Friday, 10th September 2010
10:52am
Back in March, Kensington Palace announced a £12m makeover to ‘transform the visitor experience’, including greater access to the palace’s Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, some 12,000 items worn by the royals, from Queen Victoria to Diana, Princess of Wales. During the improvement works, UK theatre company WILDWORKS has transformed the rest of the Palace into a magical story-telling exhibition of the seven princesses and two Queens who once inhabited ‘The Enchanted Palace’. Taking advantage of the intermittent period to be more creative and experimental than previous exhibitions, WILDWORKS has produced an interactive treasure hunt for the visitor. The journey...
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Friday, 3rd September 2010
12:12pm
In a bid to appease my pedestrian rage on the busy streets of Edinburgh’s fringe this month, I decided to take a trip out of the city and away from the galleries to Jupiter Artland, a majestic outdoor sculpture park entirely commissioned and curated by the private estate’s co-owner, Nicky Wilson.
Jupiter Artland currently houses some 23 works, small and large, by all the great contemporaries, including Ian Hamilton Finlay, Cornelia Parker, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, to name just a few. Some are subtler than others, which make for a fun treasure hunt no matter how old you are...
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Wednesday, 1st September 2010
6:43pm
Up until 5 September, the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne is hosting an exhibition called ‘Familiar Visions – Eric and James Ravilious: Father and Son’. ‘Familiar Visions’ presents Eric Ravilious’s instantly recognisable paintings of the Sussex landscape alongside James Ravilious’s less well known black-and-white photographs of rustic Devon; much of the work in the show confirms that both artists harboured an authentic love of the English countryside. I have always admired Eric Ravilious’s depictions of planes and submarines, and his Betjemanesque scenes of monumental chalk figures on rolling downland, like the Uffington White Horse and Long Man of Wilmington. However, I...
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10:25pm
‘Down Over Up’ is Martin Creed’s latest exhibition, held at The Fruitmarket Gallery (until 31 October) as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Exploring notions of increment, scale, variables and order, Creed sets up an exhibition of new works that focus on the movement of going up and down through the stacking and layering of various objects in order of size, from Lego to chairs: ‘Everything is like a kind of little experiment in trying to make enough decisions to be able to come up with something I am happy with,’ he says.
Unfortunately for Creed, ‘Down Over Up’...
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Tuesday, 17th August 2010
7:31pm
Let us congratulate Joana Vasconcelos and Haunch of Venison for breaking with the traditional ‘ever-so-comprehensive’ survey exhibition. Although this display of ambitious work struggles for collective cohesiveness (I was perturbed by being unable to crudely generalise the work), the individual pieces are thoughtful and provocative and it seems unfair to hold an artist to account for making too many and too varied works.
Passerelle (Catwalk) is a disturbing work made up of large ceramic dogs hung by their necks as if in an abattoir (see above). The viewer is invited to push a pedal that rotates the dogs along the...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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