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Adam Kelly
Third Year student on BA (Hons) Fine Art course at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
Reviews
John Martin: Apocalypse [30 October 2011]
"Truly I say to you, it will be more endurable ... on Judgement Day than for that city." The Bible (Matthew 10:15) The exhibition contains a wealth of artwork by Martin; paintings, prints and even furniture; from his humble beginnings as a Read on…
Tate Britain, London
21 September 2011 - 15 January 2012
Gerhard Richter: Panorama [16 October 2011]
The exhibition that is a blur between painting and sculpture, figurative and abstract is more importantly a stimulating and thought-provoking retrospective to one of the world's top living artists and greatest living painter. This year, Tate Modern Read on…
Tate Modern, London
6 October 2011 - 8 January 2012
Jaakko Mattil: Lowest Common Denominator [8 October 2011]
A startling and mesmerising collection of paintings that precede boundaries in neither landscape nor abstraction are presented that elegantly visualise a transition in seasons, from Summer to Winter, and from nature to life. A former student of UCA Read on…
James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, Farnham
7 October - 17 December 2011
Ryan Mosley [30 August 2011]
The latest exhibition of Mosley's work displays consistency with that which he exhibited in 2010 and 2009 which include his famous carnival-cabaret-folk-theatre inspired cacti, characters, silhouetted portrait heads, and humorous skulls to delight Read on…
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
15 July - 13 August 2011
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Masterpieces from The Gelman Collection [28 August 2011]
A marriage made in politics, art and society that was trampled by affairs, individual career paths and passionate heartbreak would best describe the couple presented in this exhibition. It is infrequent to find shows that display works by both Read on…
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
9 July - 9 October 2011
Chris Ofili [22 August 2011]
In an astonishing retrospective at Tate Britain, celebrated British artist Chris Ofili (who received the 1998 Turner Prize) exhibits memories of his trademarked highly original paintings, watercolours and latest pieces to triumphantly invigorate the Read on…
Tate Britain, London
27 January - 16 May 2010
Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want [11 August 2011]
This major retrospective of one of the most celebrated contemporary artists and public figures features some of the most confrontational work coupled with intimate and thought-provoking art. The effect she makes clear with her work is how everything Read on…
Hayward Gallery, London
18 May - 29 August 2011
Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters [11 August 2011]
Ordinarily, pairing a modern (especially abstract) artist alongside an Old Master is a risky endeavour. Yet, this exhibition, which draws on the similarities between these two artists 334 years apart from each other, magnificently combines the Read on…
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
29 June - 25 September 2011
Takashi Murakami [11 August 2011]
The male sexual complex becomes microscopically investigated, artistically dissected and sociologically exploded to the audience in Takashi Murakami's latest exhibition of Superflat work, as he depicts historically charged, pop-anime paintings and Read on…
Gagosian Gallery, London
27 June - 5 August 2011
Jake or Dinos Chapman [11 August 2011]
The art world's most disgusting, aesthetically challenging and outrageous sibling duo are back with more shock for the eye to behold. In their comeback exhibition, the Chapman brothers; who have always worked together; have decided to divide the Read on…
White Cube, London
15 July - 17 September 2011
Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape [11 August 2011]
When audiences visit Tate Modern's current retrospective, they should feel reminded of such past exhibitions such as Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World in 2010, Futurism and Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Read on…
Tate Modern, London
14 April - 11 September 2011
Dan Coombs: Heaven and Earth [11 August 2011]
Heaven and Earth most likely derives its title from the name of the empty space in between the two worlds, known in some cultures as purgatory, and others as the middle world. The exhibition of work certainly lives up to the title, as the paintings Read on…
FAS Contemporary: Fine Art Society, London
25 April - 23 June 2011
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: In Utero [11 August 2011]
Ziółkowski's paintings are indeed wild and hallucinatory, maybe even grotesque to say the least about their effect on the viewer who spectates them. But their canvases are inhabited by strange, bizarre and frightening characters that Read on…
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
9 June - 29 July 2011
Carla Busuttil: Rug & Gut & Gum [11 August 2011]
The exhibition Rug & Gut & Gum by Carla Busuttil features work as colourful as the artist's homeland of South Africa, with characters just as exceptional and historical. Inspiration for Busuttil's figures includes well-known subjects and Read on…
Josh Lilley Gallery, London
18 March - 28 April 2011
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World [11 August 2011]
A slight detour from the Tate's reputable blockbuster exhibitions like Futurism and Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism in 2009 but in the spirit of industrial, social and economic development that has become associated with such Read on…
Tate Britain, London
14 June - 4 September 2011
Ai Weiwei and Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads [11 August 2011]
With the release of Ai Weiwei on 22 June after his detainment for 'tax evasion', the 53 year old artist gains further notoriety in the art world as a symbol of the politics of free expression and criticism, yet it must be remembered that this is not Read on…
Lisson Gallery and Somerset House, London
13 May - 26 June 2011
Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945-1962) [11 August 2011]
While Tate Liverpool's show of the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism was massive in scale, the Gagosian has gone far more intimate. Curated by biographer John Richardson, and Picasso's grandson Bernard Read on…
Gagosian Gallery, London
4 June - 28 August 2010
No Love Lost (Blue Paintings) [31 December 2010]
