International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition at The Clerkenwell Gallery

Some photographs of my two artworks 'King's Cross to Brixton' and 'Pug on the Victoria Line' at the Society for Embroidered Work exhibition at The Clerkenwell Gallery. Have a look on their website for more information on the artists involved.

International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhbition

I'm really pleased to have two of my embroidery pieces exhibited in this upcoming group show organised by the Society for Embroidered Works. Set up by Cat Frampton and Emily Tull, the exhibition will showcase a broad range of artists working with embroidery. The two pieces I will be showing are observations of commuters during my morning or afternoon journey on the Victoria Line, a series I hope to continue with.

The show runs from Tuesday 12th November to Sunday 17th November, 10.30am to 6.30pm (Sunday 17th 10.30am to 1pm). Please do pop down during the times if you can and I'll be posting my work on here after the show.

Electric Avenue, Brixton

'Electric Avenue' embroidery, taken from a series of drawings I made in October 2016 inspired by a walk through Brixton's varying food markets. Exhibited at 'South of the River' at The Douglas Fir, Crystal Palace last month.

'South of the River' at The Douglas Fir, Crystal Palace

Thanks to everyone who made it over to The Douglas Fir to see my exhibition 'South of the River'. All pieces remain for sale (currently) so get in touch in there's anything you would like to purchase. Large embroideries priced at £600, 'Bowie's in Space' at £475 and 'Deptford High Street' at £375. All framed.

'South of the River' - The Douglas Fir

My solo exhibition 'South of the River' opens next Friday 3rd March and runs until 24th March at The Douglas Fir pub in Crystal Palace. The exhibition comprises of embroideries of Peckham, Walworth and Brixton made over the past five years. I will be making a new embroidery of Electric Avenue for the show and also showing a large drawing 'Deptford High Street' alongside my Bowie embroidery. A solo exhibition of old, new and unexhibited.

Address: The Douglas Fir, 144 Anerley Road, London, SE20 8DL. Nearest overground: Crystal Palace.

Finding 50 Fridas - The East End Prints Shop

I stitched an embroidery for The East End Print Shop's 'Finding 50 Fridas' exhibition.

Anonymous Drawings/Anonymous Zeichner 2015

I'm really pleased to have a drawing selected to be in Anonymous Drawings/Anonyme Zeichner opening Saturday 1st August at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten. The show features 600 international drawings complied by Anke Becker. The show runs until August 29th 2015.

Facebook event here.

www.anonyme-zeichner.de

Sightings - Private View

A few pictures from our 'Sightings' private view at Craft Central on Wednesday. Thanks to everyone to visited throughout the show! We'll be updating our respective websites with images from the show over the next week.

IMPRINT - Craft Central

I'm going to be showing a few of my lino ceramics at Imprint, which will be taking place at Craft Central - you can find details of exhibitors and the show here and here.

17-21 SEPT, 10.30am - 6.30pm / PRESS PREVIEW 17 SEPT, 5-6pm / PRIVATE VIEW 17 SEPT, 6-8pm

Craft Central, 33-35 St John's Square, London EC1M 4DS

'Sightings' - An Exhibition by Freya Lines and Reena Makwana

In August, Freya and me will be showing work inspired by Clerkenwell at Craft Central in August. Here's the flyer designed by Freya and a portion of our press release for you to read below! Please do drop me an email if you would like anymore information.

Tuesday 13 August 2013- Saturday 17 August 2013

Showcase Gallery, Craft Central, 33-35 St John’s Square, London, EC1M 4DS

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday 11am-6pm | Saturday 12pm-5pm

Private View: Wednesday 14 August 2013 6.30pm-8.30pm

‘Sightings’ brings together two artistic viewpoints on Clerkenwell by Freya Lines and Reena Makwana, to compliment the position of the Showcase Gallery at Craft Central. As well as showing new work, the exhibition will show an insight into development work from both artists for this show and products from previous projects and collections for sale.

