I can't believe a girl is playing me Metallica Valerie Phillips

Viktoria's eyes are on the sides of her head, so you always think she's going to bump into something.

Each day when she gets dressed, it looks like she's put on every single item in her closet, in no particular order.
She's a poet, a musician, an illustrator. And she's appeared in a Scandinavian horror film covered in fake blood.
She's also the star of Valerie Phillips' latest book 'I Can't Believe A Girl Is Playing Me Metallica'.

The first time Valerie met her, Viktoria was hours late for a photo shoot.
When she finally showed up she had multi coloured magic marker scrawled all over her arms and hands. She explained she was late because she'd been up all night drawing tarot cards. Somehow she seemed to think this a perfectly good excuse for tardiness. Valerie agreed with her.

Viktoria grew up in Norway. Right slap bang between fjords and forest. Her house was like something straight out of Grimm's fairytales, simultaneously beautiful and sinister, filled with homemade art, broken musical instruments and opera CDs. Maybe this magical setting explains the intangible quality that attaches itself to Viktoria.

Being with her is crazy, captivating, addictive. Some days, wherever Viktoria was, Valerie felt compelled to be there too. They'd shoot in Viktoria's attic, in the family home in Norway, the street, the super market, on an aeroplane. Mesmerized, Valerie greedily captured all of Viktoria's spirit she could.

Book Launch & Exhibition
I Can't Believe A Girl Is Playing Me Metallica
The Cornell Spaceship Gallery @ Exposure
3 - 4A Little Portland St
London, W1W 8BU
Book Launch Thursday 10th April
6.30 – 9.30pm
Exhibition runs
11th April – 9th May
Opening hours: Monday – Friday 11 – 6pm

I can't believe a girl is playing me Metallica is presented as a series of diptychs, designed at Farrow, and published by Longer Moon Farther in March 2008 priced £15.
ISBN 978-0-9543403-3-9

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Exhibition 11th January – 1st February 2008
Private View Thursday 10th January 6:30 – 8:30pm

Intervention: Snow is Tim Simmons' first show with FAS and is a part of an ongoing body of work from the Intervention series', some of which can be seen at stand 3 & The Art Project Section @ The London Art Fair 16 - 20 January 2008.

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Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday: 10am – 6:00pm
Saturday: 10am – 1pm

Tim Simmons will be available for press interviews & studio visits by appointment, please contact Lu Dennis.

For more information on the artist, please go to www.timsimmons.co.uk

The photography of Tim Simmons prompts us to dream, to ponder time and eternity. His works expound the spirit of the place from the mundane to the magnificent; landscapes from the back yard to the snowfield are the sets of his eerie, haunting, enigmatic photographs. Created as elaborately lit tableaux, his series of images suggest the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind the deceptively familiar locations. Recognisable yet what it leaves unsaid it is where we can start to spin meaning from our own imaginations.

However the most significant sense from the works is an overriding feeling that evokes the notion of interlude and aftermath, an uncanny time when the veil separating this world and the next is at it's thinnest, a feeling that we have just missed… or something is about the happen...

Validation of the inexplicable is an ongoing theme that runs through the Intervention series, shot at night or the time just bridging twilight, they bask in the loss of light.

In the diminishing hours of day and deep into the night the uncanny and otherworldly manifest, the narrative unfolds suggesting its eerie states of stillness. Although carefully composed and lit to dramatic affect, the images possess a naturalistic silence and the ability to manifest an extraordinary magical beauty.

Louise Clements
Curator / Quad


It would be terribly arrogant to believe that this is the pinnacle of evolution. People are fascinated by knowing whether they are alone and also fascinated by where they come from. But we don't know the answer to either of these two questions.

If we could find another place where life has started to evolve then we would know that we weren't the only people in the universe and we would then have something to compare and contrast with our own lives and maybe we would understand why life started and how we got to be where we are...



This is an extract from a BBC4 broadcast 'in out time' called "the red planet".
Colin Pillinger, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University and leader of the Beagle 2 expedition to Mars.

Cherryvale Skateboard Company's London exhibition runs from June 28 - July 27 at The Gallery, 1st Floor 125 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H OEW. Opening night is Thurs June 28. We'll send out invites for that soon, so watch your mailbox.

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