Past Exhibitions At Rathbone Place

To coincide with the 'Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade' exhibition at Greek Street, Lazarides Rathbone will be showing a 10 year retrospective of Faile's work. Emerging into the New York scene in the late 90s, they've gathered a firm following over the years. Creating original imagery from an array of pop culture, their works include: prints, paintings, collage, sculpture, murals and urban interventions.

For more information please read the press release.

'Torn: A Decade Of Faile' opens Friday 12th February 12pm - 7pm at Lazarides Rathbone, 11 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HR.

To cap off the first year in the splendid surroundings of our new Rathbone Place gallery, Lazarides will be bringing some of the biggest names in street art to London for a spectacular group show where much of the art will be nowhere near the cosy confines of our glamorous gallery.

Titled Grifters, the December event will focus on all new work from the Outsider artists in all manner of mediums, from sculpture to installation, canvas to collage, paper to poster, performance to photography. Alongside the gallery offerings, a series of paintings and street sculptures will begin to pop up all over the City from the end of November right through December, so keep your eyes peeled (unless you work for the council, in which case we don’t know what you’re talking about, we’ve never heard of any of these artists, ever).

Those of you sharing a combined love of art and staying warm, worry not, for you’ll be relieved to hear that the Rathbone Place gallery will be turning up the heat in more ways than one, and handing over all four floors of the gallery to our Outsiders group of artists, with a special installation from Lucy McLauchlan covering the entire staircase.

The exhibitions, street interventions, and our brand new website launch will take place in our galleries at Lazarides 11 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 1HR, and SHOP at Lazarides 8 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 4DG, as well as out and about across the streets of London from 4th December until 16th January 2010.

You can see a video of some of our artists in action on our video channel at Babelgum.

We would like to thank Londonewcastle for supplying many of the 'street canvas' locations around London for our artists.

Special thanks to Robert Soning & Rohan Ames for all your help.

Lazarides is proud to present 'Headless Heroes' by Conor Harrington. Conor's last solo show in 2008 was a bold and beautiful visual feast and 'Headless Heroes' promises much more.

Continuing his exploration into masculinity and power, Conor's new paintings and drawings combine historical re-enactment, F1 pit-stops, text and glamour models. Conor's aim is to have the visual aesthetic of his paintings reflect the visual culture we live in.
Since he was a teenager painting on the streets of Cork, Conor has always tread a fine line between 'street art' and 'fine art', never aligning himself with a particular movement or aesthetic but instead pushing forward with his own unique representations of the world around him, creating works that are striking yet accessible.

I know we're biased, but his stuff is pretty good!

The show is open Monday-Friday 11-7pm and Saturday 12-5pm.

For more information please read the press release

Lazarides introduces Becoming Animal. Antony Micallef's first solo show since the sell out, 'Impure Idols' in LA three years ago.

Micallef has spent the last year working hard in his studio, developing his mark making and subject matter.
Becoming Animal is a sophisticated, smooth body of work. Simultaneously sickly sweet and sour. The work is as much about the act of painting as it is about animalistic tendencies that are innate to every human being.

This show has been greatly anticipated and won't disappoint.

The exhibition will run from 25th September - 22nd October.

For more information please read the press release.

After having hit 40 cities around the world, from the Cote D'Azur to Katmandu, from Manchester to Mombassa in the past decade with his infamous street mosaics, the artist Invader, is bringing his unique vision to our very own Rathbone gallery.

'Low Fidelity' will include sculptures, mosaics, drawings, a new series of Rubik classic album covers and 3 small hand finished print editions will later be released from SHOP at Lazarides.

The exhibition will run from the 14th August through the 12th September.

In addition to his gallery showcase, one can only hope that during his visit the artist might find time to add to his collection of famed ‘Space Invader’ mosaics on the streets of London, hmmm. . .

For more information please read the press release.

Lazarides is pleased to announce Vhils aka Alexandre Farto's first solo show in the UK. 'Scratching the Surface' features ambitious new works by a young portuguese artist, first seen in the UK at Cans Festival in 2008. There will be a book released mid July, to accompany the show.

For more information please read the press release.

We are delighted to open our new gallery on Rathbone Place with 'Grow Up'. The first show will be the next installment of the Lazarides cornerstone; the ”Outsiders" group show featuring brand new work from Antony Micallef, Bast, Conor Harrington, David Choe and JR to name but a few, as well as some outstanding pieces from some very special guests.

For more information please read the press release.

All pictures courtesy of Ian Cox.