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Monday, 20 February 2023

Artlyst - Donatello: The Divine Fused With The Human V&A

My latest review for Artlyst is of Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance at the V&A:

'This is an exemplary exhibition; one that is both beautifully designed and excellently curated. The exhibition flows, spatially and thematically, through open plan gallery spaces with specific spaces for exploration marked by arches that also open up vistas on to what is yet to come. The exhibition itself provides a broad sweep of Donatello’s career, legacy and works set in the context of influences, partners, colleagues and those influenced by him.'

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Josquin des Prez - Kyrie.
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Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Chinese Art Talk 5: 'Picturing the Buddha'



'Picturing the Buddha' is the fifth lecture in an occasional series at St Martin-in-the-Fields focusing on aspects of Chinese Art will discuss depictions of the Buddha in Chinese Art.

The talk will include discussion of depictions of the Buddha in the British Library, where an exhibition ‘Buddhism’ is running until 23 February 2020.

Beth McKillop is a senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has specialised in Chinese and Korean collections, and has published on the history of publishing in East Asia. Beth teaches book history at the Rare Book School, University of Virginia, and at SOAS, University of London.

Thursday 16 January, 6.30pm, St Martin's Hall. Free tickets from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-the-buddha-tickets-80587219543.

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Bill Fay - Salt Of The Earth.
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Friday, 19 October 2018

Jameel Prize 5: beauty, spirituality, complexity, humour, and humanity

My latest exhibition review for Church Times is on the Jameel Prize 5 exhibition at the V&A. The Jameel Prize is an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. Its aim is to explore the relationship between Islamic traditions of art, craft and design and contemporary work as part of a wider debate about Islamic culture and its role today.

In the exhibition review I say:

'this exhibition provides an excellent opportunity to explore contrasts and differences between art inspired by the Islamic tradition and that inspired by the Christian tradition.

Calligraphy, geometry, and pattern traditionally feature significantly in Islamic art. The latter two feature here but, as the judges note, this year’s outstanding shortlist displays real diversity, including beauty, spirituality, complexity, humour, and humanity. Within this diversity, we find much that resonates with expressions of spirituality within the Christian tradition — in particular, use of light and journeys.'

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Rumi - Twenty Poems.
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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Commerce and climate change

Today's Guardian and Evening Standard both have stories of fascinating sculptural pieces in London.

Barnaby Barford was inspired by the story of the Tower of Babel to create a teetering tower at the V&A formed of 3,000 china replicas of retail outlets from every postcode in London. He says, “I thought how London is like hundreds of different countries and languages all in one city, how this is expressed through our shops, and how I could build a tower that would be both a celebration and critique of commercialism.”

The second is a 'sculpture, entitled The Rising Tide, has been installed near the bankside of Vauxhall bridge and is the work of Jason deCaires Taylor, 41, a British artist best known for creating the world’s first underwater museum in Cancun, then again in the Bahamas.'

'The installation, which sits less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament, comprises four life-size shire horses, standing as a symbol of the origins of industrialisation but also as a warning for the bleak future it is creating for the world by their representation of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

While the bodies of the figures and horses are moulded from real life, each of the horses’ heads has been replaced by the “horse head” of an oilwell pump – a political comment on the impact of fossil fuels on our planet.'

'At high tide, you might barely know they’re there. But as the water level of the Thames comes and goes twice a day with the tide, the four ghostly heads – and the horses they sit atop – slowly emerge fully into view.'

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T. Bone Burnett - Humans From Earth.

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Saturday, 26 April 2014

ArtWay meditation: Emmaus mosaic by John Piper

My latest meditation for ArtWay has been published today. It concerns the Emmaus mosaic by John Piper at St Paul's Harlow.

Here is some brief context to the production of the mosaic:

Visitors to British Design 1948 - 2012, an exhibition in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, were confronted by one third of John Piper’s huge mural created for the Festival of Britain and depicting varying forms of British architecture. Home and Land were key themes of the Festival of British where the English Neo-Romantic sensibility exemplified by Piper was prominently featured. Often viewed as nostalgic for its recognition of indigenous tradition and landscape, Neo-Romanticism actually aimed, as art critic Peter Fuller argued, to redeem the threatened and injured land.

Piper’s mural was selected by Frederick Gibberd, masterplanner of Harlow New Town, to be gifted to Harlow at the end of the Festival of Britain. The mural was installed on the wall of Harlow Technical College's main assembly room, where it remained until the college re-located in 1992. The design of Harlow New Town reflected the Festival of Britain style; light structures, picturesque layout and incorporation of works of art. So it was appropriate that the huge collection of public art Gibberd assembled for Harlow (to the extent that the Town is now known as a sculpture town) also included a mosaic by Piper for St Paul’s Harlow.

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Leigh Nash - Saviour, Like A Shepherd Lead Us (Blessed Saviour).
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