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…
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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…
Frank Bowling: Right Here. Right Now.
British Master Colourist, wows next generation with Show at Chelsea College of Art By Giuseppe Marasco The Chelsea College of Art presents an exhibition of the painter, Royal Academician, Frank Bowling and his partner Rachel Scott. Located opposite the Tate Britain, one need only cross the college’s open square to the Triangle Space & Cookhouse…
Tate Britain Commission 2014: Phyllida Barlow
Phylida Barlow at Tate Britain. Complex, lumpish, ramshackle, vast, breathtaking (or was that the smog). Well worth a visit. Extraordinary. Last Chance to See Ends 19 October 2014 FREE Orginal Works By Anya Beaumont @AnyaBeaumont Responding to the additive process of making in Phylida Barlow’s work. Work produced in dialogue to Phylida Barlow’s current exhibition…
Hannah Maybank – The Materials & Matter of Flowers
A highly evocative and materially seductive show. The artist is exceptionally knowledgeable on pigments (this may provide a thematic link to the Colour exhibition currently on at the National Gallery) using them to subtle effect creating Flowers that works as portraits and Momento Mori. The work on show would cause great pleasure nature and plant…
Lost Genius
Castiglilione! Exhibition Ends Sunday 16th March The extraordinary whirl and fusion of influences that Genova was. Perhaps such an early wild period, is much more important than we realize. Castiglione yet have been take for all that he may provide as insights to a different method and mode in the learning and teaching of drawing….
Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors @ the Freud Museum
By Giuseppe Marasco Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors With work by Alice Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Anna Furse, Susan Hiller, Sarah Lucas and Francis Upritchard… Ends 2 February 2014 http://www.freud.org.uk/ Free association figures so largely as an influence of Freud’s on Modern artists… I wish I’d risk it…