Hi Philip,

Thank you for pointing out the mistakes in our article – we have now corrected them, please do let us know if you spot any more!

Also, thank you for the additional suggestions of shows to visit, they certainly look interesting!

R.A. Summer Show. 4th Line last word[s] “gifted ammeters”
ammeter |ˈamɪtə|
noun: an instrument for measuring electric current in amperes.

I think you mean amateur |ˈamətə, -tʃə, -tjʊə, ˌaməˈtəː|
noun: a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis!

And the first line of the next paragraph, “Gilbert and Gorge” [George]. These are household names in the trade.

It is one of the better R.A. Summer shows. During the last few years the curators seem to have had some great ideas and have brought a new level of competence to the variety of work and how it is arranged. Richard Wilson has done a splendid job. He seems to have dispensed with the use of specific rooms for specific purposes and mixed up the media and the format of the show. Prints appear amongst paintings and sculpture. A very enjoyable show.

Newport Street Gallery: show closing 16 – 10 – 2016.
Not to be missed is Jeff Koons Now at the Newport Street Gallery, Newport Street, SE11 6AJ, owned by Damien Hirst; the gallery building is also nominated for the RIBA Prize this year. The show is full of brilliantly colourful sculpture, weird images and arrangements of objects reminiscent of Surrealist art. The enormous metal coloured sculpture in the form of inflated balloons shaped like creatures as in ‘Ballon Monkey (Blue)’ with exquisite transparent surface shine and ‘Acrobat’, a giant shellfish balanced between two pieces of furniture, made to look like an inflatable object (the source material), and exquisitely painted to look like the inflated gaudy original, defying it’s weight as real cast metal. Some artworks are expressly ‘adult material’ and photography is strictly forbidden!

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Winifred Knights, [who you might ask?] 1899 – 1947. The gallery is showing exquisite pictures from her early years until her premature death in her 1940’s. She attended the Slade School at 18 years old, at the breakout of WW1. She eventually won the Rome Scholarship or Prix de Rome in Decorative Art, the first woman to do so, and spent time honing her skills in Italy. The work is new to me, apparently a student of a local Dulwich school and seen as a star student. Hers is an interesting life of commitment to art and her attitude to her relationships. The originality of some of her work, in particular the late landscape work shows her amazing talent in drawing and colour. Some of her colour work and original compositions show her painterly potential, possibly never fully realised. You can sense the early italian influences in her palette and compositional harmonies. This is a lovely show with much to see and enjoy; close scrutiny will be well rewarded!

Art Space Gallery: Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, 84 St. Peters Street, London N1 8JS
This was a pleasant surprise! As a casual caller at the gallery I wasn’t prepared for the splendid show of paintings by Jeffery Camp. Though I know his work well, this show was a real pleasure as an overview of his long career. Jeffery Camp, now 94 and still hard at work, has retained his beautiful colour sense. Some works date back to the late 50’s and up to more recent times. The painting have a scumbled, textural appearance, quite tactile and allowing the appearance of objects to blend and blur, patches of paint show how things can be described without resorting to mere illustration. There is an unusual eye and experienced eye for composition at work here. Shaped canvases have been in his repertoire for some years and are seen here in a wide range of sizes and shapes. The show ends next week. Don’t miss it if you are in Islington!