The Riot or the Rave?
19 March 2026 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Giuditta Branconi’s generation-dividing show is the evidence we need that when it comes to image, perception is all about volume control.
Author: Hannah Hayes-Westall
Hannah Hayes Westall is a writer and thinker who divides her time between the art world and working with businesses on strategic growth. She is co-publisher of Art of Conversation.
In Switzerland, New Ways of Partnering For New Times
17 February 2026 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
At the most recent edition of Art Genève, luxury watchmaker Piaget was everywhere:
Roméo Mikevannin at Collezione Maramotti ‘Black Mirror’ – Lessons in acceptance from an experienced navigator.
18 April 2025 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Creating a dialogue that connects different cultures to a new perspective on what constitutes true power in the face of change.
On the placid shores of Lake Lucerne, a timely performance by Keiko Kimoto
2 May 2024 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Is art the idea, the image, the object or the process? Generations of artists have addressed the thought and with… Read More
Helmut Newton – Fact & Fiction
4 December 2023 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
As a major new retrospective of the work of acclaimed fashion photographer Helmut Newton opens at The Marta Ortega Pérez… Read More
Andriu Deplazes at Collezione Maramotti is between a rock and a hard place
17 April 2023 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The attractiveness of feeling in control and the impossibility of actually being in control is a dynamic tension at the heart of a new solo show, Burning Green, by the young Marseille-based Swiss artist Andriu Delplazes currently on show in the Pattern Room at Collezione Maramotti.
Belgian dance company Peeping Tom create bizarre & disconcertingly coherent alternative universe in which reality & art are tightly entangled at Collezione Maramotti
20 December 2021 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Is there a better way to mark the return to in-person gallery visits than with a commission based around them?… Read More
Performance of new work by Dimitris Papaioannou: Sisyphus / Trans / Form
11 November 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The site specific performance commissioned by Collezione Maramotti responds to a world class private collection with challenges about meaning and our interaction with the material world.
“The Fun of Not Understanding”, New Albert Oehlen Show at the Serpentine Showcases the Artist’s Delight in Exploration.
4 October 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
A single John Graham painting provides the starting point for ideas about codes, colour and genius.
SEE THIS WEEK: Mark Leckey’s Full Size Motorway Bridge Inside Tate Britain
1 October 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Dark inflected fairytale stars scallies, solvents, smartphones, sportswear.
New Yinka Shonibare commission, breastmilk-scented sculptures and Ebola hazmat suits open new permanent gallery ‘Being Human’ at London’s Wellcome Collection
23 September 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble create new gallery space in science-led institution.
Cool, Calm and Clever at Sunday Art Fair
6 October 2017 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Entering the cool concrete bunker that houses Sunday art fair whilst the hurly-burly of Frieze Week rages all around is so calming, and so refreshing
Crossroads art fair a surprise success of Frieze Week
7 October 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The opening of Crossroads art fair in the Truman Brewery provided a nice contrast to the gloomy stories issuing from Frieze
Top 6 artists at Sunday art fair.
6 October 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Sunday art fair has been steadily building a reputation as one of the most curated off-broadway fairs, and this year’s edition is no different, with a tight edit of some for the world’s more interesting small galleries bringing their artists to London.
Bacon, Picasso & Velázquez; together at last
2 October 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Brit badboy Bacon’s Spanish and French influences on show in Bilbao
Learning things from artists: Why performance art is lit.
30 July 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Why now is the time to get your head around performance art.
Jolyon Fenwick ‘The Zero Hour Panoramas’
30 June 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Annotated by hand in the manner of the battle field panoramas of the time with the points of tactical significance as they existed immediately before the battle, they powerfully juxtapose the hellish reality of the nation’s bloodiest battle with the pastoral peace of these ‘forever English’ fields today.
Learning things from artists : When to pick a fight.
20 June 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Mary Heilmann is one of the most positive artists we’ve met. So it’s a surprise when she reveals that one of the most important tools in her arsenal is knowing when to start a fight.
How I Got Into Art School and Out of Prison #ArtThing2015
3 January 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Hannah Hayes-Westall What’s your ArtThing of 2015?
Beautiful Spaces: The New Craftsmen
10 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Beautiful shops are as rare as hen’s teeth, so when we find them, we celebrate them. The New Craftsmen presents the work of English artisans in a huge light filled atelier space. Founder Natalie Melton tells us about it.
GOOD WORK: Join Women for Women International to raise funds to support women survivors of war and conflict
9 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The art world steps up. Join Women for Women International for an evening of installation, performance and fundraising – all to raise vital funds to support women survivors of war and conflict.
#GOODIDEAS: Saving Museum Budgets by Freecycling Exhibition Materials
8 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
When architecture practice boss Caroline Keppel Palmer saw how much exhibition material museums had to throw away for lack of storage space she had a very #GOODIDEA…
Damilola Odusote with Kamba Fine Art @Multiplied_Fair 2014
14 October 2014 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Multiplied The Contemporary Editions Fair from Christies opens next Friday 17th October.
FAD has chosen three artist and their galleries ahead of the opening giving you a sneak peak of what to expect.
Philips Citiscape Foldie and the 12 reasons this dog is experiencing the detailed nuances of the NEW Aphex Twin like never before:
10 October 2014 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
This dog is benefiting (or would if only he would put them on his actual ears) from high performance 40mm neodymium drivers, which reproduce a wide frequency range accentuated with excellent sound details.
