painting

Search Results

Bridget Riley Major Retrospective Exhibition

Spanning 70 years of the artist’s working life, the eponymous exhibition is the largest and most comprehensive display of her work to date....

Read More

First Ever UK Commission by Toyin Ojih Odutola

A Countervailing Theory explores an imagined ancient myth conceived by the artist....

Read More

The Platform Graduate Award 2019

The Platform Graduate Award is showing the work of talented emerging artists throughout November at the MK Gallery. ...

Read More

Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms to Go on Show in Paris Next Year

The paintings will go on show at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in June 2020....

Read More

Eileen Cooper RA to Receive Major Solo Exhibition

Personal Space focuses on the female figure in private and intimate spaces, expanding on themes Cooper has explored throughout her 40-year career....

Read More

Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?

The most affecting film of 2019 has created debate and controversy, Trebuchet takes a closer look examining these and the underlying message at its core. ...

Read More

Amy Bessone at the Alison Jacques Gallery

Amy Bessone imbues the campy and kitsch with a soft and enigmatic humanity bringing depth where there was none. ...

Read More

Deptford X Celebrates 21st Birthday

London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival has attracted over 1 million visitors since its inception in 1998. ...

Read More

Dylan Gebbia-Richards Makes UK Solo Debut

Inspired by Jungian philosophy, the multidisciplinary artist cultivates art driven from instinct, in a creative process that arises from emotions rather than an analytical approach....

Read More

Inaugural London Mural Festival

The event, launching in September 2020, will use London as a vast canvas, painting a minimum of 20 new large-scale murals across the city....

Read More

Ken Nwandiogbu ‘Contemporealism’

Hyper real painting is given a contemporary African twist at The Brick Lane gallery with a show of work by Ken Nwadiogbu....

Read More

Rembrandt Relic Discovered Below Artist’s House

A clay pot excavated from the cesspit below Rembrandt van Rijn’s Amsterdam house has been declared as one of only two “true Rembrandt relics”....

Read More

The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter

This major free exhibition at the Science Museum examines the intertwined relationship between artists and scientists over the last 250 years.  ...

Read More

Elise Ansel Reclaims Female Identity From the Old Masters

In yes I Said Yes, the artist transforms scenes of violence against women in Old Master paintings into images of consensual pleasure....

Read More

James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties

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....

Read More

Van Gogh, Messiah & Madman Debunked

Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats...

Read More

Pacific an Exhibition by Sax Impey

The work draws upon the unique experiences of the 60 day voyage, including both extraordinary landfalls and the time spent sailing one of the most remote parts of the ocean....

Read More

Anticipating John Hoyland at the Tate

Anticipating John Hoyland at Tate, Natalie Andrews is thinking about the contemporary relevance of slow art. ...

Read More

Unpicking The Expressive Fallacy

Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting 'The Expressive Fallacy', a rights of passage for artists....

Read More

Danh Vo First Major London Solo Exhibition

Untitled continues Danh Vo’s largely conceptual practice, weaving together archival fragments and personal references....

Read More

Seminal John Hoyland Works to Be Part of Tate Britain Spotlights

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

Helen Beard Largest Solo Exhibition to Date

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

More Authenticity, Less Plastic – Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 Delivers On All Fronts

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...

Read More

Largest Solo Presentation to Date of British Artist Sam Lock

Now/here showcases Lock’s affinity with ‘process art’, marking him out as a leading contemporary exponent of this methodology. ...

Read More

No Plastic – Folking Fantastic

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. ...

Read More

Seeing is Believing

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...

Read More

Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

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

Nostalgia and Vibrant Imagery at 50th Rencontres d’Arles

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

Art Money July : British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s

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

Kentaro Okawara Makes Debut UK Solo Exhibition

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

Our weekly newsletter

Sign up to get updates on articles, interviews and events.