yvonne lo - hong kong

the run of hong kong images continues with these evocative watery urban views courtesy of yvonne lo...

The photos are my favorite spost of the city, in Ap Lei Chau of Hong Kong, a place that is surrounded by sea. The container vessels and fishing boats are there all the time. The shooting place is from Ap Lei Chau, an island that has a bridge connected to the Hong Kong Island. The background island is Lamma Island.

jane howie - stoke-on-trent, uk

artist and keen photographer jane howie has sent in the following images from stoke-on-trent

Walking down from the cultural quarter in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent I noticed these flowers growing through the tarmac inside the constructor's fences round the building of the new Mosque. I love the conquering of man-made constructions by nature - especially in the heart of the City.

Hanley Park in Stoke-on-Trent is beautiful - a real jewel in the city.

These moon daises in the park struck me on 27th June during Common Ground

chloe arrowsmith - stoke-on-trent, uk

chloe arrowsmith has sent in the following images and some text that serves as a reminder that sometimes our idea of beauty is right under our noses...

I'm originally from Stoke - On-Trent, I've lived in quite a few cities over the years and in all honesty, I always really fought against coming back to live here - mainly because I had studied art and couldn't foresee a future here at all. In the end I did move back to Stoke, and have now been back for several years, I began to realise there were many, many great things about this city, which I always, quite shamefully, overlooked. It's vibrant, and full of interesting and inspiring people, and has many places of Beauty, conventional, and not so conventional! The pictures were taken on my regular walk to Red Street Monument, just off the Talke Road, where I live. It always amazes me how close I am to the hustle of the A500 and A34, and yet, just 10 minutes away - I 'm here - an amazing spot, with beautiful views, and a very special atmposphere - I always seem to have my most random, and important thoughts!

juan a. lópez martín - gijón, spain

so with only a few days to go until the second instalment of the beauty in the city exhibition story, it is really appropriate to post these images taken in gijón by Juan A. López Martín.

the exhibition will open on friday 30th july at the ezcurdia_30 gallery in beautiful gijon and will be showing all of the images submitted so far. special mention must go to susana lopez fernandez who has been the indispensable reason for the project's spanish foray. both anna francis and myself are really pleased and impressed that susana has invested so much faith and time in the project and has worked so hard to secure a beautiful gallery space as well as being a marketing wonder. this project can only ever be as successful as the commitment of the contributors allows it to be and with supporters like susana, we are sure to go from strength to strength.

susana has started a new project borne out of the many hours we spend in airports. like "beauty in the city" it is a collaborative project, inviting us to send our airport pics in. it looks great and is well worth a look.

http://lastcall-susanalf.blogspot.com/

wong wo bik - hong kong

wong wo bik has sent in this urban view of her hong kong.

This spot is not particular beautiful but it is a point of departure between quietness and hustle and bustle of the city. This spot overlooks the old Lai Yuen Amusement Park which was demolished in 1997.

wai kit lam - hong kong

hong kong visual artist wai kit lam has aptly highlighted her local postal service and presents us with this image and the following explanation.

This is a poster about 'Local Courier Post' of the Hong Kong Post Office. Its efficient service is very famous in the world and sometimes I curious how they work daily. Do they work 24 hours a day? I do think so!!! I live in a city that has no stop, no sleep at all.

http://www.waikitlam.com/

amae - london, uk

this london scene inspired italian art pair AMAE

... this is the view from the pub close to the Wapping Central on the Docklands. Apparently a judge was hanging there some prisoners to torture them and also a famous painter (think is Rubens) was painting the view of the river from the same angle....

http://www.amae01.net/

there is beauty in the city... going spanish

exciting images have reached the beauty in the city desk, courtesy of susana lopez fernandez, depicting the posters for the upcoming exhibition in Gijón.

the exhibition starts on 30th july and is showing 14 prints of images submitted by the following beauty in the city contributors:

anna hindocha, ella klenner, emma thackham, felicity ford, iain macleod-brudenell, jen cantwell, jodie cresswell, joshua daniels, julie brixey-williams, siobhan tarr, sophie gibson, susana lopez fernandez and victor angelo.

the show will also include a looped slideshow of all images received so far

so, well done to everyone and a massive thanks for making the project the potential phenomenon it is promising to be.

ivana rezek - cres, greece

thanks to ivana rezek for this journey through the old town on the island of cres, croatia.

linda khatir - dartmouth, uk

Linda Khatir uses her magnet to highlight the transient quality of urban beauty

"The image is of a tudor building which that caught fire a couple of weeks ago. The formerly beautiful building was used as the labour exchange back in the seventies and eighties, but its future is now uncertain."

emma tracey - edinburgh, uk

edinburgh's blossom-filled tree lined pathways inspired emma tracey

jania vanderwerff - bellingham, usa

from washington, north western usa, jania vanderwerff has sent in two pictures from the city of bellingham.

