Multimedia Indo- Caribbean artist Suchitra Mattai's exhibition Monster (Unit London 11 January - 7 February) is a new body of work that explores the social, emotional and political significance of material-based practices about those who nd themselves culturally...
Mix and match, mashup, sample, collage, combine, hybridisation, syncretisation. Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists. Creolisation refers to the mixing of cultural influences and is a...
Nolan's Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives at the National Library of Australia, containing never-before-seen diaries, photographs and personal notes. These will be revealed by Andrew Turley - a...
When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, one of its key aims was to establish an annual exhibition open to all artists ‘of merit’ (as long, one might add, that they were white, male and mostly middle class). Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the...
The Liverpool Biennial is always one of the highlights of the out of London season. It is the UK's first and most important international biennial showcasing nine new exhibitions and bringing together the complete presentation of the 11th Edition. Titled, The Stomach...
What makes a Significant Work? Not necessarily what is fashionable or new but an artwork that holds its own down the years, that continues to resonate and still has something to say. It seems extraordinary that I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the...
The 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial will open the first 'outside' chapter of The Stomach and the Port on 20 March 2021, starting with a major new outdoor sculpture series, sonic and digital commissions by nine different artists, alongside the new Biennial...
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility is proving to be a profoundly influential as well as innovative book. Its author Ashon T. Crawley – academic and artist – features in two exhibitions (one current, one upcoming) which explore themes taken from the...
I began this series of conversations with comic creatives and graphic storytellers in order to introduce some of the current practitioners who I think are doing fascinating and challenging work which is little known outside the world of comics and graphic novels, and...