Quarantine Times: These Artists Performed at Their Best Alone
Most of us don’t escape the obligation of some kind of quarantine in these corona-driven times. Social distancing and isolation are keywords in...
Michel Rutten 25 April 2020
Artist Stories
Exploring Place with Emily Thomas
Emily Thomas is a 24 years old, British emerging artist. Her bright and vibrant sculptural work is distinctive and abstract at first glance. However,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 17 April 2020
David Hockney – iPad Images of Springtime from Quarantine
David Hockney is in lock-down in Normandy and spends most days in the garden, drawing the spring awakening on his iPad. In a series of letters...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 7 April 2020
Ulay: Pioneer of Performance Art
The German performance artist Ulay became known as half of the symbiotic duo Marina Abramovic – Ulay. While Abramovic became the big star, Ulay...
Michel Rutten 12 March 2020
Last Chance to See: William Blake at Tate Britain
Tate Britain is the oldest of the United Kingdom’s four Tate galleries, the others being the Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool and Tate St...
Chris Dobson 14 January 2020
Simon Hantaï: A Journey to Abstraction
Simon Hantaï was a Franco-Hungarian painter whose work is marked by a reflection on painting techniques. In an evolution that carried his art to...
Maia Heguiaphal 7 January 2020
Filmmaking is like Painting – Andrzej Wajda as a Painter
Ladies and Gentlemen, and now I will speak in Polish… – the famous words Polish director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) said while receiving...
Judyta Dąbrowska 17 October 2019
Beatles and Biennales – the Life and Times of Robyn Denny
In a grim and conservative post-war Britain, Robyn Denny burst onto the art scene like a Holi festival colour bomb. He arrived at art school in...
Candy Bedworth 3 October 2019
Joseph Beuys at BASTIAN Gallery
Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986), currently on display at BASTIAN gallery, was a controversial German artist, whose work regularly caused public...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 October 2019
Getting Your Teeth into Goya
Goya was not a happy man when he painted Saturn Devouring His Son, some time between 1819 and 1823. By the time he created this painting,...
Craig Wakerley 10 September 2019
The Poetry in Painting — Turner’s Ovid in Exile
This petite (9.46 x 12.50 cm) oil on canvas by J. M. W. Turner contains big things: big landscapes, big stories and big skies. It is an imagined...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 26 August 2019
Moving to Abstraction: Andreas Gursky’s Rhine
Andreas Gursky’s Rhine is an interesting piece that tells the transformation of a real-life picture into an abstract work of art. The move towards...
Michel Rutten 26 July 2019
