9 September 2015 British Painter & Royal Academician, is one of the last remaining giants of Abstract expressionism. I been speaking with about the natute of the language we use when talking about painting. Does language perform adequately, are there other examples that would better serve the nature and thought of painting. The Dean of…
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Georges Shaw – My Back to Nature – National Gallery May 11th – 30th October 2016
George Shaw is the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist. George’s National Gallery exhibition is currently at Abbot Hall, Kendall (and will tour to four other UK venues). A retrospective exhibition at Yale Centre of British Art will open in October 2018 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/associate-artist-scheme/george-shaw George Shaw often uses a very wry sense of observation…
Barry Thompson — Fistful of blood and feathers
2016 There is a clear and thoughtful link between our contemporary joys, freedoms, play and the social change of the great Wars from which it was borne. Rituals or rites of passage surface, in the gently rendered graffiti of a post-war park, or the places of first kisses. This exhibition offers a delicate dream like…
Moon landing – Out of Nowhere, PEER gallery Paintings and drawings by influential 1960s abstract painter Jeremy Moon are making a rare appearance in public
25 July, 2016 Giuseppe Marasco Jeremy Moon’s ‘Out of Nowhere’ exhibition at the Peer gallery Abstract: Jeremy Moon’s ‘Out of Nowhere’. Photograph: PEER gallery Paintings by Jeremy Moon are like brightly-coloured UFOs that have somehow found their way to earth. Although an influential figure in abstract painting and the 1960s London art scene, exhibitions of…
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro gallery, review: ‘Infinity in a pumpkin’ A collection of spectacular mirrored environments, sculptures and paintings immerse the viewer in an expansive sublime plane
5 July, 2016 Giuseppe Marasco Portrait of Yayoi Kusama. Photograph: Noriko Takasugi Portrait of Yayoi Kusama. Photograph: Noriko Takasugi Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama reflects on the cosmos and something beyond the physical in an exhibition of new work at Victoria Miro galleries. After negotiating a snaking queue to get in, I was met by a…
Statement of Intention
Art Bible hopes to be your favorite repository of good Art writing, with a good lean towards a Creative Art Writing. Art Bible is essentialist :- About the Mind of the painter / Artist About their intensions About thinking through the process of making Or making as thinking It’s about the ablity of Art to…
The Grind & The Gift – Paul Housley
Factory to Palace — Paul Housley at the Sid Motion Gallery Ends 23rd Dec 2016 http://www.sidmotiongallery.co.uk Empty Frame, 2016 Studio time is sacrosanct for the artist Paul Housely. As he puts it, “you can have the gift, but you need to have the grind as well” to make something of it. You got to have the the grit…
PAUL SAVAGE ‘Artifice and Immediacy’
Ends Sunday 29 May 2016 This contemporary show, close to Silicon Roundabout. Takes a studied interested in the relationship that games designers have to painting. Particularly looking to Francis Bacon for visceral inspiration in depicting cadavers. Paul Savage echos Picasso’s observation that “Through art we express our conception of what nature is not”. Yet it…
John Moores Chinese Painting Prize
Lang Shuilong is Professor of photography at Shanghai University display at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum for the “2016 John Moores Painting Prize (China) Exhibition The First Prize Winner of the John Moore’s China as created paintings that are reminiscent of cyanotypes or man ray’s rayographs. These photo images are created by leaving objects on the…