Cluster, an exhibition at the Oxo Bargehouse was a real mixed bag (as so many group shows are). Perhaps that’s why the title was selected? There were some interesting artists to discover so here are a few of the pieces that spoke to me. Gentrification (Commercial Genocide/The Message) by Shaquille Keith is a dual piece […]
Cluster at the Bargehouse Oxo Tower, London
Soheila Sokhanvari’s Rebel Rebel at Barbican Curve
This exhibition of paintings by UK-based Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari celebrates and commemorates inspirational creative Iranian women. She uses the painstaking medium of egg tempera and traditional miniature painting techniques for these portraits. The installation in The Barbican Curve is quite wonderful, an immersive environment in which to view these small, highly detailed paintings. Performing […]
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at the Serpentine Gallery.
I’ll start the year with a review about another underrepresented artist finally getting some of the exposure she deserves. Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (now in her 80s) has a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery till 29th January. While most of the attention is on her large canvasses, I was moved by her drawings and some […]
Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern
Although I had seen photos of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s work back in 1980, Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, the exhibition at Tate Modern was the first time I had experienced any of it in reality. Whoa, these sculptures (Abakans) are big. It was difficult to keep my hands off them – I so wanted to […]
Käthe Kollwitz at Making Modernism, Royal Academy.
One of the few artists celebrated during her lifetime and now revered, Käthe Kollwitz is, amazingly, still not a household name in the UK. Her inclusion in Making Modernism at the Royal Academy gives us the chance to experience a more diverse range of her work, a few examples of which are here. A talented […]
Making Modernism at the Royal Academy
Hmm, not sure about the title of this small exhibition at the Royal Academy but the content was extraordinary, leaving me thirsting for more information about the artists, several of whom were completely new to me. As with so much art history (HIStory full-stop) we’ve been fed a version showing only men’s work. In this […]