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Vision of the Atomic Age: Salvador Dalí’s Nuclear Mysticism
Salvador Dalí’s 1948 work Vision of the Atomic Age rests between figuration and abstraction, coherence and disintegration, and organic and technological forms. While the sketch retains the familiar...
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Disaster, Disquiet and Distance: Donald Sultan’s ‘Disaster Paintings’
In the later 20th and 21st centuries, disaster as a phenomenon has been both brought closer, and made more distant, from the individual. Whilst technology’s ubiquity allows us to learn about global...
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Terence Donovan: The Contact Prints
In the foreword to Terence Donovan: Fashion, Grace Coddington, creative director of American Vogue, recalls walking into Donovan’s Yeoman’s Row studio as a star-struck young model at the beginning of...
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John Plumb’s Martialled Abstract Expressionism
A ground-breaking British abstract painter, John Plumb’s biography reveals an exhibition history spent at the forefront of British visual culture in the 20th century. Having studied at the Central...
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Vivian Maier: Colour and Incongruity
Vivian Maier’s ability to locate small details and incongruous parallels in everyday life created compositions which are uncanny in both senses of the word: subtly humorous, but also strange and...
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In Motion: Calder on Paper
In existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre’s 1947 essay, ‘Existentialist on mobilist’, Sartre describes Alexander Calder’s mobiles lyrically: like ‘aeolian harps’, his sculptures are ‘always...
View ArticleWatch: Rebecca Harper introduces ‘Concrete Shadows’
Rebecca Harper introduces her new exhibition Concrete Shadows at Huxley-Parlour Gallery. Harper’s large-scale and lyrical paintings are rooted in a practice of drawing intensely from life. She...
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Harry Callahan and the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus aimed to train the perfect designer through a multi-disciplinary curriculum that sought to raise design and craft to the same level as fine art. Through this, the Bauhaus’s founder Walter...
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Reconstructing from Life: Reality in the Work of Rebecca Harper
Rebecca Harper’s work has been heralded for its ability to illustrate liminal spaces: diaspora and memory and, in her latest body of work, journeys. It is an imagery reflected in the process of its...
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Eileen Cooper: Personal Space
‘Personal Space’ is a phrase with a multiplicity of meaning, but for Eileen Cooper, who has always painted the female figure, the phrase alludes to the inner life of her subjects, and the complex...
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Reflection: Valérie Belin interviewed by Catherine Troiano
As ten new works by Valérie Belin go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the V&A’s former curator of photographs, Catherine Troiano, explores Belin’s latest series, Reflection,...
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Chromo Thriller: Cinematic Narrative in the work of Miles Aldridge
Stark studio lighting, perfectly balanced compositions and immaculate female models expose Miles Aldridge’s scenes as staged. Whilst glamourous female protagonists and vivacious colour remain...
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Featured catalogue essay: ‘Turning Points’ by Helena Lee
Read the full essay by Features Director of Harper’s Bazaar, Helena Lee, from our recent exhibition catalogue Eileen Cooper: Personal Space. This is a story of friendship and growth. How empathy can...
View ArticleSurface, Materiality and Symbolism in the work of Basil Beattie
Explore Basil Beattie RA’s process, as the artist discusses surface, materiality and symbolism in the works included in his forthcoming exhibition at Huxley-Parlour. Known for his monumental...
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David Hockney’s sun-soaked view of the gardens at Herrenhausen
David Hockney is amongst the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. Known for his involvement in the development of British Pop Art, as well as his early explorations of the...
View ArticleWatch: Pieter Hugo introduces La Cucaracha
Watch Pieter Hugo introduce his latest body of work, La Cucaracha: a series which explores death, sexuality and spirituality in Mexico and reflects the artist’s long-standing interest in how history...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Fleeting Depiction of Hyères
Henri Cartier-Bresson is perhaps the most significant photographer of the twentieth century. Striving for a perfect balance of content and formal composition in all his work, Cartier-Bresson brought a...
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A Sculptor Unworked: Arnold Newman’s portrait of Henry Moore
Arnold Newman’s 1966 portrait of Henry Moore was taken at the artist’s home, Perry Green, Much Hadham, where the artist had moved after his house in the artist enclave of Hampstead was hit by shrapnel...
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Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line
In 2000, Joel Sternfeld embarked on a project to photograph the disused space of the New York High Line: a railway track used in the mid-twentieth century to ease the transportation of manufactured...
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Ella Walker: Grotesque Bodies
Ella Walker’s exhibition, Cosmati Floor and Wax Fruit, takes a panoramic look at both medieval and modern imagery. Magpie-esque, Walker has said she enjoys ‘engaging with narratives and stories which...
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