ART REVIEWS
British artist Nick Smith has a unique process. A former interior designer of 11 years, he was used to working with swatches, those thousands of colour variations each with their own name that you find in expensive design books or even as paint charts in your local DIY store. Back in 2011, a friend challenged him to make an artwork from them. He accepted and hasn’t looked back since and that’s only half the story.
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In our latest podcast episode, Susie MacMurray explains why she gave up classical music for art, how she came to specialise in site-specific works, how these incorporate the history and stories of the venues, and how her choice of materials reflects bitter-sweet themes.
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In 2016, celebrated French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui was on assignment in Burkina Faso investigating women’s rights in the country on behalf of Amnesty International and UN Women. She had the misfortune to be sitting in a parked car outside the Cappuccino café in the capital Ouagadougou when the café was attacked by Al-Qaeda gunmen. She was seriously wounded and died three days later. She was 33.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, it became something of a rite of passage for upper class Europeans, mostly from Britain, to embark on the Grand Tour taking in cities such as Paris, Rome, Venice and Florence in order to learn about Classical and Renaissance art and architecture. They’d accumulate works and souvenirs as they did so. Four artists have given a contemporary spin on this phenomenon in Grand Tour at London’s James Freeman Galley.
Continue reading “The Grand Tour – Claire Partington, Emily Allchurch, James B Webster, Matt Smith”
In our latest podcast episode, Emily Allchurch talks about her upbringing in Jersey, her switch from sculpture to photography and digital art, her passion for giving Old Master paintings and prints a contemporary rendering, how the pandemic has affected her work and her current focus on Asia.
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In our latest podcast episode, British conceptual artist Alexandra Lethbridge talks about how she uses photography, appropriated imagery, installation and video to examine such themes as deception, illusion, misinformation and the way we process and use information in our world of all-consuming visual culture.
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In our latest podcast episode, Dr Jasmine Pradissitto talks about how her training in Quantum Physics has helped her develop as a visual artist, how the discovery of a certain polymer has enabled her to make art and help the environment at the same time, and how artists can offer imagination to aid scientists in their efforts to secure the future for humanity.
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In our latest podcast episode, performance artist Adelaide Damoah talks about her Ghanaian heritage, how the condition endometriosis indirectly led to her becoming an artist, how she gave up portrait painting for body art and her interest in colonialism, feminism and racial identity.
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In our latest podcast episode, Olivia Kemp talks about her large-scale pen and ink drawings of magical landscapes and interiors full of personal and art historical details. She tells how art has inspired her since childhood, why she prefers pen and ink to paint, her love of the playful in her work and how a residency at the Prado Museum in Madrid five years ago spawned her current solo exhibition in London.
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In our latest podcast episode, South African artist Deborah Bell talks about her early paintings about female objectification and entrapment, her discovery of the art of ancient civilisations, how her work became more spiritual and how her process is like a “dance between will and surrender”.
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