Damien Hirst exhibiting paintings created by his own hand?! No-one would have thought that the infamous father of the Young British Artists (YBAs) and Brit Art Movement would paint anything without the help of his trusted employees such as Rachael Read on…
The Wallace Collection, London
14 October 2009 - 24 January 2010
FLAW: The New Work by Derek Hill [23 December 2010]
The relationship between science and art has always been a precarious one but there are artists to whom a process is more significant than the final outcome. Just such a position is where we would find Derek Hill for his latest exhibition of his Read on…
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
27 November 2010 - 23 January 2011
Turner Prize 2010 [20 December 2010]
Controversy, travesty and distaste: three words to describe the overall feeling of this prestigious prize over the last twenty-six years since its origin. Now considered to be one of the most important art prizes in the world the Turner Prize (so Read on…
Tate Britain, London
5 October 2010 - 3 January 2011
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield [20 December 2010]
The famous Whitney Museum of American Art has amassed a reputation as being an important institution of American artwork exhibiting the likes of Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Edward Hopper and many more in the showcasing of what makes American art what Read on…
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
24 June - 17 October 2010
Instructor's Exhibition [20 December 2010]
The only real gallery that New York would permit you to visit within the course of six days in September is the Phyllis Harman Gallery in New York City at 215 West 57th Street. The teachers achieved a display of their work with assistance by the Read on…
The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York City
7 - 21 September 2010
Homage 10x5: Blake's Artists [20 December 2010]
Sir Peter Blake has been in recluse lately, but this latest exhibition of work that reflects his interests in other artists is nothing short of imaginative. Alongside Richard Hamilton, Sir Peter is credited as one of the inventors of Pop Art, Read on…
Waddington Galleries, London
17 November - 11 December 2010
Sargent and the Sea [20 December 2010]
An excellent collection of the works of John Sargent (1856-1925), which included drawings, watercolours and paintings alike around a common theme: the sea. Visitors could wander into this exhibit and swear they were staring at a Turner prodigy the Read on…
The Royal Academy of Art, London
10 July - 26 September 2010
BP Portrait Award 2010 [20 December 2010]
“We’ve arrived at one definition of the portrait painter’s prime aspiration: to record without words the internal life of the individual” Rose Tremain The National Read on…
The National Gallery, London
24 June - 19 September 2010
Ian McKeever RA: Artists' Laboratory 01 [20 December 2010]
The new artist laboratories at the Royal Academy are an excellent means of understanding art and architecture, and critique for the artists of the RA and a delight for the public. The first of these is Ian McKeever and the laboratory seems to bring Read on…
The Royal Academy of Art, London
8 September - 24 October 2010
Alice Neel: Painted Truths [20 December 2010]
This exhibition brings together some of the most important portraits from influential 20th Century American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) celebrating the effect her work has had on our way of painting and certainly our means of representation. A Read on…
The Whitechapel Gallery, London
8 July - 17 September 2010
Stephen Farthing RA: Artists' Laboratory 02 [20 December 2010]
The second instalment of the Artist Laboratories and Stephen Farthing is the next Royal Academia to go under the microscope. Farthing seems more in-tune with the medium he is comfortable with, painting, which produces these overtly painted canvases Read on…
The Royal Academy of Art, London
10 November - 19 December 2010
Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography [20 December 2010]
Painters! Sculptors! Non-art Students! Lend your eyes, to an exhibition of photographic proportions that blows new perspective of the medium into your practice or life. The Victoria and Albert museum has gained this reputation of’ examining Read on…
Victora & Albert Museum, London
13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011
Picasso: Peace + Freedom [24 October 2010]
The Tate’s have a reputation of presenting the best-of-the-best exhibits in relation to modern art and their place in society. For this Picasso exhibition, they have outdone themselves once again, presenting even more exclusive works that Read on…
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
21 May - 30 July 2010
The Surreal House [24 October 2010]
If you are in need of some good old fashioned Surrealism and can’t afford to go all the way to The Dalí Theatre Museum in Figueres in Spain or even Spain or France, then have no fear there is a contemporary exhibition of everything you Read on…
The Barbican Gallery, London
10 June - 12 September 2010
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade [24 October 2010]
The Brooklyn Museum has a history of being a well-to-do art museum as any other, dedicated to it’s own specialities of permanent collections and installations. However that image greatly changed when in 1999 Charles Saatchi’s Read on…
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
18 June - 12 September 2010
Genesis [24 October 2010]
It is the use of colour that particularly intrigues artists and those whom enjoy bright colours against grey subject matter and seek a spiritual fulfilment from painting, this exhibition would come as highly recommended. Genesis is recognised as the Read on…
Apricot Gallery, London
22 April - 22 May 2010
Architectural Fictions [29 July 2010]
The recent exhibition at the Bracknell Gallery South Hill Park has been an enjoyable one, uncovering the literacy connection between architecture and narrative.It is always intriguing to witness how a gallery and its curators handle composing a Read on…
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
3 - 29 July 2010
At Play 2 [29 July 2010]
The return to the At Play season at South Hill Park was At Play 2, another lovely mixed medium, interactive and somewhat sensationalist exhibit. The exhibitions are managed around the idea of reminding adults about the life of playing without Read on…
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
17 April - 20 June 2010
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