I met up with my good friend Laura Hensser on Friday and we wandered about London to have some great coffee at The Nordic Cafe, have a peek at the Marmite Shop and find some galleries.
Laura took me to the Julian Grater show at Sarah Myerscough Gallery which was beautiful, it's a series of paintings made during residencies in northern Canada and looks at the uncertainty of the Arctics' natural phenomena. The textures that Grater creates on these huge scale oil paintings are incredible, they really attempt to make the experience tangible. We also stopped by Roger Ballen's show at Hamitons gallery. I was introduced to Ballen's work, via one of his Phaidon published books, only this week so it was an incredible experience to jump into his world so soon via this show. I still don't know what to think yet, I'm still thinking it over but the grimey textures and tones of the beautiful Black and White prints was a bit of a revelation. Check it out. We also bumped into Candida Hofer and Bridget Riley shows, both of which were a bit of a disappointment. But did return to see Ed Ruscha's On The Road book at The Gagosian, it's just as good the second time!
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