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Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern
Don’t miss out on the exhibition, which ends on 5 June 2012. Kusama’s infinity nets use accumulation and repetition to create an immersive surface that directly reference the hallucinations she experienced from childhood. They are deeply intriguing surfaces to witness in reality, sublime and mundane, seeming to reference both hallucination for example and bearing a [...]
Great Resource for Arts Professionals
Highly recommend this resource for arts professionals, for helpful and insightful articles that you can actually apply in your every day practice. The answer to an often wondered about question will definitely be held somewhere in these pages.
The Internet Issue
If I make an artwork with images of my children and post it on the internet, do I face the same dangers as posting photos of them? Does that change when it is a drawing? “Hope for the Future” 7×7” 2012 A painting? Copyright Jenny Saville, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Mike Bruce ‘The Mothers,’ [...]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
Anna resting. Fleur Darkin and her dancers were developing ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ at Pavillion Dance in Bournemouth. A Residency was offered for artists to come alongside the dancers in their warming up and in their development of the piece. It offered a glimpse of the body tuned in a way I never have. Body awareness- [...]
An informative talk at the Tate
Last week I went to the annual BP lecture at Tate Britain which this year was by Phyllida Barlow whose solo sculpture show at Hauser and Wirth was my favourite exhibition last year. She proved to be a very informative and generous speaker with a fascinating account of her lengthy career accompanied by many slides [...]
Punked?
I chose to orange the top because otherwise it was boring. Like wanting to die my hair, or wear a fashion item that I know will go out of style in a year, I wanted this painting to have a little more back bone than the typical waterscape. To get the accuracy in the pier [...]
Paul Bennett Review
I’ve just had this great review written on the a – n website. Full review below: Paul Bennett at The VZ Gallery. VZ Gallery, London 2 – 22 December 2011 Reviewed by: Judith Jones » It has been a while since viewing Paul Bennett’s work at The VZ Gallery near Brick Lane before Christmas; but I just [...]
THRESHOLD
2012 began breezily and spaciously just as the last year ended with regular working time along the Charmouth and Seatown stretch of coast and more recently at the splendid coastguard lookout studio space in Studland. As some will remember from previous blogs I’m renting it from the National Trust this winter and I’ve [...]
Gerhard Richter Painting – via Nowness
“A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with His Squeegee. The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical [...]
Oslo & Beach
In 2011 I took a short trip to Oslo and naturally took lots of photographs, now you can see some of this work at next month’s Photocopy Club London Exhibition at Beach Gallery (Cheshire street just off Brick Lane) running February 2nd-5th (Opening night on Thursday at 6pm). All the images I took were on [...]