Damien Hirst Mother And Child (Divided) 1993 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard looks at Damien Hirst’s Mother And Child (Divided) in her latest critical study for Artlyst’s Significant Works.
27 April 2023
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Frank Bowling Mirror 1964-66-Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
It’s been hard to choose a single painting by Frank Bowling for this series, to select one that is more significant in his long and illustrious career than any of the others. Each time his style has changed seems to have been a significant moment.
23 March 2023
Antony Gormley Angel Of The North Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Anthony Gormley Angel Of The North: We are enthralled by gigantic statues. The ancient Greeks referred to them as kolossoi.
24 December 2022
William Kentridge Ubu Tells The Truth – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
The white south African artist William Kentridge has used the play Ubu Roito to express his views against South African apartheid and its vicious attacks on its black citizens.
7 October 2022
Steve McQueen Deadpan 1997 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
One of the things about this series is that it provides an opportunity to look back on keynote contemporary works with a degree of hindsight.
2 August 2022
Yinka Shonibare: Mr And Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Mr and Mrs Andrews is arguably Gainsborough’s most famous painting. A young couple poses for their wedding portrait beneath an oak tree. Behind them spreads a bucolic view
24 June 2022
Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter 1991 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Cornelia Parker exploded a garden shed with the help of the British army. She’d contacted them for advice and was invited to the Army School of Ammunition
28 April 2022
Anish Kapoor: Svayambh – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In the fine elegance of Burlington House, with all its associations of white privilege, Anish Kapoor’s lumbering train conjured images of India’s overcrowded railway system
21 March 2022
Rachel Whiteread: House 1993 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Whiteread approached the last tenant, retired docker Sydney Gale to explain her desire to make an artwork out of his old home.
9 August 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
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
Tony Bevan RA Head 2004 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Among contemporary painters, none has investigated what it is that makes us individual and human more eloquently than Tony Bevan.
9 February 2021
Jenny Saville Propped 1992 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Not long after Jenny Saville had left art school in Glasgow. As yet she was unwritten about and unknown. I was taken aback by its power and wrote a short review for Time Out.
1 December 2020
Jock McFadyen RA Popular Enclosure, 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Jock McFadyen is the psycho-geographer of the visual art world. ‘The laureate’, as Ian Sinclair has suggested, ‘of stagnant canals, filling stations and night football pitches’.
2 November 2020
Rachel Howard: Suicide Drawings – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Howard’s Suicide Paintings were first shown at the Bohen Foundation in NY, in 2007 and the following year at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery. Left shocked and devastated by the suicide of an acquaintance who was found kneeling in an almost prayer-like position, suicide was, she realised, one of the last taboos.
1 October 2020
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
Peter Doig: White Canoe 1990/1 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Born in Scotland and raised in Trinidad and Canada, Peter Doig is widely considered one of the most renowned contemporary figurative painters of his generation
2 August 2020