Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
2 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Profoundly empathetic and psychologically intense, Gillian Wearing’s photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings probe the tensions between self and society in an… Read More
2 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Profoundly empathetic and psychologically intense, Gillian Wearing’s photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings probe the tensions between self and society in an… Read More
19 October 2021 • Mark Westall
Public Art Fund presents British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing’s life-size bronze sculpture Diane Arbus—a tribute to the legendary photographer. Arbus was a lifelong… Read More
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
12 October 2020 • Tabish Khan
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in late October include Birth, death, films, social media and a mask.
8 September 2020 • Mark Westall
Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition focuses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection motivated by isolation.
22 July 2019 • Mark Westall
New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976-1995 is a group exhibition selected by Michael Bracewell that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995.
16 October 2017 • Mark Westall
Gillian Wearing’s solo exhibition at SMK presents sculpture, video and photo works created from 1992 to the present day with a focus on family relations
21 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Not 5 but 9 exhibitions to catch this week
3 May 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Inspired, perhaps, by the surge of the selfie, there was a glut of self-portrait shows last year, and the trend continues.
7 April 2017 • Lee Sharrock
This stunning exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery brings together two seemingly disparate female artists, their careers divided by more than seven decades, but with rather more in common aesthetically and philosophically than it would first appear.
17 February 2016 • Mark Westall
‘A Room With Your Views’, by Gillian Wearing to premier at HOUSE
19 February 2015 • Staff
Rack ‘em up: British Contemporary Editions, 1990 – 2000 focusses on editions produced by the so-called YBA generation of artists. The survey, the first of its kind ever staged, brings together works by all of the leading figures of the period, including Keith Coventry, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk, and seeks to capture the irreverent and exuberant flavour of the era.
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Connect! is the national competition that gives members of the public the chance to win a leading contemporary artist to create a unique event at their local museum or gallery during Museums at Night, the UK’s after hours festival of arts, culture and heritage.
9 November 2014 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top picks include abstract nature, suspended cyborgs, confessions, Philippine politics, a peep hole, battlefields and oversized pills.
11 October 2014 • Mark Westall
A Real Birmingham Family is a project from Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing led by Ikon that has been over three years in the making.
14 March 2014 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan Gillian-Wearing Wolfgang Tillmans Art on the Underground is set to launch its first ever pop-up retail space at… Read More
18 September 2013 • Mark Westall
The exhibition will feature over 100 contemporary artworks made by women artists and will represent the art collections of seven prominent female art collectors from London, Europe and North America.
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The posters will go up in June on prominent sites at four central London stations.
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From Andy Warhol in drag and Giles Duley’s ‘broken statue’, to John Coplans’s back and Gillian Wearing as her father
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Major Exhibition Featuring Over Seventy-Five Artists Examines Works Made or Exhibited in New York City Twenty Years Ago
30 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Showtime is the creative portfolio platform for University of the Arts London. 1 If you weren’t an artist, what else… Read More
3 January 2011 • Mark Westall
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
15 December 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:CHRIS BURDEN You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A; November 6, 1971 Relic:… Read More
14 April 2009 • Mark Westall
Drunk, three-channel video for projection (23 minutes) – edition of 5 + 1 AP – 1999 © Maureen Paley, London…. Read More