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Tag: women artists

Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London

15th December 202220th December 2022  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Kirsten Glass’ enchanting paintings conjure alternate realms, invoke esoteric energies and summon nocturnal beings. In this creative essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou meditates on the “obverse” side of her mesmerising work and its magical channeling of all things dark.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Hecate, Hekate, Karsten Schubert, Kirsten Glass, moon light, Mythology, Night-Scented Stock, sigils, surealism, the Occult, Water Offerman, witchcraft, women artists

Somebody Else’s Muse by Rolake Osabia

24th August 202224th August 2022  Rolake Osabia

In this beautifully evocative essay, Rolake Osabia reflects on her own practice as an artist and painter of portraiture, and describes what it felt like to relinquish control, have her own portrait painted, and become somebody else’s muse.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: art, Black Artists, British Black Women artists, Caribbean artists, Cece Philips, paintings, portraiture, Rolake Osabia, self-portrait, women artists, Women in the Arts

A Home of the Muses by Iona Glen

19th August 202125th August 2021  Iona Glen

Iona Glen reflects on Celia Paul’s memoir, Self Portrait, the significance of the British Museum and Bloomsbury to the artist’s work, and her subversive vanquishing of “muse-dom” and patriarchal conventions through painting.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, BooksTagged: Artist, British Museum, Celia Paul, Gwen John, Iona Glen, Lucian Freud, painting, Rachel Cusk, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, women artists, Zadie Smith
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
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    By Rachel Ashenden
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