Steven Campbell Dressing Above Your Station Fashion And Textiles In His Work – Clare Henry
Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell tells his story using the thread of his dramatic outfits.
23 May 2022
Reviews
Les Lalanne, Schütte And Gursky London Spring Exhibition Highlights – Revd Jonathan Evens
Les Lalanne, the late French wife and husband artistic duo, are the dreamers who re-enchant.
23 May 2022
Sensuous Sickert and Philpot Two Major UK Solo Exhibitions – Rev Jonathan Evens
The first major exhibition of Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years is currently at Pallant House Gallery, while Tate Britain has the first major retrospective of Walter Sickert at Tate in over 60 years. The differences and similarities between these two artists whose careers overlapped are instructive.
18 May 2022
Radical Landscapes: A Reaction To Nature – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Radical Landscapes, but it went beyond my expectations. As usual, Tate Liverpool has developed a thought-provoking and in-depth exhibition on this subject.
9 May 2022
New York In Focus Whitney Biennial Plus Gallery Round-Up – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial is big, sprawling across the entire museum, featuring 59 artists and bravura curation.
4 May 2022
London Art Fair 2022 A New Seriousness – Sue Hubbard
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the art world. Fairs have been cancelled, galleries closed and artists confined to their studios. The London Art Fair, which was supposed to have taken place in January, finally opened its doors on the 20th of April.
21 April 2022
Jacob Epstein, Louis Carreon, Titus Kaphar, Betty Spackman – April 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Jacob Epstein, Louis Carreon, Titus Kaphar, Betty Spackman
14 April 2022
Auerbach Unseen An Unflinching Vision Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, is showing more than 65 paintings and smaller works on paper by Frank Auerbach,
13 April 2022
Raphael The Human And Divine – National Gallery – Rev Jonathan Evens
Raphael’s brief career shaped the course of Western culture like no other artist; this was so whether his work was affirmed or his influence rejected.
11 April 2022
Camille Pissarro Catalyst of Impressionism Ashmolean Museum – Nico Kos Earle
Upstairs, on the third floor of the Ashmolean, is a show that will quietly break your heart. Entitled Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (12 June 2022), this major exhibition of works drawn from the Ashmolean’s collections as well as international loans, spans Pissarro’s entire career.
31 March 2022
Damien Hirst The Visceral Reality Of Death – Revd Jonathan Evens
Everything Damien Hirst does is controversial, from the initial shock of the new – the sensation of the YBAs – through his use of assistants, his choice of materials, the ethics of his use of animals, the plagiarism claims, the claims and counterclaims of ‘bad art,’ through to the commercialism of his overall operation.
28 March 2022
Ali Cherri: Artist in Residence National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of catastrophe and violence
23 March 2022
Maggi Hambling And Faith Ringgold The Matriarchs of March – Ilka Scobie
Women’s history month in New York City heralds two amazing women artists whose long inspirational careers are celebrations of feminism and creativity. Maggi Hambling Real-Time Marlborough Gallery Maggi Hambling suffered a heart attack last week on the eve of her first solo exhibition in New York.
19 March 2022
Ai Weiwei Juxtaposes Politics and Artefacts Kettle’s Yard – Lee Sharrock
Kettle’s Yard, part of the University of Cambridge, is the venue for a new exhibition of celebrated contemporary artist Ai Weiwei (born 1957, Beijing). Titled ‘The Liberty of Doubt’, the solo show curated by Andrew Nairne explores our perception of authenticity and truth and the value we place upon material things, which is very pertinent for the era of Fake News and disinformation that we are living through.
16 March 2022
Audrey Flack Carlo Crivelli And Robert Indiana – March Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Audrey Flack found her signature style during the 1960s. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, she moved through New Realism to Photorealism.
13 March 2022
Love Is In The (Open) Air Robert Indiana Sculpture YSP – James Payne
Even if you don’t know Robert Indiana’s name, you know his most popular work, LOVE. Cited as the most known artwork in the world, it is, in fact so famous that many people may not even realise it’s an artwork at all.
10 March 2022
A Look Inside The Artist’s Studio – Whitechapel Gallery
The artist’s studio is a timeless, complex space. A place where artists go to work, to think, providing both inspiration and comfort, as well as an actual physical place to go to create and experiment.
9 March 2022
Surrealism Outside The Usual Story – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
Surrealism: Beyond Borders presents an expansive and hugely varied retelling of the story of Surrealism that challenges the Paris-centric traditional art history tale of its flourishing.
1 March 2022
Whistler’s Symphony In White Royal Academy
Walking into Whistler’s Woman in White exhibition, one does not know quite what to expect. After all, it is a bold choice to construct an exhibition based solely around one painting.
26 February 2022
Louise Bourgeois: Vision Of The Safe Womb – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
13 February 2022
Van Gogh Self Portraits The Infinite And The Ordinary – Revd Jonathan Evens
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, ‘I’d like to paint men or women with that je ne sais quoi of the eternal,
3 February 2022
NYC Gallery Scene Round-Up February 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art.
3 February 2022
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
Marvellous Icons: The London Jesuit Centre – Revd Jonathan Evans
The London Jesuit Centre and Farm Street Church currently have a marvellous exhibition of icons by Dr Irina Bradley, one of the leading iconographers in the UK.
23 January 2022
Leigh Bowery Still Entertaining And Relevant – James Payne
The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year’s Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn’t tell anyone he was sick – except his best friend, Sue Tilley. When she asked him what she should tell people when he died, he said: “Tell them I’ve gone to Papua New Guinea”.
13 January 2022
George Rickey A Life In Balance – Clare Henry
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement.
3 January 2022
Betsy Bradley: Chasing Rainbows – Ikon Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
I was pleased to be invited to review Betsy Bradley’s first solo exhibition, Chasing Rainbows, at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery.
12 December 2021
Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Albrecht Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys.
11 December 2021
Arcadia: Grove Square Galleries The Marchioness of Bath Beckons – Simon Tarrant
The first black Marchioness in British history – beckoned the art world last week to a charity art auction hosted by London’s latest art house, Grove Square Galleries.
8 December 2021
Diasporan Identities: Life Between Islands Caribbean British Art – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.
5 December 2021
Chris Gollon: Gimme Some Wine – IAP Fine Art – Mary Rose Beaumont
Gollon’s work should be seen in the context of North European Painting. He is heir to the tradition which produced painters such as Breughel and Bosch
2 December 2021
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
30 November 2021