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Gerard Williams, Cultural Currency, 9 October – 28 November 2015 , Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce Cultural Currency an exhibition of new works by British artist Gerard Williams. The exhibition consists of a number of small birch plywood tablets, each of which encapsulates at least two genuine, complete bank notes. These are made partially visible through small windows disclosing numeric denominations as well as isolated details such as illustrations, patterns etc., the origin of the notes is obscured. Cultural Currency plays with relative values, with the value of art, the value of money, with connections between culture, history and financial capital, with value and the passage of time, with the position of nations relative to world financial hierarchies. Each double-sided work is a unique variation on the theme. Whilst the notes are loose and unfolded, they are also permanently sealed within the work, therefore in order to realize their monetary value, or their value as collectables, the artwork would have to be destroyed. read more ...

Lucy Heyward, Erehwon, 22 May ? 27 June 2015, Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the gallery by British artist Lucy Heyward. The exhibition title Erehwon, references a novel of a similar title by Samuel Butler. It consists of four video works, filmed in three deserts in Africa and the Middle East, along with related. read more ...

Bob and Roberta Smith, Why I Am So Angry, 11 March - 9 May 2015, Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce Bob and Roberta Smith’s Why I Am So Angry, an artful stand against government attacks on art. Come and support Bob’s campaign in Surrey Heath against Michael Gove, who paved the governments disregard for the arts continued by Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, with her shocking statement that choosing art subjects held back children's career opportunities. read more ...

John Plowman,Shroud Drawings,11 February – 6 March 2015 Wednesday, Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce multiple market. Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce Remains of The Empire, a collaborative exhibition by Slovenian artists Lada Cerar and Saso Sedlacek. The project explores one particular infrastructural remnant of the British Empire, the Anglo-Saxon loo in relation to the other types of loo such as French and German. It is commonly known that many empires paved the road to industrialization and enforced hygienic standards on many nations around the world. read more ...

multiple market, 28 Novembar - 23 December 2014 Our multiple market is back. For our second exhibition at Florence Street we will present a great range of produce from 31 suppliers. Everything from 'do it yourself recipes' to prêt a porter, special commissions and much more at our new Islington HQ. The emphasis, as always, will be on freshness, variety and quality as well as value for money so that you can stock up for the festive season in complete confidence. . read more ...

Stefan Sehler, New Paintings, 25 September - 25 October 2014 For our first exhibition at 14 Florence Street, Handel Street Projects is pleased to present a series of new paintings by Berlin based artist Stefan Sehler. Made specially for this show, these works continue into the exploration of what constitutes painting, the relationship between abstraction and representation, challenging and stretching the possibilities of this medium all the time. read more ...

Multiple market, 12 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, 29 November - 20 December 2012 Following the great success of our previous Farmers’ Markets, Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce multiple market. Our new collection of multiples offers a new take on our biannual investigation into connoisseurship, proximity of fine food and fine art and various other aspects of consumption and exchange of ideas. We will present a great range of produce from over 30 suppliers at the very best prices. read more ...

Crating, Greyfriars, Saltergate, Lincoln, 9 November - 16 December 2012 I wonder what an Imp would do to the Crate. A long time ago two Imps caused mayhem in the North of England. ‘They smashed tables and chairs and tripped up the Bishop’. An angel intervened and one Imp was turned to stone and the other was given a chance to escape.  The one turned to stone was left on high where only the hawk-eyed can spot it….what has happened tothe other one? read more ...

Saso Sedlacek and Lada Cerar, Remains Of The Empire, 27 September – 17 October Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce Remains of The Empire, a collaborative exhibition by Slovenian artists Lada Cerar and Saso Sedlacek. The project explores one particular infrastructural remnant of the British Empire, the Anglo-Saxon loo in relation to the other types of loo such as French and German. It is commonly known that many empires paved the road to industrialization and enforced hygienic standards on many nations around the world. These types of loo are still a hygienic standard in many formerly colonized countries as well as the Austro-Hungarian railway tracks being in use in central Europe even today and Spanish urbanism in Americas, these different infrastructures still silently talk about former borderlines among historical empires. read more ...

