Riding in on the slipstream of its current show, ‘Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism’, RWA Bristol’s ‘Abstract Painting Now’, co-hosted by the University of Gloucestershire, is a one-day symposium focusing on ‘the current status...
Palimpsest, eh? Hard to spell; even harder to say, after the fourth visit to the punch bowl on New Year’s Eve; but very easy to love, as the countless Instagram snaps of peeling plaster and paint will testify: we’re all in...
Unimpressed by the local talent, many a young, ambitious British artist of the 1950s and 1960s had their head turned by the rugged good looks and outlaw charm of American Abstract Expressionism. However, Instantloveland has been around...
In the astonishing, beautiful gallery spaces of the Fundació in Barcelona that bears his name, ‘Antoni Tàpies: Political Autobiography’ gathers together a large selection of the artist’s paintings, assemblages and prints, alongside...
William Tillyer turned 80 this year. To mark the occasion, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is serving up a hefty helping of his recent work, which fuses the luscious paint handling of the British landscape tradition with this...
Instantloveland apologises for sounding like a stuck record, but it can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that the painting culture seems to be in thrall to all things geometric in abstraction at the moment. The New Art Centre...
Dominic Beattie is an artist fast making a name for himself in the geometric realms of contemporary abstraction: and with ‘Harder Edge’ he both curates, and exhibits alongside, a whole host of other practitioners of the...
It feels as if Salisbury has been in the news an awful lot lately, for all the wrong reasons; so Instantloveland is happy to do its bit to redress that imbalance, by drawing your attention to Ian McKeever: Weight and Measure in the...
If- as Instantloveland did a couple of weeks ago- you find yourself cooling your heels in Copenhagen, a forty-minute train ride will take you out to the Louisiana Museum by the sea at Humlebaek, where you’ll encounter...
