Art | Culture | Ideas
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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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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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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FAD Magazine, 2022 Do you not feel that sometimes we become so swept up with the hidden meanings of art or with the artist’s identity that we forget to savour the sensation of art itself? While we often think of ‘aesthetics’ as being about the way things look, I want us to return aesthetics to…
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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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Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 26 April – 14 June 2013 The years have been kind to Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative, he has made a living as an artist and not sold out, and the ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk and why…
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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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