Watts @ Compton

The danger of living on the outskirts of London is that when looking to explore art and culture, anything outside of the capital is overlooked. Having attended school in Surrey, most of my art-based trips were to the same central London galleries and museums that people know nationwide as household names. Thus, it came as […]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Gallery Girl is FOUR today! I started the blog just before enrolling into university as a place to document the exhibitions that I was going to. Who would have believed that four years later I would have completed two degrees as well as the blog, which has now seen me invited to exhibitions all over […]

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Marc Quinn @ White Cube

I am not going to even bother talking about the paintings inside Marc Quinn’s current Toxic Sublime exhibition at White Cube. They are completely insignificant and forgettable compared to his sculptures, and they alone would have sufficed. I am a cancerian and perhaps that is why I am drawn to shells. Quinn’s sculptures inside the […]

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Carsten Holler @ Hayward Gallery

Of course, the London sky decided to have a torrential downpour on the day that I had booked my ticket to see the Carsten Holler survey at the Hayward Gallery. The rain led to the slides and flying machines being closed and the friends who had booked to go in the same slot as me […]

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Rayne Shoes @ Fashion and Textile Museum

Your sandals will suddenly feel inadequate this summer due to the luxurious display of over a century’s worth of Rayne Shoes at Fashion and Textile Museum. On display at the gallery are over 100 pairs of shoes that have been made by the British brand Rayne. The company was founded by Henry Rayne in 1899 […]

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