Looking for a place to rent or buy with a few original features? Then why not go to Unreal Estates, an exhibition curated by my former studio-mate Amanda Lwin in a real estate agency, Homefinders, at 146 Kingsland High Street, London. Exploring the current housing situation, she’s brought together a group of writers […]
Unreal Estates curated by Amanda Lwin
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 4 of 4
The architecture room at the RA Summer Show is full of beautifully produced models and drawings. This huge one ( coming in at 2.3 x 1.3 metres and 45cm high) however, of the Google’s View Mountain Campus in California, designed by Thomas Heatherwick and BIG, fascinated me with the amount of detail and how lovingly […]
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 3 of 4
Another piece from the Blue Room was this glorious hanging by El Anatsui, aptly named Change in Fortune, made from his traditional bottle tops stitched together. The whole piece is a beautiful shimmering sweeping stroke on a grand scale. This geometric hand folded polyester film by Tony Blackmore impressed me with its delicacy and complexity. A […]
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 2 of 4
The Phyllida Barlow room was, as you can see, pretty busy when I visited (and no, I don’t know the smiley woman in front of Tony Cragg’s Lost in Thoughts sculptures in this shot) The beautifully smooth laminated wood invited touch which practically everyone seemed to do. David Nash showed Red Holed Column, this wooden trunk […]
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: 1 of 4
As the years go on I seem to know and recognise the work of an increasing number of artists exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, several of whom have featured in previous blog posts. Kate MccGwire is one such and I was delighted to see that she had won the Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture […]
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud & a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain
A recent study of oil painting techniques led me to visit Tate Britain for this exhibition of figure painting. I enjoyed the standard greats including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud but was more interested in examining the less-famous artists in the last room of the show; these painters were really exciting for their handling of materials. […]