Freya Lines finds inspiration from nature and her work created for this exhibition shows ‘sightings’ of nature in the city, specifically in and around Clerkenwell. A tree framed by the arch of a building, a vine growing around a front door, or plant pots placed on a windowsill all contribute to the aesthetic of Freya’s designs. She will be presenting a new collection of paper cut works.

www.linesdesigns.co.uk

Reena Makwana has been working on a series of embroideries inspired by the people of Clerkenwell. Working from photos, she has developed drawings into embroideries of workers on their lunch break perusing stalls on Leather Lane, locals outside the gates of The Order of St John, hipsters, tantrums and dog walkers. The embroideries work together to show a visual map of the people of Clerkenwell.

www.reenamakwana.com

Open 2012 - Peckham Space

I have a new embroidery on display at Peckham Space's Open 2012, which opens on Friday 30th November 2012 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition will be on display until Thursday 20th December 2012 during the gallery's opening hours.

The Great Outdoors - opens next week

It's almost here - 'The Great Outdoors' exhibition opens at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs on Thursday 8th November 2012 at 6.30pm and features work from Alison Mure, Amber James, Anna Lincoln, Chloe Bonfield, Rhea Evers, Rosie Walder and myself. The blog has been updated with news on the exhibition and interviews with the artists, have a look here. Information on The Coffeesmiths Collective website too.

The Great Outdoors Postcard Set

They have arrived today all printed and ready for 'The Great Outdoors' exhibition opening on Thursday 8th November 2012 at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs on Leather Lane. Anna's going to taking some professional pictures of these...but we don't want to give too much away until their unveiling on the 8th.

Aspidistra X Launch

Still on for the next hour or so at FoodFace Projects, featuring work by Matthew-Robert Hughes, Mark Sadler,Jess Littlewood, Hania Stella-Sawicka, Joseph Popper

Available to purchase from here.

Getting ready for The Great Outdoors

I stitched the final stitch on my work for 'The Great Outdoors' Nest Gallery exhibition opening Thursday 1 November 2012 at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Yesterday I dropped my work for framing at Peckham Pictures. It's time to start professionally framing my work!

Eat Everything at 18 Hewett Street Gallery

Got some work in this - making something edible and something tacile - come!

EAT EVERYTHING a foodie exhibition 18 Hewett Street Gallery 12.00pm-9.00pm

Protein are organising a free, one-day-only street party full of food, drink, music, art and design. All along the Hewett Street block. Belly Kids are hosting the 18 Hewett Street Gallery

EAT EVERYTHING a bizarre look into the goodness of food. Expect prints, paintings, sculptures, music, design and installation

More to be added!

artists include - Sean Morris, Brooke Olsen, Mike Kilkelly, Stu Ross, Laura Gee, Sophie Alda, Tim Parker, Logan Fitzpatrick, Chris Golden, George Collum, Tim Easley, Jonathan Wilkinson, Rob Goodall, Andrew Kerr, Reena Makwana, Chloe Bonfield, Thomas Bird, Sam Tomlins, Jack Andrew Lantern, Benjamin Savva and more to come

The Great Outdoors

New Nest Gallery exhibition coming up! Opening night is Thursday 8 November 2012 at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs - put that date in your diary. Featuring the work of: Alison Mure, Amber James, Anna Lincoln, Chloe Bonfield, Reena Makwana, Rhea Evers, Rosie Walder, Keep an eye on our blog for interviews with the artists and more news on the show. Sponsored by Impress Print Services.

reenamakwana.com

I've got a website - set up by design whizz Max Wilson of O.W.H Creative (he's the 'W'). Bookmark it on your browser and I'll update it with new things as well as keeping track of things on here.

Have a look -

Reena Makwana

Food and Nostalgia Embroidered

I revisited a project I did on food and nostalgia, which involved a lot of research that I didn't use. I created these three embroideries over the past month to exhibit at 'Eat What You Like'

Eat What You Like - Beach Gallery, London

Yesterday I exhibited some new work on an old theme at the Beach Gallery, London. Curated by Mike Coley, the show featured work by Laura Gee, Brooke Olsen, Ali Winstanley, Deena Jacobs, George Collum, Jennie Fulk, Mike Kilkelly, Sam Moppett, Ken Goodall, Fatbread Zines, Lauren Baker, Kathryn Corlett, Katey Harvey and myself. Here are some pictures from the private view last night...