Gallery Visit – Sarah Chalkie Cloonan

Goldsmiths: Performer and Participant – Display at Tate Modern | Tate

Discover how artists working between the 1960s and the 1990s opened up new spaces for participation. — Read on http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/performer-and-participant Edward Krasinski 1925–2004 – exploration of notions of infinity and space. He was present though out this piece by the inclusion of the blue tape

Summer Exhibition 2021 | Royal Academy of Arts | Tacita Dean |Rachel Howard.

The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated. — Read on http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/video-tour-summer-exhibition-2021 I went with Nick a second time and we discussed the works, exploring both their artistic and political merits at length. We also visited The Tacita Dean show in Golden…

Opening soon | Robert Rauschenberg — Metal, Ink & Dye: Late Works from Captiva Island

Opening soon | Robert Rauschenberg — Metal, Ink & Dye: Late Works from Captiva Island — Read on mailings.artlogic.net/readonline/4dd310288ffd42cb9fe97e186c307679 Another exhibition in lockdown.

Kai Althoff goes with Bernard Leach – Whitechapel Gallery

7 October 2020 – 10 January 2021 ★★★★ – The Telegraph, ‘It’s life, but life filtered through memory, or dreams: dangerous-seeming and tasty and exuberant all at the same time.’ — Read on http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/kai-althoff-goes-with-bernard-leach/ So annoyed – I found a painter who I really felt liked the leach pots the way I do. I got…

Thoughts – shows and paintings 20.9.20

Brue Mclene – What are your thoughts on Creativity as a healing process? If you look at something fabulous it makes you feel better. If you look at something terrible it can make you feel crap. Perhaps not physically but definitely emotionally. Hospitals can evoke awe and lift spirits by having more beautiful and energetic…

Picnic In The Park.

Sunday 19th July 2020 In 1932, Picasso wrote: “When I see Manet’s Lunch on the Grass I tell myself there is pain ahead”. I took Isabella and Patrick to the RA and we cruised around the Piccaso on paper exhibition. Masked and gelled it still enthralled us and then we took our lunch and ate…

Lockdown & The Magna Carter

Some times too much research may lead to indecision. This was not the case when they created the Magna Carter a document made for free men, sorry not for serfs, to stop King John abusing his power, it was basically a very long list of rules. Not perfect it was revised many times the UK…

Week 28:Kiefer and Riely

Bridget Riely- https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/bridget-riley#overview Aslam Kiefer-https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/anselm_kiefer_bermondsey_2019 It was interesting. Both shows different but both mood changing and in the case of the Bridget Riley my daughter had a migraine. The Kiefer was more her speed colour wise and she loved the mysticism. One Riley caught my eye and I thought Motherwell. I really liked this piece….