Paul Carey Kent

8 April 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

At least it isn’t 1666

Want some consolation during the lockdown? Covid-19 is far from being as lethal as the bubonic plague which, for example, killed a quarter of London’s population in 1665-6.

1 April 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

My heading comes from Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’, and given that the band also recorded ‘Isolation’, they must be the go-to musical precursors of our current ‘social distancing’. What about visual artists?

26 March 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train, TECH

A New Reality?

Will the enforced move from physical to virtual exhibitions and fairs during the corona restrictions accelerate a permanent shift in the balance? It’s hard to say, but there is certainly plenty of online content available. Here are four things which came to my attention in the first few ‘stay at home’ days.

21 March 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Virtually Hong Kong

Art Basel viewing Rooms (available 18-25 March following the cancellation and return of 75% of fees) shows no particular platform innovations in allowing galleries to showcase what would have been at the fair.

18 March 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Rebecca Fairman 1960-2020

The sudden death of Rebecca Fairman (1960-2020), who ran ArthouSE1 from 2014-20, dismayed the artists and curators connected with the gallery, witness the many who attended her funeral last week.

11 March 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Residency Effect – with Helen Cammock and Jenny Morgan

Helen Cammock, a member of the collective which shared last year’s Turner Prize, has been in residence at the Wysing Arts Centre, just outside Cambridge.

5 March 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Portrait special

It’s easy enough to ignore the genre of portrait painting in the age of the camera, but the best examples do plenty apart from that. David Hockney carries on the tradition in his new show at the National Portrait Gallery, but it isn’t hard to find interesting portraits on elsewhere. Here are three…

26 February 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is on tour.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is on tour, the last stop being Leicester (21 Feb – 18 April). 1800 entries were whittled down to the 60 artists shown, with their primary motivations across technical accomplishment, working drawings towards a future purpose, exploration of expanded techniques (eg film of drawing) and the expression of potentially media-neutral ideas.

17 February 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Alicia Paz at School Gallery: Value and Trees

The more that orthodox places close in challenging market and cost conditions – Blain | Southern being the latest – the more reason there is to appreciate alternatives spaces. School Gallery, attached to a studio complex near Wimbledon, and managed by artist Michael Hall, is one such example

12 February 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Eric Fischl: Life is a Beach but Art is Like Tennis

American painter Eric Fischl’s new show at Skarstedt (‘Figures’ to 9 April) presents, approximately life-sized, people on the beach. They come from Fischl’s own photographs of characters and poses which interest him – ‘I can’t tell people what I want’