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Selfridges windows turned into an art gallery
Evening Standard 18.01.08
Display: Richard Sweeney's 3D paper sculptures in the Wonder Windows at Selfridges
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Selfridges is turning three of its showcase windows into a permanent art gallery.
The new space, called the Wonder Windows, will be dedicated to showing the work of up-and-coming artists.
The first to be featured is Richard Sweeney, 23, from Huddersfield, who makes three-dimensional paper sculptures.
The gallery is named after the Wonder Room, where the Oxford Street store sells jewellery and watches. Selfridges has a history of bold art initiatives. When the building was undergoing restoration, the scaffolding was shrouded with a giant photograph of stars such as Sir Elton John by Sam Taylor-Wood.
Rebecca Bateman, the store's creative concept manager, said: "The Wonder Windows will present beautiful work from wonderful young artists who otherwise may not have been able to find such a high-profile space."
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To whom it may concern,
I am interested in your arts program and would like to know who runs it for Selfridges. I think it is great you bringing together so successfully the arts in to a commercial setting and would like to know more about it before I come to London in September later this year.
- Francesca Valmorbida, Sydney, Australia
Trouble is, only people "in the know" know this.
- Carlyle Braden, Croydon, UK
