Inspiration Monday: Whitechapel Art Gallery

Inspired by the wild, colourful and inventive work of the Tobias twins, macro photography of natural forms by a scientist and a room full of unconventional portrait works, I feel I have to recommend the Whitechapel Arts Gallery to those readers in, around, or visiting London.

The gallery has long been a favourite haunt whilst living, studying and now visiting London as the team curates diverse, wonderfully exhibited exhibitions in a fantastic building with a great cafe and bookshop and it is FREE!

Also in the vicinity and of interest are:

Toynbee Studios Artsbar and Café
The Womens' Library (just found out this has moved to LSE but still well worth a visit)
Atlantis Art Supplies
Whitechapel Bell Foundry

...and of course Brick Lane and Spitalfields Market!

Here is an image of the twins work

(for some inexplicable reason, I have, to date, viewed the Tobias' work as if it were made by one male and one female twin - and it turns out they are both male.  Therein lies another discussion about knowledge of the background and context to artwork versus ignorant response!)