Art and Protest: Resistance is fertile

Interesting show at the Daniel Libeskind Space (166-220 Holloway Road, Islington N7 8DB) but you'll have to be quick to catch it, as it is only on from 3rd to 5th April. Evenings from 18:00 to 20:00 when booking is required. No booking required for day-time entry (11.30am - 4.30am).

Art and Protest: Resistance is fertile is a Guerilla Galleries show. Guerilla Galleries seek to engineer, produce and curate an annual series of exclusive shows, exhibitions and events. They provide a platform for emerging artists and talented creatives to showcase and bring their work to new audiences.  

Pouka, a commission4mission member, is contributing work to the show which documents and celebrates the passion, pain, and power of protest through film, photography, fine art and more exponents than you can wave a placard at. Exploring scenes and re-examining snapshots of demonstrations and protest actions from living memory captured, re-told and innovatively delivered by a carefully selected band of artists and creatives in true Guerilla Galleries style.

This three-day show offers candid insight, fresh perspectives and levels of honesty previously unseen in themed shows of this nature. Art and Protest is not about choosing or taking sides, it's about artists telling tales and allowing an audience to decide.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio.

Clack and Pouka: Olympic exhibitions

I've enjoyed seeing Olympic-related exhibitions in Central London today featuring two commission4mission artists.

Chris Clack is part of exhibitions at Westminster Abbey, St Margaret's and Methodist Central Hall celebrating the Cultural Olympiad with a range of artistic forms from sculpture, carvings and glasswork to art installations, photography and paintings in various medium. The exhibitions are in partnership with More Than Gold, the agency established by all the main denominations to help churches make the most of the Games. The ‘Westminster Arts Inspired by the Games’ Festival is open throughout the Games and incorporates work from a number of celebrated artists from around the world. Details on contributors can be found at http://www.morethangold.org.uk/art.

Pouka is currently exhibiting paintings and sculptures (including the 18 metre long 'I AM' painting) at the African Village in Kensington Gardens, just opposite the Royal Albert Hall, which is there for the duration of the Olympics. The African Village is a village of stands presenting the cultural and artistic diversity of the African continent through an exhibition area and a restaurant open to the general public.

At Methodist Central Hall Westminister I also saw both Key of David - a huge canvas, 18 feet high by 72 feet long painted by artists from every corner of the globe - and a selection of work from the Methodist Collection of Modern Christian Art. This latter exhibition offers the public a rare opportunity to view works from this impressive, yet little known, collection. On show are artworks by key twentieth-century figures, including, but not limited to: Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra, Eric Gill, Patrick Heron, Elizabeth Frink, Jacques Iselin, Georges Rouault, and Craigie Aitchison.

Finally, I enjoyed seeing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei plus To The Light, a retrospective of work by Yoko Ono exploring her influential role in contemporary art across a wide range of media and showcasing her continuing interest in the relationship between the roles of artist and viewer.

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John Lennon - Woman.