London Art and Artists Guide 10th edition
Heather Waddell
ISBN 0 9520004 6 6
£12.95(UK) $19.95(USA) 18 Euros

The landmark 10th edition of this lively pocket art guide is larger than ever before, as more than 200 new galleries have opened in London in the last two years. There are now nearly 1000 galleries, art project spaces and museums in London and this guide gives details of where to find them and the kind of work they show. The rise of photography in recent years has been reflected with a photography galleries section and an interview with Ben Burdett, photography dealer, Atlas Gallery. James Colman, art dealer has also been interviewed. The artists interviewed are painters Michael Ajerman,Celia Washington, Peter Harrap and Natasha Kissell and printmaker François Pont. The guide has had over 120 reviews over the years by newspapers, art magazines, in-flight magazines and radio stations internationally.

The guide has a useful introduction to the London art world and covers museums, Old

master galleries, contemporary galleries, photography galleries, art material suppliers, art addresses, scholarships, grants, prizes, studios, press contacts, art schools, art bookshops and publishers and everything you need to know about the London art world.

The London section covers restaurants, parks, markets, travel information in and outside London and overseas. It also has an article about Multicultural London and all the various communities in the city.

Peter Harrap & Natasha Kissell
Artists

London Art and Artists Guide 9th edition
Heather Waddell
ISBN 0 9520004 58
£10.95(UK) $17.95(USA)

The newly updated 9th edition of this essential pocket art guide is now on sale, covering not only all the useful London art world information but a section at the back with London retaurants, parks, markets and articles on The Changing Face of Multicultural london and Riverside London.The art section has interviews at the front with Matthew Flowers of Flowers East galleries, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art dealer, Grace O'Connor artist (cover photo) and Tove Gambetta de Gilham, artist, also Chris Kewbank of Special Photographers Company next to a feature on Collecting Photographs.London's contemporary art world has undergone a huge expansion in the last five years and all this is covered in the guide.As Sarah Kent of Time Out magazine said," Get one, you will use it continuously."
The art section covers museums, Old Masters and early 20th Century art galleries,

Angela Flowers
Flowers Central gallery

Japanese Gardens
at Holland Park

Interview with Chris Kewbank of the Special Photographers' Company
(an extract)

London Art and Artists Guide 8th edition
Heather Waddell
ISBN 0 9520004 23
£9.95(UK) $16.95(USA)

This useful pocket art guide covers virtually everything you need to know about the London art world: a French writer called it "la bible artistique" and there have been some 100 reviews of the book internationally. 800 art galleries and museums are included divided into Museums, Old Masters and early 20th century art galleries and Contemporary and 20th century galleries, National Centres and Institutes and Photography galleries. Details such as whether artists can apply, what kind of work is shown there and how to get there are included in these sections. Other sections include studios; useful addresses; art schools; art bookshops; press contacts; membership schemes; art materials; print workshops; art book publishers. Interviews with two artists, an art dealer and Tate Modern Director Lars Nittve, an introduction and a feature about new Millennium changes in London are also included.

Prue O'Day with sculpture
by Mario Rossi

Royal Opera Arcade,
Haymarket, SW1

 

 

The Hidden Backstreets
of Village London
(an extract)

The London Art World 1979-99
Heather Waddell
Introduction John Russell Taylor
ISBN 0 9520004 31
£15.00(UK) $19.95(USA)

The London Art World 1979-99 is a personal, photographic diary record of twenty years of the London art world by Heather Waddell to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the London Art and Artists Guide. John Russell Taylor (The Times art critic) has written an illuminating introduction, showing how these photographs are a personal record of who was who and what was what on the London art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. These photographs will be seen in future as a social document, showing how exhibitions have changed over twenty years.

At the station, 1996, by Patrick Corillon. Abracadabra show,
Tate Britain