Tag: Chris Ofili
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Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today
A smorgasbord of flower paintings from the last 125 years, exploring meaning, metaphor, accuracy and artistic licence. A charming show not to be missed
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Angus Pryor – interview: ‘I love chaos, so celestial journeys, end-time, wrath and deluge attract my attention’
The artist explains his fascination with the Book of Enoch, long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer
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Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song
Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinating backstory of its conception and making
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Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
In Ofili’s major new series of paintings, he invites us to contemplate the subject of sin, taking us to a dreamlike and colourful world inhabited by humans and mythological creatures
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Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now
Featuring 46 artists, this long-overdue examination of the complex interrelationship between the Caribbean and Britain tackles the nature of identity, belonging and what it means to be caught between cultures
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Matthew Krishanu – interview: ‘I want my paintings to exist somewhere between the precision of a photograph and something looser’
Krishanu, whose figurative paintings explore childhood, religion, colonialism and empire, talks about why he works from photographs, his hope that viewers will inhabit the people in his paintings, and his inclusion at a forthcoming show at the Hayward Gallery
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Shara Hughes – interview: ‘I wanted the works to feel like figures you would visit at church, something divine’
The American artist Shara Hughes talks about the new paintings in her exhibition at the Garden Museum in London and the novelty of exhibiting in a church
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The Nakeds
Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…
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Bruegel to Freud: Prints from the Courtauld Gallery
Courtauld Gallery, London 19 June – 21 September 2014
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Human history, and by extension the history of art, is a history of transfiguration, of translation, of constant modification. The assumption that we live in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, a continual shifting of one element of reality in relation…
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