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Tuesday, 6 August 2024

Artlyst - The Art Diary August 2024

My August art diary for Artlyst highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories. These include Tavares Strachan at Hayward Gallery, Lonnie Holley at Camden Art Centre, Elias Sime at Hastings Contemporary, ‘The Valleys’ at National Museum Cardiff and ‘Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look’ at the National Gallery:

'John Harvey has written extensively on the work of [Nicholas] Evans, who was a former miner and a Pentecostal lay preacher for the Apostolic Church in Wales: “He started to paint in retirement, and in the course of fifteen years produced a considerable body of paintings, the majority of which are predominantly black, square, and made using fingers, rags, and sponges … His paintings … perpetuate the visionary tradition insofar as the artist believes them to be divinely inspired, mediated in the form of a vision which he realizes in paint … Evans’s paintings are [a] manifestation of the religion of Nonconformity.”'

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John Pfumojena & Delvyn Case - Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing.
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Friday, 24 March 2023

Artlyst: Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy

My latest review for Artlyst is on Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South at the Royal Academy of Arts:

"Whether reaching back to African healing traditions or Southern Christianity, spirituality is the soil within which the artwork displayed here was seeded. Sometimes explicit, as with Joe Minter’s ‘And He Hung His Head and Died’, where figures made from industrial brackets for shelving are set against black metal crosses that represent the three crosses on Calvary, or Mary T Smith’s ‘He’ in which a wooden board with rusted nails, a tyre rim and a sign painted with the word ‘HE’ forms a crucifix. At other times, implicit in works where inspired choices have been made to creatively combine found objects in ways which speak emotively to the hell that has often been the collective experience of the black community as with Lonnie Holley’s ‘Copying the Rock’ or Joe Light’s ‘Blue River Mountain’, where the river represents hope in response to mental distress."

See also my review of We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South for Church Times and Cosmic Patches And Quilts Five Exhibitions for Artlyst.

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