Tombs, Maths, Bees - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

Tombs, Maths, Bees - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

30 September, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.

Grayson Perry

From Thursday 6th October
The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman @ British Museum
Ooh this sounds cool. Grayson Perry is curating a major exhibition at the British Museum that includes a host of new work by the transvestite potter. Perry has trawled the museum's amazing archives and selected works by unknown craftsmen in order to put together an exhibition that represents a kind of mystical journey into the afterlife.


From Thursday 6th October
Daniel Wallis @ Simon Oldfield Gallery
Following on from his 2008 solo show at Allsopp Contemporary, this winter sees Daniel Wallis given free rein to take over Simon Oldfield Gallery in Covent Garden. Wallis is interested in the subversion of classical mathematical formulae and his spindly, precarious structures are both fascinating in their precision and strangely beguiling in their lack of slick finish.


From Friday 7th October
John Stark – Apiculture @ Charlie Smith London
Charlie Smith London launched in 2009 with a solo show by brilliant contemporary painter John Stark, and now he's back. From early works packed with macabre symbolism, Stark's new show suggests a move towards something a little more subtly unnerving. Bee-keeping is the theme, as strange hooded figures populate strange landscapes with brightly coloured hives. Possibly Stark's finest work yet.


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