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Significant Works

tracey Emin My Bed

Tracey Emin: My Bed (1998) – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Until now, I have avoided writing about Tracey Emin in this series of ‘Significant Works’. It just seemed too obvious. She rose to fame on the crest of the YBA wave in the 1980s.

13 August 2024

Art Criticism, Feature, Opinion

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger I Shop Therefore I Am (1987/2019) – SIGNIFICANT WORKS – Sue Hubbard

Revisiting Barbara Kruger’s work in the 21st century, I’m struck by how much it encapsulates the tone of its times

18 March 2024

Art Criticism, Features

Tacita Dean photo Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

Tacita Dean Disappearance at Sea 1996 –  Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Tacita Dean’s name gives a lot away. Her father, Joseph Dean, was a lawyer who studied classics at Merton College, Oxford and aptly named his children Tacita, Antigone and Ptolemy.

21 January 2024

Art Criticism, Feature

Sarah Lucas, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab

Two Fried Eggs And A Kebab 1992 Sarah Lucas – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Sarah Lucas’s solo show has just opened at Tate Britain. So, I thought it would be interesting to revisit one of her earlier works from 1992, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab.

26 September 2023

Feature, Features

Jeremy Deller, Battle of Orgreave

Jeremy Deller The Battle Of Orgreave 2001 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Jeremy Deller’s film The Battle Of Orgreave 2001 staged a re-enactment of the 1984 clash between mineworkers and police in Orgreave, Yorkshire.

14 June 2023

Features

Damien Hirst Mother and Calf Divided

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

Feature, Features

Frank Bowling, Mirror, Significant Works, Sue Hubbard

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

Feature, Features

Antony Gormley Angel Of The North

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

Art Criticism, Artist In Focus, Feature

William Kentridge, Ubu Tells The Truth

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

Features

Steve McQueen Deadpan 1997

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

Features

Yinka Shonibare Mr and Mrs Andrews

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

Features

cornelia-parker-photo-©-artlyst

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

Features, Opinion

Anish kapoor Svayambh

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

Art Criticism, Features

rachel-whiteread-courtesy-artangel

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

Feature

Paula Rego The Policeman’s Daughter 1987

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

Artist In Focus, Artist Profile, Feature

Cecily Brown: The Girl Who Had Everything

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

Artist Profile, Features

Mona Hatoum: The Light at the End 1989 Significant Works

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

Art Criticism, Artist Profile, Feature

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

Features

Jenny Saville Propped 1992 Photo Courtesy Sothebys

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

Art Criticism, Art News, Essay, Features

Jock McFadyen RA

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

Features

Rachel Howard Photo © Artlyst

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

Art Criticism, Feature

Sue Hubbard

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

Art Criticism, Artist Profile, Feature

Peter Doig,White Canoe 1990/1,Significant Works

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

Art Criticism, Features

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