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Tag: Artist

‘Dance – Alone – Together: Relational Presence in Post-Proximity Days’ by Georgia Gardner

17th February 202117th February 2021  Georgia Gardner

In her film, artist Georgia Gardner reflects on her experience of learning and participating in movement workshops via Zoom, and how the transition from physical space to a virtual one creates new selves and connections.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, Film and MediaTagged: Artist, choreographer, connection, Dance, dancer, Film, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Georgia Gardner, home, Lockdown Living, movement, Pandemic, studio, vimeo, yoga, Zoom

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Coxon, art, Art History, art therapy, Artist, Books in translation, Christmas, Cole Swensen, creativity, drawing, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Jean Frémon, John Berger, Languages, Les Fugitives, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Motherhood, Nativity, portraiture, pregnancy, Translation, unconscious

Preview of Amalie Smith’s Marble, translated by Jennifer Russell

5th November 20205th November 2020  Amalie Smith

Amalie Smith’s exciting new novel, Marble, sensuously intertwines the story and discoveries of its titular heroine with those of pioneering sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who lived and worked 110 years earlier. In this preview, Marble reflects on Carl-Nielsen’s time in Athens and the new material reality open to her when separated from her lover.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Amalie Smith, ancient Greece, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Artist, Carl-Nielsen, Greece, Jennifer Russell, Life in Languages, Lolli, Lolli Editions, Marble, sculpture, Translation

A Painter’s Life: Mary Fedden, an artist of ‘thought & imagination’

28th May 201930th May 2019  Julia Bagguley

Initially termed as ‘a minor producer of charming still lifes’, the late artist Mary Fedden OBE went on to sell her work for six figure sums. Our arts contributor, Julia Bagguley, reflects on Fedden’s journey from mural maker to internationally known painter.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Allen Jones, art, Artist, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Andreae, Christopher Wood, David Hockney, John Russell Taylor, Julian Trevelyan, Kettle's Yard, Lucy Cavendish College, Mary Fedden, Mel Gooding, painting, Patrick Caulfield, Portland Gallery, Ron Kitaj, still life, University of Cambridge

Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at The British Museum

15th May 201915th May 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Dangerous women, failed relationships, melancholic landscapes and the death of loved ones all haunt the work of artist Edvard Munch, as seen in the British Museum’s latest exhibition.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Artist, British Museum, Edvard Grieg, Edvard Munch, Expressionism, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henrik Ibsen, James McNeil Whistler, Klimt, Max Klinger, Modernism, Norway, painting, Paul Gaugin, Printing, Schiele, Symbolists, The Scream, Wood Block Prints
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