THE RISE ART PRIZE at House of Vans, Waterloo yesterday evening drew together an impressive line up of judges, Gavin Turk and Fiona Banner among them, to do justice to the equally impressive 26 shortlisted artists competing for the £10,000 prize. This international crop of painters, photographers and sculptors survived the cull of the 2,300 […]
WITH ALL the recent headlines about the Parthenon Marbles being exhibited along with Rodin’s sculptures in April 2018 restoking arguments about ownership, here’s a glimpse of the magnificent marble sculptures. You’ll soon understand why Keats and Lord Byron visited the British Museum to see them and then wrote poems in their honour. You’ll also get […]
Those familiar with the term Duppy Conqueror will know that it is a title of one of Bob Marley’s songs but may be unaware that ‘Duppy’ is Jamaican for an evil ghost or demon. Artist Faisal Abdul’ Allah uses it as a metaphor for the past spectres within and without the black body. Curator Mark […]
The Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 395 AD during which it took over great swathes of Europe including Britain. The Celtic tribes that ruled were defeated in 43 AD and Londinium (London) emerged as a vital trading centre and base for troops. The most important British city before the Roman conquest was Colchester […]
Just as the Turner Prize hit its thirties it suddenly got all age-conscious and decided being older isn’t such a bad thing after all. It was established in 1984 and was named after British landscape painter J.M.W Turner who was a bit of a whizz kid himself – elected as a full member of the […]
Can you see elements of Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites in the work of contemporary artist Isabelle van Zeijl? This article examines her work but for more about the Northern Renaissance (1500s) and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1800s) you can also check out Reflections: Van Eyck & The Pre-Raphaelites at the National Gallery. Looking at an […]
THE COCKNEY SCHOOL was a name given to a group of 19th century poets and essayists who came to prominence with poet John Keats as its figurehead. Interestingly, none of them were born within sight or sound of the East End’s Bow Bells (the true definition of a cockney) and only Moorgate-born Keats (then living […]
Sixty-Five of the world’s finest wildlife photographers have donated their images for the pioneering Remembering Rhinos: a unique exhibition about a very endangered species. The title photo above is of Sudan – the last remaining male Northern White Rhino. It is especially emotive as it shows the fragility and magnificence of a species driven to […]
MAKE_SHIFT is a group exhibition at the Collyer Bristow Gallery so titled, according to curator Rosalind Davis, because the artists create by ‘making, shifting and utilizing the provisional or rudimentary materials to construct their work.’ Across the broad area of mediums and techniques there is a focus on the mechanized. Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London […]
The Saatchi Gallery has been at the vanguard of cometlike young experimental upstarts since the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the Nineties and is inextricably linked to the genesis of art superstars such as Hirst and Emin. Well circa 2017 and it’s a trend that continues with these thirteen artists who claim to be iconoclasts […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
