ELEPHANT issue 5

Issue 5 of the Art & Visual Culture magazine has arrived.
With a guide to Berlin, studio visits with Joseph Hart, Maya Gold & more. Meetings with painter Wolfe Von Lenkiewickz, art director Tom Hingston & more. And a feature on The Art of Collage with work & interviews from a range of great artists.
This winter issue is a must for any one with a interest in the exciting mysterious cut & paste world of collage !
£14.99

ANIMAL MAGIC - issues 38 of Selvedge

ZOOLOGICAL !
Issue 38 has hit the shelves of Material.
This issues is pack with textiles with an animal theme.
FUR, FISH & FEATHERS ! With a great feature on Taxidermy to feed your creepy & curious side. This issue is must for the adorably jumper shoot alone - pop along & grab your copy !
£9.95

SAVE FISH / EAT CHIPS

If you are one of many who have been following Hugh's Fish fight which premiered on Channel 4 this week, you might rather like our Save Fish / Eat Chips" T shirts by Alex Bettler which, considering the campaign, are rather apt.

The t shirts are flock printed and available in yellow & cream or purple & fluorescent pink.

You can buy them in our Ludlow store or online and £1 of each sale will be donated to the fish fight...

WE LOVE THIS...

We could tell you all about our SALE in store which is also soon to be online, however, we are quite sure that we have now reached the point where we are all a little bored with talk of sales / reductions / price cut / everything half price and so on...

So, we thought it would be far more engaging to continue to talk of new and exciting things find, adore and covet for our store that we think you might like too.

New this week are these fabulous Bonne Chance pop up balloon gift cards. They come flat packed with a wonderful envelope a space to write your message, allowing the lucky one on the receiving end to enjoy the moment of joy when they open the card and pop it up.

Available in store or online

PAGE TSOU, THE AND

Location: BadLambs & Sons (Map)
37 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3NG


Situated in Lamb's Conduit Street, Badlambs & Sons is a place where the back view of heads are the main visual point of the barber and, with Page Tsou’s multimedia installation, also the viewer who is invited to contemplate the poetics between the subject and the object, presence and absence.

Between presence and absence, there is The And.
After drawing three thousand front head portraits, Page began to be intrigued by the idea of using rear heads as visual focal points. The rear head view, signaling a reverse of subjective view, mirrors the double-ended thinking as the exhibition theme. On the one hand, The And plays with the “end” as the perspective of the barber and the objectification of the subject. On the other, by replacing the “End” with the linking word, “And”, Tsou invites the viewers to think outside the narrative frames of the subjective view and contemplate on what is presented and what is not presented in defining truth.

A graduate of the RCA, The And is Page Tsou’s first solo exhibition in London. Page’s illustrations won the first prize at the Man Group Drawing Awards in RCA and exhibited widely around the world, including Bologna Annual Illustration Exhibition and the Biennial Printmaking Exhibition at The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. His works have been collected by Lady Conran, the CEO of Yamaha Design Centre (UK) and the art director of Sony PlayStation. Highly appreciated by master artists like Quentin Blake and Alain de Button, Page had won their consent to use their rear head views in his works. (Written by Yahuei Yang)

To discover more and get a glimpse of the exhibition, visit Page's website

Page Tsou's Rainy Days 2011 wall calender is available in store or online

LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS

For those of you living a little on the edge this Christmas, we will be offering a few gift ideas throughout the day.

The first installment are these fantastic Playshapes by Millergoodman- the people behind Shapemakers. A shapemaker would be a great way to keep the kids quiet this Christmas but, with 74 wooden geometric shapes which you can arrange or stack to make hundreds of 3D creations, Play shapes is going to win hands down.

Young children will enjoy balancing the head and body shapes to make all sorts of funny creatures. Older children may prefer recreating the inventive 3D structures from the enclosed illustrations, giving them inspiration and confidence to build their own creations. The shapes are also an intriguing and imaginative plaything for adults.
Beautifully crafted from environmentally - friendly, durable rubberwood, the shapes feel soft in your hand and the flashes of colour add a modern accent.

Because of some small parts PlayShapes has a 3+ recommendation these can be taken out and added in later.
Tested in accordance with European (EN) and U.S. (ASTM) standards
Box size L 21cm x W 19cm x H 15cm Weight 3.2kgs

£75 available in Ludlow only

THIS COULD JUST BE THE STOCKING FILLER YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR...

Beautiful notebooks by Tamasyn Gambell available in paperback (pack of three) made using 100% post consumer recycled paper. They are printed by a socially responsible co-operative with Green Mark accreditation and are FSC certified. They use vegetable oil based inks and printing processes, which reduce waste and improve environmental performance.

Their pages are made from reject sheets sourced by the cooperative.

They measure 10.5cm by 15 cm.
£9 per pack




The hard back range are bound in vintage scarves which have been overprinted in her unique designs. The spines are in contrasting colours. These were bound by a family bookbinders in Essex, and use recycled paper stock from a 100 year old British paper mill. No two notebooks are the same.

They measure 10.5 x 15.5 cm.
£17 each

Available in Ludlow only

for more information about the artist, visit her website