Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi was at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 24th March – 8th July 2018

Frank Bowling, Installation view of ‘Mappa Mundi’, IMMA, 2018

This show offered ample evidence of Bowling’s trailblazing painterly intelligence; and the accompanying catalogue -a handsome artefact in its own right- carries a selection of his acute and passionate writings on his challenging art, and on its relationship to the complex and compelling issues of the African and West Indian diaspora.

A long-overdue Bowling retrospective will be coming to Tate Britain next May: Instantloveland looks forward to seeing this great British painter finally getting the treatment he deserves.