Art In London- RHG Summer Success – 5 June 2008
RHG Summer Success: Art In London Article, Summer 2008.
While many retailers are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, some within the art trade have an air of resilient bullishness. It's certainly an expensive operation to open a new gallery space in the capital, but there seems to be an ever-increasing band of sagacious or dim-witted (depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist!) people prepared to do just that. Interestingly, those taking the step are experienced dealers who are only too aware of the tenuous nature of the buying and selling art.
For example, there is Australian-born Rebecca Hossack who, having obtained a Law degree at Melbourne University, came to London in 1981 to read for the Bar. However, her overriding passion was art and the tall, vivacious Rebecca opened her first gallery in 1988. Now, apart from her space at 28 Charlotte Street, W1T 2JS (Tel:020 7255 2828), she has opened an impressive new gallery at 2a Conway Street, W1T 6BA (Tel:020 7436 4899). In March, I attended the opening shindig and I have to say, being a vetran of gallery previews, that i have never seen so many gliterati. The opportunity to view the art was pretty well impossible - it was akin to being on the London underground at the height of rush hour!
The summer months are somewhat frenetic for Miss Hossack. Apart from the Conway Street gallery's exhibtion of works by Eugenie Vronskaya (b.1966) and Emma Haworth,(30 May-28 June), Rebecca will be taking part in The Affordable Art Fair NY, Art Santa Fe and The Melbourne Art Fair. And if that was not enough, her Charlotte Street space present an exhibition of Hepzibar Swinford's (b.1956) highly elaborate and colourful oils of flowers from 5 June-5 July.