Partying in Venice!

Peter Fleissig and artist Ross Lovegrove with art conservator who were all university buddies together. I bumped into them at Miuccia Prada's party for the opening of her show of John Wesley's work.








Checked out the Distortion show, curated by James Putnam, where Black's bar had commissioned a number of works including this one:











We had a few guests:

Veronika Wolff with Lizzie and Tereza Buskova













Alex Heim with Anna Catharina Gebbers











Robert Devereux and me













The Gavin Sisters with Rob Diament













Here is Martin Boyce with his wife Sheila and Stuart Evans












Lizzie and Alex in Blue!


















Gatecrashers one the docks - were also welcome to the collection party.

















Mary Moore, Anne Berthoud and their friend.














Sharon Alouf and Yana Peel in Orange!


















Rob Diament with Philippa Horan and friend.


















Amir Shariat and Ziba De Weck hanging out in Venice.










Here's Steve McQueen with his lovely mum, who was wearing a beautiful silver dress and tiara the previous evening.
















Miles Thurlow with his son Alfie!











Victoria Siddall and Cindy Dawood.













Berndt Ardell and friend.









Venice Baby








Ellen and Francois Chantala from Thomas Dane Gallery.









Some dead and dying people by Jan Fabre.



























Sarah Wang, from Creative Industries Agency.

















Made friends with some ladies from Afghanistan, they are creating a pavilion next year.




















Here is Ivor Braka and Virgina Ibbot in tete-a-tete.












My lovely Isaac Julien with Sean Regen.













Glenn Ligon and Thomas Dane after celebrating at Steve's party hosted by Thomas.












Frances Upritchard showing some of her work at the New Zealand pavilion. Thumbs up from me!

The 53rd Venice Biennale

Russian Gosha has once again excelled himself. Here's Gosha with his phantom artist. A must-see in Venice!

From Russia with "Unconditional Love". These lovely girlie curators, and AES+F is also a must-see!

WOW! Dead collector: A warning to all of us when collecting takes over your life!

A well-suited evening

Congratulations Iwona.
The prince schlepped all the way
to the East End in his formal
attire for you!!
You and the Whitechapel Gallery are amazing.














Last night was brilliant. The story goes - I decided to hold a fundraising auction for Camden Arts Centre the same day and called my friends Jay Jopling, Sadie Coles, Catherine Petitgas, Glenn Scott-Wright amongst others.

Everyone was amazing and all donated the most amazing works, which raised £25k for the Centre! Antony Gormley was dynamic - he even donated a fabulous work. It was Michael Raedecker's birthday but we weren't allowed to tell anyone. Gregor demonstrated to Michael how to play flamenco guitar.

The guests were incredibly generous and totally immersed in a good cause. Mike Davies was the most generous of them all and was wearing the best suit! I liked his suit better than William's! Much more appropriate. Jenni Lomax was a very happy lady.

www.tunnel228.com

A big congratulations to Hamish Jenkinson
and Kevin Spacey in their opening of
Tunnel 228!








By Polly Morgan











An actor from Punchdrunk theatre company... I think!

The Gainsborough Packet, &c., etc.

Back to 176 and Matt Stokes’s show The Gainsborough Packet, &c. which has been a wonderful experience.

Malcom McLaren came by to check out Club Ponderosa.

Started my travels with Lizzie. We visited my hometown, where Matt was showing. Will Hodgkinson, Sam Lee and Matt posed for me. We girls loved the hair.

Michael Landy and Gordon Watson were having some frivolity at Caragh Thurloe’s party at Mark Hix.

Then off to Berlin for the Gallery Weekend.

Then it was off to meet the artists. Eric Fischel was showing of his work to me.

My lovely friends Stellan Holme and Til Gerhard posing for me at a delicious Italian lunch hosted by Raphael Jablonka.

Then the charming Simon De Pury, and very interesting Anglo/American artist Adam McEwen.

Richard Artschwager, one of the masters of them all sitting on one of his sculptures with his son at Spruth Magers.

Nordenhake were an inspirational gallery. Gyonata looking very zen meditating in our new art work by Miroslaw Balka.

Terence Koh and the new amazing spiritualesque shirt – part of his new major art work, which is awesome. Cannot wait for our shopping trip.

Passed by Katja Strunz’s sister’s new gallery. Wishing them success – loved the marshmallows!

Gareth Moore, our new Canadian artist in the collection.

Bye bye Berlin – see you in September.