Reviews
Sam Ainsley Out of Redness comes Kindness – Clare Henry
I first met Sam Ainsley in 1978. She was a part-time assistant at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery. I was reviewing the show. The following week we...
Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the...
British Modern And Contemporary Art Sales Steady At London Art Fair
Now in its 35th year, London Art Fair continues to play a pivotal role in bringing British Modern and Contemporary Art to market. This is a triumph...
Giorgio Morandi: A Quiet Moment Estorick Collection – James Payne
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, the gallery is presenting a major exhibition of works by Giorgio Morandi, considered by...
High Rise Connecting Conversations – An Experiential Installation Hastings To Kyiv – Jude Montague
It was in the lost and forgotten week between Christmas and New Year that I made my way across the blowy cold seafront to the Stade Hall. I have...
Magdalena Abakanowicz & Maria Bartuszová Every Tangle of Thread Every Broken Shell – Nico Kos Earle
At the entrance to Every Tangle of Thread and Rope is a vast black-and-white photographic transfer of Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April...
Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
In Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends and in a noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in...
Mayfair: London Gallery Round-Up December 2022 – Nico Kos Earle
Gavin Turk - Kerze - Ben Brown Fine Arts 'I first came to notice this painting [Kerze, 1983] in 1988 when it was used on the album cover of Daydream...
The Love of Print: A Who’s Who of Scottish Printmaking – Kelvingrove Art Gallery – Clare Henry
THE LOVE OF PRINT is a superb, giant size, memorable, wide-ranging and serious exhibition which spans 50 years of Scottish printmaking. It...
Emma Witter: A Moveable Feast Portman Estate Marylebone – Nico Kos Earle
‘A Moveable Feast’ is a presentation of small sculpture and digital prints by the artist Emma Witter. The exhibition takes place on the first floor...
Women Making Modernism A Revisionist History – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
The title 'Making Modernism' implies that the artists included in this Royal Academy exhibition were at the forefront of the avant-garde. That they...
A Question Of Clay: Strange Clay – Hayward Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ceramics from artists and the public, from the popularity of The Great Pottery, Throw Down to...