Jillian Knipe joins Charley Peters and Sam Cornish on Instantloveland’s ‘Writer-in-Residence’ programme. Jillian Knipe is an Australian artist who has lived in London almost 20 years. Her studio practice encompasses...
Sam Cornish on the great German Gallerist's very personal walk through the confused and contradictory terrain of British sculpture...
Sculptor Alexandra Harley tells how a trip to Stockwell Depot led to a close encounter with the ‘WOW!’ writ large… Many, many years ago, I was a young and very naïve art student just starting out on my Foundation...
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...
Artist and Writer Jenny Eden on answering the 'call' of painting...
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...
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...
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...
