Author: jaywp

  • Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

    Though containing just 10 works, this exhibition demonstrates the breadth of the British-Guyanese artist’s oeuvre, from the figurative works of the 1960s to the colourful abstract paintings of today

  • The Coming of Age

    This exhibition explores ageing from the 1500s on, but it was the contemporary works here that resonated most with me, capturing the particular inequality confronting older women

  • Tide of Returns

    This show focuses on honouring ancient relationships between people, land and water, with new work from Repatriates Collective, a group of artists from Australia’s Pacific North, South and West Africa, Europe and Latin America, asking profound questions about how we…

  • Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

    Despite once saying he was sick of portraits, he was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his day and looking at the irresistible paintings in this delightful show it is easy to see why

  • The Dead Don’t Go Until We Do

    Histories of erasure, displacement, annihilation and colonisation are told with power, subtlety, clarity and – overwhelmingly – grace by four artists in this timely exhibition

  • Hurvin Anderson

    Anderson’s paintings, which here stretch across his career, blend his British and Caribbean influences as he explores themes of identity, memory and diaspora

  • Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

    Shiota’s immersive web-like installations, fashioned from coloured thread and found objects, are the focus here. But her dazzling creations eclipse any autobiographical messages

  • Paul Eastwood: Unreadings

    Eastwood, who is dyslexic, attempts to explore neurodiversity and the complexities of language, but though visually engaging, could the works do more to immerse us in his experience?

  • Melania Toma – interview

    Toma explains her interest in collective and interspecies perspectives, her dynamic process, and her quest to unearth the stories hidden in organic and industrial fabrics

  • Morgan Quaintance – interview

    The artist and writer, winner of the 2025 Film London Jarman Award among other accolades, talks about his varied career including as a musician and cultural producer and how, eight years ago, he came to start making moving images