Gerard Williams, The Collected Works, 19 –21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, 25 February – 31 March 2011
Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of six new works including three new installations by British artist Gerard Williams. The show builds on a body of work that Williams has evolved over the past few years. Initially he ‘dressed’ plausibly domestic windows, ones visible from the street and near to the commissioning institutions. These interventions set out to evoke in the mind of the viewer, the private lives of inhabited spaces, creating through a combination of carefully selected clues, imagined portraits of possible inhabitants... more...

Super Farmers’ Market, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, WC1 18 June-17 July 2010
Super Farmers’ Market is the second in a series of group shows that teases at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.... more...

Kalemegdan Bridge Collaboration with Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic, 2008 to 2010
Handel Street Projects in association with Beacon is pleased to announce The Kalmegdan Bridge Collaboration between British sculptor, Richard Deacon and Serbian sculptor, Mrdjan Bajic. Coming together in Belgrade in July and September of this year they will work on the design of a new footbridge in Belgrade... more...

Farmers' Market, First Floor, 72 Wigmore Street, London W1, 2008
‘..a farmers’ market every weekend, in every shopping area in London’, is the proposal of a new report being launched by former Deputy Mayor of London, Jenny Jones. The report ‘Farmers’ Markets – building bridges between farmers and London shoppers’, finds that there is surging demand for farmers markets amongst Londoners. Farmers’ markets are the urban shop windows to the countryside. Following the spirit of the Deputy Mayor, Handel Street Projects is very pleased to announce its own annual Farmers’ Market... more...

The Reading Room, John Plowman, 29 Thurloe Place, London SW7, 2008
Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by John Plowman. The objects that Plowman has been making recently are the outcomes of performances in which the private act of reading is made public, as the book is read the pages are torn and re-stacked within a plywood structure... more...

1-5 Exhibition Road, London, 2008
Works by Olivier Richon, Stefan Sehler and Gerard Williams. Photographer, painter and sculptor, they share an interest in the illusion of what is ‘behind’ the physical object in terms of meaning... more...

Sequences, Chain Gallery, London, 2006
'Sequences' was an exhibition held at Chain Gallery, a temporary project space on Brompton road, featuring shows and events throughout the summer of 2006... more...

St George's Chapel, Bloomsbury, London, April 2005
The chapel was built in 1806 to serve the last of Nicolas Hawksmore’s churches... more...

medievalmodern, London, 2002-2005
Medievalmodern was a project space in London’s Marylebone that opened in 2002, which aimed to stimulate a dialogue between medieval and contemporary art... more...

Handel Street Projects
19 – 21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn

Gerard Williams,
The Collected Works,
19 –21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, 25 February – 31 March 2011...

Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of six new works including three new installations by British artist Gerard Williams.

The show builds on a body of work that Williams has evolved over the past few years. Initially he ‘dressed’ plausibly domestic windows, ones visible from the street and near to the commissioning institutions. These interventions set out to evoke in the mind of the viewer, the private lives of inhabited spaces, creating through a combination of carefully selected clues, imagined portraits of possible inhabitants. This approach plays on the prejudices and assumptions that we associate with particular objects or visual styles. It reveals something of how we all use these cues to categorise or typecast individuals who we do not know.  

Alongside these, Williams has produced a series of windows for the architectural context of gallery spaces, including a number for his solo exhibition, Fictional Neighbors, at Parker’s Box in New York City (2007). These works also suggest inhabited spaces through the use of both home made and appropriated materials, deploying inference and calling upon a similar process of referencing on the part of the viewer. In this case, however, an interior space is implied where one cannot exist.

