John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022
Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022
Making Modernism at the Royal Academy of Arts review: a revelatory look at four female artists Four superb and rarely-seen talents are showcased in this fascinating show Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2022
Two Turner paintings set to return to Britain for the first time in a century The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter. The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2022
First show in 100 years of disabled Victorian artist Sarah Biffin opens in London Accomplished miniaturist and a household name in 19th century was born without arms and hands The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2022
Fuseli and the Modern Woman review – a dark, perverse mindset laid bare Absurdist updos, bulbous buttocks – the Swiss painter’s surrealist portrayals of women go into the weird recesses of the 18th-century gothic imagination The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022
William Kentridge review – never ceases to mesmerise The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022
On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2022
Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas? The artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shuffled about by volunteers trained in her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritual The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2022
William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2022
William Kentridge at Royal Academy review: Overstretched show doesn’t play to the artist’s strengths A solo show in the RA’s Main Galleries is an honour – but one that doesn’t come without a degree of risk The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy review: testament to a genuinely unique vision This show teems with imagery and ideas from the start Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2022
The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye How to get your art fix in the capital Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2022
TV tonight: Joe Lycett befriends the UK’s most weird but wonderful artists The comedian meets those who entered the Royal Academy’s annual public art show. Plus: the last and most poignant episode in the Rolling Stones series. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2022 Fred Cuming obituary Landscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skies
The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022 Milton Avery: American Colourist review – pure, exhilarating uplift The self-effacing late starter and mentor to Rothko, with a singular gift for capturing life through colour, bewitches in the first comprehensive show of his work in Europe
The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022 Just Stop Oil demonstrators in protest at London’s Royal Academy The protesters glued themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2022 ‘There was only one possible theme’: Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition Environmental change is the subject of this year’s Royal Academy show in London but, says its curator, ‘there is a celebratory aspect’
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2022 Dürer in Birmingham, Hockney in Normandy and a not-so-hot climate crisis show – the week in art Stunning works from Renaissance grandee Albrecht Dürer, David Hockney’s French spring scenes and the Royal Academy’s dull take on global heating
The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2022 ‘We wanted to offer a sense of hope’: architects build on the climate crisis The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition showcases daring use of planet-friendly materials from Portland stone to elephant dung
The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2022 ‘What a Tory exhibition this is’ – the RA’s climate crisis Summer Exhibition Wilting flowers, soppy woodlands, a porcelain model of a disposable cup … this climate kitsch is about as concerned about the environment as Boris and Carrie Johnson
The Independent UK · May 29, 2022 Lester Piggott: The taciturn racing colossus with an iron will to win ‘The Long Fellow’ partnered more than 5,000 winners worldwide
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022 Let’s be honest - faiths divide us. It can be hard to see the ties that bind As Easter, Ramadan and Passover festivals converge, it was a week in which I got to test my convictions
The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022 James Butler obituary One of Britain’s leading figurative sculptors whose subjects ranged from Richard III to Jomo Kenyatta
Chronicle Live · Mar 28, 2022 North East artist raises funds for Ukraine with unusual Putin painting Artist and lecturer Colin Cameron specialises in paintings of people picking their nose