Tag: Victor Willing

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
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,…
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
Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…
Morandi’s Legacy: Influences on British Art – book review

Paul Coldwell. London: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art/Philip Wilson Publishers, 2006 ISBN 0856676209
Victor Willing (1928-1988)

Edited by Fiona Bradley with contributions from Lynne Cooke, John McEwan, John Mills, Paula Rego and Nicholas Serota August Media Ltd, London, 2000.
Victor Willing, letter to Studio International, 1980

Opting out of the rat race, Victor Willing had tried ‘to make some silence’ around himself, and proceeded to listen.