Art
What Lies Twixt Production and Reproduction: The Original Image
Investigating the space between original art and its many reproductions, The Original Image demands full attention (read more)
Articles by Francesca Goodwin
Art
Great Things – Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Gallery [Interview]
I guess there is an element of wanting to put our stake in the ground and say that we believe the artists we show are going to go on to great things. (read more)
Events
William Burroughs : Animals In The Wall
Animals In The Wall will feature 40 original William S Burroughs art works (read more)
Society
Neil Gaiman at the Barbican
For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves. (read more)
Art
Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld
If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard. (read more)
Art
Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation
Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding. (read more)
Society
Dressing up Undressing : London Burlesque Festival
The fact that something so nostalgic, so artless and so utterly un-PC could sell out, almost thawed my cold ‘let’s reclaim the female gaze’ heart (read more)
Art
Art Belongs to the People : Ashmolean Museum
A show focussed on a previously overlooked dynamic between the grandfather of the post-war avant garde, Joseph Beuys, and his politically mobilized student at the Dusseldorf Academy: Jörg Immendorff. (read more)
Events
Secret Garden Party Preview
What makes Secret Garden special is that its focus upon audience participation makes each hedonistic reveller feel very much a part of a gloriously impromptu and intimate house party. (read more)
Art
A Dialogue with Nature : Courtauld Gallery
Landscape embodied a mysterious border space to combat the creeping rise of social industrialisation and cultural European realism (read more)
Art
Matter and Memory : Alison Jacques Gallery
Unassuming yet powerful provocations to our innate memories of what it is to be a human within the matter of the world (read more)
Art
Charlie Billingham : Tender
It is this sense of paradoxical delight which pervades the playful tones of Charlie Billingham’s latest installation of paintings, marching uniformly across the red grid of the gallery walls. (read more)
Art
Tom De Freston : The Charnel House
De Freston’s is a primarily personal painterly vocabulary of translated – rather than quoted – cultural references (read more)
Art
Drifting through Frieze
Checking out Dürer, Richard Serra and Richard Silver, Trebuchet’s art correspondent finds much to interest her outside of Frieze. (read more)
Art
Liu Xiaodong at Lisson Gallery
There is a modesty and complexity in the self-aware theatricality of his approach that eschews any defined categories or cultural heritage (read more)
Art
Generation : GV Art
‘Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing’. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London’s GV Art gallery. (read more)
Art
Robert Mapplethorpe : Fashion Show
obert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show [Caution: Borderline NSFW image appears mid-way through text] His delicate gaze saw with clarity what others did not Poignant, Touching and Reflective are not usually the words chosen to describe the (read more)
Art
Mass Observation : This is Your Photo
Spender’s camera is wielded with a candid humour and instinctive eye for capturing what Cartier Bresson refers to as ‘the moment’ of a photographic image. (read more)
Art
George Catlin and the Indians
An affecting impression of a man and the affinity which he found with his subjects, though always remaining on the outside. (read more)
Art
An ABC of Aesthetics
There is a distinction between art and entertainment, one of them being that art is meant to be hard work. (read more)
Art
Cob and Guts (and curation)
Life in dreams is magnified, multiplied and recycled to form a new visual language that drifts in and out of cognitive understanding. Francesca Goodwin investigates new curatorial approaches at Cob Gallery (read more)
Art
Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld
Courtauld literally lived with his collections and so it was the physical composition of the work (such as Gauguin) itself wherein his main interests lay (read more)
Society
Guerilla Zoo’s James Elphick [Interview]
May Day, traditionally associated with revelry and mystique – this is what I think the whole event captured, that playful, fantastical element. (read more)
Art
SUPERPAINTINGS at Transition Gallery
They’re laughing. Are we? (read more)
Society
Anyone for Fish Pie? [Theatre Interview]
‘I don’t think that making fun, silly or childish stories means that there’s any less significance to the work’ (read more)
Art
In Defence of Art
They would then stalk, with a suitably knowing sneer creasing their upper lips, around the space and direct small troops of eager attendants to move paintings a little to the left or a little to the right. (read more)
Art
Miranda Donovan : Walls [Review]
The viewer comes away seduced – seduced by surface, seduced by tactility and seduced by craftsmanship – and all there was to be seen were walls. (read more)