Reviews
NYC Gallery Scene Round-Up February 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art. Here is an arbitrary selection of current...
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace. It is not Munch's shrill scream of...
Marvellous Icons: The London Jesuit Centre – Revd Jonathan Evans
The London Jesuit Centre and Farm Street Church currently have a marvellous exhibition of icons by Dr Irina Bradley, one of the leading...
Leigh Bowery Still Entertaining And Relevant – James Payne
The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year's Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn't tell anyone he was sick -...
George Rickey A Life In Balance – Clare Henry
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement. His metal blades and planes sculpt the air...
And On An Art Note: End Of Year Diary 2021 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual art on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas. Among the...
Betsy Bradley: Chasing Rainbows – Ikon Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
I was pleased to be invited to review Betsy Bradley's first solo exhibition, Chasing Rainbows, at Birmingham's internationally acclaimed...
Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Albrecht Dürer's grandfather hailed from the Hungarian village of Ajtos. Dürer's father migrated from Hungary to Germany, eventually settling in...
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,...
