The Upcoming: Amy Beager
Artist Amy Beager spoke to Lee Sharrock about her career to date, the ‘Cassandra Syndrome’, her inspirations ranging from classical… Read More
Author: Lee Sharrock
Lee Sharrock is a global creative PR consultant, freelance curator, artist and contributor to FAD, Creative Review, F22, STATE and Soho House Magazine. Lee studied at Norwich University of the Arts, University College London (UCL) and la Universita di Bologna, before embarking on a career in the art world and advertising industry. She started her career at Sotheby's Auctioneers and worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), M&C Saatchi, Timothy Taylor Gallery and Saatchi & Saatchi before launching Lee Sharrock PR as a bespoke cultural PR consultancy.Lee is International Communications Officer for Serviceplan Group's Houses of Communication around the world.www.leesharrock.co.uk
The Upcoming: Devon DeJardin
Lee Sharrock connected with self-taught Los-Angeles-based artist Devon DeJardin in advance of his upcoming solo show with DENK Gallery in… Read More
The Upcoming: Celine Ali
In a week that kicked off with International Women’s Day celebrating women all around the world, Lee Sharrock talks to upcoming artist and interior designer Celine Ali
The Upcoming: Travion Payne
In the first of this new FAD series of interviews with upcoming talent, Lee Sharrock talks to 27 year old artist Travion Payne about his love of Caravaggio, redressing the cultural imbalance in art by putting black people in the forefront, and the power of Instagram in gaining exposure for unsigned artists.
Top 7 Art Christmas Presents
This week on FAD magazine we take a week-long look at art gifts for Christmas, We have asked some of… Read More
Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul at Royal Academy of Arts
Tracey Emin has curated a small but powerful exhibition featuring a selection of paintings by her favourite artist – Norwegian… Read More
ReWild Artists Talk to Curator Lee Sharrock
Curator & writer Lee Sharrock has teamed up with Runway Gallery director Daniel Syrett to curate ‘ReWild’, an environmental exhibition featuring artists who are responding to the climate crisis in their art or capturing the beauty of a planet that we are gradually destroying.
Jess Kohl Solo Exhibition ANIME SALVE at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
Photographer and director Jess Kohl spoke to Lee Sharrock about her solo photographic exhibition with Collettivo Zero at Palzzo delle Arti in Naples.
Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall
Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition is the perfect post-lockdown tonic for the soul after months of confinement. In March when the world was blind-sided by Covid-19 and galleries and museums were forced to close and move online, their gradual reopening along with alternative exhibition venues such as the magnificent Houghton Hall, is a breath of fresh air for art lovers.
Museums in Quarantine: Warhol at Tate Modern
I spoke to Tate Modern curator Fiontán Moran two months ago on preview day of the hotly anticipated Andy Warhol blockbuster show, the first Tate Warhol exhibition for almost 20 years
In This Together Artnet Auction for Covid-19 Relief
Art from the Juan Antonio Guirado Estate, Andreas Stylianou and Todd Williamson has been donated to an Artnet online exhibition and fundraisers organised by Galstian Advisory LLC.
The Connor Brothers, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Bambi, Julian Opie, Sarah Pope and Grayson Perry donate to Bonhams The Blue Auction To Raise Funds for NHS Charities Covid-19 Appeal
Lee Sharrock spoke to The Connor Brothers about the charity auction organised by Bonhams which features artworks donated by leading contemporary artists, and special experiences including a visit to Grayson Perry’s studio and lunch with Dame Joan Collins at Claridges after the lockdown is lifted.
Steve McQueen at Tate Modern
Long overdue, this is the first major UK exhibition of Steve McQueen at the Tate since the Oscar-winning director won the Turner Prize in 1999.
Rob and Nick Carter: Dark Factory Portraits at Ben Brown Fine Arts
Rob and Nick Carter talk to Lee Sharrock about their upcoming exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts, which will feature a new series of AI portraits of iconic artists including; Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Peter Blake and Yoko Ono.
Review: Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
Despite the wealth of museums and galleries worldwide exhibiting Picasso, the Royal Academy of Arts has managed to create an exhibition which looks at the maestro’s work with fresh eyes. Picasso and Paper features over 300 works
Tutankhamun: Treasures of The Golden Pharaoh at Saatchi Gallery
Curated by Tarek El Awady PH.D. the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through 9 galleries mapping the course of Tutankhamun’s passage to everlasting life.
Interview with Other Art Fair Founder Ryan Stanier
Lee Sharrock talks to The Other Art Fair founder Ryan Stanier about the globalisation of his clever concept for an art fair aimed at non-represented artists, and gives insights into some of the artists he has an eye on.
FAD Top 5 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Somerset House again plays host to the 1:54 art fair, now in its 7th London edition with fairs in Marakesh and New York.
Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern
Back in 2003 I, along with 2 million other art lovers, was mesmerised by Olafur Eliasson’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall installation ‘The Weather Project’
Port Eliot Festival Takes A Bow
Lily Allen, Martin Parr, Jeremy Deller, Art Car Boot Fair and Zandra Rhodes anniversary exhibition light up final weekend of Cornwall’s leading Arts festival.
The Other Art Fair Top 5
The Summer 2019 London edition sees a new incarnation land in Kings Cross, presented by Saatchi Art, with the art fair taking over the central space of the West Handyside Canopy.
‘ART on the Mind’ Contributing Artists Ian Davenport, Kristjana S Williams and Charming Baker talk to FAD
An impressive list of contemporary artists have generously donated to the 2nd ‘ART on the Mind’ exhibition to raise funds for Cardboard Citizens.
FAD Magazine Venice Biennale Top 10
There are some tough yet critical themes running through the 58th la Biennale di Venezia. The 2019 edition is curated by Ralph Rugoff and inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb which turned out to be a fallacy. Very appropriate for the unsettled times we are living through, where global economic disparity, alternative facts, migration and accelerated global warming are some of the most urgent topics concerning humanity and its future.
Nancy Fouts 1945-2019
Nancy Fouts was born in Seattle, USA, in 1945. She moved to London at the tender age of 16 when her parents had enrolled her in a finishing school, which was bizarrely called ‘The Monkey Club’ because the girls were taught to “Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil.” However, Nancy was never one to tow the line or follow the rules,