Tag: Covid

Paul Maheke: To be Blindly Hopeful

This show sprang from a journal the artist kept during the Covid lockdowns in 2020-21, a time of intense introspection. Through film, drawings and paintings Maheke transports us through adversity to a place of hope
Julian Stair: Art, Death and the Afterlife

In response to lives lost in the Covid pandemic, Stair’s new work includes monumental figural forms, small vessels with embedded human ashes and cinerary jars, alongside a series of ‘death cafes’ at the Sainsbury Centre to bring together members of…
Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’

The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
Harold Offeh – interview: ‘I am always asking: who is not part of the conversation? That is who you need to be addressing’

Offeh discusses boredom, curiosity and 1980s pop culture, the influence of punk and hip-hop, the joy of participatory creativity, social dance as a form of healing and artist-designed playgrounds