Another piece from the Blue Room was this glorious hanging by El Anatsui, aptly named Change in Fortune, made from his traditional bottle tops stitched together. The whole piece is a beautiful shimmering sweeping stroke on a grand scale. This geometric hand folded polyester film by Tony Blackmore impressed me with its delicacy and complexity. A […]
Artists
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 2 of 4
The Phyllida Barlow room was, as you can see, pretty busy when I visited (and no, I don’t know the smiley woman in front of Tony Cragg’s Lost in Thoughts sculptures in this shot) The beautifully smooth laminated wood invited touch which practically everyone seemed to do. David Nash showed Red Holed Column, this wooden trunk […]
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 1 of 4
As the years go on I seem to know and recognise the work of an increasing number of artists exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, several of whom have featured in previous blog posts. Kate MccGwire is one such and I was delighted to see that she had won the Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture […]
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud & a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain
A recent study of oil painting techniques led me to visit Tate Britain for this exhibition of figure painting. I enjoyed the standard greats including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud but was more interested in examining the less-famous artists in the last room of the show; these painters were really exciting for their handling of materials. […]
Forgotten Streams by Cristina Iglesias
Most of my journeys through the City of London are by bike so I’d missed this low-level sculpture outside the prestigious Bloomberg Building, installed in 2017. Forgotten Streams by Cristina Iglesias reminds us of the rivers of London, most of which are now hidden underground. It marks the Walbrook river which flowed on this site. […]
Sculpture in the City
My former studio-mate, Amanda Lwin, is one of the artists in this year’s Sculpture in the City and led a tour for Nocturnal Creatures, the arts festival organised by Whitechapel Gallery so here are a few pictures of her work with some of the others we saw. Her piece, A Worldwide Web of Somewheres is in […]