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With Roy and Jill at my side we battled our way through the London art scene. The morning started slowly. After a few meetings in the office I headed out into the city to Gagosian in Davies street to Damien Hirst’s new show followed by a lunch. Hirst had tenderly placed his pills on a canvas and everyone kept asking me if they were good, my answer was that if Damien decides to make very few of these then they will be very special but you never know. We had a divine lunch at La Petite Maison; Larry on one table and Damien on the other - we all sat somewhere in between.
On our way out I met up with Aaron Young and his fabulous girlfriend Laure. Then we headed off to pay Thomas a visit at Kelly Walker show which was spectacular. Lizzie joined me though she had a badly broken toe so was being beyond brave: a brick had fallen on her toe on Saturday night!
Equally spectacular was the Mark Bradford show at White Cube.
We caught him in midst of hanging and Roy Z and Mark hit it of big time. I also managed to bump into my Little Sis Yana as we were leaving.
We dropped by again to Aaron Curry which is as amazing as the first time i saw it and then upstairs to visit Alex Dellal and Vito Schnabel. Their show was really lovely and I bought a few works for the collection and then we dropped into their amazing Shed where the Bruce High Quality installation was busily being installed by their interns.
Then it was straight off to Joe Le Placa’s very lovely show with artists such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tim Noble and Sue Webster at the helm. Then after that we all dropped into see Matt Johnsons work at Alison Jacques - he is a master of material.
Then to the Tunnels to visit Stephen Lazarides and Hamish Jenkinson. The show was incredibly dramatic. My favourite work was the Connor Harrington. Alas there was not time for Ai Wei Wei at Tate, or Ceri Hand in Mayfair but i did watch through the window whilst Ben and Phil from Juneau Projects strummed away to a crooning crowd around a large more than festive table - it looked so inviting. I felt a little like Scrooge from the Ghosts of Christmas Carol or Oliver laying his eyes on Mr Bumble's Merry Feast!