"This beauty is located in the city of Bellingham, Washington USA.

Future creatives where I live enjoy the play of Art at the Whatcom Museum's Family Interactive Gallery.

The rain's familiar routine casts it's shadow on the landscape, while inside the FIG the light of beautiful imagination

and laughter fill the space."

brutus carniollus - novi sad, serbia

photographer brutus carniollus takes his magnet and us on a stroll through novi sad, serbia.

http://brut.bukve.net/

Bishopic (Vladičanski dvor)

Saborni hram svetog velikomučenika Georgija

Three hierarchs temple (Hram sveta tri jerarha)

Main square

Petrovaradin fortress clock tower, famous for having hands sized just the opposite than ordinary clock faces hours hand being the longest

Patriarchy in Sremski Karlovci

alexandra koufali - derby, uk

artist Alexandra Koufali has sent in two images from derby.

"They were taken by the riverside in Derby city in East Midlands. This is my favourite place because I am originally form the Med and I love being by the water. These railings remind me of the shape of the sun and sun rays.

In the second photo you can see a wider view of the area and I chose to include the sculpture in the riverside gardens because the ram is the symbol of Derby city.

The riverside in Derby is beautiful."

http://www.alexandraart.co.uk/

brutus carniollus - radovljica, slovenia

slovenian photographer and artist brut has sent in two images from his home town of radovljica and writes..." just came from as stroll through beautiful Radovljica old town. Took two snapshots, the first of a wrought iron fence guarding the side entry to Šivčeva hiša art gallery that held my solo exhibition (actualy a double solo show with a friend of mine) last March and the other one of (again) iron window and door shades on one of the houses (a vinery, actually) along the narow alley serving as a main entry to the historic old town of Radovljica."

andrew branscombe - stoke-on-trent 2

the "there is beauty in the city project" has gone all macho. thanks to AirSpace Gallery's andrew branscombe for leaving the well-trodden path and sending in this image.

dimitra papamerkouri - athens, greece

taken in koropi, a suburb of athens, dimitra papamerkouri presents a vision of floral beauty

sonja van kerkhoff - leiden, netherlands

artist sonja van kerkhoff has sent in this image...

...and writes

A functional beauty
"Beauty is a human virtue or quality. It is about what we choose to see as much as how we see. So I placed "there is BEAUTY in the city" on my back, stood on the balcony in my appartment and faced my city, Leiden. So you see what I see most days. Some who see our balcony wouldn't consider it very beautiful, with the tools and ladder and so on, while others wouldn't consider all the flats around us as very beautiful and neither do I, if I am seeing beauty only as form. What I find beautiful about where I live is that I can easily walk or cycle to where I need to be and that we can use our small balcony for working on new art projects."

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there is beauty in the city goes to spain

the next step in there is beauty's plan for world domination is set! we have been working with spanish artist and photographer susana lopez fernandez to exhibit the project in gijón. gijón is an industrial city on the northern coast of spain, originally a roman settlement, which grew from a small fishing village into a port city with a population of around 280,000.

the exhibition continues from where the last, in stoke-on-trent, left off. there will, again, be a looped film showing all the images submitted so far, including all submissions received since that last exhibition. additionally, this show will feature prints by 13 artists, selected to show the broad scope of material received and to show just how wide ranging the project has become.

the selected contributors are: anna hindocha, ella klenner, emma thackham, felicity ford, iain macleod-brudenell, jen cantwell, jodie cresswell, joshua daniels, julie brixey-williams, siobhan tarr, sophie gibson, susana lopez fernandez and victor angelo. click on each name to see their selected image.

the show will run from 30th july until 10th august at the ezcurdia gallery. plans are being formulated to present a free "beauty" themed public workshop to run in conjunction with the show.

there is still time to make it into the show. the deadline for submitted images to be included is july 1st, 2010, so send your images in to thereisbeautyinthecity@yahoo.co.uk. and if you can't make that date, don't worry, the project will continue with more exciting plans to exhibit in warsaw in september. so if you haven't got involved yet, apply for that magnet and send us your images of urban beauty.

beauty of the month for april

well done to tony jones - his tea-based image has been chosen as the image of the month for april.