Is everyone feeling Christmassy yet? Of course you are, it’s the best time of the year. A crackling log fire. Outside the snow, deep and crisp and even. Perhaps an alpine getaway for some winter sports. The family gathering together around the dining table to enjoy a bountiful feast. The annual reminder that you married the wrong person and are destined to be miserable until one of you dies.
Yes, some of the Christmas Salon exhibits at Eleven are more festive than others, but isn’t it just like art to hide a rock in the snowball? The gallery’s sixth instalment of the yuletide event brings together work by Eleven’s artists – names such as Ben Turnbull and Natasha Kissell – and guests like Rob and Nick Carter and The Connor Brothers. It’s a selection box of styles, subject matter and media from a diverse line-up, but in broad terms Christmas Salon is a showcase of the artists’ latest and never-seen-before work. There is an equally wide range in prices in Eleven’s dedicated sale area, and if you’re on the lookout for a prezzie for the art-inclined special someone in your life, prices start at £100 for limited edition prints. The event opens Friday (6 December) and runs until 18 January, but the gallery closes for a couple of weeks between 21 December to 7 January.
Dede Johnston
Overcrowded Slope, 2013
C-type print
25 x 30 in / 62 x 76 cm
Edition of 7
Natasha Law
Pulling Down, 2013
Gloss paint on aluminium
49 x 49 in / 125 x 125 cm
The Connor Brothers
Forever Married, 2013
Collage on vintage paperback,
float mounted in a black box frame
10 ½ / 8 in / 27 x 20.5 cm
Martha Parsey
Get Ahead; Make Ends Meet, 2013
Epsom inkjet on cotton rag
natural paper 305gsm.
A unique print, edition of 1,
printed and signed by the artist.
20 ½ x 24 in / 40 x 61 cm
Peter Haslam-Fox
Helmet, 2013
Watercolour on paper
25 x 34 in
All images courtesy of
Eleven Fine Art, London
www.elevenfineart.com
