Celina Teague: 'My Bunny is Full of Teeth and Other Stories' Exhibition

Above: Under Worship

Above: Artist Celina Teague by The Hollow Couple

On Tuesday night I went to the preview of 'My Bunny is Full of Teeth and Other Stories' - the latest exhibition by artist Celina Teague.

The title of the show was inspired by Celina's unruly pet bunny rabbit, Gretel, who made a surprise appearance on the night! (left)

It is always very exciting to see Celina's work exhibited and this show certainly did not disappoint – the paintings, and several drawings, together are a powerful force – incredibly bright and hugely charismatic. One can become completely absorbed in the detail of her work (where often the most fun is discovered!)

Above: By The Rape of the Honeybee

Above: Marina Fogel, Michou von Beschwitz, Marcus Waley-Cohen, Baldassare La Rizza, Sinead Murtagh, Fiona McGlinchey, Celina Teague, Shirley Leigh-Wood Oakes

Above: Simon Ambrose, Awsa Bergstrom, Emily Marr, Alex Roupell, Anthony Nathan, Charlie Beamish, James French, Vanessa Story, Olivia Hunt, Orlando and Emma Seale.

'My Bunny is Full Of Teeth and Other Stories' is showing until Sunday 9th Oct at The ROA Gallery.

www.celinateague.com

George Harrison: Living In The Material World

“George himself is no mystery. But the mystery inside George is immense. It’s watching him uncover it all little by little that’s so damn interesting.” John Lennon.

Last Sunday I happily declined a day lying in the sunshine to attend the World Premiere of ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World,’ a documentary feature by Martin Scorsese.

Above: At the premiere and with Dhani Harrison.

The Beatles, amongst some other beyond famous figures, have all become such icons of our time that it is sometimes hard to remember them as individuals and real people underneath all the colourful memorabilia.

Taking 5 years to make and lasting a whopping 3.5 hours (split into 2 parts!) this film is full of never seen before footage, intimate interviews from George's wife Olivia, son Dhani and many of his nearest and dearest’s including Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, Ray Cooper and Tom Petty. This film really delves into who George was, beneath all the fame and the hysteria surrounding him – and he was a fascinating character.

Before the film commenced Martin Scorsese recognized how this audience was to be a most “difficult crowd” as so many of the people sat in the cinema at the British Film Institute that night had actually lived George’s story alongside him…

Indeed, looking around me I was sat amongst Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Idle, Pattie Boyd, Jackie Stewart and Terry Gillam… to name but a few! This took the viewing of this film to another level – it was profoundly emotional and real.

Part One focuses on George Harrison's humble beginnings in Liverpool, the creation, and the subsequent dizzying success, of The Beatles, his drugs, his love triangle with Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton, his spiritual awakening, trips to India, his relationship with Ravi Shankar, his meditation and The Beatles' eventual dissolution in 1970.

Part Two concentrates on George Harrison's career as a solo artist, movie impresario, philanthropist and father. The highlights in this part were The Bangladesh Concert (the first major rock concert to address a world crises) the financing of The Life Of Brian and launching of Handmade Films (a key factor in the revival of the British film industry in the 1980’s), the formation of The Travelling Wilburys, George's commitment to restoring one of the most beautiful gardens and estates in England (his serene retreat, and home, Friar Park) his cancer and his endless quest to understand his faith and preparation towards leaving his human body.

As well as being an amazing guitarist and songwriter (credits which include ‘Taxman,’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps,’ ‘Here Comes The Sun,’ ‘My Sweet Lord’ and my favourite, ‘Something’) George Harrison also helped in bringing Indian music, culture and religion to the West. He was a well-loved, very private, complex individual with a great sense of humour and many close, wonderful friends - I especially enjoyed his rapport with Ringo (who's interviews are amongst the most touching.)

I must say, the beautiful Olivia Harrison’s interviews were completely captivating; at one point the audience cheered her response to being asked what the secret to a long marriage was… “You don’t get divorced!”

There was a true sense of loss as I left the theatre – in those people that had known and loved George, but also in those that hadn’t and felt they'd truly missed out as a consequence.

Above: Dhani and Olivia Harrison

"People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life's about."

'George Harrison: Living In The Material World’ will be available on DVD Oct 10th

My Style - Presenter Louise Roe

Louise Roe: Television presenter, fashion journalist, stylist, shoe fanatic...

Having first graced our screens as a glossy cast member on MTV’s The City, Louise Roe fast and fabulously became a regular face on all the most glamourous of red carpets interviewing Hollywood's finest. Covering the recent MTV Movie Awards, VMA’s and EMA’s, co-hosting E!’s live coverage of the Royal Wedding, Louise also presents the MTV reality makeover show ‘Plain Jane,’ where she transforms women, inside and out, with the help of a new wardrobe and confidence-building exercises, in order to surprise their secret crushes.

Alongside her presenting, Louise has designed a range of shoes and jewellery for StylistPick.com, fronted several campaigns over the last few years (stylish and hot – her legs are endless…) and she has somehow managed to find the time to share her fashion wisdom and advice in Elle, Vogue.com, In Style, Glamour, Cosmopolitan… and now with us at The London Chatter!

My Style In 3 Little Words – Bright, 70's, Heels!

This Season Every Gal Needs – Something orange.

My British Fashion Icons (Past & Present) – Princess Diana & Carey Mulligan.

My Favourite Highstreet Store – Jaeger.

My Favourite Boutique – Diptyque.

My Favourite British Designer – Giles Deacon.

At Gunpoint; Bags OR Shoes – Shoes!

