Tag: Frank Bowling

  • 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

  • Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol

    There are no buts! This small exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath has considered every angle and every detail and the result truly is a bijou gem

  • Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change

    The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 historical and contemporary works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past

  • Frank Bowling and Sculpture

    An exhibition and monograph explore the painter’s near-forgotten sculptures, while discovering the sculptural in his canvases

  • 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

  • Modal Painting

    Through the works of Frank Bowling, John Hoyland, Reginald Sylvester II, John Golding and Sam Gilliam, this small group show explores the visceral, emotional, and physical side of their process and the power of their abstract painting

  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2020

    For the first time ever, the Summer Exhibition falls in autumn and winter, but the RA’s galleries look much as they do every year

  • The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Creatives – book review

    With contributions from painters, poets, illustrators and film-makers, including Ralph Steadman, Rasheed Araeen and Frank Bowling, this glossy publication gives older creatives a platform to discuss their daily working habits and motivations, and how their approaches have adapted over the…

  • Frank Bowling

    This exhibition of Bowling’s work is colourful, joyous and long overdue. Covering the entire span of his artistic career, it reveals for the first time the importance of this overlooked artist

  • The Armory Show 2019

    From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…