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Jane's Skylark Cupcakes

Jane Skinner's special unlimited edition Skylark Cupcakes, which put in an appearance at the recent late opening at the galleries.

Skylark galleries open late Friday

Both Skylark galleries will be open late on Friday 24 June from 6-8pm
as part of the South London Art Map Last Fridays

Come and meet the artists:

Carol Edgar's collages will be featured in Skylark 1 (left, Riverscape),














Michelle Elwell's digital photoworks will be featured in Skylark 2 (left, Red Heart I),









as well as Jane Skinner (left, Made in China, photograph) in Skylark 1,










and artist Gill Hickman
... and see works by all of our 33 gallery artists. Feel free to drop in.

www.southlondonartmap.com

Deana Lee shortlisted for top ceramics award

We're delighted to announce that Skylark artist Deana Lee (left) has been short-listed for the inaugural Potclays Emerging Makers Award. This international competition was open to ceramic artists/potters who had completed their studies within the past five years. The finalists consist of four British artists, one American and one Australian.

Deana and the other shortlisted artists have been invited to the 2011 International Ceramics Festival, held in Aberystwyth from 1-3 July, where they will each give 15-minute presentations to the professional and amateur ceramic audience, who will then select the winner of the award.

The International Ceramics Festival is one of the world's most prestigious biennial events for professional and amateur potters, and features demonstrations, kiln building and firings, slideshows, films and lectures, exhibitions, trade stands and bookstalls. The festival attracts more than 800 visitors from across the globe who gather for the weekend to discuss techniques, watch demonstrations and share ideas. At the 2009 festival, Deana worked for Tom Barnett, the well-known kiln maker, helping to create the Fire Capsule.

We all wish Deana the best of luck — check this blog in July to see how she got on in Wales.

You can read more about the International Ceramics Festival here.

www.deanaleeceramics.com

Pictured: Sensual Abundances I by Deana Lee

Introducing Gina Parr at Skylark 2

Gina Parr is the latest artist to join Skylark Galleries, showing at Skylark 2 in the Oxo Tower Wharf London.

Trained as a fine artist, Gina worked in London for 27 years as a production designer for television, designing and creating sets for studio, stage and location for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Always approached with a painterly eye, her production design credits include Shooting Stars, Goodness Gracious Me, the Brit Awards, the Royal Variety Performance, the Mercury Music Prize and major BBC sports events. She has also lectured and mentored in Art and Design and Design for Television.

Gina is delighted to be part of Skylark, saying: "It's such a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collective of artists, showing in such a prestigious spot in London."

She was born in Devon, where rolling hills and dramatic seascapes played a major part in her childhood, and then lived for the past 30 years in London. Both places seep into her expressive, bold, gestural paintings, which she has exhibited in shows in London, Milan, Brighton and Exeter.

Most recently, while visiting France and travelling in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, she has photographed series of transient forms and marks on walls and surfaces, each with their own pictorial resonance or echo. Many are redolent of things half remembered, some resemble fragments of old charts and maps, others feature overt elements of graphic representation.

You can find out more about Gina's work here, or pay a visit to Skylark 2, on the first floor of the Oxo Tower to see her work and meet her on the regular days she will be attending the gallery.

Above right, Rain and Gorse at Boscastle, and left, Dancin'

Skylark Galleries open late this Friday

By the river Thames at the end of this week? Interested in an affordable, original work of art and in meeting the artist into the bargain? Skylark Galleries are open late this Friday, 27 May, until 8pm, with special presentations by the gallery's artists in both the Gabriel's Wharf and the Oxo Tower spaces.

In Skylark 2, Veta Gorner, whose prints are featured this month...












...Sara Sherwood, whose "Silver Sketches" are on show...











...and Gill Hickman will be present to chat with and share a glass of wine with.


Lucinda Beatty's collages are featured in Skylark 1...







The late night opening is part of the South London Art Map Last Fridays events.

Skylark at the Bristol Affordable Art Fair

There's still time to visit the Skylark Galleries stand - C9 - at the Bristol Affordable Art Fair. Artists including Liz Meier, Clare Johnson, Nicolette Carter, Veta Gorner, Gill Hickman, Steve Yeates, Deana Lee and Trinidad Ball are showing work.

The fair is taking place at Brunel's Old Station, Temple Meads, Bristol, and is open today, Sunday 15 May, from 11am to 5pm. For more information see here.