Author: jaywp

Jonathan Baldock – interview: ‘Weird is a word that’s often used to describe me. I like the use of that word, I’m reclaiming it and giving it power’

As a Noah’s ark of his non-binary stuffed toys goes on show at Jupiter Artland, the artist talks about growing up gay in the 1980s, being working-class in the elite art world, and why experiencing art in person, in galleries…
Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

Helen Chadwick’s unwillingness to accept any binary division of the world allowed her to radically explore the mechanisms of the body – physically, emotionally, sensually, sexually and sensorially
Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
Dame Jillian Sackler obituary

The art lover and philanthropist has died aged 84
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991

With more than 100 works by 50 artists, this show examines the pioneering role of women in computer art, looking at how our visual perceptions have evolved, the technological impacts on art and contrasts in artistic methods
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

With numerous works created with the twigs, leaves, roots, branches and majestic forms of trees, this retrospective captures the Italian artist’s arboreal obsession over five decades
Solange Pessoa: Pilgrim Fields

An olfactory orgy of marigolds, chamomile, grasses, sheepskins and kelp is arranged into a surreal landscape – and a lush scentscape – to prick our understanding of what is wild and what is natural, in the Brazilian artist’s first UK…
Christian Krohg: The People of the North

A key figure in Norwegian art, the naturalist painter wanted his art to bring social change and produced strikingly modern images
Art is in the Street

This comprehensive show charts the groundbreaking rise of the illustrated poster in 19th-century France, drawing on its rich heritage and highlighting its wide impact on society
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

This comprehensive show celebrating last year’s 250th anniversary of the Romantic painter’s birth brings together an extraordinary collection of his works