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‘This just hasn’t been done before’: art by 40 Black women hits Liverpool

The Walker gallery only had two artworks by Black women out of a 13,000-strong collection. A new exhibition marks the beginning of an attempt to redress the balance

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024

‘I’m pointing a finger’: Barbara Walker on her paintings about the Windrush scandal and her son’s victimisation

As her hard-hitting works go on show in Manchester, the Midlands-based artist reveals the emotional toll of making such political, personal work

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2024

From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024

From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024

‘He almost revels in our social collapse’: Jesse Darling is a worthy Turner prize winner

There is a gleeful, thrown-together energy to the artist’s sculptures, which use faded flags, barbed wire and bunting to portray a country on the skids

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023

Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be…

In an exemplary showcase of this year’s four Turner prize contenders, Barbara Walker’s devastatingly direct Windrush scandal portraits and Jesse Darling’s antic take on broken Britain lead the field

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

‘The four centuries of slave trade shaped the spectre of racism and are woven into the fabric of global development’

A lasting legacy of racism, oppression and colonialism is laid bare at a powerful exhibition in Cambridge. Confronting it can help us build a more equitable world

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

This year’s polite Turner Prize show is so nice that it’s hard to hate it

Britain’s biggest art prize has got Eastbourne excited. The way the annual show has been embraced by the community is more powerful than the work itself, writes Mark Hudson

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023

Turner prize 2023 review: bring on the contenders – and the zombie apocalypse

The art of Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim will make you laugh, cry and possibly yawn as they confront the dystopian crisis we’re in

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance review – a welcome if partial reckoning

Partly founded on slave money, the Fitzwilliam grapples with its past and present in an exhibition that spreads its net wide but fails to get down to the really painful details

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023

Toys, twisted rollercoasters, rooftop fountains: meet this year’s Turner Prize nominees

Barbara Walker, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Jesse Darling explain what’s gone into their nominated work – from a ‘dysfunctional’ steel rollercoaster to a dramatic fountain splashing water on to the venue floor

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2023