I first encountered Sister Wendy Beckett in the pages of ‘Modern Painters’, the art magazine founded by the art critic Peter Fuller which ‘celebrated the critical imagination; stood up for aesthetic values and had a particular focus on British art.’ Her instinctive...
Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker is editor-in-chief of ArtWay, a website which seeks to stimulate reflection on the role of images in church and open up the world of the visual arts to the Church. She has a background in musicology and worked for many years as an editor,...
The micro and the macro can be contrasted through exhibitions of photography at the Large Glass and Flowers Galleries. Guido Guidi: Per Strada is a selection of 27 prints by the Italian photographer, to coincide with the publication 'Per Strada’. These photographs...
A central member of the group of young artists to emerge from the Glasgow School of Art during the 1980s dubbed the New Glasgow Boys, Peter Howson has become one of his generation’s leading figurative painters. Exploring issues of social deprivation and environmental...
‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’. The titles of Peter Howson's latest work, in translation from often Latin or Anglo-Saxon words or phrases, give a...
Twenty-one video and film installations, 11 hours plus of imagery created by today’s most radical image makers and at the beginning is an installation that takes us back to the beginning by mixing scientific history with Creation stories belonging to religious (Hindu,...
Rupert Edwards, Director of the recent Sky Arts documentary ‘Hard Beauty’, describes the film’s subject, Helaine Blumenfeld, ‘Britain’s most successful sculptor you have never heard of.’ The latter part of that statement may be about to change somewhat, to one in line...
In the twenty years since he began a Foundation Course at the Leith School of Art, Alastair Gordon has proved himself to be an artist of distinction as well as a polymath whose activities have supported others in travelling along creative paths. In that period, in...
Sacred Noise explores themes of religion, faith and divinity in post-war and contemporary art through 30 works shown at Christie’s and on show until 21 July,. The exhibition seeks to charts the reinterpretation and subversion of these themes in the 20th century. The...