A much darker aspect of masculinity shown in Masculinities at The Barbican is My Mother’s Cupboards and My Father’s Words, a pair of small notebooks by Anna Fox. Contrasting the neatness of her mother’s cupboards with phrases spoken by her father to either his wife or his daughter, I found this deeply disturbing. I’ve only […]
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The exhibition of Masculinities at The Barbican covers such a broad range of work and I just had to include this tender and magical photo essay, Grandpa Goes To Heaven by Duane Michals. No need to add anything more – the images say it all.
Masculinities: liberation through photography at the Barbican. 1 of 3
A large and comprehensive exhibition, Masculinities at The Barbican explores the many aspects of what masculinity can mean, historically, sexually and culturally. Jeremy Deller’s film of the life of Adrian Street , with a mural by Imelda Cox, documents his escape from a working class mining background and a brutal father to becoming a cross-dressing […]
Justin Caguiat at Modern Art Gallery
This is the first solo exhibition by painter Justin Caguiat at Modern Art gallery Helmet Row and my first viewing of his work. I was struck by visual resonances with Gustav Klimt, particularly evident in this blue painting, something I really hadn’t expected. The rich pattern and feeling of other-worldliness with figures hidden and emerging. […]
New work by Lisa-Marie Price
If you go to Harringay Green Lanes overground station, don’t miss this art and teaching studio just as you turn right from the station exit. Lisa-Marie Price works from a converted shop unit and has recently turned the window into a pop-up gallery displaying new work which I saw when I called in to visit. […]
Sikelela Owen at James Freeman Gallery
One of the first galleries I visited post-lockdown, James Freeman exhibited Together, a show of recent paintings by Sikelela Owen, whose work I have featured in the past. I enjoyed seeing her contemporary reinterpretations using tropes from the history of art, including the odalisque above, in this case luxuriating on a sandy beach and below. […]