For the February 2025 Art Diary, I begin with exhibitions by artists I’ve followed and whose work I’ve written about. These include Peter Howson, Jonathan Anderson, Barbara Hepworth and Theaster Gates.
4 February 2025
This is the first of a series of ‘In Focus’ exhibitions that examine one artist and one work. Ben Uri explores Peter Howson’s ‘Holocaust Crowd Scene 11’
Weds to Friday, 10am to 5.30pm
“Epic. Powerful. Brutal. Incredible. Miraculous. Spectacular.” Hyperbole is essential when speaking of PETER HOWSON’s work.
6 June 2023
Flowers Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Scottish painter Peter Howson to coincide with his major retrospective at Edinburgh City Art Centre
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
The June Art Diary includes Gwen John, Marc Chagall, Louis Carreon, Peter Howson, Laura Knight, Cecilia Vicuña and Yun Hyong-keun
5 June 2023
A central member of the group of young artists to emerge from the Glasgow School of Art during the 1980s dubbed the New Glasgow Boys, Peter Howson has become one of his generation’s leading figurative painters.
26 November 2018
‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’. The titles of Peter Howson’s latest work, in translation from often Latin or Anglo-Saxon words or phrases, give a graphic sense of the content.
10 November 2018
An exhibition of new work by Scottish artist Peter Howson, a focal member of the group of young artists to emerge from the Glasgow School of Art during the 1980s dubbed the New Glasgow Boys, and one of his generation’s leading figurative painters.
Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm
Preliminary drawings of some of the Scottish artist Peter Howson’s best known works including sketches of David Bowie and Madonna… Read More
15 April 2013
