February 2012
30 posts
Gary Hume: ‘The Indifferent Owl’, White Cube...
White Cube presents ‘The Indifferent Owl’, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by YBA Gary Hume which occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard galleries. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms, creating paintings that engage the viewer with their ‘pleasantly irresolvable quality’. Think for example, of...
London celebrates Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday
Charles Dickens c.1850, by Herbert Watkins
‘Dickens and London’, The Museum of London- on now until 10th June 2012
From the Museum of London’s website: Dickens and London will be the UK’s first major exhibition on the author for over 40 years. Recreating the atmosphere of Victorian London through sound and projections, visitors willl be taken on a haunting journey to discover...
Christopher Thomas, 'Venice in Solitude',...
I love Venice and am a total sucker for all things Venetian. On now until 25th February is an exhibtion, entitled ‘Venice in Solitude’, of works by German photographer, Christopher Thomas at Hamiltons Gallery. Inspired by the style of 19th photography Thomas uses a large format camera and Polaroid Type 55 film, a compass, azimuth and sun chart, photographing the majestic...
First Thursday- 02/02/2012: Redchurch Street.
Last night I donned my parka and a bobble hat and braved the cold in order to peruse the galleries around Redchurch Street, Chance Street and Hoxton Square, open late as part of the East London’s First Thursdays initiative, supported by the Arts Council. Unfortunately I didn’t see much to write home about and went home feeling numb and distinctly underwhelmed.
The main purpose of my visit was,...
'We'll Take Manhattan'
You won’t often catch me blogging about TV shows but last week I watched BBC4’s short film ‘We’ll take Manhattan’, a perky account of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton’s rise to fame following their first significant assignment together, a revolutionary shoot in New York for Vogue magazine. The film cleverly replicates the shoot, Bailey photographing Jean up against a metal fence holding a teddy...
As it’s my sister’s Birthday today and I’m in a Hockney frame of mind I’m off to buy Dog Days.
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, Royal Academy
The Royal Academy’s Hockney blockbuster, celebrating the artist’s depiction of landscape and more particularly his re-engagement with the Yorkshire Wolds, succeeds in being the first large-scale exhibition in the UK of such works. Captured in oil, watercolour, photography, film and apple’s latest ipad technology Hockney’s landscapes of The Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Yosemite National Park and...
January 2012
3 posts
Turk's 'Nail', New Change Street, London EC4M 9AF
Just a quick note to say…I don’t know how I missed Gavin Turk’s immense rusty ’Nail’ until yesterday when I was wandering around One New Change! It’s Turk’s first permanent public sculpture and was unveiled in May last year. You can read Louisa Buck’s interview with Turk here. I find it a rather witty ‘floating signifier’, nostalgic and...
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, Modern Art...
Modern Art Oxford presents a collection of works on paper by British artist, Graham Sutherland curated by 2011 Turner Prize nominee, George Shaw.
The exhibition concentrates on Sutherland’s early Welsh landscapes from the 1930s, works created during his time as official WWII war artist, and after his return to Pembrokeshire in the 1970s. An Unfinished World brings together for the first time over...
