Welcome to a visual 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.

Iphgenia Baal’s recent release ‘The Hardy Tree’ has been picked by the Literary review to feature in the book shortlist section. Jena Salon writes that “The Hardy Tree is a dark and twisty collage of a novel, intertwining historical documents, narrative, photographs, poetry, and maps to convey the history of a St. Pancras church and burial ground in London” Available here.

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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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The Independent Magazine gave a little preview of the forthcoming Trolley release ‘The Only House Left Standing: The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall” on Saturday 21/01/2012. The article featured Robert Fisk’s foreword as well as a selection of images. With so much time and effort spent putting this emotional book together, Trolley would like to thank everyone that has helped make this happen. The book is released on February 1st, 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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Very saddened by the passing of Claire de Rouen on 13th January. Her wonderful bookshop, a haven of photography and art books, will not be the same without her.

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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“Delta Nigeria – The Rape of Paradise by George Osodi“ features as the Cover Story in the thought provoking January 2012 edition of New African where the bestselling Pan-african magazine delves into the curse of oil. Stephen Williams reports on George’s book, concluding that “The images that confront us in their awful beauty are of a hellish nightmare”. Delta Nigeria – The Rape of Paradise is available here.

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Has anything changed in the 18 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered? When the incompetent Police force inexcusably denied justice to the family of the murdered. Our continued support goes to Sheila.

Gigi Giannuzzi of Trolley Books will be in Mexico City at Conejoblanco Galería de Libros on 12/01/2012 at 21:00 presenting a night of Trolley slideshows. If you are in Mexico City, go along at Amsterdam 67, entre Sonnora y Parras, Col. Hipodromo, Mexico, D.F. There will be slideshows of new and recent books including George Osodi’s Delta Nigeria – The Rape of Paradise