I’m glad to see that it’s become an increasing trend to see textile-based artwork exhibited in a commercial fine art gallery. Things have certainly changed since I left art school, and not before time. As one gallerist said to me recently, it’s the artist’s intention that counts, not the materials they use. You can see […]
Exhibitions
Paula Rego at Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Regular readers of my blog know that I’m a big fan of the late Dame Paula Rego as I’ve featured her work here several times. The exhibition, Letting Loose, at Victoria Miro in London, is of paintings from the early 1980s before she became so very celebrated. These paintings are an orgy of activity and […]
Behind the Red Moon – the Turbine Hall commission by El Anatsui at Tate Modern
Behind the Red Moon is the title of El Anatsui’s installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Made of possibly millions of bottle tops and discarded materials all painstakingly attached together with wire and thread, these huge pieces fill the space, dwarfing us humans. The Red Moon, seen as you enter the hall, resembles a billowing […]
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Post 2 of 2.
As stated in my last post, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize goes on tour around the UK now that it has ended in London. Here are some of the venues listed: Drawing Projects UK (details TBC); The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 16 February to 12 April 2024; The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May […]
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Post 1 of 2
There’s a magic about drawing that I will never tire of experiencing. Both the making and the looking give me such pleasure so the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, organised by Parker Harris, is a feast. It’s the foremost drawing exhibition in the UK with an extremely high standard of work. This blog post […]
Christian Marclay: Doors at White Cube, London
Christian Marclay’s video montage Doors, from 2022, made its London debut at White Cube in September and I was determined to catch it. The video played in the downstairs gallery while a collection of sculptures were on display upstairs. I liked their playfulness aligned with mathematics. The inside-outsidedness of beautifully sliced and stacked doors. All […]
