Commissions from the 14-18 NOW programme include Danny Boyle’s portraits of soldiers created on beaches and Rachel Whiteread’s Nissen Hut at Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire, while other shows across the UK range from frontline images by nurses and women ambulance drivers, to contemporary artists’ responses to war and the machinery that surrounds it.
News briefing with national and international stories, including: American artist Jack Whitten dies aged 78; French artists call for Jeff Koons sculpture to be scrapped; Zuza Golińska wins inaugural ArtePrize 2017.
Thursday was the one hundredth anniversary of the 25th May 1917 Folkestone Air Raid. Here are some pictures of part of the commemorative event which included an exhibition in The Folkestone Methodist Church in Sandgate Road, a memorial service, an […]
I will be taking down ‘Flight’ on Wednesday, and it will be set up for a week at Beach Creative, in Herne Bay, to counter-balance an exhibition of illustrations for a book about ‘Tommy Atkins’ by the artist Albany Wiseman. […]
My ohyoiw work since June: Despite my vehemently anti-commemoration feelings, when I was asked if I’d like to curate the WW1 research of 6th form students of the Simon Langton Grammar Schools in Canterbury, I was keen to do it. […]
28 June – my birthday Imagine: 100 black balloons released in a clear dawn, above the Kentish countryside. Did you see them, floating delicately, ominously, on the cool air? They signalled the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Arch-Duke […]
