Signature portraits by our good friend Agenda Photography for the F.Y.I Project. Agenda is a big fan of bouncing natural light sources onto his subjects, while is use of artificial light sources create a studio-like feel in otherwise natural surroundings.

The F.YI. photography exhibition of young creatives shot, produced and promoted by over 30 young people in collaboration with creative professionals (like Agenda) and social enterprises. Nice pictures aside, keep a look out for this group of focused individuals achieve in the future, as their legacy will be the testimony to the project’s success.

Documentation is representation. If you don’t like the way you’re being represented, you’re best advised to get out there and represent yourself.

While traditional news outlets were busy portraying student activists as mindless, fire-hydrant wielding anarchists hell bent on destruction and the end of society as we know it, a young seventeen year old not only chose to organise a protest against EMA cuts in Lancaster, but she saw fit to document it with her own keen photographic eye.

The pics feature bright faces and poignant messages galore. I won’t say which one’s my favourite: it should be obvious.

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These images were exhibited last month at the 10 Gales Gallery in Bethnal Green.

“Paper money will always return to its intrinsic value, zero” – Voltaire 1729

The word Versailles apparently derives from the Latin word versare, meaning “to keep turning, turn over and over”. Such esoteric [wiki derived] knowledge ties in nicely with the above quote, and even better still with the work of our new Junior Art Director Samuel Craven, who will be exhibiting at Versailles: a group show featuring 24 emerging artists.

Sam will be exhibiting an A5 piece titled ‘Eight Hundred Pounds’, ingeniously made entirely from the shredded remains of the amount he sold Thirty Thousand Pounds for. Yes, that really is £30,000 literally hanging on a wall.

Voltaire may have been spot on with his assessment, but while the paper returns to its intrinsic value, Sam proves that the idea – as always – remains priceless.

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The private view is today – February 10th – at The Gallery on Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP.

We’re 14 days into the Year of the Rabbit, and it’s hopefully not too late to showcase some antique bunny-themed goodness from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection. Happy 2011 people!

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via Pink Tentacle

Just got an email / video reminder from Ronzo about this evenings exhibition at the StolenSpace Gallery, so it’s only right I pass it on.

As for you? Well…pass it on…

Ronzo‘s second solo exhibition features a new series of paintings, collages, prints and sculptures showing life in the ‘Ronzo Borough of Crackney’ (let’s just assume that the ‘C’ stands for ‘crazy’).

It may be ‘a dark but funny place’, but if it inspires such a range of vibrant creativity then we’ve got a lot to thank London’s East End borough of Hackney for.

Ronzo‘s vision of Crackney can be seen at the StolenSpace Gallery, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Bricklane, London E1 6QL, UK from the 18th (tomorrow) to the 21st of November.

Thinking of going? Then click here for a proper google map.

If simplicity is the key then Noma Bar has got the door well and truly open. With an illustrative style as clean as it is clever, Noma has worked with clients such as Esquire and The Guardian Guide.

Never one to pass up the chance to creatively use some Negative Space, his work always comes complete with an interesting double narrative and in the case of his new exhibition Bitter Sweet, an interesting range of materials.

Bitter Sweet began yesterday and runs until April 31.

If you haven’t had a chance to visit the Chris Ofili retrospective at Tate Britain as yet, head down this Sunday. Not only will you get to see the show for a fiver (bargain!) but you’ll also get to take part in a range of creative workshops and musical shenanigans.

I really can’t recommend this show enough (without sounding like I’m on the Tate payroll) but <em>really</em>, his work will blow your socks off. You’ll be immersed in glorious colours, intricate patterns and provocative narratives. But don’t take my word for it, be part of it.

V&A Decode generative identity from postspectacular on Vimeo.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at The V&A Museum in South Kensington London showcases the freshest in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations.

It runs until April 11, and is just one of a glut of amazing exhibitions on in the capital right now.

We’ll be letting ya’ll know more about those shortly…

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via mi mate Andrew @ future deluxe