RDS Recommends with Jake Garfield

Sept. 11, 2024

Jake Garfield is a London-based artist working across printmaking, drawing and painting. His practice draws on art-historical and pop-cultural references to reflect on the nature of artifice, selfhood and the act of making. He graduated from The Drawing Year in 2013 and teaches various printmaking courses at the School.

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5 Free Exhibitions in London:

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  • National Gallery - Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look. An exhibition of Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism Of Christ and two Hockney paintings that include reproductions of it as pictures-within-pictures. If you like the Piero, head downstairs at the NG for their early Italian Renaissance paintings - my personal favourites.
    Until 27th October
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  • British Museum - Contemporary Collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker. A selection of recently acquired works on paper. A good one for anyone interested in taking my printmaking class at RDS. A diverse selection of prints and drawings by contemporary artists (and even one of mine).
    Until 29th September

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  • Communion - Bold Tendencies. Works exploring ideas around community, social relations and contemporary life by Saelia Aparicio, Adam Farah-Saad, Olu Ogunnaike, Yoko Ono, Martin Parr.
    Until 14th September
    Peckham, London, SE15 4ST

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  • Cristea Roberts Gallery - Remastered. A show focusing on appropriation from artists on the gallery’s roster. Cristea Roberts is the London’s best gallery for contemporary printmaking.
    Until 7th September
    London, SW1Y 5JG

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  • Kenwood House. Always open and always free. Check out the Rembrandt self-portrait and Vermeer’s The Guitar Player.
    Hampstead, London, NW3 7JR

5 Books:

  • Banal Nightmare - Halle Butler. Just come out in hardback. It’s about a millennial called Moddie returns back to the Mid-Western town she grew up in after a break up.
  • Remainder - Tom McCarthy. About a man who, after receiving a large settlement from an accident, becomes obsessed with recreating things he can only partly remember.
  • Antkind - Charlie Kaufman. The first novel from the writer of movies including Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Adaptation. As absurd as it is long: 5 stars.
  • 10:04 - Ben Lerner. A beautiful work of auto-fiction - rich in cultural references.
  • How The World Thinks - Julian Baggini. Baggini is great at communicating complex ideas in an accessible way. This book is about ‘comparative philosophy’, examining how similar concepts have been explored across different cultures.

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