Amedeo Modigliani: An Elongated Greek Tragedy – Artlyst Profile
A new film about Amedeo Modigliani, directed by Johnny Depp, Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, is… Read More
13 July 2025
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Giorgio de Chirico: Metaphysical Painter of Dreams – Artist Profile
Before surrealism had a name, Giorgio de Chirico was painting its blueprint. Born in 1888 in Volos, Greece, to Italian… Read More
12 July 2025
Camille Pissarro: On The Frontline Of Impressionism – Artist Profile
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupies a pivotal yet understated role in the evolution of modern painting. Born on the island of… Read More
10 July 2025
David Hockney At 88: A Life In Technicolor – Artlyst Profile
Happy 88th Birthday David Hockney! Few artists have traversed the terrain of contemporary art with the same vitality, irreverence, and… Read More
9 July 2025
Fred Eversley: Sculpture Straddling The Scientific Optical And Metaphysical – Clare Henry
FRED EVERSLEY’s 12ft magenta sculpture sits in a prime Manhattan location that most artists would kill for – Central Park’s entrance from 5th Avenue.
18 October 2023
Andy Goldsworthy: Storm King Wall 1997 – 1998 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
‘The child,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the man.’ Growing up in West Yorkshire, the land was always close to Andy Goldsworthy’s heart.
28 January 2023
Contemporary Artists In The Spotlight 2023 – Nico Kos-Earle
For this rolling feature Nico Kos-Earle has chosen 15 international artists working in various mediums to look out for in 2023.
23 January 2023
David Mach RA: Heavy Metal Pangolin Gallery Kings Cross – Clare Henry
David Mach RA has always worked big. His sculpture always controversial, ambitious, and monumental.
23 January 2023
Marilyn Stafford Beyond A Jobbing Photographer – Claudia Barbieri Childs
BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.
7 March 2022
Yvonne Robinson: A Remarkable 70 Year Career In The Art World
Yvonne Robinson has been a significant figure in the art world for over 70 years. A friend of David Sylvester, Bacon, Freud, Pontus Hulton,
11 October 2021
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego
6 July 2021
Marie Raymond And Post-War Avant Garde Painting In Paris
Marie Raymond mother of Yves Klein was also an interesting painter and a part of the French Avant Garde Post War Paris scene.
4 July 2021
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
24 May 2021
Cecily Brown: The Girl Who Had Everything 1998 SIGNIFICANT WORKS – Sue Hubbard
What would Turner think? Would he even have recognised the artist collectives nominated for this year’s prize in his name as art?
13 May 2021
Mona Hatoum: The Light at the End 1989 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the End at The Showroom in East London in 1989.
20 April 2021
Noah Becker: Apprehensive/Emancipatory — Raphy Sarkissian
The perceptively formulated and compelling paintings of Becker expansively synthesize the historical and fictional solipsism.
10 February 2021
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005: From gym ads to dating apps, from T.V. programmes on plastic surgery to how to look ten years younger, our contemporary obsession with the body beautiful is one that many ancient Greeks would recognise.
1 September 2020
William Congdon Holy Sites And The Kettle’s Yard Connection – Revd Jonathan Evens
Jim Ede was a writer, curator and ‘friend to artists’ who created Kettle’s Yard with his wife Helen Ede, an art teacher, by carefully positioning artworks alongside furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects, with the aim of creating a harmonic whole.
31 March 2019
Hugh Mendes Unveils A Menagerie Of Dead Artists
Hugh Mendes returns for his third solo exhibition, mid September, at Charlie Smith London with a Menagerie of historical paintings of dead artists.
8 August 2018
Award-winning Architect Carme Pinós Reflects At The Venice Architecture Biennale
I start with the concept of ‘universal connection’ where everything is linked; an action rebounds off another, transforming it and generating a new one.
26 May 2018
Female Midas Depicts Alternative Golden Perspective Through Visual Art
“I feel privileged to be identified as the female Midas, but my purpose is to be influential to create change; to instil an alternative golden perspective in the minds of people with my touch.
8 April 2018
Glasgow Girls: Artists Heavily Engaged In Social Comment – Clare Henry
One Hundred years after the suffragette movement which culminated in women gaining the right to vote, it feels like this may finally be the year for Women and with International Women’s Day this week, let’s celebrate. So what about artists labelled GIRLS – and even worse, “Glasgow Girls?
5 March 2018
Wayan Novi: Caring For Life – International Artist Profile – Eva Wong Nava
Iwayan Agus Novianto AKA Wayan Novi was born in 1989 in Bali.
30 January 2018
Sean Scully Indisputably The Most Universal Living Contemporary Artist- Edward Lucie-Smith
One name immediately sprang to mind – that of the born Irish, once British, now American painter Sean Scully.
4 January 2018
Italian Artist Andrea Martinelli The Return Of Humanism In Portraiture
Over the next few months, we will be profiling a number of international artists of importance. The Italian artist, Andrea… Read More
20 December 2017
Shui Shi Liu: International Artist In Profile By Isa Freeling
I was asked to go out to Maspeth to meet an artist. I wasn’t even sure where Maspeth was. Queens itself intimidates me since it’s a maze of unlikely numbers in opposition with themselves all intersecting in nonsensical disunity. The only thing I knew about Shui Shi Liu is that he is a painter visiting from China who has his studio in Maspeth where he created an installation.
18 November 2017
Chantal Meza: Painting A State of Terror – Profile By Dr. Brad Evans
The Mexican painter Chantal Meza (born 1989) takes us on a deeply moving and challenging journey through the intimate realities of her worlds of beauty and pain.
11 November 2017