For Handel Street Projects at 19-21 Sicilian Avenue, and for the first time in the UK, Williams presents a group of these works, entitled The Collectors, which takes the form of windows embedded within the walls of the gallery space in a similar manner to those made for New York.

This exhibition will also occupy the street level windows of a number of empty shops owned by Camden Council at 10 Woburn Walk, 19 Bury Place and 115 Clerkenwell Road. Here, adopting a new approach, Williams will transform each of these empty shop windows into a ‘store’ containing a large number of a specific category of redundant, declining or outmoded consumer products (in this instance books, vinyl records and clothing), thereby touching upon aspects of consumption, recession, nostalgia and the march of technology, seen here in a district with a long history of trade and manufacturing.



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The work of Gerard Williams has always been socially grounded, often inviting the audience to re-examine culturally-founded preconceptions. Throughout this entire body of work Williams uses fabric, timber and found objects with his trademark meticulousness and attention to detail, to pursue concerns arising from the relationship of opposites: inside and outside, private and public, made and found, real and pretend. Through all this he questions aspects of the position, reception and role of the artwork relative to context.


 The Collectors, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue
 The Collectors, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue
 The Collectors, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue

Over the last three decades Williams’ work has been widely exhibited by international institutions and public galleries. He has also worked with major commercial galleries including both Anthony d’Offay and Maureen Paley in London. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including The Sandretto Re-Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin; The Arts Council of England Collection; The Contemporary Art Society, London; Castello di Rivara, Turin; Leeds City Art Gallery and The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, which owns three of his recent window works.

For all press enquiries please contact: Isabel de Vasconcellos
isabel@handelstreetprojects.com / 07506 580 469

info@handelstreetprojects.com www.handelstreetprojects.com/ 07815 754634

Handel Street Projects would like to thank Holborn Links Ltd., Camden Council, GVA Grimley and Skoob Books for making this exhibition possible.

The Record Store, 19 Bury Place
The Book Store, 10 Woburn Walk
The Clothing Store, 115 Clerkenwell Road
 

Super Farmers’ Market’

Super Farmers’ Market’, 19-21 Sicilian Avenue, Holborn, WC1 18 June-17 July 2011
This year’s produce comes from the following sources: Rasheed Araeen, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Stuart Brisley, Richard Deacon, Braco Dimitrijevic, Mary Anne Francis, Martino Gamper, Lucy Gunning, Lucy Heyward, Susan Hiller, Andy Holden, Koo Jeong-A, Ian Kiaer, Sharon Kivland, Darian Leader, Sarah Lucas, Hayley Newman, Tina O’Connell, Lucy Orta, Nicholas Pope, Giorgio Sadotti, Saso Sedlacek, Jane Simpson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Rasa Todosijevic, Zlatan Vukosavljevic, Richard Wentworth, Franz West, Alison Wilding, Gerard Williams, Elizabeth Wright.

Nicholas Pope, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor

Richard Wentworth, Tina O’Connell, Alison Wilding, Braco Dimitrijevic, Elizabeth Wright, Rasa Todosijevic, Martino Gamper


Super Farmers’ Market is the second in a series of group shows that teases at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.

Franz West, ‘Chewed Gum’

Richard Deacon, Wait Rose


The first Farmers’ Market took place in London’s Wigmore Street in 2008, showcasing 24 producers, and was herded by farmer and de-curator Fedja Klikovac, Director of Handel Street Projects. And just as the weekly Farmers’ Market offers the discerning customer informed selections of the very best produce, so this annual version does with art, combining the idea of a selected exhibition as an exercise in connoisseurship with the recognition that art is nevertheless also a commodity. This year’s show, curated by two experts in the field, Mary Anne Francis and Lucy Heyward, is themed around the idea of ‘upcycling’: the current trend for taking low-grade artefacts that might be destined for landfill and enhancing their value by means of handwrought interventions. To this end, 32 artists have been asked to produce artworks using low-cost supermarket goods: groceries, cleaning materials and discarded packaging. Continuing the Farmers’ Market theme, artists are encouraged to resource their materials locally.

