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Collagist by Circumstance (Patrick Bremer)

09/10/2015

Patrick Bremer was trained in oils but “ended up doing collage out of circumstance,”...

Power, Protest and Resistance (Molly Crabapple)

27/09/2015

Portrait of Truthful Artist, Illustrator, Broadcaster, Journalist Molly Crabapple. ...

Sex, Slashing and Suffrage: The Rokeby Venus (Diego Velasquez)

19/09/2015

Mary Richardson's ‘vandalism’ of the Rokeby Venus has become part of the story this painting tells, not something which detracts from its beauty. ...

I, for one, welcome my new machine overlord (The art of Russell MacEwan)

14/09/2015

Interview with artist Russell MacEwan on the creation of the artwork for Author & Punisher's Melk En Honing....

Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

08/09/2015

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

12/08/2015

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

Innate Talent, Meticulous Painting (Shizu Saldamando)

10/08/2015

Born to parents of Mexican and Japanese decent, Saldamando’s work embodies components that reflect her bi-racial heritage....

The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown

03/08/2015

The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing...

Facets of True Beauty: Chong-Il Woo

27/07/2015

Not only are Woo’s subjects physically striking, but the historical significance of their roles within Korean history demonstrates how integral one’s culture is to one’s essence of being....

Duchamp, Cy Twombly and outrageous family (Chenhung Chen)

01/07/2015

If one wants to be an artist it’s because they need to be one. The desire must come from within. It’s not something I believe can be recommended to someone. Chenhung Chen...

A Painter of the Mind (Agnes Martin)

26/06/2015

Her artwork can sometimes say as little as it can possibly say whilst still existing. But what an enormous statement that is....

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Hanging Offence: Kristin Hjellegjerde

02/06/2015

I think it is often necessary for art and literature to touch on subjects that can be difficult. If people in arts don’t do it, who will?...

The Other Garden

01/04/2015

Four artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification...

A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

28/03/2015

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

Free-fall bliss of the iris [Richard Diebernkorn]

20/03/2015

Diebenkorn himself has said that he was unaware of his surroundings as an artist...

Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

17/01/2015

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

Dexter Dalwood : ‘London Paintings’

13/01/2015

Whereas his previous work featured imagined interiors and locations acting as memorials to real people, here it is the narratives which are imagined...

Muses, monsters and mannequins : Base Gallery

10/01/2015

Muses, monsters and mannequins, an exhibition that explores what it means to be human....

Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

31/12/2014

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

Sigmar Polke at the Tate: Where Mao meets the Sausage Eater

17/12/2014

Polke’s humour wasn’t sarcastic, it was a form of rebellion. His volatile artistic tendencies that leave us breathless in awe were his way of shedding each and every conceptual artistic form....

Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]

08/12/2014

One of the major successes of de Freston's imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday...

Suspicion : Jerwood Encounters

03/12/2014

Much of the exhibition literature talks of the legacy of film and photography, but the internet and its spawned cacophony of imagery and new modes of looking is clearly also a player in this...

paintbrushes by freedigitalphotos.net and Simon Howden

Anselm Kiefer : Royal Academy

01/12/2014

When Kiefer is at his best we don’t need the leaden symbolism of diamonds, not when the mud and filth of paint can carry the weight of time and gold...

Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

27/11/2014

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

Essence : Lara Woolley/Susan Zeppellini

24/11/2014

Figurative ceramics, painting and photography, exploring themes such as magical realism and mysticism through to the macabre and grotesque...

Francesca Woodman II, 2014, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm, BREESE LITTLE

Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

24/11/2014

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

Late Rembrandt

14/11/2014

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014

Art's ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes....