shop window:  Richard Wentworth, ‘Objects May Appear Larger’, 2011

“Large Glass ‘gallop’ shop opens on the Caledonian Road - For those not down with the current hip art world slang, a gallop is defined as a ‘fast-paced gallery and shop space’, and London’s first has just opened on the Caledonian Road with regular tastings, performances and film sessions to entertain each and every curious customer that ventures through its doors.”

(Now Here This, The Time Out blog, 11 Sept. 2011)

“Not any old iron - The Caledonian Road, which runs from Holloway to King’s Cross station, is home to any amount of establishments flogging strange and shabby things. As the name suggests, this outlet pays homage to the Duchampian readymade as well as the more fine-artistic: look closer and that lamp standing in the corner is a Franz West, the painting with a lick of house paint is by Jeff McMillan and that leather hook is by Jacques Adnet, just before he joined Hermes.” 

Louisa Buck (London Diary, The Art Newspaper, Oct. 2011)

“Blown - Large Glass is both a gallery and a shop, with various curated displays of curiosities and editions of the likes of Franz West and Susan Collis. The first window display saw Richard Wentworth turn dresser to curate a mini-exhibition of Charles Booth’s nineteenth-century ‘poverty maps’, and the space now boasts a stock of unlimited reproductions of Caroline Tisdall’s images of Joseph Beuys’s 1974 performance ‘Coyote:  I Like America and America Likes Me’.”

Oliver Basciano (Now Buy This, Art Review, Nov. 2011)