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Surrealism, Over, Yet Everywhere: Mica McDonald and Sofia Mitsola

13/07/2020

“And now consider how passing a child on a swingCalling higher, higherCan bring back all that tender trauma of childhoodRealising that we don’t leave the past behindBut that it leaves...

Benji Reid: Beyond This Space

06/07/2020

The transcendent choreo-photolist work of Benji Reid...

Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight

02/07/2020

No gravity, upward visions. Manchester artist Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight: Contemporary Surrealism...

DYN: A Self-styled Rival to Surrealism’s Gaudy Dominance

23/06/2020

Farewell to Surrealism - The Dyn Circle in Mexico traces the attempts of artist Wolfgang Paalen to escape history and reshape experience from the unlikely location of Mexico City, during the Second...

Bartholomew Beal (1989-2019)

18/06/2020

Beal passed on Boxing Day 2019, aged 30. His legacy is an incredible body of work from 2012 onwards, and an outstanding inspiration to his contemporaries. ...

Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

14/05/2020

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

If the Lion Could Speak (…)

11/05/2020

This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...

Looted Benin Art Treasures to Go Online

17/04/2020

The project will unite pieces from the former kingdom of Benin that were spread around the world after being looted by British troops....

Decoding Future Music from Germany: Interview with Uwe Schütte

03/03/2020

Alexei Monroe speaks to the author of the latest book to explore the art of Kraftwerk and their legacy....

Growing an Identity

25/02/2020

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

Alienated Ambiguity

18/02/2020

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

Tearing the mouth of language

18/02/2020

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

Keys and Red Herrings

04/02/2020

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

Portraits in the marketplace

28/01/2020

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

Making Light Work

19/01/2020

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

2013 Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India - Justin Hession

Photographic Reality

14/01/2020

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

Brains and Being

07/01/2020

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

Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

24/12/2019

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

Heaven’s Above in Celestial Promise

23/12/2019

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

The Finer Details of History

17/12/2019

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

The Ghost Inside the Artist

10/12/2019

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

An Election Waiting to Happen with Billy Bragg

10/12/2019

Every generation has to find its own way to deal with the problems it faces. Red Wedge was our generation and it came out of a specific set of circumstances. Other generations will find other ways....

Conveying Connection: Charlie Schaffer

03/12/2019

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

Barbican Announce Michael Clark First Major Exhibition

02/12/2019

2020 marks the 15th year of Michael Clark Company’s ongoing collaboration with the Barbican as an artistic associate....

Technical Innovation

19/11/2019

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

No Heroic Male Master

12/11/2019

Roxana Halls: The Figure Strikes Back...

You’d Better Get Your Visualisations Right

07/11/2019

Interview with Jaz Coleman – Magna Invocatio: A Gnostic Mass for Choir and Orchestra Inspired by the Sublime Music of Killing Joke...

Three-sided World; Interview with Stuart Jones

07/11/2019

Natural forces and man-made spaces preoccupy the work of artist Stuart Jones. ...

Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?

10/10/2019

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. ...

William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows

03/10/2019

The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance. ...

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