John Bunker: ‘That was Now, This is Then’

John Bunker looks at ‘Stairway To Heaven: Abstraction Now’ through the lens of Peter Schjeldahl’s ‘The Rise of Abstraction ll’...

Painter Tony Smith, Programme Leader in Fine Art at Liverpool Hope University, writes about the changing face of Liverpool, and the mercurial artist whose work did so much to shape his perception of it… Liverpool, circa 1983: I...

Jenny Eden: ‘Opening up the Receptors’

Artist and Writer Jenny Eden on answering the 'call' of painting...

Sam Cornish: ‘Equivalents to Life: Frank Bowling at Tate Britain’

Sam Cornish on the long-overdue retrospective of a painter whose work seeks out the individual in the universe, and the universe in the individual...

Eye Opener: Phil Frankland

In the latest addition to the series, painter Phil Frankland finds common ground with comedian Stewart Lee, playing off the intentional against the haphazard… ‘So, I don’t want to waste any time faffing around or trying to...

Matthew Maxwell on Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean: ‘Loving the Low Brow’

Alexander Sturgis, esteemed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, was once better known as The Mighty Xa – dishevelled party magician.  He had an excellent trick of pulling a string of razor blades out of his cheek. A lot of...

Charley Peters: ‘Painting, Writing, Abstraction and the Spaces In-between: In Conversation with Tess Jaray’.

Instantloveland is delighted to present the first of three commissioned pieces by ‘Writer-in-Residence’ Charley Peters: ‘Painting, Writing, Abstraction and the Spaces In-between: In Conversation with Tess Jaray’. Charley Peters...

Eye Opener: Peter Lamb

In the third part of Instantloveland’s new feature, painter Peter Lamb writes about his work in the studio, the studio in his work, and the profound and lasting influence of Italo Calvino’s ‘Mr Palomar’…...

Eye Opener: James Faure Walker

  In the second instalment of our new feature, it’s the turn of British artist and critic James Faure Walker to describe the art and artefacts, from the ancient to the contemporary, that have helped shape his painting and...