Tag: Hurvin Anderson

  • 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

  • Hurvin Anderson

    Anderson’s paintings, which here stretch across his career, blend his British and Caribbean influences as he explores themes of identity, memory and diaspora

  • Soulscapes

    Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Alberta Whittle and other artists from the African diaspora consider how identity and collective history impact individuals’ relationships with the environment

  • Radical Landscapes

    A green and pleasant land or a place of aristocratic privilege for some and backbreaking labour and protest for others? An intriguing exhibition at William Morris’ Walthamstow residence explores how landscape art and radical politics have intersected

  • Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

    This show focuses on Anderson’s barbershop paintings, a subject he has been returning to for 15 years, blurring reality and imagination, as he explores a social space so important to the black British Caribbean community

  • 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

  • Catsou Roberts – interview: ‘It is our duty to the NHS to elicit the production of remarkable artwork’

    Roberts, the director of Vital Arts, which commissions projects for five London hospitals, talks about the range of artists and work involved and the transformative power of art on the wellbeing of patients and staff

  • Hurvin Anderson – interview: ‘I am looking at where things collide, how these things respond to each other’

    The unsettling depictions of nature in Hurvin Anderson’s new paintings, based on photos from a 2017 trip to Jamaica, address his relationship with his ancestral homeland. He talks about the works and how lockdown changed his practice