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Sam Peacock – Tide
London, From June 10 – July 3, London-based affordable art gallery Kahn Gallery will be showing exclusive new artworks by Sussex artist Sam Peacock, his first solo show in the capital since 2017, at their North London venue. As part of “Tide”, Peacock will be exhibiting work created during the first lockdown, a period when he felt “weirdly free to do what he wanted as the pressure to produce a constant stream of work had been removed”.
Crystal Marshall – Interview
Crystal Marshall is a contemporary fine artist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from Kingston Jamaica, Her paintings pay homage to her life’s experiences rooted in cultural disparities in the modern-day African diaspora. Her distinctive personal style emanates isolation, self-reflection and expresses the spirit and atmosphere of the black consciousness in efforts to reconcile its relationship with true identity and image.
Kaoru Shibuta
The Music of Art Kaoru Shibuta is an exciting Japanese painter who has exhibited his work both at home in Japan and abroad in Spain, Taiwan and Cambodia. Inspired by jazz and classical music, he...
Jane McAdam Freud – Interview
Jane McAdam Freud is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed sculptor and multidisciplinary artist. Very early on, museums and institutions began acquiring her relief works and drawings. Writing is a large part of her practice and McAdam Freud has published over twenty papers on her works and process. Graduating with honours in 1981 from the Central School of Art in London, she went on to be awarded the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome – an accolade she held for three years. She continued to teach short courses at the Royal College of Art while from 1993-95 combining that role with a Master’s degree (Project title: Forms of Relief).
Shani Rhys James – Exhibition
Connaught Brown is delighted to present Hunan-ynysu : Self Island, an exhibition by the acclaimed Welsh artist Shani Rhys James. In her arresting still lifes, portraits and interiors Rhys James examines her own image and relationships to explore the transience of being. Created over the past year during the Covid filled months, this new body of work reflects upon the challenges and realisations we have been confronted with, as both individuals and society.
Charlotte Fraigneau – Interview
Charlotte Fraigneau is a visual artist using both analogue and digital photography as a lens through which we can open a conversation about mental health and global warming. She is interested in exploring our mental, physical and emotional responses to overwhelming stimuli as well as the often negative yet sometimes beautiful impact of humans on the planet.
Naomi Wallens – Interview
Naomi Wallens, a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture and photography. Self-taught as a street artist, Wallens is becoming well known in the art world for her provocative artwork exploring the subtleties of societal pressures of conformity and the profound impact this has on our ability to feel connected to our own self.
Script and Charming Baker
Script launches with a Charming Baker collaboration. New high-end Wearable edition for the inaugural line. Launching 6 April 2021, Script presents a new genre of collectable art, collaborating with...
Diana Malivani
Exploration of Nature The Artist’s creative journey began at birth: Diana Malivani was born on the coast of the Black Sea, bathed in the riotous profusion of the colors of the Caucasus. Her love as...
Fred Fabre
Exploration of Colour Fred Fabre began his varied and colourful career as a drawer and animator before turning to video journalism, working in many of the world's conflicts. He moved to London in...
Anna Kasabian – Interview
Anna Kasabian has been working in ceramics since 2003 and began working in porcelain 10 years ago. When Kasabian discovered that she could take raw porcelain in the palm of her hand and fashion it into delicate, intricate, organic forms, her passion for porcelain ignited.
Space for Giants’ Campaign
Wildlife Photographers David Yarrow and Adrian Steirn Release Two Exclusive Works in Support of Space for Giants’ Campaign to Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade For a limited time only, famed wildlife photographers David Yarrow and Adrian Steirn are teaming up with Space for Giants to release two limited-run, never-before-seen wildlife photographs to raise critical funding for Space for Giants’ work to end the illegal wildlife trade.
Andrea Ehret – Interview
Andrea Ehret's artwork is concentrated on abstract expressive oil and mixed media painting. Her approach is strongly connected to her vision of life, she chooses art as a tool for possible...
Jade Van der Mark – We’re All Human
Pi Artworks present a solo show of Dutch Painter Jade Van der Mark, with work highlighting the transformation of city life in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jade van der Mark will exhibit a new body of work in her first London solo show at Pi Artworks this December. The work explores contemporary society, both before and after the coronavirus pandemic, and examines the dichotomy of crowds and human intimacy.
Loz Atkinson – Finding The Fallen
Loz Atkinson’s brand new solo exhibition ‘Finding The Fallen’ is open now at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and runs until 15th November.
Tate to Reopen Steve McQueen Exhibition
After successfully reopening all four Tate galleries last week, Tate Modern is pleased to announce that its Steve McQueen exhibition will also be reopening on Friday 7 August and will be extended to 6 September 2020. First launched in February, the acclaimed exhibition spanning 20 years of McQueen’s work has been modified with new visitor signage to aid social distancing and will reopen with a reduced visitor capacity.
Francesca Busca – Artie a Day
Francesca Busca creates incredible arties during lockdown. A challenge by the Getty Museum.
‘Sharing the love for Art with a laugh: recreating artwork with things found at home, embracing the Getty Museum challenge. One Artie a day during Lockdown 2020.
Arties were made by a ‘one-woman band’, whilst the brilliant soundtrack was kindly composed ad hoc by Moreno Andreatta (www.morenoandreatta.com).
What started as a friend’s challenge for a laugh soon became a daily appointment…and created an amusing bond among quarantined souls worldwide. It was fun and rewarding, especially seeing the tremendous feedback of participation – and challenges! – I was receiving. Such a positive exchange of energy!
B!D – Emergency Art Workers Support Fund
Visual Arts Scotland are delighted to announce B!D, a 24-hour online auction featuring the work of Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce and Turner Prize nominees, Calum Innes and Christine Borland.
B!D will officially launch on the evening of Friday 1st May at 6pm
Fanny Rush: Portrait artist using her contemporary eye with traditional old master techniques
Fanny Rush is a London-based portrait painter working internationally. Her distinctive artistic talents have gained her commissions from high-profile and influential people taking her to some of the most extraordinary and exotic places in the world.
Samantha Louise Emery – Interview
Profile image : Colin Gaudet Artist Samantha Louise Emery creates large scale multimedia portraits of influential female trailblazers, the modern female icons of our generation inspiring others...
Interview – Janet Cawthorne
How has your experience of teaching both Psychology and Art impacted your own artistic style? A background in Psychology certainly laid the foundations for many conceptual elements. Focal areas for...