The nude is potentially difficult territory in the #MeToo era, the more so as almost all of the examples at Photo London are of women. Instagram doesn’t allow them anyway, so my stream’s choices from Photo London were landscapes and portraits. And yet I found myself drawn to several interesting nudes, mostly from the rear… […]
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Alix Marie: Shredded
In Shredded, Alix Marie’s second solo exhibition at Roman Road, she presents some of her latest projects, materialising her prevailing study of gender construction and performativity into new forms of art.
Continue Reading...My week in the art world – A still life breathes
One of the works offered by Niels Borch Jensen Gallery that struck me was Tacita Dean’s Quarantania (2018) – a stunning work on seven panels depicting a mountain against a rusty pink graduated sky, reminiscent of Ed Ruscha.
Continue Reading...Review: Emerging Art In Rude Health At Hackney Wicked
Image:Erik Bendix, “Humpback Whale and Sketchy Moose”, oil paint on canvas. Words MATTHEW MILES On the ‘wrong side’ of the Olympic Park blue fence, and hemmed in by a canal and a dual carriageway, the industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick might appear low on frills but they’re definitely high on art. The area is home […]
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