This exhibition is the second in a series of three, where contemporary artists engage with the work of Alberto Giacometti. Titled Encounters, they are at the Barbican’s new gallery on level 2. I wrote about the first one in an earlier post which featured Huma Bhabha. This time it is the turn of British-Palestinian artist […]
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Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery
The Anatomy of Painting, Jenny Saville‘s retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery was one of the must-see shows of the summer for anyone interested in painting. The exhibition covers her career from early works including this piece below, Propped, one of her graduate show paintings. It was originally displayed opposite a mirror to enable the […]
Artist Rooms: Richard Long at Tate Modern
Richard Long is the current artist at The Artist Rooms at Tate Modern. He’s one of those artists whose work makes me slow down and breathe more slowly, something increasingly necessary in our current times. One of his mud paintings, Waterfall Line, is painted directly onto the gallery wall and exudes an energy that I […]
Alien Shores at White Cube Bermondsey
Alien Shores was a group show running over the summer at White Cube Bermondsey It explored contemporary interpretations of landscape, not something I was expecting to be gripped by but I was completely wrong. I’d planned to pop in quickly but ended up spending a substantial amount of time there as it was so engaging. […]
Noémie Goudal’s Supra Strata at White Cube Bermondsey
It’s rare that I devote a full blog post to a single work of art but this video by Noémie Goudal, part of the Alien Shores exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, had me transfixed. The photo above marks the beginning of the 17 minute video which I watched till the end. The lush imagery gradually […]
Ken Nwadiogbu at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Ken Nwadiogbu‘s solo show, Yellow is the new Black, was recently at Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery. I was struck by the melancholy in these paintings, a sense of wistfulness. We have to face a certain loss when moving on to something new in our lives, something that came across very strongly in the exhibition. Many of […]
Tracy Hill: Natural Frequencies at White Conduit Projects.
I was lucky to catch this show Natural Frequencies by Tracy Hill at White Conduit Projects and attended the artist’s talk which gave a real insight into her work. Listening to the rhythms of the earth, how water and ground interact and making this invisiblity visible are some of the themes in her work. She […]
STEFDIES with Friends: THE AUDACITY at BoxPark Shoreditch
I was recently one of the artists in THE AUDACITY, a group show exploring the female gaze and taking up space. Curated by London-based performer and artist Stephanie Leigh Rose, STEFDIES with Friends: THE AUDACITY was a bold and unfiltered exploration of the female gaze—a visual reclaiming of power, presence, and public space. The month-long […]
Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern. Post 2 of 2.
My second post about Walk the House by Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern further explores the artist’s concepts of home, place, memory and time. In this piece the artist made a rubbing of his childhood home in Seoul decades after leaving Korea. The house has, in his words “always followed me”. Not only is […]
Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern. Post 1 of 2.
Do Ho Suh is best known for his gauze sculptures of indoor spaces. This retrospective show, Walk the House at Tate Modern, however, gives us a more rounded view of his work exploring the concept of houses and home. Home within Home is a 1:9 model in resin of his childhood home in Seoul Korea […]