ART REVIEWS
In our latest podcast episode, British artist Suzanne Moxhay talks about the influence of old film-making techniques on her work, her unusual resource material, and how she builds up intricate photomontages to create images that somehow fall between reality and invention.
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In our latest podcast episode, British/American painter Nancy Cadogan tells how art has been her destiny from an early age, how she began painting landscapes in Africa, the US and Europe, how she turned from the observational to painting from the imagination and how her experience of lockdown influenced her latest exhibition based on the final days of the romantic poet John Keats.
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For two decades, Fanny Rush has been painting the portraits of high profile figures from the world of entertainment, business, politics and elsewhere. In our latest podcast episode, she tells why she gave up a successful career in the fashion and commercial film industries for painting, how she fell in love with portraiture, who influences her and how she goes about her work.
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British artist Andy Holden is a sculptor, animator, film-maker, painter, curator, author and musician. In our latest podcast episode, he gives his thoughts on irony and sincerity, the nature of nostalgia, how stealing a rock from an Egyptian pyramid inspired an acclaimed artwork and how he sees the world as a kind of cartoon.
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If you weren’t familiar with the work of the American artist Jim Shaw, it wouldn’t take you long to figure out who he won’t be voting for in next week’s Presidential election. His monochrome silkscreen print, above, is entitled Donald and Melania Trump descending the escalator into the 9th circle of hell reserved for traitors frozen in a sea of ice. It’s what it says on the tin, typical of the biting wit that Shaw unleashes in this marvellous exhibition of new works at London’s Simon Lee Gallery, his first here for four years.
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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.
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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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