To the untrained eye Colin Glen’s line drawings may not look like much – in fact you’re probably looking at them and thinking ‘I could do that’, but there’s much more to these images than meets the eye. Glen went through quite a process to get to the finished versions and that’s what makes his work in his new exhibition at TJ Boulting gallery so interesting – after all it’s conceptual art and what is conceptual art without a bit of an explanation alongside it?

Her solo show opens tonight – 17th Feb until 11th March

Welcome to a virual tour of the gallery’s first solo show with British artist Jennifer Taylor, ‘Rumour From Ground Control.’ Taking its lead from David Bowie’s classic song ‘Space Oddity’, Taylor has created a surreal playground, and predominantly white installation of objects, whose apparent serenity belies darker, underlying tensions relating to isolation, loss of control and physical and psychological anxiety. Click on the picture to view the tour.

God Forgotten Face by Robin Maddock was picked by Lucy Davies to feature as part of the ‘New photography” article in The Sunday Telegraph’s ‘SEVEN’ magazine. “His images reveal a cast of characters who seem by turns at one with and doing battle with their environment, paying heed to the town’s history as a starting point for mythic journeys, as well as those who stay ‘festering’ behind” Available here.

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Trolley are proud to feature in December’s edition of our new local paper, the Fitzrovia News. Described by arts writer for the paper and self-confessed ‘Fitzrovia Flaneur’ Clive Jennings as ” A dynamic combination of publishing house and cutting edge contemporary art gallery”, we were also tickled by the question “Could TJ Boulting be Fitzrovia’s answer to Thomas Crapper?” An accolade I’m sure our original landlord would have approved of…
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Robert Storey, the creator of the marvellous ManiFesten exhibition at Trolley Gallery entertains conversation with Pop Magazine in his Dalston studio.

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THE NORDIC AWARD IN TEXTILES

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir a.k.a Shoplifter

The Textile Museum is proud to present a unique exhibition of this year’s winner of the Nordic Award in Textiles 2011 – Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir a.k.a. Shoplifter. The Nordic Award in Textiles has been awarded to the Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir a.k.a. Shoplifter for her innovative work with human and synthetic hair. Shoplifter has worked and lived in New York since 1994, and is well known for her braided hair sculptures, installations and several collaborations with the musician Björk. Her hair murals have been commissioned by MoMA.

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Trolley finally moved to its new premises in October and launched the new gallery TJ Boulting (named after the landmark building it now inhabits on Riding House Street) with an exhibition by Icelandic artists Kling & Bang, on the weekend of the nearby Frieze art fair. The exhibition, which is on until 15th November, presents the ‘Confected Video Archive’ of Kling & Bang, and consists of 100 video works by over 60 Icelandic and international artists, ordered into ten different colour codes, which are rotated, as a VJ installation. It also presents work by individual members of the group – drawing, sculpture, photography, performance and installation. Many thanks to Kling & Bang artists who came to London with a night to remember! Anna Hrund, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir, Selma Hreggviðsdóttir, Lilja Birgisdóttir, Ragnar Már Nikulásson, Katla Rós, Thorgunnur Oddsdottir, Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir, Úlfur Grönvold, Erling T.V. Klingenberg and Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir. For more details on show please visit here

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