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Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Artlyst: Lubaina Himid With Magda Stawarska Kettle’s Yard

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on ‘Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter’ at Kettle's Yard:

'Her practice as an artist-archivist of forgotten stories is also what is primarily celebrated in ‘Another Chance Encounter’, an exhibition which includes collaborations with Magda Stawarska. It was a maxim of Kettle’s Yard founders, Jim and Helen Ede, that art could be enjoyed ‘at home unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery.’ With this exhibition, Himid and Stawarska have been inspired by the architecture, careful placement of artworks, objects and textiles, and the everyday rhythms of the Kettle’s Yard house.'

For more on Jim Ede see here and here.

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The Alarm - The Stand.
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Monday, 8 May 2023

Artlyst: The Art Diary May 2023

My May diary for Artlyst includes mention of Joe Tilson, Alastair Gordon, Dennis Creffield, Jim Ede, Michael Petry, Marcus Lyon, Anne Redpath, Passion Arts, Jake Lever, Evelyn de Morgan, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Ervin Bossányi and Manoucher Yektai:

'Ervin Bossányi: Stained Glass Artist will explore the art of the Hungarian artist in the collections of St Peter’s College Oxford and the stained glass of the College Chapel. Bossányi left Germany for Britain before the Second World War, aware that his family and work would be under threat had he stayed. He joined the large number of émigré artists arriving in Britain, many of whom were Jewish, many of whom explored spirituality within their work, and many of whom would, like Bossányi, receive church commissions in the post-War period. Among his peers in some of these respects were the muralist Hans Feibusch, mosaicist Georg Mayer-Marten, sculptor Ernst Müller-Blensdorf, ceramicist Adam Kossowski, and painter Marian Bohusz-Szyszko. In his life and art, Bossányi fused influences from Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism to create a vision of harmonious, unified human societies that were at one with the natural world. This is a profound and profoundly moving vision of life based both on his experience of peasant life in Hungary and the influence of the art of non-European civilisations. It was a vision forged in a time of great conflict and division, which had a significant personal impact on Bossányi.'

For more on Ervin Bossányi click here, Joe Tilson click here, Alastair Gordon click here, Marcus Lyon click here, and Passion Arts click here.

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U2 - Bad.
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Monday, 1 April 2019

Artlyst: John Kirby, Mark Dean, William Congdon

Artlyst have just published a review of the recent exhibition by John Kirby, a piece about Mark Dean's Pastiche Mass and a feature article on the work of William Congdon and his connections with Kettle's Yard.

'Congdon first visited [Jim] Ede at Kettle’s Yard in 1966. He described the house as ‘that prayer that you live’ and regarded it as a place where ‘art may truly breathe in God.’ In the collection gathered together in the house, Congdon believed that God was giving through Ede. An exhibition of Congdon’s work was curated by Ede at Clare College Cambridge in 1968 and this year (2019) saw a second such exhibition held at Jesus College Cambridge.

Congdon: American Modernist Abroad focused on the international experience of Congdon as a tireless traveller and artist.' 

'[Mark] Dean has explained that ‘the series is based on the musical form of a Mass, which is of course in itself based on the liturgical form of the Mass (Eucharist, or Holy Communion)’:

‘The starting point was hearing Aretha Franklin’s recording of ‘Save Me’, which uses the same riff as Van Morrison’s ‘Gloria’. I made a video work combining elements of these two songs with Nina Simone’s and Patti Smith’s respective versions of them. I then proceeded to make works based on the other sections of the Mass – Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Angus Dei.’'

'Much of Kirby’s work has been driven by the expression of repression through the stiff and secretive interiority and surreality of his images. This driven-ness has its roots in internal struggles relating to religion and sexuality. Kirby’s use of the line ‘All Passion Spent’ from Milton Samson Agonistes may suggest the private search of his characters for calm, as well as an increasing sense of personal peace.

One hopes that Kirby’s passion is not spent and that the showing of his work is not stilled as it would be fascinating to see the images that could result from the stilling of the storm in Kirby’s work and characters; to see what peace may look like on the stage that he has constructed.'

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Pēteris Vasks - Lord, Open Our Eyes.
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