Author: jaywp

Berlinde de Bruyckere – interview: ‘My themes are not easy. You can’t look to my work to become happy’

The Belgian artist talks about the issues, artists and musicians that inspire her, the evolution of key motifs and techniques, the influence of her childhood experiences, and the joy of making her first public sculpture
The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

This grand tribute to Pissarro evokes the bliss of a walk in nature and is an illuminating look at the man who was crucial to French impressionism despite being an outsider
William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity

The first UK institutional show dedicated to Kentridge’s sculpture is joyfully approachable while maintaining its critical bite, as we are drawn into his creative imagination
Edinburgh Art Festival 2025

Guy Oliver’s laugh-out-loud film about being a teenager, Aqsa Arif’s exploration of life as a refugee on a Glasgow council estate and a poignant look at artist John Bellany, who battled alcoholism and ill health, are just some of the…
Making Waves – Breaking Ground

With 11 artists and more than 100 works, the wonders of the natural world are stunningly brought to life in this year’s Space to Breathe summer art exhibition, in collaboration with Purdy Hicks Gallery
Lifeblood – Edvard Munch

A thoughtfully curated exploration of the convergence of art and health in the work of Munch, a man very much invested in a modernising medical world
Pablo Picasso: The Code of Painting

This show draws international attention to a vibrant new art space in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. But does it justify revived interest in the artist’s later works?
Ro Robertson – interview: ‘The female shipbuilders of Sunderland have been a big inspiration’

At Sunderland’s Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which stands beside the River Wear, is a new exhibition by Ro Robertson. We met them there to talk about the central installation and the other works in their first solo institutional show
Border Crossings: Ten Scottish Masters of Modern Art

This show pays homage to the remarkable legacy of 10 artists who left their Scottish homeland to achieve success, becoming immersed in international developments in art in London, Paris and New York
Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely: Myths and Machines

She was an aristocrat sculpting voluptuous female figures, he a working-class maker of scrap metal kinetic sculptures – but their tumultuous personal relationship and creative collaborations endured