art materials Archives

Spray Paint with Sickboy

06/10/2021

Brand and street symbols in the work of Sickboy ...

Simone Leigh at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

21/09/2021

The American artist's first major exhibition in Switzerland features all new sculptures...

Intimate, Wild, Raw: Karla Black at Fruitmarket Gallery

15/08/2021

A review of Scottish artist Karla Black's solo exhibition at the newly renovated Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh...

Celebrity as Material

15/08/2021

Celebrity as Art Material: Once art ceases to be mimetic, portraiture as representation becomes destabilized, enabling it to investigate concepts such as celebrity as well as appearance. ...

Concrete Art 2: Number As Material

12/05/2021

Euclid defines line as ‘breadthless length’. The Skills You Need educational website, under the heading of ‘geometry’, defines ‘point’, ‘line’, ‘plane’, and ‘solid’...

Concrete Art 1: Colour As Material

05/05/2021

The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, as provided by John Locke, tells us that secondary qualities are accessible only to one mode of perception...