Portraits of an icon
Hers is one of those faces that everyone knows, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana. Who hasn’t seen that famous picture of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, wielding a cigarette and an enigmatic smile? [...]
Street Art meets design-Mark McClure
Mark’s work has significantly developed since my last visit to his Dalston studio 18 months ago. Though he is exploring different materials in his work, his roots are in street art. Uphoarding / Olympic Park [...]
From solidity to fragility
The summer is often a great time for sculpture exhibitions. Tate Britain just opened a major retrospective of Hepworth’s work including her large-scale bronzes from the 1960s. The Fine Art Society is currently showing an [...]
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain
“I wish they’d put the prices next to them,” I overheard a woman saying to her friend as she walked around the V&A’s new Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition. It’s a fair point; an entire [...]
A London Assembly-Mark Fairnington at Delahunty Fine Art
The exhibition of Mark Fairnington’s work, A London Assembly, can be seen at DELAHUNTY FINE ART. The painter/collector has also exhibited at the Wellcome Trust Collection, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Galerie Peter Zimmermann, [...]
The Alice Look
It’s thanks to Walt Disney that the image of Alice in Wonderland as a doe-eyed blonde in a full-skirted blue dress is seared into our imaginations, just as the cartoonist made his mark on Snow [...]
Belgian makers in town
COLLECT, the international art fair for contemporary objects, will soon be back for its 12th anniversary at the Saatchi Gallery. Presented by the Crafts Council, it covers the fields of ceramics, glass, precious metal, textiles [...]