The exhibition of Masculinities at The Barbican covers such a broad range of work and I just had to include this tender and magical photo essay, Grandpa Goes To Heaven by Duane Michals. No need to add anything more – the images say it all.
One-minute blog of interesting things
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As a working contemporary artist I visit many exhibitions and shows, but sometimes it is the things I see that are part of daily life that capture my interest. My one-minute blog of interesting things reflects the fact that although we are increasingly time-poor, there is creativity all around us.
Masculinities: liberation through photography at the Barbican. 1 of 3
A large and comprehensive exhibition, Masculinities at The Barbican explores the many aspects of what masculinity can mean, historically, sexually and culturally. Jeremy Deller’s film of the life of Adrian Street , with a mural by Imelda Cox, documents his escape from a working class mining background and a brutal father to becoming a cross-dressing […]
Justin Caguiat at Modern Art Gallery
This is the first solo exhibition by painter Justin Caguiat at Modern Art gallery Helmet Row and my first viewing of his work. I was struck by visual resonances with Gustav Klimt, particularly evident in this blue painting, something I really hadn’t expected. The rich pattern and feeling of other-worldliness with figures hidden and emerging. […]
New work by Lisa-Marie Price
If you go to Harringay Green Lanes overground station, don’t miss this art and teaching studio just as you turn right from the station exit. Lisa-Marie Price works from a converted shop unit and has recently turned the window into a pop-up gallery displaying new work which I saw when I called in to visit. […]
Sikelela Owen at James Freeman Gallery
One of the first galleries I visited post-lockdown, James Freeman exhibited Together, a show of recent paintings by Sikelela Owen, whose work I have featured in the past. I enjoyed seeing her contemporary reinterpretations using tropes from the history of art, including the odalisque above, in this case luxuriating on a sandy beach and below. […]
Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube Bermondsey. Part 2 of 2
These screens of cracked glass by Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube Bermondsey may look like very little at first glance but I found them achingly exquisite. I likened the experience of viewing to that of Transcendental Meditation: the closest thing to nothing yet… Photographs capture so little… so best to watch another video, this […]
Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube Bermondsey. Part 1 of 2
My first physical visit to a gallery since lock-down this exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube Bermondsey felt like rehydration for the soul. This was the first time I had seen his paintings which visually resonate with some of mine then I entered the largest space to a variety of installations. Please watch […]
The V-Art Show – connecting with artists in person online.
One of the best things to come from the pandemic for me has been the creation of and participation in the V-Art Show. As all galleries, exhibitions and art fairs shut down from mid-March, we artists suddenly found ourselves in a position of being unable to show our work or even talk to an audience. […]
Transient, an online show from ArtCan
Difficult times inspire innovation and artists are some of the people best-placed to figure out new ways of working. ArtCan, an artists’ organisation that I’m a proud and long-standing member of, currently has an online group show, curated by member KV Duong and with support from Rita Carta Manias and can be viewed online till […]
Column by Studio Swine
As galleries and museums have been closed for several months now I’ve been focussed on art outside. I glimpsed this piece, Column by Studio Swine by a new development on another of my bike rides. The digitally faceted aluminium rock sliced by a rusted corten steel column is aggressive yet finely balanced. Shiny & futuristic, […]