Forever Young is a beautiful photographic journey by Jacques Olivar through the USA, get ready for the ride. Each photograph pin points a moment in time where the models have left their mark on the landscape. The images are dark and mysterious, leaving you to guess the whereabouts of the models and the journey they’ll take.
£50.00
One of the originals in the art of celebrity photography, Fotografie welcomes Mr. David Bailey to the stage in this issue. Bailey became one of the first celebrity photographers in the 60’s, beginning his salient career working for Vogue. Since then, he risen to the same podium of fame as his subjects. This edition of Stern Fotografie celebrates David Bailey’s greatest works over the past 12 years, including images of Sir Michael Caine, Damien Hirst and Gallagher brothers.
£14.99
Celebrated garden designer Isabel Bannerman is now at The Shop at Bluebird. With years of creating beautiful spaces behind her it’s no wonder her subjects are so exquisitively shot and a series of huge photographs can now be found taking centre stage in the store.
Says Isabel: “A life designing gardens, growing plants and working outdoors meshes entirely with the quest for extraordinary plant material and the work in the dark studio.’
Join the ranks of fans that incluce Prince Charles, Jasper Conran and Richard E Grant and enjoy your own prints or just come and stare, they’re really rather lovely.
Man Ray: Trees + Flowers -Insects and Animals. The treasure trove that is this beautiful book comes from the Man Ray Trust, removed from public scrutiny for more than a decade, the little known collection comprising more than 4,000 works by Man Ray.
At the core of Man Ray: Trees + Flowers – Insects Animals is a series of landscape photographs made by Man Ray from the 1920s through the 1950s, many of which bear the distinct influence of Eugène Atget.
With subjects including castles and ruined buildings, street scenes, and the objects from which he drew inspiration for other artworks, the photographs and drawings in this book represent an intermediary step in Man Ray’s creative process.
The title of the series, Trees + Flowers – Insects Animals, was discovered by the editor scrawled across the backside of a photograph, and provides a key to this most unusual collection. These photographs function as a subject index to the themes and motifs that Man Ray employed in his better known works.
Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, 1890. He spent most of his working life in Paris, and he was a significant contributor to both Dadaism and Surrealism, though his ties to both were informal. Best known as a photographer, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. Man Ray died in 1976.
Man Ray Trees +Flowers – Insects and animals is published by Steidl and is £42.00 in store now.
We’ve long been fans of Hull born artist Richie Culver so it’s brilliant to have some of his work in store.
Richie Culver explores explore the themes of love, loss and inspired by his own experiences he creates pieces that invite the viewer to share emotional, private and often pivotal moments in his life. Come and see for yourselves in store and find out more over at Richie’s website.
Atom Rooms is a contemporary art gallery, based on London’s Portobello Road, featuring a wide range of original works and giclee prints from living artists and photographers.
Dedicated to supporting new and emerging cultural movements and validating the voice of creative pioneers, Atom Rooms launched in September with the group show “The Architects”. Works from some of the UK’s most important artists who emerged from the original generation of graffiti writers in the 1980s were brought together with spectacular results.
In photography, Atom Rooms has focused its energies on the challenging images produced by the inimitable Brett Walker and his “Young Satellites”. Stark urban images, haunting portraits and atmospheric landscapes collide to authenticate the digital aesthetic.
Illustrative and more painterly artists have also found a home within Atom Rooms. Classically trained Thomas Lumley is found alongside Joanna Scislowicz’s psychedelic oils and Sophie MacDonald’s energised mixed-media.
The ATOM ROOMS space will launch June ….
Atom Rooms is a contemporary art gallery, based on London’s Portobello Road, featuring a wide range of original works and giclee prints from living artists and photographers.
Dedicated to supporting new and emerging cultural movements and validating the voice of creative pioneers, Atom Rooms launched in September with the group show “The Architects”. Works from some of the UK’s most important artists who emerged from the original generation of graffiti writers in the 1980s were brought together with spectacular results.
