Bailey's Stardust Exhibition coming up at the National Portrait Gallery

Bailey’s Stardust is a landmark exhibition of portraits by one of the world’s most distinguished and distinctive photographers, David Bailey. Darbyshire had the pleasure of framing over 250 images, personally selected and printed by Bailey. These works will be presented thematically across a series of contrasting rooms and will illustrate the extraordinary range of subjects that he has captured throughout his career: actors, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, models, artists and people encountered on his travels; many of them famous, some anonymous, all of them unforgettable.

February 4 - June 2014

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bailey/exhibition.php - 

Job Opportunity at Darbyshire's Gloucestershire Workshop

Darbyshire Ltd. is seeking to employ a Registrar/Logistics Administrator at our Workshop in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.  This position will primarily focus on liaising with clients and managing the flow of artworks and completed frames to and from clients.

Requirements:

The successful candidate must primarily have excellent communication skills, coupled with an ability to organise in a methodical manner. This particular role requires a self motivated person who is capable of working under deadlines.  Competency with computer database systems and skills with reliable record keeping are essential. Experience working under pressure and knowledge of gallery and museum practices is preferred. We are interested in individuals who enjoy problem solving and taking on challenges.  

He or she must be able to work as a team player, and with minimal supervision.

Application by email only to:

mike@darbyshire.uk.com

Closing date for applications 21 August 2013

Galerie Simpson's 1 year Anniversary Group Show at Darbyshire

Installation view of Galerie Simpson's group show at Darbyshire

On Wednesday July 3rd, Darbyshire hosted an evening celebrating the first birthday of Galerie Simpson. It was the first chance to see all the print editions published in the past year gathered together, including works by John Stezaker, Gavin Turk and Anglea De La Cruz. The evening saw the launch of new works by Gary Hume and Georgie Hopton, as was generously sponsored by Borough Wines.  Darbyshire has been Galerie Simpson's exclusive framer since its inception in 2012.

To join the mailing list and be kept up to date with upcoming editions email office@galeriesimpson.com

The Charming Baker's LA show "Lie Down I Think I Love You" at Milk Studios

Opening night for Charming Baker's solo show at Milk Studios, LA

British artist Charming Baker just opened his largest ever solo exhibition at Milk Studios, Los Angeles from March 21 – 24, 2013. Never having produced a body of work on such a scale before, this marks an exciting new phase in the artist’s oeuvre, which has already included a fast rising, and star-studded following in the UK and America.  Lie Down I Think I Love You, showcases new work exploring the unpredictable nature of love, comprised of 20 paintings - proudly framed by Team Darbyshire - as well as prints and sculptures.  Baker also unveiled a sculptural installation depicting an oversized plastic toy passenger plane. 

http://411posters.com/2013/03/charming-baker-lie-down-i-think-i-love-you-milk-studios/

Charming Baker, at the opening of his current solo exhibition at Milk Studios LA

Linder's "Femme/Objet" solo show at Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Darbyshire recently created light boxes, and framed photographic works for Linder's current solo exhibition "Femme/Objet" at Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. A radical feminist and a well-known figure of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene, Linder has been known for her montages,which make a point about the cultural expectations of women and the treatment of female body as a commodity. For more information on Linder:
  
http://modernart.net/view.html?id=1%2C3%2C18http

www.mam.paris.fr/fr/expositions/linder

Picture Framing and Sales Consultant position available at Darbyshire

Position: Picture Framing Sales Consultant

Salary: £20,000-£25,000/yr, or negotiable depending on experience

Location: London, Postal Code: N1 NPD

Job term: Full time

Darbyshire Ltd. is seeking to employ a picture framing sales consultant for our front of house team, at our workshops in Islington, London.

The successful candidate will primarily focus on liaising with existing and new clients, advising and selling of museum standard framing.
Fostering trust between clients and Darbyshire Ltd. as a consultant, you will be a primary point of contact through email, telephone and by appointment at our Islington studio.

Possessing confidence and a good knowledge of working with museum standard framing materials and techniques, you will have the ability to place and communicate customers orders to our frame workshop. Working within a team of consultants with a keen eye for detail and quality control, you will be responsible for the overseeing of framing orders from client to final delivery.

