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FAD Magazine covers contemporary art – News, Exhibitions and Interviews reported on from London

Group Show Tales Of The Unexpected at Transition Gallery

Eschewing the limited and oppositional categories of ‘bad painting’ or ‘outsider art’, Tales of the Unexpected nevertheless reflects an attitude to painting that deliberately sidesteps the standards of good taste to challenge the conventionally acceptable by engaging playful means, instinctive logic and/or unselfconscious excess.

Stuart Pearson Wright answers FADs Questions

Brian Sewell said of the fingers in a portrait I made of Michael Gambon, that he detested my ‘wilful distortion’. Michael Gambon has an unusual condition called arachnodactyly which renders his fingers and toes exceptionally long. Brian doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

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