Tag: Janet McKenzie

Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
Artists’ Laboratory 02: Stephen Farthing RA – interview

The Artists’ Laboratory 02: Stephen Farthing RA is the second in the programme of exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts on the working methods behind contemporary art practice. Its exposure and documentation is symptomatic of the manner in which…
Book review: Walk to the Moon: The Story of Albert Houthuesen

The clown is a rich cultural symbol in Western art representing a plethora of ideas and identities. It has been used by the artist as a form of self-portraiture to allude to the role of art as critic, dissenter, outcast,…
Frances Walker: Works on Paper

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2 April–30 June 2010
George Gittoes: Descendence stories, from Night Vision, The Diaries

Artist and film-maker, George Gittoes has shown new paintings the Descendence series (2009–2010) in his Berlin studio to mark the end of the year he has spent there, before returning to the Tribal Belt of Pakistan
Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy

Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy at The Royal Scottish Academy this January is an exhibition of monumental drawings which draw their subject matter from intensely personal experiences of family life over three decades. The eloquent and searing images are presented with…
Conceptual drawing: recent work by Bernhard Sachs, Mike Parr, Greg Creek and Janenne Eaton

In a global context drawing exists irrespective of cultural identity. It is a basic human instinct to make marks, to draw, to write
The Art of Ken Done

Janet McKenzie, Sydney: Craftsman House, AU$100/ US$60/GB£50
Patrick Heron: the growing legacy of genius

‘The work of Patrick Heron is bound up with what is probably the most crucial series of events in British art since the war: the impact of the new American painting, the absorption of its influence and, eventually, a reaction…