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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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Friday, 31 January 2025

Church Times - Art review: Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge)

My latest exhibition review for Church Times which is on Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge:

'THE paintings in the exhibition “Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa”, at Kettle’s Yard, in Cambridge, are about the power of prayer. While it has become possible more recently in the mainstream art world to make a case for the level of attention involved in creating or viewing art as equating to the experience of contemplative prayer, it is very unusual to find prayer as the subject of contemporary art or for series of paintings to reveal how prayer changes the lives of those who pray. Nevertheless, that is what these paintings do.'

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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Bruce Springsteen - The Power Of Prayer.
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Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Artlyst: Issam Kourbaj Kettle’s Yard And Heong Gallery Cambridge

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard, with its concurrent exhibition ‘You are not you, and home is not home’ at Heong Gallery:

'As Andrew Nairne and Graham Virgo state in their joint Foreword to the catalogue, Kourbaj’s achievement is not simply his “remarkable artistic breadth” in creating work “so full of invention and purpose that its images and ideas reverberate well beyond the walls of any gallery” but his ability ‘to make us look, pause and imagine” that we might “consider our responsibility for the condition of others on our shared planet”.'

For more on Issam Kourbaj click here.

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Saturday, 9 March 2024

Artlyst - The Art Diary March 2024

My March Art Diary for Artlyst includes exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard, Gallery 1957, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Compton Verney, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Benjamin Rhodes Arts and covers artists such as Isaam Kourbaj, Nidhi Khurana, Woody De Othello, Polly Braden, Matthew Askey, Steve Whittle, Patrice Moor and Josh Tiessen:

"Steve Whittle’s retrospective at the Beecroft Gallery in Southend includes a series of Stations of the Cross and other crucifixion and resurrection images. Additionally, there are images of churches, including St Peter’s Chapel at Bradwell. M.L. Banting writes: “Asking what had drawn him to this ancient Chapel, Whittle says it’s almost impossible to put into words, he’d felt a primal and immediate connection on his first visit and had to return again and again. That powerful pull has resulted in a number of works, including charcoals, pastels, paintings and collages, all of which portray the extraordinary sense, or spirit, of place – remote, lonely, glorious and powerful – the austere silhouette of the Chapel monumental against the sea and sky.”"

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The Waterboys - Spirit.
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