Tag: Paula Rego

Paula Rego: Dance Among Thorns

With more than 140 works on show, this exhibition encompasses the breadth of Rego’s art, from her early political collages to textile sculptures and figurative tableaux
Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth

This is powerful encounter between two major female artists whose work confronts gender, oppression, colonialism and politics
Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya

Rego, like Goya, whom she so much admired, has the power to unsettle and disconcert. This exhibition pairing work by them both is thrilling and full of surprises
Real Families: Stories of Change

Bringing together portraiture from modern painters and setting them against historic depictions, this exhibition looks at how the idea of family has transformed in the past 50 years
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden

Rego’s giant mural, a bold riposte to patriarchy, with its strong female figures drawn from myths, fables, biblical stories and even gallery staff, is shown here along with the altarpiece that inspired it
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance

Rego’s artworks are defiant and consuming. They depict suffering, oppression and cruelty, yet her figures consistently embrace it
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,…
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

Tate Britain’s All Too Human explores family, sex and death, and offers a fantastic chance to explore what connects some of the biggest names of the past 100 years
Vanessa Baird: You are Something Else

Vanessa Baird’s vivid, illustrative pastels depicting domestic chaos and drowning refugees make for an immersive experience in her new solo show, You Are Something Else, at Oslo’s Kunstnernes Hus. This and other new public commissions in Oslo indicate an artist…
Paula Rego: The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories

Consummate storyteller Paula Rego brings her cast of mermaids and misfits to a town that seems forged from her own imagination