Marianne Faithfull: Francis Bacon’s Wild Child – Darren Coffield
When interviewed for my book, the pop icon Marianne Faithfull said she first crossed paths with Bacon after she’d just split up from Mick Jagger…
7 October 2024
When interviewed for my book, the pop icon Marianne Faithfull said she first crossed paths with Bacon after she’d just split up from Mick Jagger…
7 October 2024
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
24 June 2021
Using visual wit to confront and interpret historical, cultural and political issues, British artist, Darren Coffield, presents his latest series of paintings at Dellasposa Gallery. The solo exhibition confronts contemporary anxieties around immigration, fake news, and the “dilemma of identity” in the 21st Century.
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 - 18:00 Saturday: 11:00 - 17:00
Rupert Shrive has a new exhibition that opened last week at London’s Serena Morton’s gallery, entitled ‘Mysterious Arrangement’.
21 May 2017
In Pursuit of Things Past is a small but significant showing of work by the artist and author, Darren Coffield. The show includes four new works from the Interspatial Paintings (jigsaw) series and four early works from 1997.
1 May 2017
The British photographer Rachel Megawhat is well known for her controversial subject matter photographing religious extremists, hate preachers and even shadowing the former leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, during the recent Brexit elections.
19 April 2017
A new exhibition of still-life paintings by the provocative contemporary artist, Darren Coffield, alongside portraits by the rising portrait painter, Isabella Watling.
In Pursuit of Things Past offers a Proustian meditation on time, memory, and the aesthetic impulse.
MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 - 19:00 SATURDAY - SUNDAY 12:00 - 16:00
In our latest in the series of Artist To Artist Darren Coffield interviews the portrait artist Geraldine Swayne who has a new show at London’s Fine Art Society.
30 March 2017
In this new series of interviews between artists, Hedley Roberts is interviewed by Darren Coffield. Hedley currently has a new exhibition “Other Portraits” NEW ART PROJECTS London Thu 09 Mar 2017 – Sat 29 Apr 2017
20 March 2017
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings by Francis Bacon and new paintings by Darren Coffield…. Read More
23 April 2016
Darren Coffield was born in London in 1969. He studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art and the Slade… Read More
11 April 2016
Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now seems very far away, even though the once-famous Colony Room closed its doors as recently as December 2008.
23 April 2020
Darren Coffield’s new book “Tales from the Colony: the Lost Bohemia of Bacon, Belcher and Board” is an authorised history of London’s most notorious arts club.
9 May 2018
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January.
17 January 2019
On the 16th September, the Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with the launch of an additional event
5 September 2018
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair is something to celebrate. Each year a number of A-list artists join emerging unknowns to offer their work at knock down independent prices. This act of generosity allows new collectors who couldn’t normally afford to buy a significant work of art the opportunity to purchase a work at a fraction of the art fair or gallery price.
10 July 2017
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair has moved to Vauxhall for the latest edition of this annual London art extravaganza.
27 June 2017
Palmer and Me, a documentary charting the responses of 17 contemporary artists to the etchings of Samuel Palmer is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between renowned film-maker Mike Southon and Eames Fine Art.
3 May 2017
These enfant terribles of the art world pose, dress and act as if they had just walked out of one of the late Jo Brocklehurt’s artworks, an exhibition of which, “Nobodies & Somebodies” was opening at the House of Illustration at the same time on the same night.
6 March 2017
Paul Black chooses his best exhibitions of 2016 and delves deeper than the blockbusters and often further afield from London.
20 December 2016
The Art Car Boot Fair is all revved up and ready to go to the seaside with stacks of art,… Read More
12 July 2016
Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Sir Peter Blake will be among the many A-list artists selling their work at knock… Read More
11 June 2016
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair (Brick Lane) is an annual institution which after over 10 years still manages to… Read More
5 June 2016
Paul Carey-Kent curates his choices of London art exhibitions for May 2016. His rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows are all… Read More
14 May 2016
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings purportedly by the great British painter Francis Bacon, lent… Read More
5 May 2016
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON announces its fifth edition of the annual juried exhibition Anthology. Selected and curated by internationally respected art… Read More
6 August 2015
I love the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair! Where else can you go to mix with internationally recognised artists like… Read More
15 June 2015
The date for this years Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair is fast approaching! After a dozen wildly successful years they’re finally… Read More
22 May 2015
The Fall Of the Rebel Angels is an artist led satellite exhibition which will open concurrently with the 56th Venice Biennale on… Read More
23 April 2015
Last weekend, ‘A Fete Worse Then Death’ celebrated its 20th Anniversary of anarchic art activity with an event curated by… Read More
23 July 2014
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair is gearing up to be another unmissable event, on Sunday 9th June. Now in… Read More
26 May 2013
Top 10 Christmas pop up galleries, markets and festivals for creatives If, like us, you’re still doing your Christmas shopping,… Read More
14 December 2011