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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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Monday, 10 May 2021

Artlyst - British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: Community And Refuge

My latest article for Artlyst highlights the British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: Community And Refuge tour. This begins at Coventry Cathedral, where it will be shown briefly alongside Jake Lever's 'Do the Little Things' installation:

"Curator Jill Cook says, “The Lampedusa Cross reminds us of all the histories that are lost and of the thousands of people who are not otherwise remembered ...

Neil MacGregor described how, “Kourbaj’s little convoy of matchstick figures stand for all migrants, anywhere, driven by fear, guided by hope.” ...

“In the face of increasing isolation and uncertainty,” [Lever] says, “I wanted to convey a sense of journeying with them and cherishing them from afar.” That impulse is one that would seem to be shared by all the makers contributing to this tour. Would that we all felt the same."

Jake Lever was recently interviewed as part of HeartEdge's 'Living God's Future Now' programme - https://www.facebook.com/506026059544325/videos/1076762322816164.

My recent piece for Artlyst on 'Keith Haring: Personal Spiritual Imagery' has been republished by ArtWay and can be read here.

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The Alpha Band - Rich Man.
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