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It All Comes Down at the Barbican

10th March 202110th March 2021  Rochelle Roberts

Bringing together thirteen emerging artists between the ages of 16-25, the Barbican’s latest exhibition, It All Comes Down, explores how young people navigate the world and approach their artistic practise during the pandemic.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Annie Lee, Arabella Turner, art, Barbican, Barbican Centre, Becca Lynes, Dada, Defne Ozdenoren, Film, Jordan Robertson, Lay Stevens, Lockdown, Molly Morphew, Photography, Rebecca Cromwell, Rochelle Roberts, Safiye Grey, Sam Ahern, Sneha Alexander, Surrealism, Vangelis Trichias, Young Visual Arts Group

“We were very merry”: What Ida Nettleship John taught me about friendship and growing up

3rd March 20213rd March 2021  Eliza Goodpasture

Reading about the life and friendships of artist Ida Nettleship John has given doctoral student, Eliza Goodpasture, comfort during lockdown and companionship when friends feel far away.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Dorealia McNeil, Edna Clarke Hall, Edna Waugh, Eliza Goodpasture, friendship, Gwen Salmond, Ida John, Sale School of Art, Wuthering heights

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

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

Translation is a place of resting, of being in common

15th December 202015th December 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

After an Erasmus exchange in Paris, artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie discovered that translation is about the space between languages and voices; a space that affords us new connections, ideas and friendships.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Erasmus, France, French, friendship, Ground Provisions, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Language, Languages, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Life in Languages, Paris, Photography, Sealy Thompson, Stefano Harney, Translation

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

Postcards in Isolation 19: Sylvia Fein, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012

7th August 20208th August 2020  Molly Gilroy

On a trip to Berkeley, California, Molly Gilroy discovered Sylvia Fein’s hypnotic and blazing work, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012, an image, which in postcard form, has given her hope during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, GeneralTagged: art, BAMPFA, Berkley, Covid-19, Leonora Carrington, Lockdown Living, Molly Gilroy, Postcards in Isolation, Remedios Varo, Rochelle Roberts, San Francisco, Surrealism, Surrealists, Sylvia Fein, Women surrealists

Postcards in Isolation 11: Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909 and Dorothea Tanning’s Self Portrait, 1944

1st July 20201st July 2020  Sian Norris

Sian Norris reflects on the female gaze as captured in Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909, and when looking at Dorothea Tanning’s Self-Portrait, 1944, she considers the lack of freedom we have during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Sian Norris, Tate Modern, the Sublime, Zinaida Serebriakova

Postcards in Isolation 10: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940

28th June 202028th June 2020  Isabel Radford

Isabel Radford reflects on one of Frida Kahlo’s best known works, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940, and sees the artist as a source of empowerment for our current times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Covid-19, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Isabel Radford, Lockdown Living, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Self Portraits, self-portrait, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Postcards in Isolation 7: Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009

29th May 202020th June 2020  Toni Roberts

Toni Roberts discusses how Mona Hatoum’s radiant red sculpture, Hot Spot III, 2009, has become a relevant work of art during her time in lockdown and a metaphor for our cage-like existence.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Contemporary Art, Covid-19, globalisation, Hot Spot III, installation, Lockdown Living, Mona Hatoum, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, sculpture, Tate, Tate Modern, war, White Cube

Tracing the ‘bounding line’: William Blake at Tate Britain

13th February 20206th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Dismissed in his lifetime as mad, William Blake is now lauded as a visionary genius, one whose art and poetry have influenced many generations of creatives. Shamini Sriskandarajah visits Tate Britain’s recent retrospective to find out why.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, drawing, eighteenth-century, engraving, Mythology, Tate, Tate Britain, William Blake

Kiss My Genders at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

5th September 20197th September 2019  Carla Plieth

The Hayward Gallery’s current exhibition, Kiss My Genders, displays an array of international artists whose daring and thought-provoking works open up infinite possibilities with regard to gender.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Hannah Quinlan, Hayward Gallery, Hunter Reynolds, Kiss My Genders, Peter Hujar, Rosie Hastings, Southbank Centre, Zanele Muholi

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