Category: Exhibition reviews

Bharti Kher is a UK artist. She studied painting at Newcastle Polytechnic before moving to New Delhi and developing an interest in sculpture. She talks about using her experience as an outsider to inform her art practice that includes a diverse range of materials, styles and themes. She allows the materials to inspire her work…

To supplement my reading about the Modernists I found it interesting the visit the German Expressionist collection at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. The collection was founded in 1944 and documents the journey from Impressionism through to Expressionism and the first world war. The exhibition aims to provide fresh insight into the work and explores…

India to Leicester: An Artists Journey is an exhibition about the life and works of 75 year old artist Kamal Koria who migrated to the UK in the 1970s. Curated by his daughter, the exhibition aims to celebrate the achievements of first generation South Asian migrants and inspire the future generations to document their histories….

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, currently showing at Nottingham Contemporary is an exhibition comprising the entire surviving artworks of the late Donald Rodney. The work  addresses topics of racial identity, prejudice, masculinity, chronic illness and Britain’s colonial past. It also includes sketchbooks, photographs and documents related to the development of his work. Donald Rodney studied at…

 ‘Paula Rego, Visions of English Literature’, an exhibition curated by Hayward Gallery Touring in association with The Estate of Paula Rego is showing in the Lakeside Arts Djanogly Gallery (Nottingham) from the 21st of September 2024 to the 5th of January 2025. The exhibition is coupled with ‘Grayson Perry: Man Hours’ which is located in…