Two women walk across a desert. They move with purpose but don’t appear, at first, to be making any progress: their small steps seem futile across the vast expanse, as if treading water. The hazy backdrop of a mountainous landscape, undefined and unclear through thin veils of sand, serves to…
Patrick Caulfield’s work is immediately recognisable for its bold and highly original visual language, which the artist developed and honed over the course of his career. Working with the forms of ordinary domestic objects such as lampshades, vases, window panes and wine glasses, he pares down his subjects to slick…
The press release for Haroon Mirza’s show at Lisson Gallery leaves a lot to the imagination. Six simple bullet points give a very basic description of the works he has installed in the space. Point one: ‘a turntable piece’. Further down: ‘some light works’. Although Mirza’s installations’ have an unembellished,…
If you’ve been to Tate Britain over the past year, you may have noticed the gallery’s efforts to shield its restoration project from view. Until early this week, its corridors have been filled with oversized information signs pointedly guiding around us around peculiar routes through the spaces and – always…
‘If it were possible, I’d love to make a painting with no colours, not even black and white’ muses Safwan Dahoul, thinking aloud. We are at the opening of an exhibition of his work at Edge of Arabia, Battersea, which is running concurrently with his show at Ayyam Gallery’s space…
Each year for the past half-decade, a new group of students from top London art school Slade is given unrivalled special access to the UCL Art Museum collections. After running free for a bit amongst the collection’s 10,000 objects like a bunch of history-conscious artist gazelles, each student settles on…