Mark Woods An Uncanny And Taboo World – James Payne
James Payne explores the curious world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal.
27 August 2021
Art Category: Reviews
Roger Cecil: A Once In A Generation Welsh Painter – Revd Jonathan Evens
Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his own terms at home in Abertillery.
17 August 2021
Tino Sehgal: Location, Nature And Pandemic – Blenheim Palace – Revd Jonathan Evens
The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion
13 August 2021
Lucian Freud: Real Lives In Focus Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lucian Freud – Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master of modern…
26 July 2021
Edge to Edge The Cello Factory Review by Simon Streather
Edge to Edge features artists who use hard edges of some kind in their work but who are not necessarily defined by them. Simon Streather takes a closer look at the artists in this show.
26 July 2021
Michael Armitage And The Power Of Art – Royal Academy – Revd Jonathan Evens
Meek Gichugu’s No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child.
20 July 2021
Sidney Nolan: Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Australian modernist Sidney Nolan was among those responding in this way, but his responses have remained unseen and unappreciated within his archive until very recently.
11 July 2021
Paula Rego Ambiguous Persuasive and Subversive Tate Britain – Marina Vaizey
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly choreographed compositions.
8 July 2021
Judy Chicago Unleashes Her New Autobiography – Edward Lucie-Smith
The dust-jacket of this handsome new book proclaims that ‘Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist’.
6 July 2021
Climate Art Residencies Unveiled At Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Late, as often can be the case with our timetable, we arrived at Bridge Point Rye creative arts centre at a deserted exhibition.
3 July 2021
Rachel Kneebone: A Complex Tableau Of Organic And Geometric Forms – Revd Jonathan Evens
Rachel Kneebone, “I am excited and delighted to be showing 399 Days in the YSP Chapel, a space that resonates in a special way with my work
28 June 2021
Cacophony: Four Iranian Artists AB-ANBAR Cromwell Place – Sue Hubbard
Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems
11 June 2021
Barbara Hepworth: Symbols Of Art & Life – Hepworth Wakefield – Revd Jonathan Evens
Looking back on her work, Hepworth identified three important sculptural forms to which she continually returned.
9 June 2021
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
9 June 2021
Modern British Artists At The Beach Hastings Contemporary – Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
David Hockney: Sequentially Spring Royal Academy – Marina Vaizey
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France.
27 May 2021
Eileen Agar: A Surrealist Trailblazer Whitechapel Gallery – Sue Hubbard
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
Ryoji Ikeda And Matthew Barney The End Of Silence – James Payne
James Payne embraces the end of silence after months of lockdown in two new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand and Matthew Barney at the Hayward Gallery.
20 May 2021
Model Maquette Scale Illusion and Space at The Cello Factory – Simon Streather
The exhibition ‘Model Maquette’ arrives in a protracted time of pandemic fright, a time when most people’s worlds have literally shrunk. Suggestions of either imaginative flight or claustrophobia become all the more poignant.
16 May 2021
Tony Cragg Imposing And Authoritative Houghton Hall – Marina Vaizey
Tony Cragg is the latest artist to be featured in the magnificent grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk this Spring and Summer.
12 May 2021
Archie Brennan At Dovecot Studios Edinburgh. – Shockingly Overdue! – Clare Henry
Archie Brennan was a creative genius and pioneer who transformed tapestry from a method of slavish, rigid reproduction, replication and restriction into one of innovation, imagination, immediacy and wit.
25 April 2021
Rachel Whiteread: A Beguiling New Exhibition At Gagosian – Marina Vaizey
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a subtly magnificent slab of grey. particularly appropriate for the art of Rachel Whiteread.
21 April 2021
Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert P.P.O.W. Review Ilka Scobie
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. P.P.O.W presents two artists.
20 April 2021
London Art Exhibitions Are Back – Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent is back on the London Gallery trail with some exciting offerings for April and May this Spring.
15 April 2021
Architectural Envelopes: The Modern Art Museum – Charles Saumarez Smith
The underlying momentum of this remarkable and provocatively thoughtful book, The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith
28 March 2021
KAWS: Reinventing Appropriation Brooklyn Museum – Raphy Sarkissian
Upon entering the Brooklyn Museum to view “Kaws: What Party”, the visitor is confronted by a colossal and strikingly iconic sculpture
24 March 2021
Arthur Jafa: The Art Of Cutting And Pasting – Revd Jonathan Evens
Since childhood, Jafa has cut pictures out of books and magazines, pasting them into new contexts. Black potention is an awareness.
18 March 2021
Kati Vilim: Optical and Tactile ─ Raphy Sarkissian
Kati Vilim’s work is seemingly weightless so as to float off into the ether, planar surfaces intercept and overlap, at once asserting the flatness of the canvas and transfiguring abstraction into illusions of solid bodies.
11 March 2021
Gabriel J. Shuldiner: The Poetry of Black — Raphy Sarkissian
“Can there be a more hypnotic colour than black?” is a question that impulsively arises when we encounter a work by Gabriel J. Shuldiner
24 February 2021
A New York Gallery Field Trip February 2021 – Ilka Scobie
A wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided…
14 February 2021
Lakwena Maciver: Review-Interview Hastings Contemporary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating in 2009.
31 January 2021
Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception – Raphy Sarkissian
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates
26 January 2021