Exhibitions

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 […]

I am a fan of Cristina Iglesia and have featured her work in a previous blog post so was keen to see this new show, The Shore, at Hauser & Wirth in London’s Savile Row. As much of her sculpture is in public spaces It was interesting to see smaller pieces. Their scale is more […]

More about the Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, his retrospective at the Royal Academy in London. Note the multiple techniques used in Terra Incognita and Baptist, both from 1992. Evoking the Middle Passage, Marshall weaves in references to African and American history, as in Great America (see my previous post). Here is the barbershop once […]