Author: jaywp

  • Caro in Yorkshire

    This unmissable two-venue retrospective of Anthony Caro’s work encompasses everything from his vast steel sculptures of the 1960s to his table pieces, to his jewellery, ending with his final works

  • Hannah Collins: ‘Most of my work is a line between culture and the world’

    The British artist known for her large, unframed photographs talks about her latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre in London, photographing a hut where Nelson Mandela lived, investigating civil rights in the American south and spending time with tribal…

  • Alinka Echeverria: ‘As soon as you lift up the camera, you make the other person vulnerable’

    The photographer talks about her work looking at political and religious beliefs, including a visit to South Sudan following its independence and meeting Nelson Mandela’s prison warder from Robben Island

  • Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots

    Jackson Pollock’s black paintings have been unjustifiably dismissed by many. Tate Liverpool’s exhibition focuses on this largely neglected period, including also drawings and sculptures done not long before the artist’s untimely death

  • Lee Miller and Picasso

    The close and long-lasting friendship between American photographer Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso is touchingly documented here through more than 100 of the former’s photographs and two works by Picasso

  • Emma Cousin: ‘Humour is the most important thing’

    Studio International visited Transition Gallery in east London to speak to Cousin about painting, inspiration and teaching her grandma how to swim

  • Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

    Exploring themes of transformation, status and seduction, the V&A’s Shoes: Pleasure and Pain is an exploration of power relations, and how the shoe – ostensibly something to wear on one’s foot – can be a tool of empowerment or oppression

  • Hayato Kiyuna, No Aloha

    No Aloha is an exhibition of brightly coloured works on paper by Japanese artist Hayato Kiyuna. It is perhaps no surprise, since he is influenced by music and sound, that the exhibition is titled after one of his favourite songs…

  • Nicholas Mangan: Ancient Lights

    In his latest exhibition at London’s Chisenhale Gallery, Australian artist Nicholas Mangan drags a forgotten credo from the rubble of modernity: respect the nature that gives us life

  • Primary Codes

    This ambitious exhibition by four greats of computer art brings together works from the very start of the genre in the early 1960s to the modern day. Despite being a very successful event, it is fair to question: is this…

  • Bruges Triennial 2015

    The triennial’s theme is the megacity, imagining what Bruges would be like if the millions of tourists who visit each year were to stay. Alongside three indoor exhibitions, 14 outdoor installations explore global urbanisation

  • Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World

    Barbara Hepworth is seen as one of the most important figures in the development of abstract art in Britain. Yet, as Tate Britain’s retrospective shows, she was an international figure, who cultivated an idealist language of expression that still has…

  • Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust

    Wanderlust explores the art of a man who crossed oceans in his imagination and explored fairytale castles in his dreams. Prepare for parrots, pipes and celestial fairies as you step into Joseph Cornell’s magical imaginarium

  • Nathan Cash Davidson: ‘I’m two different artists in the same person’

    The artist discusses his current exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery, his interest both in recreating the past and in sci-fi, using collage to help create his compositions, and what it is to be both a painter and a rapper

  • Mirrors to Windows: The Artist as Woman

    This documentary follows 10 female artists from three generations to discover how they fare in an arena still dominated by men. It is a shame, then, that, interesting though it is, the film is still determined by stereotypes

  • Thomas Hirschhorn: In-Between

    With his latest installation at South London Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn’s portrayal of destruction gives us a damning glimpse of an alternative future that could easily become a reality

  • Helen Sear: ‘It’s almost like the landscape is imprinted on the figure’ – Venice Biennale 2015

    In her exploration of mortality and temporality, Helen Sear seeks to disrupt the single-point perspective of the camera. She talks about her literary and filmic influences and how even the personal, poetic and local can strike a universal chord

  • Jeanne Masoero: ‘My work is about trying to find structures, a kind of contained chaos’

    The artist explains how her interest in the Mayan civilisation led her to use layers in her work. Typically, she says, she spends three months on one piece, gradually building up the layers in what she calls her ‘landscapes of…

  • Susan Cianciolo: ‘Everything I make is so sacred and it’s all about the process of making’

    The artist talks about the Fluxus boxes in her latest exhibition, opening a textile store in Mississippi, and her early years in fashion design

  • Unfinished … Works from the Courtauld Gallery

    Most artists, at some point, are asked, ‘How do you know when a work is finished?’ It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer for artists and historians alike, but one that is being explored in the Courtauld Gallery’s annual Summer…

  • Mark Fairnington: ‘The work I do with scientists echoes their speculation and observation rather than any ensuing claim to truth’

    The artist talks about his work researching natural history collections, how he crosses the divide between art and science, and his deadpan English brand of surrealism

  • Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

    An exhibition of more than 80 drawings by Cy Twombly is on show at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. The works give an insight into the formation of Twombly’s characteristic style through process and experimentation

  • Black Mould

    Michaël Borremans’ current exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London conjures a nightmarish world that is both sinister and strangely captivating. But there is more to this beautifully presented exhibition than the paintings themselves

  • Sergio Camargo: Mármore

    Sergio Camargo (1930-90) was a prominent artist in Rio de Janeiro, where he was born, and gained international recognition at the Venice Biennale (1966 and 1982). Working extensively in France and Europe, Camargo was a master of modular geometric constructions,…