Author: jaywp
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Catherine Opie – interview: ‘I am in love with the medium of photography and the aesthetic pursuits of what I can do within it’
The photographer, known for her portraits of west-coast queer culture in the 1990s, today turns her camera to making portraits of architecture and cities, including the Vatican
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Bernard Cohen: Things Seen
An exhibition of recent works by the veteran British painter draws on medieval stained glass, Velázquez, nature and the process of painting
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Kaye Donachie – interview: ‘My portraits are spectres, images conjured through art and writing’
Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition is now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses, the influence of poetry and cinema on her imagery and the ongoing conversation between her paintings
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Leiko Ikemura: When Animals Become Art
In an institution like no other, the Japanese-Swiss artist’s works are juxtaposed with her stuffed animal collection to create a lively menagerie
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Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North
Rakowitz has recreated the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the form of a sculptural relief and a living garden of plants and herbs, collaborating with local people with experience of displacement
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Pam Evelyn – interview: ‘Now I’m realising that these existential collapses with the painting are actually necessary’
In her studio in Dalston, east London, Pam Evelyn talks about the push and pull of making one of her large-scale abstract paintings and learning to live with its contradictions and tensions
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Rethinking pink
A corporate and trademarked invention, Barbie Pink is still marketed as the colour of perpetual happiness. Tracing the multiple iterations of pink through art history, however, reveals more complex meanings
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Samuel Gallacher – interview: ‘We have put the community at the front and centre of what we’ve done at the museum’
Glasgow’s Burrell Collection has been named 2023 museum of the year, picking up the £120,000 award that goes with it. The Keeper of the collection talks about what it means to win the world’s largest museum prize and his plans…
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Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception
With themes including Scottish identities, artistic communities and interior lives, this exhibition focuses on women across generations who have changed the face of the country’s art
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Rowan Mace: Time’s Light, and Amy Winstanley: Slim Glimpses
The calm and welcoming spaces at this Scottish gallery provide the perfect setting for Winstanley’s vibrant and joyous paintings and Mace’s painted wooden sculptures
