contemporary art Archives

Michael Rumsby, The Beautiful Lost, 2022.

Safety in Michael Rumsby’s Nature

24/05/2022

Michael Rumsby on landscapes, loving life & joy in painting....

A Conversation Between Body & Object: Lee Ufan

05/05/2022

The Korean artist prepares himself mentally and physically to begin each work and adopts specific bodily postures during the making process ...

Ghost Like Traces: Between the Ephemeral & the Permanent

28/04/2022

A playful web of philosophy, cultural semiotics, and gentle manifestations of joy....

Juan Arango Palacios Jungle Study (2021)

The Empowered Salon of the Queer

01/02/2022

A review of imagery and technique at Guts Gallery’s Salon...

The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander

25/01/2022

"Art history is deeply Eurocentric and tends to place art that doesn’t sit comfortably within its canon as the ‘other’ and never as ‘avant-garde’."...

Eugene Ankomah, Icarus and Amadeus, 2021

Creativity Takes Courage: Eugene Ankomah

27/11/2021

Interview with multidisciplinary artist Eugene Ankomah on creativity, truth and having a roving inspiration. ...

Boobs, Boy Bands & Tentacles: Frieze London 2021

20/10/2021

Our Editor-at-Large reports on Frieze London’s comeback with photographs by artist John Anthony Thadicaran...

Beyond the Physical: Imogen Allen

17/10/2021

An interview with British artist Imogen Allen in the context of her debut solo exhibition...

Windows: The Artist Room’s Inaugural Exhibition

16/10/2021

London's newest gallery opens with a group show exploring the motif of the window in postwar and contemporary art...

Spray Paint with Sickboy

06/10/2021

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

The Hopefulness of Colour: Annie Morris

23/09/2021

The London-based artist on grief, repetition and the solace of creativity...

The Shape, Sound and Feeling of Words: Ed Ruscha

22/09/2021

An analysis of fluid text in the work of artist Ed Ruscha...

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...

Modern Mythology: Sofia Mitsola at Pilar Corrias

14/08/2021

Sofia Mitsola's second solo show with the gallery visualises the artist's imaginings of warrior sisters in a semiaquatic world ...

Revolving Around Art: Claus Busch Risvig

16/07/2021

Interview with Danish Art Collector Claus Busch Risvig...

Channel Switching: Dara Birnbaum

08/07/2021

Interview with pioneer video/media artist Dara Birnbaum. ...

Traversing Time: An Interview with Sutapa Biswas

19/06/2021

Ahead of the opening of a major survey at the Baltic, Sutapa Biswas discusses her creative processes and the making of her new film...

Directing Enter Art Fair

03/06/2021

Trebuchet interviews Enter Art director Julie Alf about the inspiration behind the fair....

Tahnee Lonsdale: Painting Vulnerability

26/05/2021

Millie Walton speaks to British painter Tahnee Lonsdale about her current solo exhibition at Cob Gallery in London...

Rafael Pérez Evans: Perishable Art

23/05/2021

Millie Walton speaks to Welsh-Spanish artist Rafael Pérez Evans about agricultural protest and the innate symbolism of materials...

White Cube Presents Julie Curtiss’ First London Exhibition

02/05/2021

Parisian artist Julie Curtiss' debut London exhibition will feature a bold collection of new paintings, works on paper and sculptures...

Rachel Whiteread: Symbolism & Storytelling

24/04/2021

A review of Rachel Whiteread's solo exhibition 'Internal Objects' at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London...

Linear Expression: George Condo at Sprüth Magers, Berlin

22/04/2021

Sprüth Magers, Berlin presents a new body of work by George Condo, including a series of imaginary portraits and a collection of drawings...

Luciano Perna’s Luminous Still Lifes

10/04/2021

A review of Italian artist Luciano Perna’s solo exhibition of still life photographs at Marian Goodman Gallery ...

Tacita Dean, Blackboard drawing, Courtesy Marian Goodman

Drawing With Dust: History, Time and Place in Tacita Dean’s Chalk Drawings

31/03/2021

Those old enough will recall the spine-tingling screech of chalk across classroom blackboards, the air full of dust. ...

Heart of the Matter: Female Artists at Gillian Jason Gallery

29/03/2021

A review of a group exhibition of British female contemporary artists at Gillian Jason Gallery, London...

Richard Stone, The Rapture (After Henry Moore),2019

The Fluid Sculptures of Richard Stone

24/03/2021

Stone suggests almost endless textures and characteristics, requiring time and study to find the complementary partner to the artist’s vision...

Things: Gail Olding

10/03/2021

An excerpt from Trebuchet 9 : Materials. Conceptual Artist Gail Olding on the use of things. ...

Grasping the Eternal: Tacita Dean’s ‘Fernsehturm’

19/02/2021

Tacita Dean’s 44-minute long film ‘Fernsehturm’ records the passage and persistence of time as light passes through the interiors of the Berlin TV Tower restaurant...