Tag: Compton Verney
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The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design
The most famous British designer you have never heard of: Enid Marx is brought back into the well-deserved limelight
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Renee So interview
As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the…
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Emma Talbot – interview: ‘I imagine the experience of life as an epic story – the one we all have’
Large installations, paintings on silk, fabric sculptures and drawings convey the connection between the specific and the universal and between life and death. Talbot tells us how myth, tragedy and politics colour her magical world
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Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches
There is so much to be said, and much still to be learned, about this one astounding and complex painting, and this two-year evolving display at Compton Verney hopes to offer an enlightening introduction
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Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
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David Batchelor: Colour Is
A long overdue survey covering 40 years of work from an artist long interested in the complexities of colour and its place in the urban environment
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John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace
Remembered for the moving scenes of the first world war he painted as an official war artist and the gentle English landscapes he painted on his return, he was also a masterful illustrator
