean life.

This rich and complex show is an opportunity to delve deeper into the contemporary art of this wonderful South American country.

The evening was an immense success and a great social event for many Londoners and people from further a field. The exhibition runs until 9th November, so if you haven’t already come down to see it, make sure you do at our

Eyestorm gallery, London, next to Tate Modern.

Go here to view more information on the exhibition.

Eyestorm Summer Show Open Evening

Wednesday 19th July saw the official opening of the Eyestorm Summer Show 2007. The show included the very first unveiling of sculpture piece, Anticipating Mars by Richard Trupp in the Eyestorm gallery. Richard spent days setting up his sculpture piece and painted the floor black. Two sculptures were also erected in the Eyestorm garden entitled Fixing Blocks, of which many visitors to the show sat on and around discussing the nights artists and events.

At six o’clock many people arrived and the gallery was bustling until half past eight. The staff spent the evening handing out glasses of wine and chatting to the artists, their friends and clients. David Jones and Kate Allen’s paintings were among the most popular of the original work, whilst Andy Taylor Smith, Lucie Bennett, Chris kettle and a Damien Hirst print, were popular discussions throughout the night. A good time was had by all and many sales were made during the night.

Eyestorm is currently featuring work by many artist’s in its Summer Show 2007, including Kate Allen, Richard Trupp, David Jones, Andy Taylor Smith, Marcelle Hanselaar and Jeffrey James, who were all at the opening to unveil their work. Some of the work is new and exclusively published by Eyestorm and the show will end around mid August.



Claire Cleverly Website Editor

Vic Reeves opening Wednesday 6th June

The evening of Wednesday 6th June saw the opening of Vic Reeves: My Family & Other Freaks here at the Eyestorm gallery.

As usual with preparing an exhibition we were all working frantically to get everything finished on Monday and Tuesday, ready for Wednesday afternoon when the press preview was scheduled. After placing and hanging most of the work on Monday, two of my colleagues suggested painting the gallery floor, which at first I was apprehensive about due to the fact that it may not be dry in time for the opening. After much persuading on their part however, we decided to go for it and stayed late to finish the job, and I am glad we did as it made the world of difference and I think we all agreed that the gallery looked amazing when it was all completed.

The highlight of the press viewing on Wednesday afternoon was Grayson Perry doing an interview with Vic about the exhibition for his weekly column in The Times. Shortly after arriving at the tradesman’s entrance on his bicycle, Grayson proceeded to pull one of his plates from his bag and present it to Vic as a present. Made 15 years ago, the plate features The Man With The Stick, a character from Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out, Vic’s first TV show from the early 1990’s. Vic was delighted to receive a present from Grayson; I think he was even more delighted when I told him how much it was probably worth!

As soon as 6pm came, so did the visitors. Many were there to support Vic, including his beautiful wife Nancy Sorrell and her parents, the comedian Paul Whitehouse, who purchased a couple of works, and legendary artist Colin Self who has become a friend of Vic’s through a mutual respect for each other’s work. By 6.30pm there was a large crowd, and by 7pm it was packed. The mild evening meant the party was able to spill into the outside area, where guests sat at the fetching pink ‘Better Bankside’ chairs and tables that also grace the space outside Tate Modern.

All in all it was a successful night; a great turn out and sales of work. The wine was once again running dry by 9pm but it wasn’t until Vic’s car turned up to take him and his family home at 10pm that the crowd started to disperse (with the help of some clever light flicking on and off by tired Eyestorm staff that wanted to go home!). Another Eyestorm opening survived by all.

Angie Davey

Curator of exhibition and head of artist liaison.

Cover Up and Joe Rush private view launch night

I am pleased to say that we successfully launched the gallery space last Thursday evening (19th April) with a double exhibition: group show Cover Up, which explores the creative interface of contemporary art and music and features work by artists and designers that have made album cover art; and a solo show of unique sculptures by internationally celebrated British artist Joe Rush.

A crowd gathered shortly after the doors opened at 6pm and it wasn’t long before the warm spring evening encouraged it to spill out onto the gallery forecourt, where Rush’s ‘Antler (from the catwalk series)’ stands 5 metres tall on it’s plinth, in the shadow of Tate Modern located next door.

Inside, resident DJ’s from London nightclub The End span some tunes, while art lovers and collectors sipped on wine and bottled beer. The female staff at Eyestorm got very excited when Hollywood actor Jared Leto popped in early on in the evening for a brief drink and a sneak preview of the art. The girl on the door cunningly got him to put his name in the signing in book too. We later discovered he is a collector of Antony Micallef’s work, which is probably how he knew about the opening.

Three of the four artists who were commissioned to make work for Cover Up: Stanley Donwood, for his continuing involvement with Radiohead; Reggie Pedro of Gomez album artwork fame and Jason Kedgley from Tomato for his contribution in designing album art Underworld, were present. Unfortunately, the forth artist, Tomato’s Simon Taylor, who has worked with Underworld and Soul 2 Soul, couldn’t make it due to commitments in Tokyo.

At the other side of the gallery, Joe Rush and his supporters surrounded his collection of sculptures, including ‘Axeman’, owned by Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones, and a number of bronzes commissioned by Damien Hirst; each one standing alone on a pile of unpainted breeze blocks used as plinths.

The evening was such a success that it wasn’t until the alcohol ran dry that it was forced to come to an end. All in all it was a great launch party and we were very pleased with the response and proud to open the new space with two strong exhibitions.

Angie Davey – head of artist liaison and curator of the two exhibitions.

Why Blog?
Eyestorm has been the market leader for limited edition prints since the web was in its infancy, so over time we've become pretty opinionated on a bunch of art-related issues. So while we're here to provide you with the best art you can buy, we also wanted a flexible space through which to share our experience of working in the frenetic, ever-accelerating market for contemporary art. So this is it. The Eyestorm blog. Ups, downs, news, views and reviews.