Chris Ofili's big tapestry, commissioned by the Clothworkers’ Company and now on view at the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, doesn’t seem to have attracted nearly as much attention as it should have done. It’s a pretty spectacular object, and in addition to that,...
Christopher Gray was born in 1965 and has always lived and worked in London. He first started making the boxing puppets when he was a young boy and has never stopped developing the concept, but it wasn't until he went to art school in his late 40s that he started to...
Paul Carey-Kent offers Artlyst his choice of the best London Art Exhibitions to see in June 2017 Sara Barker: a weak spot in the Earth @ The Approach To 25 June: http://theapproach.co.uk Hour-watching silver and exact water is in water within within within 2017 -...
The gender fluid potter Grayson Perry has unveiled The Brexit Vases his latest artwork ahead of his show at the Serpentine Gallery which opens later this week. The two vases, which took 5 months to complete depict the battle over Brexit, with one showing remain the...
Tate has announced its 2018 programme which covers all four venues. The forthcoming shows include exhibitions of work by ground-breaking figures in painting, performance, textiles, film and photography. A major show of figurative painting by, among others, Francis...
Every now and then even a hardened old lag in the art business – yes, folks, I mean me – gets a nice surprise. Last month an artist I’ve known for quite a long time -Terence Ffyffe, aka Terry Ffyffe – asked me to come and look at a new series of paintings. So I...
In Pursuit of Things Past is a small but significant showing of work by the artist and author, Darren Coffield. The show includes four new works from the Interspatial Paintings (jigsaw) series and four early works from 1997. The artist first began experimenting...
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales. To give it context, that...
The hosannas are already ringing out for Tate Britain’s new show Queer British Art, 1861-1967. This, for example, is how Adrian Searle began his review in The Guardian: ‘Weaving between history and gossip, private lives and public declarations, repression and...