This particular role requires a self motivated person who is capable of working under deadlines, whilst enjoying problem solving and taking on new challenges.

Application by email only to:

richardlaw@darbyshire.uk.com

Closing date for applications 26th November 2012

Kitty Lake private view at Darbyshire, Nov 8th

Darbyshire is pleased to present Kitty Lake, at our White Lion Street space in Islington.
Kitty Lake is a one night only event, presented as part of Darbyshire’s ongoing art projects program.

Kitty Lake anthropologist and explorer 1904 - 2001

Kitty Lake’s collection of photographs, journals and artefacts creates a visual narrative of her life; these are the clues, the evidence. A three-dimensional documentary, half revealed, giving a glimpse of her journeys, encounters, relationships; a life bought together in a few boxes.

Artist Sally Hampson has followed in Kitty Lake’s footsteps retracing her journeys, to the wilds of the West Coast of Ireland and across to the Outer Hebrides, to Dakhla Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert and the mountains of Sinai, to Lalibella in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Kitty Lake disappeared in Egypt in the early spring of 2000. After receiving a post card of her designated route; Sally traced the same journey, which led her to a small hotel at the end of a track, at the edge of the escarpment. It was there sadly that she was given Kitty Lake tin trunk in amongst her belongings, her journal where she describes walking up into the escarpment. Using her descriptions Sally tried to follow but found nothing.
“Coming back through Cairo airport carrying my luggage as well as Kitty’s tin truck, I was asked at customs, “What’s this?” We both looked down at her belongings (where could I begin?). I just said, “Please don’t ask” and he gently closed the lid.

Sally Hampson locates, gathers, assembles and curates Kitty Lake collections.

Extracts of Kitty Lake’s journeys have been shown at the Horniman Museum in London, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, Netherlands, and the British Council Cairo.

Kristof Jeney's new work in "Zeitgeber", at the Gallery in Redchurch Street

Kristof Jeney, Untitled, 2012, aluminium, glass, LED, porcelain, 23 carat caplain gold, 50 x 70 x 10cm

Darbyshire recently had the pleasure of collaborating with artist Kristof Jeney to come up with creative solutions for the challenging and sometimes tricky display needs of this current art works. IlIllusion created with high polished metal and mirrors, and a few secret tricks in between! These works are currently on view in the show "ZEITGEBER" at the Gallery in Redchurch Street.

"ZEITGEBER" will be open this evening as part of First Thursdays, and the show is on until November 24th.

Kristof Jeney's practice is an exploration into human consciousness. His work plays with reflection and illusion in response to his opinions of our devolving society. The viewer is prompted to consider their own existence within Jeneys dualism of perspectives. The use of body, nostalgic accumulations and transformative imagery underpins the reoccurring themes of mortality and life cycles. Working in both photography and sculpture Jeney presents a series of work that carefully captures our fragility.

For more information, go to: http://www.galleryinredchurchstreet.com/whats-on.php

Kristof Jeney, The Gift of Two Truths, 2012, aluminium, wood, glass, LED, ostrich feather, 23 carat caplain gold, 42 x 27 x 162cm

Mario Testino's career retrospective show at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Kate Moss, London 2006 © Mario Testino. From the exhibition In Your Face by Mario Testino at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Darbyshire team was delighted to frame Mario Testino’s retrospective career exhibition “In Your Face”, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston until February 13, 2013. The world renowned Peruvian-born fashion and portrait photographer hand-selected 125 photos of celebrities and dignitaries for his show, giving insight on his influence and aesthetic contribution to fashion and photography. 

To see more, watch the MFA’s video “Go behind the Scenes” : 

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/mario-testino

Mark Darbyshire , Matthew Slotover and Maureen Paley on Monocle 24 radio

Monocle 24 is a round the clock internet radio station covering globalist perspectives on international affairs, lifestyle and design. Listen to this week’s segment #52 of “Culture with Robert Bound”, as Maureen Paley, Matthew Slotover OBE, and our very own Mark Darbyshire talk about how to frame a master at Frieze Art Fair:

http://www.monocle.com/24/shows/culture/