Great Western Studios News - September 10

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20th - 26th September Great Western Studios will take part in the London Design Festival for the first time - presenting the work of fifteen designers and design collectives throughout the building.

The exhibition includes work by Ana Thompson & Tom Higgs, Bethan Wood, Creative [SIN]ergy, Edward Cotterill, Emilie Voirin, Gareth Neal, Jody Leach, Joe Earley, Martha Freud, Mike Moran, Naomi McIntosh, Tamasine Osher, Ulrika Jarl and Venice 2132 and will cover the various design disciplines: furniture to jewellery, ceramics to lighting, as well as looking into the wider subject of city-wide design and architecture.

We are also collaborating with Tom Dixon's Shop and The Dock, to create a London Design Festival canal-side trail between the two venues.

The private view of Liza Campbell's The Dark Boxes on Tuesday evening was a resounding success. Some of London's cultural and social elite were here to see Liza's naughty lego which will be exhibited in the project space at GWS until tomorrow Friday so please hurry if you haven't seen it yet. See below for review from the Evening Standard.

Melissa Hunt will be launching a new collection of jewellery at Origin this year. Using textures, patterns and her own photographs Melissa photo-etches, rollerprints and hand pierces the images on to precious metals to produce wearable pictures. You can visit her on stand G15 23rd - 28th September at Old Spitalfields Market.

Last week Totality UK won "Most Effective Marketing Campaign" of the year at the 2010 Affordable Home Ownership Awards. The campaign was created on behalf of the Hyde Group, who are a major UK housing association leading the regeneration of Bermondsey Spa in South London. The advertising which ran in the latter part of last year in the London Evening Standard and Metro amongst other, promoted the shared ownership apartments for sale.

Martha Freud is very busy at the moment. Not only is she exhibiting at GWS during London Design Festival, but also at the Hospital Club during the same event and at Somerset House as part of London Fashion Week.

Darren Almond's exhibition at White Cube's Mason's Yard is on until 2nd October for those of you who hasn't seen it yet.

Costume Boutique will once again be particitpatin in the Covent Garden Fashion Fete this weekend. It's an 80's theme this year and Tamar Zaig will be dressing people up as their favourite 80's icons.

New to GWS, leather bag and accessories designer Nivaldo de Lima is getting ready to reveal their new studio. While they've been setting up we've been able to read about the fabulous bags in Wallpaper* August issue.

Our friendly neighbourhood digital design studio, We Are Float, launched a couple of websites this month including www.wearefloat.com (their very own company website) and www.sargent-disc.com. Sargent-Disc are a premier supplier of production and accounting services to the UK movie industry. They now have a brand new website courtesy of Float Pictures.

One of Heather Wallace's pieces could be seen on the Business & Finance pages of Metro on 9th September. The painting Footsie One Hundred, shows bankers and their partners dancing freely while their hands and feet bleed. Heather's take on the financial crisis can be seen among 100 pieces in the London Lives exhibition a the Bankside Gallery.

Charlie Barton is exhibiting in a group show at One Alfred Place curated by Lisa Sharpe. The show runs until 22nd December by appointment only.

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Karen Hobbs is currently working alongside PAC, formerly The Post Adoption Centre, to develop her Costume Art Project on Attachment. Attachment disorders can develop as a result of neglect or trauma in early life and can have a lasting impact on babies, children, teenagers and adults. Karen will exhibit her work at PAC to launch their new therapy rooms in November.

Cristina Rodriguez is exhibiting at the Butler Goode Gallery in Sydney, Australia and Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York during October.