My First Fashionista Memory – During my first fashion week while working for Elle, I went backstage at Giles Deacon and interviewed Linda Evangelista.

My Saturday Night Outfit – Leather jeggings from M&S and a burnt orange blazer from Zara.

My Sunday Brunch Outfit – A loose maxi dress and flat sandals.

OMG I Can’t Believe I Wore – A pink puffball skirt, pink fishnets and pixie boots to my sister's birthday… I was in my early teens.

Forget My Last Meal, My Last Outfit Would Be – Leopard print wedges by Giuseppe Zanotti and perhaps a huge, stunning Marchesa gown…Go out in style!

My Style Tip – Wear something because it fits, not because it's cool.

Above: Lou Does Good Shoe

Series 2 of 'Plain Jane' starts on October 19th at 8pm on MTV

Musical Moment - Orlando Seale and The Swell ('These Streets')

For much the same reason that I love ‘Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros,’ I also love ‘Orlando Seale and The Swell’ – because alongside their great music, they all have the best fun together and you just want to get up and be a part of their gang.

Some have called Orlando Seale and The Swell’s music ‘Punk Folk’ and have likened them to ‘having the Arcade Fire in your bedroom.’ Handsome Orlando (right), always beautifully articulate, describes them as “ten friends playing music that swings wildly from the epic to the intimate, the melancholic to the euphoric.”

I love their song ‘These Streets’ (released next month) which you can listen to whilst watching this video Emma Seale, Orlando’s gorgeous wife, filmed recently in Paris. I am sure you will, like me, wish you’d been there to join in with all their “fun, fun, fun!”

“He’s a lucky little ape man, in his silk top hat,
He’s gonna bang his chest if you look at him like that…"

Orlando Seale and The Swell will be playing tonight at 9pm at The Lexington.
www.myspace.com/orlandoseale

Credit Buy - Ducie Maxi Dress

And just when you thought it was safe to get back into your UGGS, along came the Indian Summer we had all been promised but daren’t possibly believe...

A fortnight ago in beautiful Tuscany I wore this cream Ducie Maxi dress – and now I want it in every colour under the sun.

Designer Ducie Keam-George founded her label in 2004 with her husband Dan and initially they sold their dresses from a stall in Portobello Market. Rapidly expanding through word of mouth, these gorgeous dresses are now available online in a selection of stunning colours and styles.

Dressed up or down, this cotton and silk dress with gold buttons is so versatile and hooooopefully, sunshine permitting, I’ll get to wear it again this weekend… Or have I just jinxed everything?!

I’d better keep those UGGS to hand just in case…

Available from Ducie in a range of lots of gorgeous colours...

RRP. £190.00

Best Of London - Celina Teague

Below: The Hive

At artist Celina Teague’s last exhibition I overheard one man reveal, "I feel like I’m on acid in the 60’s again…!" Celina’s mesmerising paintings are vibrant, dramatic and seriously hallucinatory – they affront you with their boldness, unsettle you with their absurdity and completely delight you with their passion and colour.

A graduate in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, Celina also trained at the Universidad de Bellas Artes in Oaxaca, Mexico and has lived in Berlin and Shanghai.
Although still hugely inspired by these countries and their cultures - and always itching to explore the world and its beauty further - it is London where Celina now lives, loves and paints.

Whilst preparing for her second solo show, ‘My Bunny is all Teeth and Other Stories’ which opens next week, Celina shares with us some of her London Favourites….

My transport – Bicycle

My Cocktail – A Bloody Mary at Shoreditch House.

My Date Night – Worryingly at the moment it seems to be Westfield’s! A Snog (frozen yoghurt) and the cinema with my husband Dom.

My Sunday Brunch – In Hyde Park. A stop off at Crussh to pick up a smoothie, then a walk (via Speaker's Corner) to the restaurant on the Serpentine. Alternatively, Saf on the Curtain Road in Shoreditch has the best food in London – and its vegan.

My Boutique – The recenty closed Hoxton Boutique was amazing for original designs and jewellery – luckily, their online boutique will be available in November.

My High Street Store – Waterstones. I always arrange to meet friends outside it - how late they are directly corresponds with the amount of cash left in my bank account.

London’s Best Kept Secret – Speaker's Corner, hardly a secret but this is my favourite place in London - it attracts some of the most weird and wonderful characters. People heckle and boo and throw out insults but it's all done in good humour. Last year my friend Marthe Sophie and I organized a group show there.

My London Icon – Having watched ‘Hugh's Fish Fight’ it is currently Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He's very charming, very persistent and won't take no for an answer.

Above: The Rape of the Honey Bee

‘My Bunny is all Teeth and Other Stories’ at the Roa Gallery, 4th - 9th October.

Debit Buy - Hennes Dress

I have been asked a few times where the dress I wore to Martha Freud's 'Mixed Messages' Exhibition last week was from... I recently bought this summery, pleated dress with mesh at the top from H&M.

Although available in black (a more obvious choice as we enter Autumn/Winter) I wore this cream version with navy tights and Steve Madden pixi boots - an easy transitional look between seasons (a.k.a - desperately clinging onto the summer!)

RRP. £19.99

Musical Moment - Lana Del Rey ('Blue Jeans')

I have previously written (here) about the perfectly pouty New York singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey (aka Lizzy Grant) and her sultry song ‘Video Games’ which I loved. This is the music video for her next song ‘Blue Jeans’ - once again, the look is eclectic and nostalgic with her voice sounding as arresting as ever.

"I will love you till the end of time....
Promise you'll remember that you're mine."

Both songs will be available to download on October 16th.