Author: jaywp

Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art

This rigorously researched and curated, yet aesthetically delightful, exhibition forces the visitor to reckon with Oscar Wilde’s statement that the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it
Ofelia Rodríguez: Talking in Dreams

Though she lived abroad for most of her life, her exuberant use of colour and fantastical visions show that Rodríguez maintained a persistent and complex dialogue with her Latin American and Caribbean heritage
Real Families: Stories of Change

Bringing together portraiture from modern painters and setting them against historic depictions, this exhibition looks at how the idea of family has transformed in the past 50 years
Olga Grotova – interview: ‘I started to think how soil and plants are sometimes the only witnesses’

In her east London studio, Olga Grotova talks about the ‘choreographic’ process and inspiration for dense, mysterious works bearing the imprints of plants and limbs, layered with soil and pigments to reveal hidden narratives and tales of trauma
José Parlá – interview: ‘I was experiencing flashbacks to my dreams from the coma, and I put that into these paintings’

Following a life-and-death experience, the New York-based Cuban artist explores different notions of reality in breathtaking paintings that capture the lights we all see in the dark
El Anatsui – interview: ‘My inspiration comes from things people have used – there are so many endless delights’

As his huge installation begins at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month, the artist talks about African identity, authenticity and being inspired by your own environment
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

A thrilling survey of the American artist injects the venerable medium of painting with vitality and virtuosity
Elisa Giardina Papa: Flock – She Preferred the Lineage of Goats and Ducks

In a series of new ceramic works, video and works on paper, the Sicilian artist explores the myths and traditions she learned as a child from her grandmother, in particular the tales of women persecuted as heretics by the Spanish…
Tamara Henderson: Green in the Grooves

Through paintings, a sound installation and sculptures, Henderson takes us on a sensory voyage of discovery through the natural world
Renoir in Guernsey, 1883

One hundred and forty years ago, Auguste Renoir spent five weeks in Guernsey. He made at least 15 paintings and drawings on, and of, the island. Now, several of these have returned, along with others of the period, to be…