Category: Art

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

Growing an Identity

Dr. Heba El Aziz: Petri Portraits. Interview on Bio-art and the new portraiture....

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Alienated Ambiguity

Hedley Roberts: Unknown faces, arch pleasures. An interview on the harsh light of creative vision...

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Tearing the mouth of language

Nieto: Linguistic chaos. An interview with the most perverse artist in history, maybe....

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Keys and Red Herrings

Nigel Grimmer: this is not what you're looking for. An interview with the mercurial. ...

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Report: London Art Fair 2020

Past highlights include selected works from the infamous Sensation exhibition that launched the careers of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, and paintings by Turner prizewinner Chris Ofili....

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Portraits in the marketplace

Strident Sitters: Portraits in the Marketplace. Who's buying...

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When It Disappears, the Energy Is Left

This meticulous first monograph on Adrián Villar Rojas notes an artist who has created some of the most memorable, unusual pieces in the past two decades....

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Symbolic Awards

An obscure review of the 2019 BP Portrait Awards...

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Making Light Work

Testifying the night through vision, relief and recognition. Exhibition review of "Luce: Jemma Appleby and Liz West" ...

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Photographic Reality

Justin Hession: Caught on film. An interview with a deep event photographer on the nature of representation....

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Nieto welcomes you to 2020

Nieto has a message for you video...

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Brains and Being

Luciana Haill: Portrait waves on the canvas of consciousness. Interview regarding brainwave mapping as portraiture....

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Portraits in Photography, Film and Drawing

Oona Grimes: Hail the new Etruscan. A dialectic form of drawing. ...

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Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

David Treloar: Gestural Portraits and Simple Joy. An interview about focus and intention....

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Heaven’s Above in Celestial Promise

Correcting nihilism through perspective, the painting of Mark Batty....

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Video/Art: The First Fifty Years

Barbara London, the curator who founded MoMA's video programme, recounts the artists and events that defined video art over the last 50 years. ...

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The Finer Details of History

Massimiliano Pironti: Hyperreality. An Interview with 2019 BP Award Finalist. ...

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The Ghost Inside the Artist

Patrick Tresset: Robotic Portraits. Understanding the purpose of art by design, an interview....

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Conveying Connection: Charlie Schaffer

Charlie schaffer: The Emotion of Experience. Interview with BP Portrait Award 2019 Winner...

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Dreamstates and Mystery

Markus Åkesson: Finding what is hidden. New Realism and Painting...

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Technical Innovation

Carl-Martin Sandvold: The big reveal. BP Award Nominee speaks to Trebuchet...

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Awaken Imagined Still Lives

Digital artist Dominic Harris brings art into a new dimension at the Halcyon gallery, London November 2019....

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No Heroic Male Master

Roxana Halls: The Figure Strikes Back...

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Jane Bustin’s V – Tea Bowls (and Other Things) in Paris

The more you think about things the stranger they get; and more beautiful....

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Cyril de Commarque Interview

Cyril de Commarque is an artist concerned with human development, hubris and potential, sharing his thoughts here with Trebuchet in lieu of his show 'Artificialis' at Saatchi Gallery....

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Modern Panic Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Modern Panic X will feature over 70 artists exploring the human psyche through pop surrealism, dark art, magic realism, and more....

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Artificialis at the Saatchi Gallery

Artificialis at the Saatchi Gallery takes as its starting point the Anthropocene era - the period when man first had an impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems - then looks towards the future,...

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Mark Leckey: O’ Magic Power of Bleakness

Mark Leckey is an influential multimedia artist, his show at the Tate Britain 'O' Magic Power of Bleakness' explores memory, identity and the uncanny aspects of British landscape....

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Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?

The most affecting film of 2019 has created debate and controversy, Trebuchet takes a closer look examining these and the underlying message at its core. ...

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1-54 African Contemporary Arts Fair 2019

1-54 has established itself as a leading voice in the discussion on contemporary African art, bringing together a diverse set of perspectives from around the world....

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