Overall, it was a great show. Riflemaker is housed in a former gun shop building that dates back to 1712, and exudes all the character and class an artist could ever ask for. Since its inception in 2004 it has proved to be one of the most successful independent galleries in the capital, largely thanks to the remarkably high quality of the leftfield shows held there. Riflemaker's unique style and impeccable taste places it firmly in the highest echelons of London's ever dynamic cultural scene; for the conceptual, emotional and progressive, accept no substitute.
Artists Anonymous are a collective of painters, photographers and filmmakers. They describe themselves as primarily painters but all three media are used in their installations. Often the time-based media of performance and film are utilised in the same way as other artists plan and develop projects through drawing. The artists themselves always appear in their work but as a collective they forego their individual identities to collaborate on a permanent basis. They operate within agreed rules established when they first met at art school in Berlin in 2001. Agreeing at that time no individual would ever work independently of the group. They would always operate as Artists Anonymous.
They say, “We’re anonymous not because we want to be anonymous as artists or people but because we want the work we create to be anonymous and free from assumptions that viewers might make from meeting anyone of us individually.’
I recommend the show to everyone. Their work is very interesting.
