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Jill Smith – interview: ‘It was just me doing my thing, emerging from being forgotten’
Jill Smith: Zodiac Journey, Sagittarius. On the Coffin Path by the Hag Mountain, Isle of South Harris, 26 November 2023. Photo: Mhairi Law.
Rituals inspired by ancient rites, pagan myths and respect for landscape and place underpin the work of the artist who, at 82, is being celebrated this month with her first major solo show
Regina José Galindo, Tierra, 2013. Colour video, with sound, 33 min, 30 sec. Installation view, University Gallery, University of Galway, TULCA Festival, Galway. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.
This year’s festival, which explored the role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental action, ranged from the most traditional of crafts to speculative contemporary performances.
Laurie Anderson, Ark: United States V, Aviva Studios, Manchester, 12 – 24 November 2024. Photo: Duncan Elliott.
The septuagenarian artist’s world premiere of Ark: United States V, at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, was a journey of visual, verbal and musical storytelling exploring the artist’s and the US’s history.
Vive l’impressionnisme! Masterpieces from Dutch Collections, Van Gogh Museum. Photo: Michael Floor.
A new exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of impressionism, specifically musing on the movement’s development within the Netherlands.
Portrait of Giorgio Griffa, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano.
As a busy year draws to a close, the Turin-based abstract painter discusses his numinous abstract paintings.
Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature, installation view, The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 2 November 2024 – 4 May 2025. Courtesy Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
Works by Jarman are complemented by commissioned responses from six contemporary artists, leading to a candid and poetic exhibition. Don’t miss it.
Lygia Clark: The I and the You, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2 October 2024 – 12 January 2025. Photo: Above Ground Studio.
Co-curated by Sonia Boyce, this concise exhibition shows how Clark’s geometric abstraction in the 50s gave way in the 60s to a greater focus on sensory experience and connection with her audience.
Prayer book made for Queen Joanna I of Castile, Bruges (modern-day Belgium),1486–1586. © British Library Board.
While medieval texts may best be understood as a collaborative production, not deriving from a single authorial voice, this blockbuster exhibition nevertheless successfully presents medieval women – from and in all walks of life – in their own words.
Lindsey Mendick talking to Studio International at her Margate studio, November 2024. Photo: Martin Kennedy.
What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up.
Erica Rutherford, To my Tune, 1995. Oil on canvas, framed: 113.7 x 139 cm. Copyright of the Estate of the Artist and Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York.
This small show is important in showing the shifts that took place between the early and late work of one of Britain’s first openly transgender artists.
Installation view, Victor Pasmore | Patrick Heron: VIII São Paulo Biennial, Great Britain 1965, revisited, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London. Courtesy Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, copyright © the artist.
Sixty years after Pasmore and Heron showed together at the eighth São Paulo biennial, this abridged reimagining of the show provides a history lesson on two of Britain’s pioneering abstract artists.
Installation view, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur: Hearsay, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 31 October 2024 – 5 January 2025. Photo: Giorgio Perottino.
Enkhtur’s ephemeral sculptures, carved from his signature beeswax and aluminium, subvert the visual references they portray, riffing on the randomness of meaning and toying with our sense of reality.
Larissa Sansour, Monument for Lost Time, 2019. Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo / Amos Rex.
The Palestinian Danish artist’s films and installations interweave science fiction and political reality as they examine grief, trauma and loss.
Installation view, Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es, Ikon Gallery, 2024. Image courtesy Ikon. Photo: David Rowan.
Children scrapping, lovers embracing, the pain of losing a loved one, even Brexit, all demonstrate the pain and pleasure of friendships and falling out in this fascinating group show.
Gold table runner embroidered with flowers from Hill of Tarvit, Fife (detail), Satin embroidered with coloured silk threads, c1900–20. Image © The National Trust for Scotland.
Magnificent bed hangings, tablecloths, tea cosies and more bring Scotland’s heritage of interior domestic design to life in this extraordinary exhibition covering 1720-1920.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John the Baptist (The Burlington House Cartoon), c1506-08 (detail). Charcoal with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 x 104.6 cm. The National Gallery, London. Purchased with a special grant and contributions from the Art Fund, The Pilgrim Trust, and through a public appeal organised by the Art Fund, 1962.
Set in Florence at the turn of the 16th century, this exhibition is a portrait of drawing, every bit as much as it is a lively tale of three renowned artists.
Installation view from Tove Jansson: Paradise. HAM Helsinki Art Museum 25 October 2024 – 6 April 2025. Tove Jansson: Fantasy, 1954. Nordea Art Foundation. © Tove Jansson Estate. Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen.
This magical exhibition of Jansson’s lesser-known murals captures a yearning for paradise in the midst of war.
Installation view, Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 22 October 2024 – 16 February 2025. Photo: Jo Underhill.
The Zimbabwean artist combines dreams, painting and prayer in her work, resulting in an intensely moving show.
For The Revisionist, Site-Specific Facade Installation by Pooneh Maghazehe, November 2022 - June 2023. Institute for Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA). Image courtesy of IAIA.
He is an author, curator and a member of the Qatari royal family. He is also the founder of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Art, a not-for-profit organisation that he hopes will enlighten those in the west about the art and people of the Middle East.
Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape,  Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, 19 October 2024 – 23 February 2025. Photo: Simon Tutty.
From the works of Nancy Holt and Richard Long in the 1960s and 70s to contemporary artists, this show presents photography, film and land art that engages directly with the freedom and wilderness of Dartmoor.
Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove II, 1948. Oil on board. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan.
In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond the visible world and turning the mundane into something wondrous. This exhibition, spanning the century from then until now, whets the appetite for an even more in-depth exploration.
Eduardo Kac, Letter, still, 1996.
The works here riff on the interplay between text and images, between the tangible and the conceptual , blurring the line between the abstract nature of language and the concrete world it often describes.
Lauren Halsey, Emajendat, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine South. © Lauren Halsey. Photo: © Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Serpentine.
Halsey’s multicolour, candyfloss, shout-out vision of a universe is an image of what it is to be part of something, to believe and to thrive, to make a mark.
Jean Tinguely. Philosophers series (1988-89). Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2024. Museum Tinguely, Basel. Donation Niki de Saint Phalle. A cultural commitment of Roche. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Jean Tinguely: © SIAE, 2024. Photo: Agostino Osio.
Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spirit in this fiesta of ideas, movement and noise.
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