In photography, Atom Rooms has focused its energies on the challenging images produced by the inimitable Brett Walker and his “Young Satellites”. Stark urban images, haunting portraits and atmospheric landscapes collide to authenticate the digital aesthetic.
Illustrative and more painterly artists have also found a home within Atom Rooms. Classically trained Thomas Lumley is found alongside Joanna Scislowicz’s psychedelic oils and Sophie MacDonald’s energised mixed-media.
The ATOM ROOMS space will launch June…
Charlie at CJP has outdone himself yet again sourcing even more outstanding vintage posters to hang on our walls. Including a Clash promotional poster from their 1979 album and “Sort It Out” tour and two extravagant and colourful vintage posters for German cigarette brand Reval.
The Shop at Bluebird is pleased to exhibit artist Hormazd Geve Narielwalla’s latest photographic-collage artworks entitled Oscar Hodgepodge from 5th of May until 6th of June. This is Narielwalla’s first London exhibit this year, having had a successful showing at the Scope art fair in the Lincoln centre, NYC curated by fashion blogger Diane Pernet (A.K.A ashadedviewonfashion.com).
Sounds of well-heeled footsteps on cobblestone punctuated by the clicking point of a rolled umbrella evoke in Narielwalla a mist of tenuously attributed nostalgia. Collecting fragmented memories of old films, people and places, the mist condenses to find form in a particular gentleman, Mr. Oscar Hodgepodge, who totters awkwardly between memory and imagination in the mind of an artist born in Bombay now seeking his identity in London.
Oscar’s shifting shape is haphazardly collaged from bespoke Savile Row patterns discarded after the death of a customer, utterly useless, abandoned until found by this itinerant artist whilst working for Savile Row military tailors Dege & Skinner. It was in the company of these highly skilled craftsmen at Dege where he developed an appreciation for the cutters’ all-important brown paper blocks of individual customers. This fascination of the patterns prompted him to produce a limited edition book entitled Dead Man’s Patterns also presented at the store.
Creating bespoke clothes for the rich and powerful has made Savile Row iconic but in his evocative work Narielwalla shows us tailoring patterns, as they have never been seen. The immaculate outlines accentuate a quintessentially English Englishman whose stiffness trips all too easily from formality to folly. A revenant rising from redundant remnants, he is a hodgepodge held together by our longing to remember the forgotten.
There will be a very limited edition of three signed and numbered prints, for each of the four designs available to purchase exclusively at the The Shop at Bluebird.
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February 2010 at The Shop at Bluebird
We are always influenced by our clients and for Spring Summer 2010 we are being influenced by the work of one of our favourite clients.
From Salisbury College to practically everywhere on the planet Ashton Keiditsch has taken his unique vision and his camera with him. His first flurry into the advertising world was the launch campaign for the timeless Orange mobile phones campaign. One of the first mobile campaigns ever but still cited as the most visually imaginative.
Over the past 15 years Ashton has traveled the world in pursuit of that unique shot for global clients such as Mercedes, Jaguar and Land Rover and changed the way we viewed the automotive category wherever he went.
In-between the photographic assignments, Ashton devotes his time to traveling on personal projects all over the world from Scotland to India via the particle accelerator in Geneva. His vast experience, passion, strong technical ability and unlimited patience have set him apart as he consistently challenges the lens to capture what many would consider the impossible.
The work we were most influenced by, his colour pictures, depicting classic imagery with a warming familiar feeling to them.
Established in 1998 by Charlie Jeffreys, who has been collecting posters ever since he can remember. Charlie is an avid enthusiast of poster art. From the bold almost OLD MASTER type posters of the late 19th Century to the FUNKY designs of American Poster Art of the Sixties. Charlie provides post-war modern original posters to collectors. hotels and restaurants as well as vintage posters from the 1900’s… Our selection is on constant rotation and includes the works of Andy Warhol, Hapshash and The Coloured Coat, Richard Avedon, Milton Glazer, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cheret etc.. Charlie will also frame the poster of your choice as you wish and can undertake any job small or large…
Drop by to see the selection we have in store or call the store for more information on 0208 351 3873.
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