Reviews
Isaac Julien: Mesmerising Black Heroism At Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
I first came across the work of Isaac Julien when I was doing my MA in Creative Writing at UEA and did a module on black British film. In the early...
We Out Here Hastings Contemporary – Jude Montague
We Out Here is not an ordinary show, not to my eyes. It feels like something is happening here. It's a humble premise in some ways, a show of six...
Why Critics Have A Problem With The Pre-Raphaelites? – Revd Jonathan Evens
Critics have a problem with the Pre-Raphaelites. Reviews to date, of The Rossettis exhibition at Tate Britain, until 24 September, has provided both...
Annie Morris and Idris Khan Artist Couple – Newlands House Petworth
Annie Morris and Idris Khan have been a couple for over a decade, a personal union and artistic collaboration celebrated by a first-ever joint show...
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty & Satire In The Renaissance National Gallery – David Berridge
My starting hunch is that this is a man in drag, which might leave the breasts unexplained. They could be a man's chest pushed up, then exaggerated...
East Sussex Gallery Reviews – Eastbourne To St Leonards – Gail Borrow And Jude Montague
A round-up of exhibitions in East Sussex between Eastbourne and St Leonards in April 2023. TOWNER 100: The Living Collection 17 December 2022 to 28...
Soutine Kossoff Hastings Contemporary – A Relatable Pairing by Jude Montague
When a major exhibition of such significant artists as Chaim Soutine and Leon Kossoff, with such a comprehensive display of important paintings,...
TEFAF Maastricht 2023 The Connoisseurs’ Art Fair – Alexandre Daletchine
Years ago, when I first went to TEFAF in Maastricht, the seminal global art fair, I was overwhelmed. For the expert eye and the neophytes visiting...
Religion and Spirituality in Post Impressionism National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of...
Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens
By creating his first readymades in 1914, Marcel Duchamp made it possible for anyone to become an artist and for anything to be an artwork. He could...
Oskar Kokoschka Expressionism, Rebellion and Humanism Guggenheim Bilbao – Sara Faith
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is best known for his early links to the Viennese art scene, where Gustav Klimt encouraged and supported him and where...
Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Arnolfini Arts – Nico Kos Earle
When Garry Fabian Miller was 19 years old, he stepped out onto the balcony of his flat in Clevedon and looked across the Severn Estuary towards the...