Ed studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and later wrote his PhD in Philosophy at UCL. He has written extensively on the visual arts and is presently writing a book on everyday aesthetics. He is an elected member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He taught at University of Westminster and at University of Kent and he continues to make art.
“And now consider how passing a child on a swingCalling higher, higherCan bring back all that tender trauma of childhoodRealising that we don’t leave the past behindBut that it leaves...
This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....
This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...
This essay looks at the work of James Rosenquist in terms of the pop art movement. Broadening its scope, we look at this artist's work against that of Ed Kienholz and Joseph Cornell....
These paintings show quasi-geometrical structure of colour space. Together with a sensitivity to surface texture the abstract nature serves to point upa new kind of content - or one that is hidden...
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...
Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. ...
Two current exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe present work from two contemporary women artists; each, in her own way, a concrete artist. At RaumX, in north London, Katrina Blanin shows...
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. ...
Piazza Rotunda at Dawn Making Art as Chronicle ona Grimes is a restless city artist. She makes pictures; and in making them she strives to manipulate her medium in new ways. Hence there is always...
This essay argues that Rauschenberg, as an American artist, repositions collage as a flat formal arrangement. However, the formal arrangement, whilst remaining flat, accommodates depictive content as...
Skill is deployed in many fields of human endeavour Football takes skill. I played football at the same time as did Rodney Marsh, Denis Law and Colin Bell. They were footballers; but I was not. Why...
‘Darren Coffield’s ‘Orgreave’ ite Unseen’ is a group show inaugurating the new exhibition premises of Dellasposa in Lancaster Gate. A New Space for Contemporary Art It...
Two Russian Tourists visiting Salisbury mages of every kind bombard us daily with information, persuasion and delight. The ‘image stream’ as John Stezaker, the collage artist has called it, is...
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Science, of course, is immensely important; perhaps even the patterns made by diffraction are important too; even if only as a bi-product of some scientific goings-on....
Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018) ary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition engages its audience with work that is at once...
resident Donald J Trump is an intriguing phenomenon. Any criticism of his presidency is dismissed as ‘Fake News’. Nigel Farage described him as a silver-back gorilla, as he prowled the...
linton Stanley Jr. has been denied access to his school upon the day of his enrolment because he wears his hair in dread locks. Is this a constraint upon his freedom? (See USA Today) Six Year-Old...
Sky News Poll oris Johnson’s latest contrarian contribution pulls out of focus some features of our modern democracy. And whilst his popularity is on the rise, within the Tory right, his...
Mind and Brain henever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good brain. There. In just two sentences we move seemingly...
hy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv presenter, foreign correspondent, novelist, and sometime Call...
President Macron has selected an image for a new set of French stamps designed by YZ, a Franco-British street artist whose work celebrates strong women....
