It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth. You can see interesting local collections, the touring show from Hepworth Wakefield of surrealist landscapes, and a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll...
London-based German artist Nicole Wermers was Turner Prize-nominated in 2015 and features in the current Tate Britain hang. Her show ‘Tails & Fainters’, at Herald St’s Museum Street location, features two bodies of work. Up front, her ‘Domestic Tails’ unwind...
There are seventy art spaces and over a hundred events listed as part of Amsterdam’s Art Week (20-25 May), including the open studios, which I have chosen below. Most of the shows carry on for several weeks, and it is, of course, a very pleasant city. I recommend a...
Richard Wright, who won the Turner Prize in 2009, is known primarily for his site-responsive, and usually temporary, ceiling and wall-based paintings. His major survey at Camden Art Centre includes new work of that type and far more: some 40 paintings, drawings and...
Ahead of a major autumn survey at Modern Art Oxford, Suzanne Treister is showing a new series of works, Hexen 5.0, together with a selection of her visionary Museum paintings at Annely Juda in London. HEXEN 5.0 is a collection of tarot cards, diagrams and AI-prompted...
Citra Sasmita grew up in the traditional Balinese Hindu culture. That flows into how her first UK solo show, ‘Into Eternal Land’, is not just visually compelling but has plenty behind how it looks. The Indonesian artist invites us on a symbolic journey along the...
I spoke to Sheffield-based painter Ryan Mosley in his new show ‘Heavy is the Mountain’ at Josh Lilley: twenty-odd works full of figures hinting, in the gallery’s words, ‘at an enigmatic yet beguiling narrative continuum that extends from one painting to the next’....
Daniel Silver populates Frith Street gallery with ten sculptural figures that place bronze heads atop blocks of marble. Ranged around like totems, the individual presences are – in the gallery’s words - a celebration of their own materiality and reflect on what it is...
I talked to Tamar Mason at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, surrounded by her first UK solo show. In what looks initially like paintings but are embroidered works, Mason explores the complexity of rural life in South Africa. Focused primarily on the history and landscapes...