Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

A picture of Sophia Starling's Fluor Red

Hanging Offence : Jerwood Charitable Foundation

10/06/2013

It’s a travesty that political society, for the most part, doesn’t value artistic thinking and exploration as it should. This civilisation will be poorer in all ways as a result....

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A picture of Comb Your Hair

SUPERPAINTINGS at Transition Gallery

07/06/2013

They're laughing. Are we?...

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A picture by Lance Ribeiro

Restless Ribeiro : An Indian Artist in Britain

03/06/2013

A leading painter during the 60s and 70s, he was considered THE leading Indian artist resident in the UK until he was overshadowed by changing tastes and the epic rise of Anish Kapoor...

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A picture of Scream gallery

Hanging Offence : Scream

27/05/2013

'our aesthetic is bold, bright, high impact works with an emphasis on the skill or craft of creating works of art' ...

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fishbar in progress

In Defence of Art

20/05/2013

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...

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A picture of a GV Art exhibition

Broad Vision: Inspired by… Images from Science

15/05/2013

So often in art/science collaborations it is clear how the process has benefited the arts practitioners; it is often more opaque what benefit the scientists have gained....

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A picture by Oliver Sin

Oliver Sin, Artist : Interview

13/05/2013

Everybody has a unique perspective to sense and communicate. Mine is mostly comes from my musical heritage. It's like improvising in music. Science and futurology are all parts of my style....

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A picture of an artwork by Nicola Anthony

Mumbojumbo and Gobbledygook: The Language of Art Terminology

09/05/2013

Sometimes I invent new terms and insert them into conversations just to see who pretends they understand...

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A self portrait of Saloua Raouda Choucair

Saloua Raouda Choucair : Tate Modern

07/05/2013

It is her unique position as an outsider that has allowed the structures to develop - rather than the over-stipulation of an omnipotent artist...

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A Picture by Liam Ryan

Hanging Offence : The Residence Gallery

06/05/2013

I want this gallery to see through the golden cage of the absolute to the highest realms of freedom and possibility....

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A picture by Anita Goldstein

Anita Goldstein : Interview

28/04/2013

The West-Bank wall is covered on its Palestinian side with lots of graffiti (many slogans, but also street art) whereas its Israeli side is completely blank. I think it's a nice metaphor...

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A painting by Celina Teague

Celina Teague : Brave New World Hits a Glitch

24/04/2013

Teague applies a moral surface to the artwork, as such, she reveals herself as an activist and her paintings become personal tales of her protests...

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Charlie Dutton Gallery

Hanging Offence : Charlie Dutton Gallery

22/04/2013

'communications between gallerists, artists and the viewers can become misunderstood: rudeness, anxieties and insecurities are a lethal cocktail'...

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Pedro Reyes, Disarm

Metal Machine(gun) Music : DISARM

18/04/2013

DISARM, currently showing at the Lisson Gallery in London features playable musical instruments created from illegal firearms and artworks of sci-fi sonic weapons...

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Maggie Thatcher

Thatcher in DegreeArt

17/04/2013

Will her image become a universal iconograph? And if it does, what exactly will it signify?...

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Bernini - David

Hanging Offence : Ruth Garde

15/04/2013

'I'm not sure there is such a thing as an artistic controversy, but there have certainly been many controversies surrounding art' Ruth Garde, curator, talks to Trebuchet about Michaelangelo, Bernini...

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George Bush painting

The Most Interesting Man In The World: George W. Bush

12/04/2013

The overall trait of the dog is loyalty, an instinct of which George W. Bush seemed to possess none. So why is he painting them?...

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a gnawing girl

Hanging Offence : Erarta Galleries

08/04/2013

'although much of the popular appeal of contemporary art is in its ability to provoke, we need to be mindful of the media, politicians and governments in relation to the arts' Erarta Galleries' Beth...

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Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs

Loitered Lens : Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs

07/04/2013

Porcelain features, vintage Fender guitars (with broken strings) and an album produced by Edwyn Collins. The Lexington expects.......

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Miranda Donovan, Walls

Miranda Donovan : Walls [Review]

05/04/2013

The viewer comes away seduced - seduced by surface, seduced by tactility and seduced by craftsmanship – and all there was to be seen were walls....

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Make Better Music, Dan Booth

Make Better Music 69: On Sound

02/04/2013

"It is common for us to be in situations where we can not see (or at least vision is severely restricted) but exceedingly uncommon to be in situations where we can not hear"...

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ROb Moreton

Rob Moreton : Interview

30/03/2013

Rob Moreton talks to Trebuchet about colour, music and art....

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Mono/Poly : Earnest Endeavours [Photos]

30/03/2013

A short interview and live photographic review of Mono/Poly 's sick concert at Earnest Endeavour event at the Village Underground 14th March 2013...

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Shaky Kane

Shaky Kane : Interview

29/03/2013

A pencil and a cheap drawing pad - those are the only tools you need, that and an idea bursting to get out the graphite running up that stick of wood'...

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Jester Jacques

Hanging Offence : Jester Jacques

26/03/2013

Not being able to have a physical gallery space has been challenging. But it in a way it is good, as it forces us to always look for projects that we wouldn’t otherwise and some pretty cool...

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Apples & Eve

Loitered Lens : Apples & Eve

24/03/2013

Sweeping folk, wheezing accordion, and grand chanson stage theatrics. Apples & Eve at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Photos....

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martha parsey

Martha Parsey : Interview

22/03/2013

Trebuchet interviews the bold force of contemporary painting Martha Parsey ...

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kennardphillips

Geographies of War [Exhibition]

19/03/2013

The first lesson taught by physically tasting war is that ruination is the essence of all being. Death has no meaning and everything can be reduced to nothing in seconds....

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Hanging Offence : Karin Janssen Project Space

19/03/2013

There is sometimes a tendency to overwrite, overanalyse, overcomplicate and over-theorize art. This might be an English thing, I’m not sure about that. Hanging Offence : Karin Janssen Project Space...

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KISS by Falk Hagen

Interview : Falk-Hagen Bernshausen

17/03/2013

Anthrax, Kiss, Gojira, Metallica, Falk-Hagen Bernhausen 's photographed them all. So why has he turned to prizefighters and Biker clubs. Trebuchet asks....

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