17 May 2015 • Tom and Crystal
Art, art, art, Aperol, ice cream, and extremely sore feet: yes, we’re back for the 56th instalment of the Venice Biennale. And this time, it’s political.
7 January 2014 • Mark Westall
The Financial Crisis Show – Art as a Derivative is a series of fourteen thematic paintings by artist and art historian Larry McGinity.
28 August 2013 • Mark Westall
The original call for work asked for pieces that looked ‘to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive’: how and why do we store nature and in what way do the structures, processes and materials of storage affect and reflect our understanding of what we store?
24 July 2013 • Mark Westall
Nature Reserves is a new group exhibition curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition seeks to examine human understandings of the natural environment, and features work across a rich range of media – photography, printing, sculpture, sound and projection – by 13 contemporary artists.
5 June 2013 • Mark Westall
The video installation was completely beautiful and genuinely harrowing. It touched on so many of the threads that ran through the rest of the Biennale – the relationship between documenting subject and documented object; the resistance of the world’s complexities to singular narrative overlay; the overlooked and oppressed; the violence of exclusion – but with so much more urgency, dexterity and force. Totally brilliant.
4 June 2013 • Mark Westall
What gives? As for the work, well, what work, really? It’s essentially artists doing variations on wallpaper. Needless to say, I didn’t love it.
3 June 2013 • Mark Westall
I really hated this – Deller’s pseudo-inclusive schtick really riles me because it’s the same old self-serving art cliques who benefit from his success and ‘the people’ who he seems so keen to represent don’t really stand to gain a thing.
19 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Et Cetera explores the notion that meaning and significance can be found in that which is commonly deemed uninteresting or unworthy.
