Artist Interview: Justin Coombes
Justin Coombe’s exhibition at the Paradise Row Gallery, Halcyon Song, was a compelling series of photo-text vignettes which told the story of a female Kingfisher on her search along the Regent’s Canal for a nesting site. I spoke with Justin about the relationship between art and literature, words and images. FB: The way the exhibition...
Hisaji Hara, Michael Hoppen Gallery
At eighteen, lying on a carpet of cushions in the garden-summer after my exams. That would have been the first time I read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. ‘Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.’ Nabokov’s ‘tangle of thorns’...
Interview: Philippa Found, Curator of The Body in Women’s Art Now, Part 3:Recreation
I first met Philippa Found, Director of the ROLLO Gallery and curator of the Body in Women’s Art Now exhibition series, when I was still a student, at the private view of Part 1: Embodied in the New Hall Art Collection. Three years and three exhibitions later I have come to Cleveland Street to see...
Artist Interview: Kirsty Tinkler, Patio Project #4, WW Gallery
The WW Gallery’s fourth Patio Project is Australian artist, Kirsty Tinkler’s Face Off: ‘a mute dialogue between two buildings’ which explores society’s relationship, and reflection in, architecture. On the day that Kirsty finishes her install I head out in the cold after work to Hackney to interview her. Kirsty’s work challenges directly the old argument...
Gert & Uwe Tobias, Maureen Paley, London
When I get to Maureen Paley in Bethnal Green for the last day of Gert & Uwe Tobias’ exhibition there is only me, and a couple with a bicycle wheel each, in the gallery. I have come to see the solo exhibition of the Transylvanian twins after seeing their woodcuts in the Saatchi Gallery’s Gesamtkunstwerk...
Artist Interview: Daniel Kelly and The Pirates of Carthage (12th-24th January)
This week, after almost a year of work, Daniel Kelly’s play The Pirates of Carthage will finally make it out of the studio and onto the radio waves before moving to the stage at The Nellie Dean in Soho next week. I go to meet Daniel Kelly in his Bow Road studio in the East...
Abstract Sculpture in the Open Air, Madrid
Beneath the flyover which joins Juan Bravo and Eduardo Dato street, to the north of the city centre, is an open air sculpture museum; a retrospective of sculpture from the 1930′s to the current millennium with 17 sculptures by 17 different Spanish artists. The Brutalist bridge of cut steel and white cement that flies over...
