Tag: MK Gallery

  • Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye

    His almost scientific methods of observation led him to take months, even years to finish a painting, but his undoubted technical brilliance and stark minimalism turned warm, human flesh into something austere and lifeless

  • Vanessa Bell

    To accompany its exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, organised in partnership with Charleston, the MK Gallery held a one-day conference at which experts and enthusiasts discussed the pioneering painter and founder member of the Bloomsbury Group

  • Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World

    This major retrospective celebrates the work of a man whose atmospheric shots of New York street scenes made him one of the most important photographers of the postwar period

  • Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body

    A clever curation of contemporary sculpture alluding to bodies or systems that relate to bodies, this group exhibition elicits powerful responses that can be felt, not just thought

  • Vivian Maier: Anthology

    An amateur photographer who, while working as a nanny, captured the streets and people of Chicago from the 1950s and 1960s like no other, is seen here in her first solo UK show at MK Gallery

  • Ingrid Pollard – interview: ‘I like to concentrate on that vast history of the world as it has been photographed since 1835’

    Pollard first came to prominence as a key figure of the black British art movement of the 1980s. Now, a solo show at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes looks back over her 40-year career

  • Laura Knight: A Panoramic View

    With more than 160 works, this ambitious retrospective highlights Knight’s considerable achievements in the context of women’s rights and her evident skill. What it fails to do is address the criticism that her work lacks substance

  • George Stubbs: All Done from Nature

    MK Gallery’s generous survey confirms the Liverpudlian Leonardo’s position as one of the 18th century’s greatest artists, who matched anatomical exactitude with a proto-Romantic spirit

  • Paula Rego – interview: ‘I’m interested in seeing things from the underdog’s perspective. Usually that’s a female perspective’

    From criticism of dictatorship in her native Portugal in the 60s to the 90s abortion series and Dog Women, Paula Rego’s subjects are as relevant today as ever. As Obedience and Defiance, her first UK retrospective in two decades, opens,…