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Monday, 30 June 2025

Artlyst: The Art Diary July 2025

My July Art Diary for Artlyst has been published today. The July Art Diary begins with exhibitions in and reflection on ecclesiastical buildings, through the Liverpool Biennial and the Waterloo Festival. Moments from the wide-ranging engagement between religion and art are featured in exhibitions at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Waddesdon Manor, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Reflection on the place of myth in the human story can be found in exhibitions at the Parsonage Gallery and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. At the same time, ‘Worldbuilding and Wonder’ explores the experience of people with autism about the concept at Firstsite Gallery:

'The late Terry Fyffe was also an artist who dedicated himself to the pursuit of creative expression and spiritual exploration. A new website dedicated to his life, art and legacy has recently been launched. Designed as a resource for artists, curators, collectors, students, and art enthusiasts, this site offers a comprehensive insight into his prolific career and extraordinary body of work.

Fyffe built a remarkable career over four decades, predominantly based in London. He described his style as “figurative, expressionist painting, about the struggle for self-realisation.” Daniel Farson wrote that: “Ffyffe is a true painter in the classical tradition. A fluent draughtsman, he understands the challenge of paint and twists it to his advantage.” ...

I was fortunate to exhibit at St Stephen Walbrook an exhibition that brought together the last works that Fyffe was working on before this profound change combined with his new work depicting the beauty of the hidden world of nature and the inner world of the mind. It was his last major exhibition and one that was particularly satisfying for him.'

For more on Terry Ffyffe see here, here, here, here, and here. For more on Pablo Bronstein see here. For more on Paul Thek see here and here. For more on Paula Rego see here and here.

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David Ackles - I've Been Loved.
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Friday, 23 February 2024

Art review: Saad Qureshi: Conversations before the End of Time at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

My latest exhibition review for Church Times is on Saad Qureshi: Conversations before the End of Time at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham:

'IMAGES and ideas of heaven and hell continue to inspire artists and to engage the wider public. Two examples include the opulent and intricate paradisaical enamel paintings of Raqib Shaw and Pablo Bronstein’s Hell in its Heyday series from 2021. With “Conversations before the End Of Time” at the Djanogly Gallery, Saad Qureshi is exploring both ends of the spectrum.'

Click to read my pieces on Raqib Shaw and Pablo Bronstein. See how looking through a rebel angel’s eyes opens up some surprising new angles on faith with my interview with author Nicholas Papadopulos for Seen and Unseen. An earlier review of an exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery can be read here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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U2 - The Fly.
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Artlyst - Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell

My latest review for Artlyst is of Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday at Sir John Soane's Museum:

'With this series, Bronstein is looking back at the world in which his own grandfather grew up and the technology that was prized at that time. He writes that the things that generated wealth and pleasure then ‘are now seen as responsible for much of the ruination and misery of the contemporary world’. 

Bronstein describes his panoramas as ‘a reinterpretation of the 19th and 20th-century glorification of technological and economic advancement’, ‘a bombastic cityscape in which the now misplaced optimism in ‘progress’ is drawn as hyperbole’ ... 

Not immediately and obviously an exhibition for the period of Cop26, this is, nevertheless, one that reveals our taste for the instant, excessive, tawdry, gaudy, flashy and swanky to be, not only kitsch and trivial, but also so seductively addictive that it has gradually yet inevitably led us to the edge of an environmental emergency which we, judging from the Cop26 negotiations, continue to only partially acknowledge and address. The unaffordable cost – the hellish expense – paid for our consumerist addictions is at the heart of this exhibition. Bronstein reveals us to truly be in the heyday of Hell.'

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Gavin Bryars With Tom Waits - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
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