Reviews
Arcadia: Grove Square Galleries The Marchioness of Bath Beckons – Simon Tarrant
Like an excerpt out of ‘Bridgerton’, the beautiful and beguiling Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath – the first black Marchioness in British history –...
Diasporan Identities: Life Between Islands Caribbean British Art – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
Mix and match, mashup, sample, collage, combine, hybridisation, syncretisation. Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a...
Chris Gollon: Gimme Some Wine – IAP Fine Art – Mary Rose Beaumont
This online exhibition has been curated to coincide with Eleanor McEvoy’s latest album ‘Gimme Some Wine’, the title track of which inspired this...
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned with her Lancastrian,...
Paula Rego: An Intimate Look – Victoria Miro
The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her...
Damien Hirst A Mass Floral Tribute – Fondation Cartier Paris – Lee Sharrock
Damien Hirst has turned his ‘Cerisiers en Fleurs’ (Cherry Blossoms) series into a full fledged exhibition at the Fondation Cartier Paris. The enfant...
Isamu Noguchi: Socially Engaged Art – Barbican Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could 'be a vital force in our everyday life. He saw art 'as...
Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the...
Laura Knight Documenting A Long Forgotten Britain – Sara Faith
There is a current (long overdue) trend to redress the balance in an art world long dominated by male practitioners toward the rediscovery of women...
Bosco Sodi: In The Beginning Of Wisdom – Revd Jonathan Evens
Visitors make a subterranean descent to the basement spaces of the Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi's work...
Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled 'Women in Abstraction'. The other...
Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Words cannot really describe the epic scale and breadth of this exhibition. There is so much to see and think about. It's a challenging and...