Tag: Saatchi Gallery
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Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What abstract painting means to me’
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London
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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
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Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’
Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
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Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being held in the plane like a painting, the layers are more actual than illusionistic’
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpture and installation
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Ibrahim El-Salahi – interview: ‘Drawing for me is a kind of meditation’
Using his art as a form of meditation to alleviate chronic back pain, Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi turns his medication packets into miniature canvases. He talks here about his intricate drawings and how they are enlarged on to canvases –…
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Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990 – 2017
Philip Pearlstein’s nudes are a triumph of draughtsmanship and the product of a lifetime of learning and graft. And although he strives for images devoid of stories, this skill betrays a more enigmatic world
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Alice Anderson: ‘I don’t refuse this world, I just need to explore alternatives to live with it today’
The artist talks about her unique method of “memorising” and “recording” objects in copper wire, and explains how this helps her to slow down and maintain an intimacy with the world around her
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Virgile Ittah: ‘I think it’s in an artist’s genes – they never follow the rules’
The artist talks about her unique wax modelling technique, her current collaboration, and explains why she feels gender is no longer an issue
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Champagne Life
As the Saatchi Gallery marks its 30th anniversary with its first all-women exhibition, a new generation of female artists seems confident about what the next three decades will bring
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New Order at Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on… at Serpentine Gallery
New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery. April/May 2013
