This month sees the opening of an exhibition of portraits by the artist Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery and the launch of my book Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-Fits at Hatchards of Piccadilly. The book reveals the scandalous lives of the women who...
“Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-fits” is an affectionate and illuminating rescue of many remarkable women from virtual obscurity. The author takes personalities that time has unfairly dismissed and brings a fresh perspective to their stories. These women, often...
For the last couple of weeks, people have been phoning and hounding me to see if they could get on the guestlist for "Hello Cunty: Stories from the Colony Club" the concept of which was so heavily 'borrowed' from my book that everyone thought I must be behind it -I...
DARREN COFFIELD: Rupert Shrive has a new exhibition that opened last week at London's Serena Morton Gallery, entitled 'Mysterious Arrangement' - a phrase taken from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novel Heart of darkness, about an existential journey, undertaken by steamboat up...
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...
For the latest in our Artist to Artist series of interviews, Darren Coffield speaks to the British photographer Rachel Megawhat, who is well known for her controversial subject matter photographing religious extremists, hate preachers and even shadowing the former...
In our latest in the series of Artist To Artist Darren Coffield interviews the portrait artist Geraldine Swayne who has a new show at London’s Fine Art Society until 19 April 2017. Swayne depicts People on the verge of action populate Geraldine's paintings, like film...
In this new series of interviews between artists, Hedley Roberts is interviewed by Darren Coffield. Hedley currently has a new exhibition "Other Portraits” NEW ART PROJECTS London Thu 09 Mar 2017 – Sat 29 Apr 2017 DARREN COFFIELD: Hedley Roberts what does your new...
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings by Francis Bacon and new paintings by Darren Coffield. It is stated that both artists create figuration with a twist: both manipulate the language of the human figure in art, reinterpreting...