Alison Wilding, Pruneyes

Stuart Brisley, ‘The Last Breath’


As part of the exhibition we will be showing Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I.

Koo Jeong-A, Untitled

Saso Sedlacek, Salami Condoms

 

 

 

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Kalemegdan Bridge Collaboration with Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic, 2008 to 2010

An exciting new public art project for the City of Belgrade
Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce the exhibition of work by Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic. The show will take place at the City of Belgrade Assembly and Gallery ULUS (Serbian Artists Union), opening on 16 April. It will present, not only the artists final designs of the footbridge at Belgrade Fortress, but the whole process of collaborating together in the last eight months. The proposed bridge will connect Kalemegdan Fortress with the promenade by the river Sava, over the busy road and railway track, bringing to the City of Belgrade a landmark structure at a very symbolic place, which used to be the border between east and west.

Aerial view of Kalemegdan Fortress and Park

Three possible locations for the Bridge

The exhibition will be the first stages of creating a major landmark for the City of Belgrade and the first time since the 19th Century that an artist from another country is involved in the production of a public monument in Belgrade. In 1873 Florentine, Enrico Paci came to Belgrade to start work on the monument to Prince Mihailo Obrenovic, who ordered the creation of Kalemegdan Park in 1867. Kalemegdan (Belgrade) Fortress, is a heritage site dating back to at least Roman times with several Serbian cultural institutions in its grounds and many public monuments including Ivan Mestrovic’s ‘Victor’, symbol of Belgrade.

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Richard Deacon & Mrdjan Bajic on site

Access to Bridge from Fortress

 

Deacon and Bajic represented Wales and Serbia, respectively at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Richard Deacon has been at the forefront of British sculpture since the seventies. In 1987 he was awarded the Turner Prize and showed in many prestigious art galleries and events around the world including Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Tate Gallery, Museum of Modern Art New York, Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sculptur Projekte in Munster, The Biennale of Sydney, Documenta Kassel etc. Since 1983, he’s been represented and regularly shown at Lisson Gallery, London.

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Access to Bridge from River

Bridge trajectory

Mrdjan Bajic came to prominence in the eighties Belgrade and since then produced a vast body of work in rather different circumstances: from the lively post Tito Yougoslavia, to the isolated nineties wartime and at present new start for independent Serbia. His work was always embedded in the social practice and its effects, questioning and giving answers to the position of the artist in society. His work has been shown internationally from early in his career including 1990 APERTO La Biennale di Venezia,Kunsthalle Wien, The Biennale of Sydney, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Artists Space New York, Biennal di Sao Paulo etc.

Download PDF interview with Mrdjan Bajic and Richard Deacon

 

Richard Deacon, Another Mountain 2007, Stainless steel, 290 x 420 x 340 cm, The Lah Collection, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg

Mrdjan Bajic, La classe operai a va in Paradiso 2008, Palazzo Piozzo, Torino

 

City of Belgrade Assembly

ULUS Gallery, Belgrade

 

 

This first stage of the project has been made possible by the grant from The Henry Moore Foundation.

Our partners in Belgrade will be JP Belgrade Fortress and The City of Belgrade.

For further information and images please contact:

Clare Munro info@handelstreetprojects.com www.handelstreetprojects.com

 

 

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'Nuffin is Reel', Bob & Roberta Smith, 2003.  

 

Sequences, Chain Gallery, London, 2006
'Sequences' was an exhibition held at Chain Gallery, a temporary project space on Brompton road, featuring shows and events throughout the summer of 2006, kindly supported by Brompton Estates. The show was curated in collaboration with Design Products and Photography at the Royal College of Art and Handel Street Projects, showing work by: Alice Finbow, Martino Gamper, Lucy Heyward, Gabriel Klasmer, Nahoko Kudo, Claude Lelouch, Yve Lomax, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Alexandra McGlynn, Kirk Palmer, Olivier Richon and Hermione Wiltshire. Our part of the show consisted of four digital video installations, exploring the spaces between forms of photography and film.

