We all, like sheep: Dovecot Studios's 'Large Tree Group' Tapestry

Yesterday the Fleming Collection previewed their exhibition of Dovecot Studios's tapestry based on the painting Large Tree Group by Victorian Crowe. As well as displaying the tapestry itself the exhibition detailed the making of the work which was produced entirely in Britain. 

Dovecot studios wove the tapestry out of un-dyed yarn, using the fleeces of different breeds of sheep to re-create the sombre sepia palette of Crowe's painting.

The photographer Alicia Bruce documented the creation of the tapestry with images such as the above which shows one of the small groups of artisan weavers who worked on the tapestry.

Furthermore, a series of sheep portraits by Paul Farnham from Katheryn Dun's recent book Beautiful Sheep also featured in the exhibition.

The Julian Opie picnic blanket we produced for Glyndebourne was woven and printed in the UK from New Zealand virgin wool.

Richard Wentworth: If history could be folded, where would you put the crease?

Yesterday Richard Wentworth's latest work for TFL/Art on the Underground was installed outside Southwark tube station.

If history could be folded, where would you put the crease?, October 2014

When You Look You May Not See, July 2014 - another contribution to TFL's Art on the Underground

 Plume, 2012

Le Baton, 2000

 If London Looked in the Mirror, 2006

To see more of Richard Wentworth's work visit the Lisson Gallery page

Monday Portrait: Arthur Beale of Arthur Beale, Shaftsbury Avenue

The best shops are often infused with their owner's identity and enhance our community with their constancy becoming landmarks that anchor an area's character against the shifting tides of commercialisation, degeneration or gentrification.

One such shop is Arthur Beale, the chandlers on Shaftsbury Avenue, which has recently been saved from extinction by Alasdair Flint & Gerry Jeatt. Beale's has been trading for over 400 years, but here is a more recent portrait of Arthur senior.

Grayson Perry: Who Are You?

The art provocateur of contemporary Britain, Grayson Perry, has closely collaborated with us on the merchandise to be sold alongside his Who Are You? installation at the National Portrait Gallery where all the works are linked to the people featured in the Channel 4 series of the same name.

But this time our product is on display in the gallery as well as the shop. The limited edition Earl of Essex miniature (above) featuring Rylan Clark is also the actual exhibit. The Ashford Hijab (below) is for sale in the shop and the exact same silk scarf is hanging in the gallery.

Monday Portrait: Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry as 'Default Man' - the "white, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual male".

Grayson Perry's guest-edited issue of the New Statesman is on sale now. Visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to get a copy.

Photo by Kalpesh Lathigra for the New Statesman.

Monday Portrait: Deborah Devonshire

The Duchess of Devonshire as seen by her friend Lucian Freud.

To hear her description of life as one of the infamous Mitford sisters listen to her  2010 interview with Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4.

Warhol

This month marked the opening of the last of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules - cardboard boxes into which Warhol regularly deposited the ephemera of his daily life throughout the 1970s. 

The Warhol Museum has been opening the boxes over the last decade. An individual bid $30,000 for the experience of opening this final box.

Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy features 'Andy Warhol' in the guise of a coffee shop assistant who like his namesake is attracted to everyday objects with an 'Arty Vibe'.  Series 2 Episode 5 begins with a show-and-tell and Andy's games are a Mondrian Rubik's Cube and a Limited Edition 'Damien Hirst' Twister Mat.

We're sure both Andys would appreciate our Damien Hirst fridge magnets and Gilbert and George Rubik's cube.

For more about Warhol's capsules visit the Warhol Museum's page on the time capsules or listen to Radio 4's documentary on the final capsule's opening.