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Category: Art and design

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

Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum

14th December 202215th December 2022  Lisa Goodrum

Heavy with heartache and loss, Lisa Goodrum turned to the haunting photography of Francesca Woodman to make sense of the pain and the blurry, achromatic period that was the summer of 2019. Here, in hauntingly beautiful prose, she tells her story.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, arts criticism, creative non-fiction, Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Lisa Goodrum, love, memoir, relationships, Robert Mapplethorpe

Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas

13th December 2022  Rachel Ashenden

Rachel Ashenden talks to artist Nell Brookfield about how her evocative paintings’ capture the strange in the quotidian and unleash the animalistic in the human.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Nell Brookfield, profile, Rachel Ashenden, subconscious, Surrealism

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

Writing the Weimar Body by Claire Thomson

16th August 202218th August 2022  Claire Thomson

During lockdown, the study of German expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix, and their portrayals of women, made Claire Thomson recognise the stark truth of the body.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Dada, George Grosz, German Expressionism, Hannah Hoch, Karl Hofer, Lotte Lasertein, Marcel Duchamp, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Otto Dix, paintings, portraits, Rudolf Schlichter, Sylvia von Harden, Weimar Germany

Weathering Inertia: RA Summer Exhibition 2022

7th August 20227th August 2022  Emily Walters

This year’s RA Summer Exhibition tackles the all too relevant theme of ‘Climate’ with wit, imagination, humour, awe and urgency, writes our contributor Emily Walters.

Read More “Weathering Inertia: RA Summer Exhibition 2022”
Posted in Art and design, Arts, EnvironmentTagged: Alison Wilding, Climate Change, Conrad Shawcross, Cristina Iglesias, Emily Walters, Environment, Environmentalism, Fiona Banner, Gavin Turk, Grayson Perry, Laura Ford, Patrick Blower, Ron Arad, Royal Academy, Scott Brooker, Simon Starling, Summer Exhibition, The Singh Twins, Uta Kögelsberger, Yanko Tihov

Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy

19th May 202221st May 2022  Julia Bagguley

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan, uses paintings, drawings and sketchbooks to shine a light on the woman behind the muse, the business manager and companion behind the model.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Gustave Courbet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Joanna Hiffernan, John Everett Millais, Julia Bagguley, painting, Royal Academy, Women in the Arts

Excess, desire and devilry in Art City Works and Purslane’s virtual exhibition, Saturnalia

20th January 202220th January 2022  Isabella Hill

Isabella Hill revels in the surreal, macabre and joyously colourful works of Oriele Steiner, Caroline Wong and Hera Gedikoglu at Art City Works and Purslane’s online exhibition, Saturnalia.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Amelie Peace, Anna Illsley, art, Art City Works, Caroline Wong, Dante, Hira Gedikoglu, Isabella Hill, Oriele Steiner, Roman Festival of Saturnalia, Saturnalia, The Divine Comedy

Bloody Barbarella by Molly Williams

11th January 202211th January 2022  Molly Williams

Angry at the sexual harassment women experience, Molly Williams began to paint something disturbing but powerful. The resulting painting, Bloody Barbarella, was her way of speaking back and subverting the violence of misogyny.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: #MeToo, art, Barbarella, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Feminism, Jane Fonda, Molly Williams, painting, sexual harassment, Valley of the Dolls

O.o.o.h!: a menstrual project by Ben Caro and Kat Cutler-MacKenzie

10th January 202213th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Artists Kat Cutler-MacKenzie and Ben Caro discuss their collaborative work, O.o.o.h! , a semi-pedagogic, semi-absurd investigation into the menstrual cycle inspired, in part, by the thought of philosopher Graham Harman and the photographs of Rafal Miłach.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: abortion rights, art, Ben Caro, Bodies, Graham Harman, Kat Cutler-MacKenzie, menstruation, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Oooh!, protest, Rafal Miłach

Rosanne Robertson’s Subterrane at Maximillian William

20th December 202128th December 2021  Catherine Howe

Rosanne Robertson’s Subterrane uses both the ruggedness and fluidity of the West Cornish coastline to celebrate the beauty of queer bodies and gender non-conformity, writes Catherine Howe.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, atomatism, Catherine Howe, Cornwall, drawing, Film, Ithell Colquhon, LGBTQ+, LGBTQIA+, Maximillian William, painting, Queer Art, queer identities, Rosanne Robertson, sculpture, Sea, Subterrane, Surrealism, trans identities, water

What’s in Your Handbag? Bags: Inside Out at the V&A

9th December 2021  Julia Bagguley

From a renaissance falconer’s bag to Haute Couture purses, the V&A’s current show, Bags: Inside Out, explores the history of this much needed and, at times, coveted accessory, writes Julia Bagguley.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Fashion, GeneralTagged: Bags: Inside Out, Birkin Bag, Coco Chanel, Fashion, handbags, Haute Couture, Julia Bagguley, Karl Lagerfeld, Mulberry, V&A

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  • 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
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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