Painting the Light
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Archive
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Venue:
5th BASE Gallery -
From:
September 15, 2016 -
To:
September 18, 2016 -
Location:
London
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news. This week includes a new Google project aiming to create art, suspects arrested for theft of Francis Bacon paintings and how creative arts can re-engage prisoners in education.
This week’s selection includes participatory art in Llandudno, conceptual art in Somerset and painting in Liverpool.
Biennial art prize split between two artists who will also have joint exhibition at gallery based in Newtown, Wales.
Have been feeling a bit overwhelmed with ideas which are started but not completed lately. Each day I think “i could do that” I need several lives/elves to produce what I would wish too. A workshop of assistance would also […]
A portrait of abusive relationships, and the burden on another who is aware of the reality that others do not see… This is my lasted work – figurative sculptures part of my degree project. These three clay figures are to […]
In my adolescence, I visited the artist in a London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic off […]
Exploring the strength of women v vulnerability. I have difficulty expressing the Energy of power, I am trying to use more straight lines rather than curved Moving away from reality to express reality Francis Bacon
looking to relax my portrait sketching by using various different media and techniques and studying other portraits that convey the …..pain, tension, defiance I am trying to achieve. Marlene Dumas’ exhibition at Tate Modern was very stimulating in the minimal […]
Since last week my mind has been all over the place; last week was so overwhelming due to continuous studio work, foundry workshops and the gap critique that I was involved in. However, I finally feel that my practice has […]
The first thing to note is that ‘The Tate’ in this instance is a shed in an Ilkley backyard. While it’s not just any shed – but in fact a seasonally open, non-commercial gallery slowly building a good reputation- it […]
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery has opened in south London with the aim of making the artist’s personal collection of over 3000 works of art accessible to the public through a series of curated exhibitions. We take a look at the inaugural show featuring works by the British painter John Hoyland.
Flying Object, winners of the IK Prize 2015, are set to launch their multi-sensory environment at Tate Britain later this month – an experiential experiment that will see how taste, touch, smell and sound impact on how audiences encounter four paintings from the Tate collection.
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On my first academic year, Level 4 in Fine Arts I started to develop my work and focus on the theme domestic violence x human relationship, socio-economic and political and psychological context. To develop my theme I also created drawings […]
This week’s selection features a post-production studio in Bristol, old and modern masters in Norwich and an exploration of Birmingham’s history.
When I look at these quick sketches of faces made on the acetate sheet, I see that they are not like any of the other work I am painting. They are loose and quick observations which I don’t seem to […]
An alleged spat between Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon is the theme running through Mackie’s exhibition “You were shit in the 80s” currently on show at James Freeman Gallery. However, rather than focusing on these alleged disagreements, the viewer feels […]
The Whitworth reopened this weekend following the extension being added to the rear. It was great to go and see what it is like now and it was not disappointing. The work on display by Cornelia Parker I especially enjoyed, […]
“a unique and powerful collection of surreal, controversial and provocative art.”
In the first of a series of co-commissioned articles looking at visual arts projects supported by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts, we find out how the work of Scottish sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi is helping pioneer an innovative new approach to art history and archiving.
The 8th Liverpool Biennial is a more modest affair than previous years with less visibility across the city, and while the core programme is deftly curated, it leans heavily on work from the past. Chris Sharratt reports.
Mr Vovk painting All the artist I looked at in my dissertation – Cecily Brown, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville use various appropriation of imagery. Because of this knowledge I have has one eye open (in newspapers in particular) for […]