These paintings show quasi-geometrical structure of colour space. Together with a sensitivity to surface texture the abstract nature serves to p[oint upa new kind of content – or one that is hidden behind the concept of representation. (read more)
Digital capabilities and analogue expression in the work of Alex May. (read more)
Influenced by cinema and a fascination with the gritty world of urban subculture, Kamp’s paintings delve beneath the surface of social class to capture a moment of high tension. (read more)
Exhibition On Screen returns with Young Picasso, an extraordinary detective story that looks in detail at the elements that drove one small boy from southern Spain to such heights. (read more)
Kerouac Beat Painting brings us closer to the Beat legend, showing us the gifted amateur, unscripted and untutored in his search, striving against himself to find authenticity. (read more)
Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro (read more)
Andrew Litten: timeless models of expression (read more)
The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2018 is Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queens of Wands. (read more)
Jo Volley’s ‘Research Art’ at Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone (read more)
Acoustic scientist sounds off about the location of cave paintings (read more)
Unearthing unspoken memories with visual prompts, Malka Nedivi charts a familiar Jewish story in her artworks (read more)
Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. (read more)
Born to parents of Mexican and Japanese decent, Saldamando’s work embodies components that reflect her bi-racial heritage. (read more)
The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing of time (read more)
Whereas his previous work featured imagined interiors and locations acting as memorials to real people, here it is the narratives which are imagined (read more)
Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. (read more)
“The state of painting now” is a tired topic. The premise – that painting has lost its lure because of new media, which in their very newness enable their users to conquer new territory in the name of art – is a familiar concept in the art world. (read more)
They’re laughing. Are we? (read more)
Adam Bloom’s paintings of blood and bone are a strange attractor, holding the viewer quiet and nervous with their dreamlike and symbolic depictions of humanity. The imagery is at once horrific and yet pointed through (read more)
The foremost British Abstract Expressionist of the 20th century, Hoyland pushed boundaries with his bold use of colour and ever-evolving sense of what abstract painting could be. (read more)
It’s Her Factory introduces a new body of Beard’s large-scale, vibrant works that examine contemporary portrayals of sexuality, and reclaim ownership over the body from the male gaze. (read more)
CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it all (read more)
Now/here showcases Lock’s affinity with ‘process art’, marking him out as a leading contemporary exponent of this methodology. (read more)
Returning this year with an ‘Outstanding’ A Greener Festival Award, Cambridge Folk Festival today furthers its sustainability commitment and announces the ban on single use plastics.
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Looking at paintings requires an ability to place works in the historical context of the medium. Only then can we see the human significance of the work. It is no good looking inward to brain patterns. That is not where human significance is to be found.
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The first major show staged on this theme, Into the Night features both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde from the 1880s to the 1960s. (read more)
This year, the organisers undertook the unprecedented task of identifying, ranking, and inventorying their vast archives to turn them into a major retrospective exhibition. (read more)
In the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition of 1808, J.M.W Turner made a rare misfire. British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s: Trebuchet July Market Roundup (read more)
Hold Tight is a new series of paintings, sculptures and drawings that explore the theme of love through symmetry and the artist’s unique yet universal language. (read more)
With a little help from their human companions, these canine curators have selected artworks in what is believed to be the first exhibition of its kind. (read more)
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