Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Heart of the Matter: Female Artists at Gillian Jason Gallery

A review of a group exhibition of British female contemporary artists at Gillian Jason Gallery, London...

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Jessica Rankin: The Language of Painting

Millie Walton speaks to Australian artist Jessica Rankin about the nature of thought, painting and embroidery in the context of a solo show at White Cube gallery in London...

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Take Me To Your Dealer and Save: Who is 241247?

An interview with 241247 / Dario Vigorito about using his creative process for chaos and meaning. ...

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The Fluid Sculptures of Richard Stone

Stone suggests almost endless textures and characteristics, requiring time and study to find the complementary partner to the artist’s vision...

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Expensive Materials

To what extent do materials dictate the end price of the artwork?...

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Trebuchet x Matt Berninger (The National) Ltd. Edition Print

Trebuchet and Matt Berninger (The National) collaborate on a limited edition print in celebration of the deluxe release of Serpentine Prison...

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Visual Stories: An Interview with Eileen Cooper

London-based artist Eileen Cooper speaks to Millie Walton about illustrating Angela Carter's writing, printmaking and the imagination...

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Walking the Space: Lucio Fontana

A new art book highlights the importance of the Argentine-Italian artist's spatial experiments, but fails to capture the radical spirit of his creativity...

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Things: Gail Olding

An excerpt from Trebuchet 9 : Materials. Conceptual Artist Gail Olding on the use of things. ...

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The Definite Line of Emma Coyle

Emma Coyle's current figurative work focuses on contemporary fashion magazine imagery to produce painterly paintings of a Fine Art standard...

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Invisibility and Everything to All: Gavin Turk

I think one of the interesting things about art as a project for me, is that I am trying to chase down ideas of reality or truth. Or the human condition...

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The Body as Material: An Interview with Annegret Soltau

German visual artist Annegret Soltau speaks to Millie Walton about motherhood, brutality and bodily experience...

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Grasping the Eternal: Tacita Dean’s ‘Fernsehturm’

Tacita Dean’s 44-minute long film ‘Fernsehturm’ records the passage and persistence of time as light passes through the interiors of the Berlin TV Tower restaurant...

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Gallery No. 32 & The Rise of DIY Artists

Outdoor artist-led exhibition space Gallery No. 32 was born in response to the pandemic, but it also signals a wider shift away from the art world's hierarchical structures ...

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Gust(on) Winds of Wisdom

In this 120-page masterpiece, Philip Guston’s daughter, Musa Mayer, simply and effectively presents her father’s life and art as a kind of graphic novel triptych....

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State of the Art with Lorenzo de Medici

Interview with Lorenzo De Medici on the artistic impetus to create and appreciate art....

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Drawing Eccentricities: An Interview with Sverre Malling

Millie Walton speaks to Norwegian artist Sverre Malling about the meditative act of drawing, folkloric imagery and celebrating outsider culture...

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A Less Lonely Experience of Viewing Art Online

'Me, Family', a digital art platform commissioned by Mudam Luxembourg, invites its viewers to interact as avatars...

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The Fresh & Weird Creative Energy of New Contemporaries

In the midst of increasingly gloomy global news, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries online exhibition is everything we need...

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Larry Achiampong: Relics of Time

A new film by artist Larry Achiampong reflects on how the fragility of the present brings hope for a more liberated and accepting future ...

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Digital Art & Animation: Seeing the Past Through the Present

A review of ‘Drawing From Memory’ the third chapter of the Hirshhorn Museum’s online exhibition exploring how contemporary video, sound, and performance artists are reimagining historical...

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Rear View: Voyeuristic Images at White Cube

A review of White Cube’s online exhibition inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller 'Rear Window' and the seductions of looking...

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We Travel Time: James Johnston and Steve Gullick

Where music and visual art meet. The talents of Steve Gullick and James Johnston combine on We Travel Time to poignant effect. ...

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The Socialism of the Lonely

Jonathan Jones’ biography shows that Tracey Emin remains one of the most important, engaging and unique voices in today’s contemporary art world. ...

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Helmut Newton’s Naughty Little Self

In person, Helmut Newton was downright disarming, innocent and a little boyish. Until you saw the pictures. And then… he morphed into something downright dangerous. ...

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Soft Power in the Political Art of Annya Sand

An interview with London based painter Annya Sand on painting and politics. ...

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Burning Bright, Roswell Firework Art

Carrying the torch for firework art we interview Roswell artist Jeremy Howe....

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Savage Beauty: Frida Kahlo

A new biographical account takes the artist out of the gift shop and re-establishes her in the gallery, reminding the reader that Kahlo was a force of nature....

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The Digital Journey of Marjan Moghaddam

Marjan Moghaddam is a digital pioneer whose work has stayed true to the revolutionary premise art should never be wholly expected....

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Lockdown Theatre Renaissance Lights Up Stephens House

An al fresco review of Renaissance, a new comedy by playwright Charles Ward starring James Corrigan, Bethan Cullinane, and Haydn Gwynne....

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