Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace. It is not Munch’s shrill scream of terror. Bacon’s mouth is cavernous, the lips curled in a snarl to reveal rows of potentially castrating...
London Art Fair 2019 Returns With Solid Foundations – Sue Hubbard
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January. Once it was the most happening art fair in London, but it’s had its off years in...
Eddie Peake: Compulsive Obsessional And Occasionally Shit-Scared – By Zoltan Alexander
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint, a ferocious attention seeker but cramped with shyness and insecurity, he is compulsive, obsessional and occasionally “shit-scared” of...