Jake or Dinos Chapman Review
In homage to the gimmickry of separating the artistic pair and leaving the audience guessing, this is a review of either Jake or Dinos Chapman at either Mason’s Yard or Hoxton Square...
Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers Review
‘Between Eagles and Pioneers’ is a collection of new works that explore German history through the lens of cultural symbolism and personal memory. The exhibition is comprised of two series of large-scale canvases...
Peter Kennard At Earth Review
Shortly after he declared war on Iraq, a picture of Tony Blair began to circulate on the internet. It showed Mr Blair, smiling toothily as he took his own photograph against a backdrop of fiery explosions. A clever piece of Photoshop trickery, the image was a striking elicitation of public opinion of the then prime...
Gabriel Orozco Review
Tate Modern’s latest exhibition reminded me of a personal truth. When I think back, Gabriel Orozco was the artist that sparked my interest in contemporary art. The first time I encountered that black and white chequered skull, White Kites 1997 was whilst researching for my final essay on an Art Foundation. The next...
Angela de la Cruz Transfer Review
Delicate is a not a word often used to describe Angela de la Cruz’s art; her crumpled, creased and crushed forms typically implore a much more violent vocabulary, one that suggests the artist’s methods have more in common with wanton vandalism or an illegal skirmish, than sensitive creation. Yet what is striking about the...
Ida Appleboorg Review
When asked to write a review of an exhibition, the critic is asked to look into their pool of knowledge on a particular subject and, taking an impartial view (if this is ever possible), write an informative text. They are asked to examine the works on show and decide whether objectively the show or the...
Mona Hatoum Bunker Review
The map has become something of a motif in the artwork of Mona Hatoum. Her experiments in cartography have seen her trace the territorial divisions of Jerusalem using beads and blocks of olive soap, create a world map from the missing piles in an ornamental rug, and construct a giant metal globe that glows to...
Dieter Roth Reykjavik Slides Review
Talk about an Archival Impulse. Although Hal Foster didn’t write about this contemporary obsession with archives until 2004, Dieter Roth has been creating archives in all shapes and forms since the late 60s, Every View of a City being perhaps his most comprehensive to date...
Uwe Wittwer New Paintings Review
There is something quite ironic about the title New Paintings, given that the works in this exhibition both feel and look extremely old...
SHOW – A Preview of the New Exhibition at Jerwood Space
When I met up with curator Sarah Williams at Jerwood Space she had a rather bizarre list of tasks to be completed before her new exhibition SHOW opened at the gallery the following week...
Gemma Nelson Interview
Driven by a myriad of influences, from Raqib Shaw to Helen Chadwick and from literature to French plaits, artist Gemma Nelson creates mesmerizing canvases of hyperactive patterns and vivid colour. These works have won her much praise and attention over the past few years, and seen her exhibit at the likes of...
Robert Mapplethorpe Nightwork Review
Since his premature death in 1989, there have been countless exhibitions of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work held in galleries across the world; his photographs, of nudes, celebrities and flowers, gracing gallery walls from Berlin to New York...
24 Photography – Interview with Ali Waggie
The number 24 holds significance in a surprising number of fields. There are 24 hours in the day,24 ribs in the body, 24 letters in both the modern and classical Greek alphabet, 24 Carats needed to make 100% pure gold and 24 frames per second in your average motion picture. But, for a group of...
