Tag: religion
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Angus Pryor – interview: ‘I love chaos, so celestial journeys, end-time, wrath and deluge attract my attention’
The artist explains his fascination with the Book of Enoch, long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer
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Alastair Gordon – interview: ‘For me, painting and faith are very much intertwined, like the warp and weft of a tapestry’
Gordon talks about the impact lockdown had on his recent paintings, now on show at Aleph Contemporary in London, and his new book, Why Art Matters, which reflects on art seen through the lens of his Christian faith
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Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’
The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
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Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’
The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…
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Michael Simpson – interview: ‘Every single painting involves an element of fear’
The artist discusses how going to a football match at the age of seven inspired him to start painting, his dislike of organised religion, his rigorous approach to his art and his current new work at Blain Southern
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Alexander Tovborg – interview: ‘If you jump, you don’t necessarily come back down’
The Danish artist mixes his paint with holy water. Here, he talks religion, irony and bringing mystery back into art
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Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’
With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
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Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz
With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
