Polygon
Final year/graduate shows can be so frustratingly hit or miss. Despite the talent of so many emerging artists, the work on display is so often a hodgepodge of inconsistency; scarcely, if at all connected. Combining final year students and recent graduates of Central St. Martins, LCC, University of Brighton, the RCA, and Denmark Design School, Polygon promises an approach that is more simple, more open, and thus more successful than most. Each taking inspiration from a different polygonal form, artists and designers like Zamir Antonio, Lina Ekstrand and Mariki are given the freedom to express themselves as uniquely as possible, whilst the limitations of their initial shapes provide the boundaries that give this expression context. Who said geometry was dull?

Shakespeare's & Dickens's London
"Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill & Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper" Not much has changed since the days of Bleak House. Except the horses and, for the most part, the drainage. If you don't believe me, then join this walk back through the cold, damp mists of time to the many centuries-old layers of London's still-tangible past.