A day devoted to illuminating discussion of modernism and the garden space, based in the perfect location: the garden at Monk’s House in Rodmell, East Sussex, owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf.
… Event Review: Botanical Modernisms
Category: Reviews
Exhibition Review: Helene Schjerfbeck at the Royal Academy of Arts
There’s grounds to get excited about the fact that British audiences are discovering Schjerfbeck only now: a clean canvas means that, since there aren’t layers of old paint to be rubbed out first, the discussion we create around Schjerfbeck can be made fresh, strong and feminist…
… Exhibition Review: Helene Schjerfbeck at the Royal Academy of Arts
Exhibition Review: ‘Water Rising’ at GroundWork Gallery
In appropriately apocalyptic weather, I duck into GroundWork gallery. The pouring rain provides the perfect atmosphere in which to explore the exhibition ‘Water Rising’ (9th March-1st June 2019) at the UK’s first gallery dedicated to the environment and sustainability.
… Exhibition Review: ‘Water Rising’ at GroundWork Gallery
Event Review: Class, Queers and the Avant-Garde at the ICA
Leaving behind the New York avant-garde ‘80s writer with little more than a few mentions, this was an evening that allowed for a celebration and championing of a contemporary, queer avant-garde.
… Event Review: Class, Queers and the Avant-Garde at the ICA
Exhibition Review: The Cutting Edge Women of British Modern Printmaking
With bold colours, pulsating patterns and dynamic figures, the works of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art exude the great vitality and rhythm of modern life in 1930s Britain.
… Exhibition Review: The Cutting Edge Women of British Modern Printmaking
Exhibition Review: Breaking Down Doors with Dorothea Tanning
The Tate’s first large-scale exhibition of artist Dorothea Tanning for twenty-five years offers one hundred works from her incredible seven-decade career and leads the viewer from room to room. This is rather apt, as Tanning’s paintings hinge on the transitory.
… Exhibition Review: Breaking Down Doors with Dorothea Tanning
Geta Brătescu: The Dance of Form
At the 2017 Venice Biennale’s Romanian Pavilion, Geta Brătescu’s exhibition ‘Apparitions’ cemented her status as a rising star on the international art scene. Aged ninety-one, Brâtescu was something of an unusual art world darling, yet she was well-known in her native Romania for a rich, multidisciplinary body of work that she would develop up until her death in September 2018.
… Geta Brătescu: The Dance of Form
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