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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....

Diamanda Galás [Interview]

23/09/2014

'The work may recall the state of isolation, which is common to all of my performance works'. ...

Justin Adian : Skarstedt London

20/09/2014

Strangers, the first U.K exhibition by American artist Justin Adian...

Caroline Piteira [Interview]

11/09/2014

'almost everyone only ever encounters the 'cover' when meeting others, whereas I want to go behind everyone's mask and see who everyone really is'...

Automatic Art : Human & Machine Processes Make Art

07/08/2014

A historical overview of computation systems, the symbolic basis of process thought....

Tolkien, Art & Metal: Paul R. Gregory Interview

06/08/2014

This year Bloodstock is summoning visions of the dark lord through an onsite exhibition by Bloodstock festival founder and painter Paul Raymond Gregory....

Kazimir Malevich : A Beautiful Mind

04/08/2014

His work is the exteriorisation of the infinite space within our minds regardless of time and space, regardless of whether we are in Gaza, Duma, Mosul or Kiev....

Takahito Irie : Interview

21/07/2014

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

Dale Chihuly : Halcyon Gallery

11/06/2014

Going Beyond the Object into Shadows of Pure Colour: Dale Chihuly’s Glass Sculptures at the Halcyon Gallery...

Kenneth Clark in front of Renoir’s La Baigneuse Blonde (pl.1), c.1933 Private collection

Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation

02/06/2014

Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding....

Hormazd Narielwalla

19/05/2014

Hormazd Narielwalla’s work is a celebration of both ancient tailoring techniques, collage and the human form. ...

Welcome to Iraq : South London Gallery

07/05/2014

The attempts made to create safety and security for the Iraqi home have been staged. Just like the space in South London Gallery, they represent the crippled reality of political impotence....

Art Belongs to the People : Ashmolean Museum

16/04/2014

A show focussed on a previously overlooked dynamic between the grandfather of the post-war avant garde, Joseph Beuys, and his politically mobilized student at the Dusseldorf Academy: Jörg...

War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet exhibited 1842

Late Turner : Painting Set Free

18/03/2014

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...