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...
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...
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...
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...
Samantha Donnelly – The Shape We’re In Interview
In the lead up to the hotly anticipated opening of the Zabludowicz Collection’s survey of contemporary sculpture, The Shape We’re In, we talk to Samantha Donnelly, one of the artist’s commissioned to produce new work for the show...
I Am Solitary
The French novelist Marcel Proust once wrote that it is “only through art [that we can] emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Save 16mm in the UK
The Soho Film Lab, the last commercial 16mm lab in the UK, has called an end to its printing of the film, after being taken over by new owners Deluxe. As a result artists, including Tacita Dean who is currently working on a 16mm-based installation work for the Tate’s Turbine Hall, will have to go...
Adam Ball Interview
Arriving at the front gate of artist Adam Ball's North London studio, it is cold, wet and miserable but, despite the weather and the fact that he has had a busy morning delivering works, the artist greets me warmly. He leads me down a cobbled path, through a garden and into his studio. On the...
