Author: Arthur Tonnerre

Ex-London based reader of art and culture. LSE Masters Graduate. Arts and Culture writer since 1995 for Future Publishing, Conde Nast, Wig Magazine and Oyster. Specialist subjects include; media, philosophy, cultural aesthetics, contemporary art and French wine. When not searching for road-worn copies of eighteenth-century travelogues he can be found loitering in the inspirational uplands of art galleries throughout Europe.
Helen Beard, Today the Waves Matched My Fury- Spring, 2026

Eight Women Return the Gaze 

21/06/2026

At Paul Stolper, eight women on pleasure, power and looking...

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Xin Zhang, Cocooned 1, 2025

Shibari and New Forms of Cultural Expression 

18/06/2026

Xin Zhang reshapes Shibari into a feminist art of agency...

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Ziyi Yan, What the body records, 2025

The Body: A Promise and a Threat

16/06/2026

Ziyi Yan charts vulnerability, care and growth in organic abstraction ...

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Jem Southam, Studio Interior of Ray Exworth_s The Circus 1984- 85 © Jem Southam (detail)

The Whispered Story of Ray Exworth

12/06/2026

Jem Southam photographs the sheds that hid Ray Exworth's life's work...

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Falk Gernegroß, Begegnung (Encounter), 2022

16 Artists Hold the Light at KHG West Palm Beach

29/05/2026

Kristin Hjellegjerde gathers sixteen artists on summer light and longing...

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Ken Turner, The Killing of Children in Gaza, 2025 (gypsum and acrylic on canvas 4x4)

Art’s Great Rebel Turns 100 

21/05/2026

Ken Turner's century of disruption demands long-overdue recognition...

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Shenlu Liu, SiO2.F12hz.T6s, 2022

Craft as Crisis Response: Shenlu Liu

20/05/2026

Liu's textiles restore what screens have quietly taken away...

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Sirvon Azarm, UNBOUND (Poster Series), 202X

Form Without Words: Sirvon Azarm’s Circle

19/05/2026

How one Iranian artist uses abstraction to say what language cannot...

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Tianle Zhao, Quiet Burden I, 2026

Bound Bodies: How Tianle Zhao Sculpts Female Experience 

28/04/2026

A London artist confronts the structures that shape women's lives ...

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Good on Paper. Jan 2026, Design by Adam Hinks

Print Culture Still Thriving in Community Arts?

10/02/2026

Local freesheets like Good on Paper foster creative networks in the digital age...

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Sverre Malling, Salon Désiré (detail), 2025

Sverre Malling Champions the Glowing Outsiders of History (Part Two)

12/01/2026

The Norwegian artist rediscovers marginalised figures and anachronistic traditions...

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Sverre Malling, Hirams Death (detail), 2024

Sverre Malling Champions the Glowing Outsiders of History (Part One)

05/01/2026

The Norwegian artist rediscovers marginalised figures and anachronistic traditions...

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Shenlu Liu, SiO2.F12hz.T6s, 2022

Shenlu Liu: Can Textiles Restore Our Lost Senses?

31/12/2025

Shenlu Liu challenges screen-based perception through tactile emotional landscapes...

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Simon Taylor, Sketch, 2024

Why Is Stroud Britain’s New Art Hub?

25/12/2025

Nicholas Wells on establishing Aleph Contemporary in the Cotswolds...

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Xinyi Liu, Chronicle of A Death Foretold, 2023

Xinyi Liu: Does Death Give Meaning to Art?

20/12/2025

Exploring Time, Death and Object-Being in Xinyi Liu’s Contemporary Art...

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Nadia Ryzhakova, By The Sea, 2025

Can Pour Painting Contain Meaning?

09/11/2025

A preview of Nadia Ryzhakova's Ciphers of Nature exhibition at Aleph Contemporary, Stroud. ...

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Fanglin Luo, ME & GODDESS & ME, 2025

Fanglin Luo’s Performance Art Reclaims Feminist Mythology Through Ritual and Identity

28/10/2025

How contemporary artist Fanglin Luo channels Aphrodite and Nvwa (Nüwa) to question feminine identity and cultural power...

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Paul Sietsema, Object painting, 2025. Enamel on linen. Photo: Lee Thompson

Paul Sietsema at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris: Material Memory and the Weight of Objects 

13/10/2025

The LA artist's new exhibition explores the physical residue of cultural value through obsolete telephones, coins, and paint-soaked media...

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Wanting Wang, “Blossoms of Decay” series, 2025, digital giclée printing, 42 x 54.9 cm each (framed),

Wanting Wang: Art Photography at the Threshold of Order and Collapse

12/10/2025

The London-based photographer Wanting Wang uses friction and fragmentation to question what we consider normal...

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Jingjing Xu, House of Unending, 2023

Between Myth and Modernity: The Art Practice of Jingjing Xu

10/10/2025

A critical look at an emerging artist's synthesis of cinematic language, symbolic narrative, and questions of authenticity...

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Simon Tayler, OMEGA II, 2025

The Sublime Sculptures of Simon Tayler: Wooden Art for the Digital Age

13/09/2025

Exploring the Mysterious Beauty of Organic Forms in Contemporary British Sculpture...

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Folkestone Views - Coast by Trebuchet

Folkestone Triennial 2025: Where Art Meets Community

07/09/2025

How artists transform a seaside town into a living gallery of environmental urgency, historical memory, and collective imagination...

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Silvan Omerzu, Table for a Poet, 2025. Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.

Rewriting the Constitution: Chus Martínez on Art, Community, and Democratic Imagination

07/08/2025

Chus Martinez on Art as Intelligence, Curatorial Activism, and the Oracle of Democratic Possibility...

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Vesna & Eugen Petrešin, Autonomous Energy Machine, 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, 2025. Photo: Jaka Babnik. MGLC Archive.

Vesna Petresin, 1971-2025 

04/08/2025

Transdisciplinary artist who explored the fluid boundaries between consciousness, technology, and the future...

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Photo of Amsterdam by Trebuchet

Lost and Found in Amsterdam

27/06/2025

Why getting lost in Amsterdam Art Week might be the only way to find what matters...

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Yukinori Yanagi Icarus Milan

Milan Art Week and miart: A city in harmony

15/04/2025

A review of miart and Milan Art Week 2025 ...

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An Abstract painting

Where does Taylor Swift meet the mythic? Ask psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster

14/12/2024

Lacan, Art and the situated natured of viewing. An interview with Jamieson Webster...

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Dolomites, Ortisei. Ph Kailas Elmer

Biennale Gherdëina 9:Thinking Like a Mountain

16/07/2024

A review of Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots and GaMec: Thinking Like a Mountain. 2024 Italy. ...

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Amongst Wonder: Dürer to Warhol

27/11/2023

A review of 'Albrecht Dürer To Andy Warhol Masterpieces...' MASI Lugano...

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Thomas Huber, Heimkehr, 2021

Reflecting Lakes and Spirit Vessels: Thomas Huber

16/11/2023

A review of Lago Maggiore by Thomas Huber...

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