Places

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]