Amazing! They said knitting was making a comeback, but that was mainly just journalistic puff pieces lazily relating to the credit crunch. But now it's hitting the world of fine art. May saw Sally Spinks present a pile of knitted cigarette buts at Tenderpixel Gallery and now, in June, the Charlotte Street branch of Rebecca Hossack Gallery is transformed into Kate's Café.
Fashion designer/knitting supremo Kate Jenkins is filling the gallery with all manner of amazingly detailed crocheted café delicacies: so there's sardines on toast, a Full English, pizza and a jar of anchovies. There's even ketchup and a pot of 'stitchberry' jam!
There's a rumour rife in Hollywood: the silent movie is over and a new kind of film is about to sweep the globe. Actors will be able to talk, sing and dance on screen...all at the same time! For Don Lockwood...
Art gets topical this year, as Woolff Gallery play host to a series of new paintings by Oona Hassim. The works on show depict the various examples of urban disturbance that London witnessed in 2011 - from...
Every Thursday this student friendly night plays out everything to do with pop music, new, old, indie and dance. The cocktails are half price and you can buy two bottles of Grolsch for only 3.20.
This winter Rollo Contemporary Art is playing host to the third and final installment in the critically-acclaimed exhibition series 'The Body in Women's Art Now'. The aim of the series is to review artworks...
Are you a Queen fanatic? The jukebox musical We Will Rock You is based on the songs of the legendary band and features show stopping performances of all the old favourites. After the death of Freddie Mercur...
Tobias Rehberger produces incredible sculptural installations that are a riot of colour, incredible gravity-defying form, and conceptual weirdness. All manner of shapes, materials and ideas converge in...
Following a spectacular 2011, we suggest you keep an eye on anything produced by Supporting Wall. They can spot excellent new writing a mile off.
This new play by Chris Lee, an award winning playwri...
In The Bee, director Hideki Noda marries elements of slap-stick humour with overtly theatrical physicality in an unconventional adaptation of a violent Japanese short story.
The story follows...