Author: jaywp
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Elizabeth Price: Felt Tip
Prehistoric ferns, corporate ties and hairy-legged stiletto wearers are among the things Elizabeth Price’s video works throw at you, as the Turner prize-winner investigates seismic change in manual and white-collar labour
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David Austen – interview: ‘I think Dr Seuss is as great as Picasso’
On the occasion of Underworld, a new exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the artist talks about writers who have influenced him, from Camus to Dr Seuss, his recurring dream of being chased by a naked lizard woman, and why he…
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Leon Kossoff: A London Life
A career-spanning exhibition of the London artist confirms his status as the quintessential painter of the capital’s inner peripheries
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How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
Rosie Cooper and Sarah McCrory’s stunning retrospective pays homage to an artist group at work beyond the artworld’s centre
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Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature
For those hoping to see the shared sensibilities and sensitivities of two of the world’s most famous artists, disappointment may be in store: the similarities explored are mostly superficial and the exhibited work is 90% Hockney
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Equilibrium: An Idea for Italian Sculpture
A striking exhibition presents works that examine and play with the notion and execution of equilibrium in a multifarious array of sculptural forms
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Gerda Scheepers: Rooms
The Cape Town-based artist presents new work at Glasgow’s Mary Mary Gallery, creating a subversive, melancholic and yet quietly comical homage to the frustrating everyday
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John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing
Marking the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, this exhibition, the first of many across the UK this year, celebrates the artist-critic-collector’s intentional legacy, the Guild of St George, and his lessons in using looking and drawing as conduits to understanding
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Matheus Parizi – interview: ‘Artists are compelled more than ever to make work about what is happening in the street. Art has to be political.’
Parizi talks about the current right-wing climate in Brazil, cuts to funding for the arts, and his new short film First Act, which he made as a direct response to the political events in his country
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John Bellany and Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic
From his collection, Damien Hirst has produced a tribute to the passionate and visionary work of two Scottish artists he admired
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Devan Shimoyama – interview: ‘I use my body to explore magic, mythology, history, intimacy, joy, pain’
His portraits consider the black, queer, male body from a personal perspective that is as informed by mythology and folklore as it is by everyday life. Shimoyama talks here about his new solo exhibition, Shh … at De Buck Gallery…
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Martin Parr – Interview: ‘Britain is eternally fascinating … full of contradictions … Photographing it is a form of therapy’
Documentary photographer Martin Parr’s latest exhibition, Only Human, at the National Portrait Gallery, is all about us – us humans, but especially us British. Here, he talks about cake, collecting and Britain in the time of Brexit
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The Armory Show 2019
From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…
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Julie Mehretu: Drawings and Monotypes
In these new works, Mehretu plunges the viewer into her phenomenological, immersive methodology and her mark-making serves to release your own rich store of memories and associations
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Katie Birkwood – interview: ‘The bodies of society’s disadvantaged, the poor and people of colour, were most likely to be used and abused without consent’
The Royal College of Physicians’ exhibition of anatomical illustrations, from medieval times to the present day, reveals the intersecting histories of medicine, art and politics, explains Under the Skin’s curator, Katie Birkwood
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Hew Locke – interview: ‘A lot of my work has to do with the burden of history and … how history affects us today’
Hew Locke discusses monarchy, nationhood, bigotry, boats, Brexit and the seductive silliness of TV’s historical dramas, before the opening of his show at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
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Barby Asante – interview: ‘There was real pleasure running through the declarations – we’re trying to influence’
With Declaration of Independence at the Baltic, Asante makes space for womxn of colour to relate narratives and reflect on the nature of independence
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Protest and Remembrance: Miriam de Búrca | Joy Gerrard | Mary Griffiths | Barbara Walker
Drawings by four contemporary female artists explore notions of protest and remembrance, from anti-Brexit marches to unconsecrated Irish burial sites, and forgotten black soldiers to former collieries in the north of England
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Power Play
With work from artists from South Korea, Europe and the United Arab Emirates, this exhibition considers the nation state and the geopolitics of globalisation
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Barbara Walker – interview: ‘From the moment I make the first mark, I’ve already said goodbye’
Walker scours archives for images on which to base her drawings of black soldiers. She talks here as she creates a wall drawing for the show Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea
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Mary Griffiths – interview: ‘I extrapolate a drawing that has some resonance with part of the structure I’ve been looking at’
In Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, with her large abstract works of plywood, acrylic gesso and graphite, Griffiths aims to capture the splendour of the working-class engineering at a former colliery
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Joy Gerrard – interview: ‘I’m interested in how we witness and interpret these events’
In her depictions of mass protests, Gerrard aims to make visible those who attend. For Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, she focuses on anti-Trump and anti-Brexit marches
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Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’
With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
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Kip Gresham: The Art of Collaboration
This exhibition shows 40 years of work made by master printmaker Kip Gresham in collaboration with some of the best-known artists from Britain and beyond
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