Love Art London

Get your thermal socks on, we’re going camping. Why? Because that’s precisely what artist Alex Hartley (the chap responsible for Nowhereisland, a floating sculpture made mostly of matter collected from an island in the High Arctic which will be taking a 500-mile journey around the UK, pulled along by a tug boat, during next year’s Olympic shenanigans) is doing at the Victoria Miro Gallery. Floating on the ornamental pond in the gallery’s back garden is a ramshackle dome made from rusting car bonnets cut into triangles which, for the duration of the show, Alex is calling home. Although the artist describes this contraption as a lunar module as designed by Harold Steptoe, it’s surprisingly cosy, insulated with Hessian, complete with a wood-burning stove and a chicken coop. Fair questions at this juncture might firstly be why but moreover why in January for Pete’s sake? Questions you’ll be able to ask the artist yourself.

Alex’s work seeks to explore ideas of habitation, wilderness, belonging and isolation. It's all about the search for peace in an increasingly noisy world, the harshness of nature, its simple beauty and survival too. And what better way to explore these ideas than by turning one of London’s most celebrated contemporary art galleries into an eco lodge? We’ll be meeting Alex for a tour of his show and chatting to him about life inside the dome. Fantastic.

This event is for Members Only (25 places)

http://www.victoria-miro.com/