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Saturday 27 April 2024

International Times: Deeply Tender. Helaine Blumenfeld

My latest review for International Times is on Helaine Blumenfeld's Together exhibition at Gallery Eight and St James' Square:

"The Together exhibition features Blumenfeld’s newest works which were conceived against the backdrop of our turbulent world. Whether tapering to wings, arms or heads, the fragility of her finely carved works explores the essence of vulnerability while their manifold responses to the changing light of day reveal the light of hope. The exhibition features 30 sculptures in marble, bronze and wood, presented in two adjacent venues, the gallery spaces at Gallery Eight and an open-air exhibition in the historic gardens of St James’s Square."

For more on Helaine Blumenfeld see my interview with her for Artlyst, reviews for Church Times of earlier exhibitions here and here, and my review for Artlyst of the 'Hard Beauty' documentary about her. 

My earlier pieces for IT are an interview with the poet Chris Emery, an interview with Jago Cooper, Director of the the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, plus reviews of 'Giacometti in Paris' by Michael Peppiatt, the first Pissabed Prophet album - 'Zany in parts, moving in others, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more unusual, inspired & profound album this year. ‘Pissabed Prophet’ will thrill, intrigue, amuse & inspire' - and 'Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord', a book which derives from a 2017 symposium organised by the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art.

Several of my short stories have been published by IT including three about Nicola Ravenscroft's EarthAngel sculptures (then called mudcubs), which we exhibited at St Andrew's Wickford last Autumn. The first story in the series is 'The Mudcubs and the O Zone holes'. The second is 'The Mudcubs and the Clean-Up King', and the third is 'The mudcubs and the Wall'.

My other short stories to have been published by International Times are 'The Black Rain', a story about the impact of violence in our media, 'The New Dark Ages', a story about principles and understandings that are gradually fading away from our modern societies, and 'The curious glasses', a story based on the butterfly effect.

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