Trained first as an anthropologist, artist Rebecca Jewell spent one of the most formative years of her life in Papua New Guinea in 1982. Her work is based on printed bird feathers with the most recent exhibition, Migrating Artefacts, at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. the new work integrates the feathers with structures from Oceana as well as […]
Artists
The Other Art Fair
Familiar artists from the increasing group of regular exhibitors included Benjamin Parker showing new gilded fish pieces (too difficult to photograph behind glass so here’s a photo of older work), Rod McIntosh with large pieces including tondi/tondos whichever plural you prefer to use for tondo , a round art piece over 60cm diameter. (the photo below is of work […]
Jessica Carlisle Gallery – The Missing: Rebuilding the Past
This exhibition held at the recently opened Jessica Carlisle Gallery presents a variety of artistic responses to the acts of iconoclasm carried out by so-called Islamic State ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Curator Erin Thompson, Professor of Art Crime at the City University of New York, has gathered a collection of artists and scholars to […]
Visible Traces at Frameless Gallery 2 of 2
As is often the case, I couldn’t put everything in one post so here’s a bit more. The show placed prints by Ian Stephenson made in the 1980s (seen above in the middle) in conversation with other artists, some already mentioned in my previous post. Another was Elizabeth Hayley who produces silver gelatin prints on steel and brass as well […]
Visible Traces at Frameless Gallery 1 of 2
I never miss an exhibition curated by Joanna Bryant and Julian Page as, apart from invariably seeing good work, I always learn something new. Jayne Wilton’s explorations around the visibility of breath: inhalation and exhalation have been featured here before. Here the emphasis is on the inhaling of air, developed in glass. Robinson & McMahon’s painterly concerns […]
Recent drawings by Ann Christopher
Ann Christopher RA is currently exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Drawing – The Lines of Time, on till the end of May, comprises a series of drawings and one of her sculptures. Whilst known as a sculptor, I find her drawings of equal, if not even greater, interest. Here are a few images from […]