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Sunday, 11 October 2020

Artlyst: 'Everyday Heroes' & Spirituality and Art

My latest articles for Artlyst are a review of Everyday Heroes at the Southbank Centre and a feature about the spiritualities explored in exhibitions at the Arusha Gallery, The Drawing Room and White Cube Gallery:

'These vividly rendered, emotionally articulate and imaginatively intimate portraits rendered in paint, charcoal, photography, collage, or with language (poetry), draw significantly on religious and political imagery and ideas ...

Taken together, these portraits highlight the sheer scale of the collective response to this crisis which is helping keep this country going during the crisis. Those involved are often working in extremely challenging circumstances and putting their own personal safety at risk.

‘Everyday Heroes’ is vividly imaginative and emotionally compelling; were its inspiration to foster ongoing community kindness through the valuing of immigrants and appropriate pay for care workers that might well be the best celebration of key workers imaginable.'

'Once upon a time in modernism, the interlacing of art and religion was rendered invisible. Art was not just for art’s sake but was exclusively about art. For Clement Greenberg and his followers, art that was pure and autonomous was art that was self-critical and self-defining ... 

That time is long past as art critics and curators have now caught up with the religious questions and spiritual issues that inform much contemporary art. The question is no longer the puzzle of the paradox that Taylor identified, but what these spiritual preoccupations signify.'

My other Artlyst pieces are:

Interviews:
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