Exhibitions

I hadn’t expected to find so many resonances with my own work, both thematically and visually when visiting this recent exhibition of Jessica Rankin at White Cube Mason’s Yard in London. This new body of work is inspired by the “unity of creation and destruction… cellular and cosmological scales of movement and connect the act […]

In this second post of the Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at Tate Modern, I look at some of the later works. It’s the layering, the space created with her mark-making, that fascinates me. You can feel the rhythm of movement, the pace of song and dance in these linear Awely paintings from 1993 onwards. And […]

This show at Tate Modern was a real surprise to me as it exceeded any expectations I might have had. I’m glad I kept away from previous information as wanted to come to it fresh. Emily Kam Kngwarray is now rightly celebrated as being a significant 20th Century artist. She was fortunately able to enjoy […]

The Story of Fixity by Noémie Goudal was a recent Artangel project at Borough Yards near London Bridge. I shared her video work, Supra Strata seen at White Cube, in an earlier post, so was keen to see this installation. This time there were projections on 3 large screens, each made of shaped boards as […]

Given my interest in calligraphic mark-making you can probably see what attracted me to these works by Brice Marden at Gagosian in Burlington Arcade, London. Marden was influenced by Chinese calligraphy and made the original marks with sticks. His inspiration for this series was a Song dynasty verse, “Seven-character Poem (besotted by Flower Vapours)” by […]

Ram Samocha is probably best known for creating Draw to Perform, a community of performative drawing artists. Indeed I first came across him over a weekend of performance and participatory mark-making several years ago. This solo exhibition, Abstract Space, at Lewisham Arthouse, consists of black and white works on paper. Given world events over the […]