 

1-5 Exhibition Road, London, 2008
17 March – 17 April 2008

Works by Olivier Richon, Stefan Sehler and Gerard Williams. Photographer, painter and sculptor, they share an interest in the illusion of what is ‘behind’ the physical object in terms of meaning. Formal elements constantly reoccur and link different bodies of work on a visual level in all three cases. Their work questions aspects of our preconceived ideas about the mediums and materials they each work with.

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In Olivier Richon’s photographs velvet is used, partly for its strong light absorbing qualities and painterly feel. The object in his work transcends the symbolic, becoming elusive and hard to pin down. His work is about absence and presence, timelessness opposed to immediacy of photographic medium. It is a meditation on the meaning of photography before relating to the painting itself. Here, he is showing works from his Arcadia series, (referring to the famous Poussin painting) which “reduces the vocabulary of the still life to the baroque figure of the fold”, (Giorgio Verzotti, Artforum, Oct 1992) and The Hunt that “adds to the apparatus of the still life sentences from Plato’s Sophist”. (David Mellor, Porfolio 21).

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The starting point for Stefan Sehler’s paintings is photography. At the first glance they appear to be photographs or even photograms, as their surface is hidden behind the perspex to which he reverse applies the mixture of oil, enamel and acrylic paint. His unusual technique makes the surface look suspended within it, distancing itself from the viewer. Motifs of flowers, trees, branches and foliage etc. are not representations as such: they are more about the act of painting itself. These ‘surrogate’ paintings are a play between abstraction and figuration, they use controlled chance where “paint does things it’s own way” as the artist himself says. He adds: “The picture is smarter than the painter”.

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In this new group of works, Gerard Williams questions and reinvents an approach developed early in his career. He has devised and repeated a range of essentially decorative, modular, solid turned wooden forms. These are covered with a disparate variety of furnishing fabrics. Located in awkward places on the gallery walls, they make use of juxtaposition in order to suggest an infinite variety of combinations. These objects are hybrids, apparently accidental, incomplete conjunctions. They set up a dynamic that focuses our attention upon what could be called the surface content of decorative pattern and form: behind the apparently superficial inevitably lie deeply embedded cultural values. These objects share the wall surface in a way that connects to the notion of picture plane.

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Handel Street Projects would like to thank:
Brompton Estates and the Brompton design project; supporting the partnership between the creative and business sectors. www.bromptondesigndistrict.com

Basis Lighting for their technical support. www.basislighting.com.

 

The Reading Room, John Plowman, 29 Thurloe Place, London SW7, 2008

24 July – 16 August 2008
Private View:
Wednesday 23 July 18:00 – 20:00
Location: 29 Thurloe Place, London SW7
Opening times:
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 18:00

Handel Street Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by John Plowman. The objects that Plowman has been making recently are the outcomes of performances in which the private act of reading is made public, as the book is read the pages are torn and re-stacked within a plywood structure. Using his own library as his source material Plowman has read a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica to produce ‘mis-un-pedia’ and ‘mis-un-library’.

From left: ‘Mis-un-pedia’, 2008; 'English Idioms’, 2008, John Plowman

More recently Plowman has been scanning the bookshelves of High Street bookstores and purchasing books to read. ‘Queens English’ is a work in which multiple copies of an English Dictionary have been read and re-stacked on to book shelves. Recently acquired books to be read specifically for this exhibition include a hefty tome entitled ‘30,000 years of Art’ together with a series of dictionaries whose topics include sociology, philosophy and architecture.

