In a stormy wind, the choppy waves of the Stade Hastings felt dangerous. No fishing boats could be seen out today on the lively sea, although the working beach was active with a few tidying up and taking care of things on land. the exhibition reflects on the perils...
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 wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels - based. A formidably skilful painter, McKenzie...
Elizabeth Blackadder RA, RSA one of Scotland's greatest artists, has died, age 89. She was born in Falkirk in 1931 and studied at ECA from 1949 until 1954 under Robert Henderson Blyth and William Gillies, among others. She earned a travelling scholarship to southern...
Lucian Freud - Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master of modern portraiture, this exhibition brings some of Freud's most iconic paintings, etchings and photographs, providing an 'intimate glimpse...
In 1987, in a eulogy given at a Memorial Mass for Andy Warhol, the art historian John Richardson revealed the extent of Warhol’s Catholic devotion and faith. Richardson shared with the congregation of 2,000 at New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral that Warhol had attended...
Kiki Smith creates an embodied art. She chose the human body as her subject because it is the one form that we all share; something with which each one of us has our own authentic experience. Her choice was informed by undertaking training to become an Emergency...
Pipoca (Paola de Ramos) invited me to participate in an art exhibition and residency at Hirvitalo, Pispala, Tampere, Finland in July 2019, the theme – Tavaissa – 'in the sky'. As part of this summer experience. I stayed in the gallery for two weeks with fellow artist...
Hastings Contemporary, (the former Jerwood Gallery) launched as an independent gallery on Tuesday with three notable exhibitions, Roy Oxlade alongside works by his tutor David Bomberg, Contemporary Danish Artist Tal R, and new works by artist/illustrator Quentin...
Once again the National Gallery offers a small, free, finely crafted show devoted to an Old Master painter that few people will know much – or indeed – anything about. In this case, to works by Bartolome Bermejo (c.1440-c. 1501). Bermejo was an itinerant late Gothic...