Candida Powell-Williams will be exhibiting at Wheatley Garden. There are few young artists that come so highly recommended by their fellow students like Candida. She just finished her BA at Slade (the picture shows one of her degree works) and is now studying the the Royal College of Art.

We discussed what Candida will show in June, and I am thrilled by it. But it will be a surprise and everybody else just has to wait until all is revealed.

Very generously the owners of Wheatley Manor are allowing us to set a sculpture exhibition in the large beautiful garden. The 1½-acre garden of the Elizabethan manor house (built in 1601) is a perfect setting for - as we think - really really exciting emerging art,  pieces that redefine the idea of sculpture, pieces that use new surprising materials, and pieces that impress with creativity.

The exhibition will take place during the "Open Garden" event from the 12th to 14th of June.

I was invited to take part in the BBC Oxford Programme "Jo in the afternoon".

Garden Art. The Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig has invited to the annual "Rundgang", the highlight of all exhibitions at the Academy during the year. From basement to gallery and atrium up to the studios under the roof... the whole Academy becomes a stage. Nearly all students are presenting pieces of their work.

The Academie got a very good reputation for still allowing students to work in a relative curriculum free environment. Just being nutured by professors like Neo Rauch. The pictured sculpture of flower pots was probably not the best work I saw, but the one that made me smile most.

We are very busy organizing a sculpture show in May: "Found Treasures". The aim is to show exciting new works by new contemporary emerging artists - not so much the polished marble pieces but more edgy provocative works.

If you are an artist and interested in displaying you work send us a mail. If you are a collector, art lover or just anybody interested in what we are doing stay tuned: We are going to give more details about the next events in short time.

We are looking for new unusual places to show the exciting work of new emerging artists in a small event.  This could be the rough space of an empty barn or the elegant salon of a large country house, the interior of a nice boathouse close to the river or the garden of a secluded cottage.

In a time when museums impress more and more with the sheer size of their buildings and the fame of their architects, we thought it would be interesting to show art in a more familiar and because of this in a more unusual setting.

So, if you are the owner or you know about an interesting space, we would like to hear about it: Send us a mail.

Now begins the exciting time in Germany: The time of the "Rundgang" (The Graduate Shows)  The season is started by Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf. Who learns here, gets classes from professors like Peter Doig, Rosemarie Trockel, Tal R, and Didier Vermeiren.

The Rundgang starts the 3rd of February. This is the day when collectors are shopping for works, and the many ad agencies in the town for talents.

Quite a few of the young artists that Notfamousyet has presented in the last shows have been graduates from the Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf. Among them Michail Pirgelis with his sculptures made of "found" airplane parts,  Nina Fandler who in her large paintings plays with the vision of reality by using staged reflections and hidden image, and in the last show Dominik Halmer and Jana Schroeder.

Quite busy working on my plans for 2010: Finding unusual places to showcase exciting emerging artists. And while doing this got a nice mail from  Gwenda Thompson Marchesi who does live-sized animals. Looks like a match. Her work reminds me of the Jochem Hendricks' installation at the large show of Haunch of Venison in London or the pieces of Polly Morgan at Sudeley Castle,  even though Gwenda does not use real animals.

The show at 10 St Clements will end in some days and I am asked what I am planning next. The answer: Continue the concept of finding new surprising places and connect those with stunning works of exciting artists.

In this year we showed exciting young work in an empty shop, converted a small secluded chapel  into a calm meditative art event, and displayed a tongue in cheek installation about plants in a garden shop.

For the next year I am determined to find more interesting places for the selected artists. The aim is to create intriguing new artistic shows, more events than exhibitions. I am talking currently to owners of large private manors, principals of Oxford colleges, supporters of community gardens. A friend pointed me to a National Trust property: so unique, amazing and full of history. Jointly we put this location on top of the list. The next show is already confirmed. It will be a sculpture show in large formal garden.

Which artists will be there? This is of course the more important question. Two artists who have been introduced in recent group shows will be invited for solo shows. Under the title "The Rundgang" we are going to present the most interesting new talents from Germany. A recent contact actually challenges the name of the gallery because the "notyet" does not apply.

A good programme. Please register to be kept updated.

When children pass the gallery they suddenly stop and point and smile. That is when they discover one of Madi Acharya-Baskerville's objects. For "Hybrid" - featured above - she found the skeleton of a toy car, gave it an energetic blue passenger, created four wheels out of various objects, and decorated this little item with tiny wonderful ornaments. 

Would I like to keep it? You bet!