Twiggy: A Life In Photographs
One of Britain's most famous fashion models, Twiggy, is turning 60 and to celebrate the National Portrait Gallery is putting on an exhibition of Twiggy portraits spanning her early years to the present day. ‘The face of 1966’, she was known for her mod look, drawing long fake eyelashes under her real ones and of course that androgynous crop. She has been photographed by some of the world’s leading photographers, from Norman Parkinson to Cecil Beaton, and more recently Steven Meisel, Mary McCartney and Bryan Adams, so the exhibition will also show just how portrait photography has evolved. There’s also an accompanying photographic biography with a selection of her personal snapshots, illustrations and memorabilia.
By Emma Love
SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution
Launching to coincide with London Fashion Week, this exhibition is a look back at nine years of photographer Nick Knight’s innovative and influential fashion website, SHOWstudio. Since its conception it has championed fashion films and cool collaborations (where else could you see a film of the late artist Tony Hart and John Galliano in conversation?) with some of the biggest designer names around. Based on three central themes - process, performance and participation - the exhibition will show past projects as well as new, specially commissioned fashion films and interactive artworks. Fashion shoots will take place on site in a working photographic studio, revealing some of the secrets behind the image making process. To cap it all, Knight will also be shooting 100 portraits of London actors, musicians, models and artists. Find out what’s on when by signing up to Somerset House on twitter.
By Emma Love
Ryan McGinley: Moonmilk
When most people take long road trips they don’t choose to spend much time in dimly lit caves in hazardous conditions now do they? But that’s exactly what American artist Ryan McGinley, 32, and a crew of his friends and models did during 2008 and 2009. Together they explored huge, underground caves and stunning natural spaces across North America. The result is an extraordinary travel log of 24 ethereal, brilliantly coloured photographs that mix caves with the odd naked model and they're being shown in this, his first solo UK show. A firm fixture on the Lower East Side art scene, McGinley grew up skateboarding and making skate videos before turning to photography and becoming the youngest ever artist to have an exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum when he was just 24. Seriously impressive stuff.
By Emma Love
Starting With A Photograph
This collaborative exhibition between London's Michael Hoppen Gallery and Saatchi Online showcases six artists: Robin Cracknell, Hannah Dakin, Gabriele Beveridge, DY Kim, Maurizio Anzeri and David Birkin. Each artist, hand-picked by curator and Saatchi online editor Rebecca Wilson, was asked to explore and expand the limits of photography. And each took the brief in a very different direction; Anzeri uses intricate sewing techniques to embroider his images, Beveridge uses distorted Polaroids, while Dakin creates a hazy, dream-like world by layering prints. Go to see both emerging talent and established photographers from around the world – and compare photographs that range from the wacky to the wonderful.
By Emma Love
The Noise of Art
The Noise of Art is a particularly apt title for this exhibition for which a group of urban artists, fine artists, graphic designers and musicians have each celebrated the 12” vinyl in their own unique way. Rather than working on traditional materials such as canvas or paper, they have painted, scratched, sprayed, deconstructed and added their own mix of surface materials to the records themselves. From a distressed, vintage-looking deer and butterfly design by Fiona Watson to graphic gun-toting half-naked ladies by Hutch, there’s a real mix of cool, artistic styles. All the vinyls in the show are for sale and designed to explore the crossover between art and music. You might never look at a vinyl in quite the same way again.
By Emma Love
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