The twentieth century was a time of great change for women. Those born, raised and educated in the 19th century, then forming relationships and working in the 20th century saw extraordinary progress. But against that backdrop was their struggle to challenge the...
With a background in tagging, rapping, skateboarding and surfing, Californian-born Louis Carreon is a street artist who is currently sampling art history, and its religious iconography in particular. Sampling, which began as a feature of Hip Hop in the 1980s,...
I first met my fellow judges for the Chaiya Art Awards in November 2019. 700+ entries had been received for this, the second iteration of the UK’s largest awards exploring spirituality through the visual arts. The theme with which those artists had been working was...
For Marc Chagall, a stained-glass window represented "the transparent partition between my heart and the world's heart." Stained glass is thrilling because it "has to live by the light which passes through it." Chagall created exceptional stained-glass windows for the...
The Lampedusa cross is made from pieces of a boat that was wrecked on 11 October 2013 near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia. The overcrowded boat carrying 466 migrants from Somalia and Eritrea caught fire, capsized and sank at a time when...
Australian artist and documentary filmmaker, George Gittoes is an artist willing to create in the face of chaos and potential destruction. He has been travelling the world for 40 years visiting extreme situations – war zones, natural disasters and places where...
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life, having become known initially for art that proliferated in the New York subway system during the early 1980s. A key belief was that "Art is for everybody." He...
Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark this milestone, the company selected 21 projects at random, spanning the years...
Since 1999, Sean Scully's Landline paintings have led a transition from what John Caldwell called 'the asceticism of his earlier black paintings' towards the 'emotion, space, colour and physicality' [i] of a more expressive style that has traced the world's contours....