With an interest in the exaggerated, hyper real and beautiful, Melbourne based artist "bemodern' creates fantastic worlds where machines, fauns and beautiful men co-inhabit landscapes of picturesque waterfalls, rolling pastures and angry serpents. He has illustrated for a variety of magazines globally including XLR8R, Blowback and Soma. Bemodern frequently shows in melbourne, where his three dimensional paper collages have evolved into static murals of fashion and glamour. He currently works as an Art Director, overseeing several publications and fashion clients.

BEMODERN @ FLICKR www.flickr.com/photos/91968287@N00/

Open Friday to Sunday   2nd March - 16th March 12-6pm  THREE COLTS SPACE Greenheath Business Centre Three Colts Lane Bethnal Green London E2 Nearest Tube - Bethnal Green Gallery -  http://www.myspace.com/portrayal2007  

In days gone by we have seen the artist as dutiful servant, now the situation has become a little more complicated and, perhaps, a little more interesting. The power has shifted. Throughout this exhibition the three artists explore notions of what portraiture currently means. The process of collecting source material  becomes as important as the end result. It is not just a matter of what we have , but how it got there.  Kirsty Harris With their only control being which mask? What would the sitters choose?  An enhancement to their physical appearance or a disguise? Are they peacocks or cuckoos? The content in Kirsty Harris' paintings is over-bearingly modern yet the chosen scale nods at tradition. Attention to detail means she has to use a magnifying glass for eyelashes and it's almost as if as the paintings dare not speak, only whisper.  Johanna Nilsson Nilsson's subjects are lifted wholesale from high school reunion sites and, as such, are completely unknown to her. The judgement meted out by their peers is as paper-thin as the black/white labels of "cool" or "nerd" She takes pains to subdivide the "sitters" into categories based on her preconceptions of their characters, as if she herself were a merciless god-like bully.  Michael Nagle Michael Nagle takes existing photographic portraits of people unknown to him, people long dead, and breaks them down.  Where the stiff portrait photograph promises to fix a person in visual perpetuity, the paintings cause that image to disintegrate in various ways. Where they present themselves as noble, upstanding, moral public figures, the paintings strip them of importance, reduce them to human anonymity and emphasize moral and personal inadequacies.

Beaux Arts22 Cork Street
Exhibiting their St Ives work including Barbara Hepworth,Patrick Heron,Ben Nicholson etc

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Graeme Wilcox at the Medici gallery 5 Cork Street link

Friday 9 March - Tuesday 13 March Private View: 15th March, 6-9pm

12 till 6pm daily
What happened when a leading photographer, Chris Clunn, was embedded with seven social science research teams investigating identity issues in contemporary UK?

Organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the photographic exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery, collects together images and stories from this unique collaboration between photographer Chris Clunn and research projects from the ESRC Identities and the Social Action Programme.

Identity is what makes us human and can be illustrated through our relationship with material objects and spaces often filling them with emotion. As well as reflecting on changing work identities and the dislocations and juxtapositions for new migrant labour in London the images explore:

Neighbourhoods and histories of segregation in Northern Ireland, Life on working class estates in Norwich, Everyday lives of Somali young people in Sheffield The transition involved for women as they become first-time mothers.

Tuesday 27th February - TONIGHT

Liam Scully Karaoke Art sale Tonight!

Liam Scully and his Wife's Reunification Fundraising Programme

All Get off your horses and drink yer milk then make your way to the Years best event, forget the brits.

It all takes place at E:vent 96 Teesdale street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6PU 6pm til Late as you want it!

Bring cash girls and friends and some lozengerz to lubricate your vocal chords!The drawings are up! so buy early to avoid disappointment

Thank You Everyone Liam Scully, 96 Teesdale street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6PU

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Wednesday 28th February

Ancient and Modern, Des Hughes, 6-8pm, info: www.ancientandmodern.org

One in the Other, Twilight Musings, group show (includes Ruscha, Fiona Rae and Clunie Reid), 7-9pm, www.oneintheother.com

Thursday 1st March

Old Sweet Shop, Trees, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.theoldsweetshop.org

Seventeen, Susan Collis, Don’t Get Your Hope Up, 6-9pm, info: www.seventeengallery.com

Standpoint, Gratuitous Little Weight, group show, 6-9pm info: www.standpointlondon.co.uk/spgallery.html

Euro 5 Serie 1, group show, Mark Titchner’s Studio Space, 6A SCAWFELL ST (off Hackney Rd), LONDON E2 8NG, more info contact: Dominic Rich dmnc_rch@yahoo.co.uk , 079 8966 3765

Haunch of Venison, Ian Monroe, 6.30-8.30pm info: www.haunchofvenison.com

Studio1.1, Noon Day Demons, group show, studiovisits series, 6-9pm, info: www.studio1-1.co.uk

Friday 2nd March

Fieldgate, Dream of Putrefaction, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.fieldgategallery.com

Museum 52, Kate Atkin, No Foreign Matter Unconsumed, 6 – 9pm. Info: www.museum52.com

Terrace Studios, A Series of Rests, 6-9pm, inof: www.terracestudios.co.uk

Sunday 4th March

Lucy Harrison’s Rendezvous Club, meeting at 2pm on Sunday, at the gates of Canvey Heights Country Park, Creek Road, Canvey Island. (or for hungry walkers at the Monico- Eastern Esplanade by the seafront- at 12.30 sharp for roast dinner).The March theme is Romance (suggested by Andrew Jackson). We will go via residents’ sites of romantic encounters, or locations they have a romantic attachment to.Info: www.canveyguides.com

Tuesday 6th March

Pil and Galia Kollectiv – Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet performance with Les Georges Leningrad, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1 (Holborn tube), 9pm. More info: www.theshowroom.org

Rational Rec, Rationales of Smoking, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, £5 on the door, DOORS OPEN AT 8PM First performance 8.30pm info: www.rationalrec.org.uk

thanks to Russell Herron

The Folly of the Mysticals, at Wilkinson Gallery this Thursday, March 1st. The private view is from 7-9 pm, followed by an after-party until 1am at the Horse and Groom pub, 28 Curtain Road.
All the best,
Jacob

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, The Folly of the Mysticals Wilkinson Gallery, 1 March – 1 April
242 Cambridge Heath Road (junction Hackney Rd) London E2 9DA
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FSGBXX

You are invited to the opening of the exhibition

'No Future For Us Now'   Jo Addison  Alex Schady  Alice Walton 

private view Fri 2 March  6 - 9pm

exhibition runs 3 March - 11 March
gallery open Sat - Sun 1 - 6pm

Five Years has also now launched a blog as an informal site to document exhibitions and events at the new gallery and prospectively as a space for comment, discussion, critique etc around our projects and related subjects.
Please visit www.fiveyears-unit66.blogspot.com and give us some feedback if you feel so inclined.

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