14 October 2023 • daniel barnes
Dripping, posing, pleading, vacantly staring into and through the viewer, the figures in Charlie Stein’s paintings are at once grotesque and hyperreal reflections of our fragile selves, splintered and strewn across the airwaves of social media, and yet all neatly packaged up.
13 August 2023 • Tabish Khan
White eyes, gloopy bats, colourful portraits, androgyny and chewable sculpture.
18 June 2023 • Tabish Khan
Bricks, cars, war, creatures and other worlds.
13 May 2023 • Tabish Khan
An animatronic stag, migrants, photorealism, a butcher’s, haunted portraits and landscapes.
4 September 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite Art exhibitions in September to see over the next couple of weeks in London. Each one… Read More
15 May 2022 • Tabish Khan
Paper rains down, sculpture, landscapes, auras, nature and marble.
25 January 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see this month – this time they’re all closing within the next three… Read More
26 September 2021 • Tabish Khan
Cities, mountains, faceless figures, war and birds.
8 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Through a frenzy of colours and symbols that are chiselled, burnt and painted onto panels of wood, Nigerian artist Gerald Chukwuma creates a striking visual language that weaves together ancient symbols, contemporary and historic references.
7 March 2021 • Tabish Khan
Ice, water and a playground in this week’s top 5.
24 January 2021 • Tabish Khan
Fast cars and the natural world in 5 online exhibitions for your weekly art fix.
14 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Surreal, fairytale-esque landscapes and characters are rendered in exquisite detail in Norweigan artist Sverre Malling’s latest collection of drawings.
3 September 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s obvious enough that this year’s graduates have missed out on the traditional benefits of a degree show. But the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has teamed up with the Saatchi Gallery to do something about it by facilitating students to curate a ‘best of ‘ selection through an open call to all those graduating this year.
30 August 2020 • Tabish Khan
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see iN London include Horses, hands, penises, London, zombies and miniatures.
25 February 2020 • Mark Westall
The latest group show at Kristin Hjellegjerde brings together the work of 16 artists who are exploring portraiture through their different mediums.
2 February 2020 • Tabish Khan
Hanging sculpture, Leave or Remain, peanuts, jellyfish and atmospheric landscapes.
6 January 2020 • Mark Westall
For her solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde’s gallery in London Bridge, Ana Barriga presents a new series of imaginative paintings that visualise everyday life in the peanut community.
20 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
Demonic cartoon heads, rewriting American history, edible art, a hatching egg, adolescence, giant hands and hidden faces.
18 September 2019 • Mark Westall
Apocalypse by the Greek definition of the word means a revelation or an unveiling of things not previously known. Driven by this concept, London-based artist James Ostrer’s latest body of work presents a powerfully intimate portrait of his evolving state of consciousness.
20 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Brexit Britain, night time, Milton Keynes, reggae, broken cities, encounters and crowd barriers.
6 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Artificial intelligence, tiny people, cut out landscapes, cuteness, a nun, King Kong and rosebuds.
25 November 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London include Science fiction, Pikachu, skinning buildings, a hairy mannequin, tribal statues, Trump and Chernobyl.
21 October 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 art exhibitions to see include: Nocturnal London, black and white, lumpy portraits, corporate culture, celebrating women, crushed art and unorthodox furniture.
27 August 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top7 art exhibitions to visit include: Tentacles, depression, children, optical illusions, flowers, blueprints and migration.
