Pure Painting – 100-word Review of Sam Gilliam: Late Paintings
Review of Sam Gilliam Late Paintings exhibition at Pace gallery by Daniel Barnes
Shifting Perspectives – review
Leeds Art Gallery, 27 May – 30 October 2022 Leeds art collection was initially built on the spoils of slavery and exploitation. In this ground-breaking show, curator Laura Claveria sets out to ask some hard questions and to hear some difficult answers about how those communities and cultures, who are so essential to Leeds’ success,…
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London Gallery Weekend Artist Talk
Gallery Tour with Celina Teague and Richard Stone, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, 14 May 2022. Thank you to everyone who came to our walk and talk at KH London Bridge as part of Gallery Weekend. Celina and Richard were both extremely generous and insightful, and thank you to everyone who asked a question. Great…
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News: Artist Talk and Gallery Tour
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, 14.05.22 On Saturday 14 May, as part of London Gallery Weekend, I will be leading a gallery tour and talking with artists Celina Teague and Richard Stone about their parallel exhibitions at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. The three of us will walk through the gallery and discuss common themes and points…
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Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings
FAD Magazine, 2021 Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification to emerge on the other side as totems to an artist’s fascination with the grim and inescapable fact of mortality. More of the same, you might say. And how wrong you would…
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Celebrity as Material
Trebuchet, 2021 Can we consider celebrity as a material? The idea of celebrity as material emerges from the ashes of the mimesis paradigm of art—the hoary assumption that art should imitate, copy or represent reality—which was extinguished during the twentieth century. The advent of the readymade, most famously Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), and the reproduction of…
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We Need to Talk about Damien
an extract from The Value Industry, chapter V Damien Hirst is one of the great artists of the 20th Century, but the value industry has seen to it that hardly anyone would concede it. The very mythology that drove Hirst’s prices up has been his downfall: the idea of the superstar artist, born into nothing, growing…
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