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Sharon Mangion

smangion@outlook.com | www.sharonmangion.co.uk

Reviews

At the Edges [16 March 2013]
 

I like the title of the exhibition At the Edges currently showing at the Angus-Hughes Gallery.  It aptly captures the position not only of landscape painting but of art about nature in a world dominated by the city.  As if the viewer's  Read on…

Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
1 - 31 March 2013

Deptford A.W.O.L. [12 June 2009]
 

Showing at the Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery at the moment is the Creekside Artists’ exhibition Deptford A.W.O.L., which will be on until Saturday 13 June.  There is some good work in this show.  Some highlights are Sofie  Read on…

Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery, London
9 - 13 June 2009

One Thing Against Another [8 August 2008]
 

This week I went along to see an interesting show organized by Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery.  The show, One thing against another, included work by five artist, Alice Walton, Eduardo Padilha, Sam Basu, James Ireland and David Kefford, who  Read on…

Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2 August - 21 September 2008

Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae [13 June 2008]

Dilston Grove, a former church on the edge of Southwark Park, as a venue for staging art installations, is fantastically evocative   A dark cavernous space that conjures up gothic specters, it is an ideal space to explore the metaphysics  Read on…

Dilston Grove, Southwark
14 May 2007 - 15 June 2008

Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art [27 April 2008]
 

I finally got to visit Glasgow's GI Festival after a mix up with my ticket booking, albeit on the last weekend, knowing that I would only get to see a glimpse of the vast array of work on show all over Glasgow town.  My first stop was  Read on…

CCA, GoMA, Royal Concert Hall, In Transit, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008

Unheimlich [22 April 2008]
 

It always surprises me that we are so habituated to the everyday stuff of existence that life does not seem strange to us most of the time.  There is probably a good evolutionary reason for this as experiencing the Uncanny on a regular basis  Read on…

Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
18 April - 17 May 2008

Untold [12 May 2007]
 

Untold stories of the discarded, the overlooked and the hidden where interior worlds meet the body, the playground, the urban streets and the gallery space itself, are brought together in a show by four artists, So-Ha Au, Catherine Hughes, Andrew  Read on…

The Sassoon Gallery
4 April 2007 to 5 May 2007

BOOM [7 January 2006]
 

It is good to see students at rival art institutions collaborating and exhibiting together. Joseph Richards an RCA graduate and Jonty Lees from the Slade both take a playful look at the possibilities in drawing through other media, such as, paint,  Read on…

One Small Step
10 October 2005 to 12 December 2005

Thy Neighbours’ Ox 2 [3 January 2006]
 

While the earlier show ‘Thy Neighbours’ Ox’ in 2003 took a ‘shared right’ stance to the ownership of art objects, ‘Thy Neighbours’ Ox 2’ recently showing at Space Station Sixty-Five wants to celebrate a greedy  Read on…

Space Station Sixty-Five, London
3 December – 27 January

InFormal [18 November 2005]
 

There is always a slight air of anxiety about the people who come to Hayes Lane Market, as if they are not quite sure what is going on or what they should do there.  Either embarrassed at watching painters at work, or not quite sure if they  Read on…

Hayes Lane Market
11 November 2005 to 11 November 2005