For the duration of the exhibition Plowman will be establishing the Thurloe Place Reading Group in which the focus will be on the relationship between artist, audience, and gallery, analogous to that between author, reader and library. Membership of the Reading Group will be open to all and each week will focus on a particular book and members of the group will engage in a collaborative and performative action. Resulting in an accumulative piece of work that will develop over the course of the exhibition

‘Queens English’, 2008; performance during Reading Room exhibition, John Plowman, 2008

John Plowman has exhibited in numerous one person and group exhibitions in this country and abroad most recently earlier this year in ‘Catching the Word’ at the Black and White Gallery, New York. In recent years his interest has been in the temporal aspect of art production in which investigations into the possibility of the site of exhibition also being the site of production have been fore fronted. With a particular focus on the question of who bears witness to this activity of production, artist, audience or both. It is his interest in the role of the audience that has informed the development of his curatorial project Beacon which was established in 2004.

The Thurloe Place Reading Group will meet at 3 pm every Saturday during the course of the exhibition.

For further information please contact:
Clare Munro 07815 754634 / info@handelsteetprojects.com / www.handelstreetprojects.com

Handel Street Projects would like to thank:
Brompton Estates and the Brompton design project; supporting the partnership between the creative and business sectors.

Farmers' Market, First Floor, 72 Wigmore Street, London W1, 2008

12 November – 20 December 2008
Private View:
Tuesday 11 November 18:00 – 20:00
Location: First Floor, 72 Wigmore Street, London W1
Opening times:
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 18:00

This years produce comes from the following sources:

Loukia Alavanou   Marinela Kozelj
Mrdjan Bajic   Kirsten Lyle
Benjamin Beker   Jason Oddy
Vuk Cosic   John Plowman
Richard Deacon   Zoran Popovic
Gabriele Di Matteo   Rasa Todosijevic
Braco Dimitrijevic   Jelena Tomasevic
Mark Fairnington   Olivier Richon
Simon Faithfull   Stefan Sehler
Mary Anne Francis   Bob & Roberta Smith
Lucy Heyward   Gerard Williams
Paula Kane   Roy Voss

‘..a farmers’ market every weekend, in every shopping area in London’, is the proposal of a new report being launched by former Deputy Mayor of London, Jenny Jones. The report ‘Farmers’ Markets – building bridges between farmers and London shoppers’, finds that there is surging demand for farmers markets amongst Londoners. Farmers’ markets are the urban shop windows to the countryside.

From left: 'Resurrection of Alchemists' installation shot, Braco Dimitrijevic, 2006;
'Game Flags', print on textile, Vuk Cosic, 2007

Following the spirit of the Deputy Mayor, Handel Street Projects is very pleased to announce its own annual Farmers’ Market. This event brings together products from twenty-four producers, especially gathered in for Farmers’ Market, celebrating the best from a selected range of independents. Indeed, Handel Street Projects is able to offer you unprecedented direct deals with the producer, meaning that you get the freshest produce rushed to the capital at the very best prices.

From left: 'Chop Chop Tales', Loukia Alavanou, double screen digital video projection with sound, 2007;
'En Route', digital video with sound, Lucy Heyward, 2008

Hand picked produce chosen from nine countries will be available. At Farmers’ Market you can be sure of our in depth knowledge of each and every item because of our direct supply line to the producers. All invited participants take personal pride in their individual products and want you to enjoy them. The emphasis will be on freshness, variety and quality as well as value for money, so that you can have complete confidence in what you are buying. If you are not sure about anything that we have selected for Farmers’ Market please ask, the producers will be on hand to answer the most demanding consumer enquiries.

 

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Bob & Roberta Smith reading from his book
'Hijack Reality' at the opening of Farmers’ Market
Zoran Popovic, Axioms 1972 C-type photograph
   
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Bob & Roberta Smith will be reading from his new book Hijack Reality during the private view on the 11th November

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Handel Street Projects would like to thank: Howard de Walden Estates, the Photography Department at Royal College of Art and Roddy Cañas for their kind help and support.