Category: Portraiture
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Standing Still, by Eugene Palmer – The Poetics of Portraiture at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Eight new paintings by internationally acclaimed Jamaican-British figurative artist Eugene Palmer (b. 1955, Kingston) are presented in the exhibition ‘Standing Still’ (Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 18 February – 8 May 2023). The launch coincides with the artist’s sublime single-figure portrait of ‘Ann’ (2022) within this series going on public view for the first time in the…
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Barbara Walker: Place, Space and Who
The highlight of a recent trip to Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent, was viewing the exhibition “Place, Space and Who” (18 May – 26 September 2021) by British figurative artist Barbara Walker during its final week on display. This engaging portraiture exhibition featured a series of larger-than-life-sized images of five women and girls from Kent’s…
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Issues of Diversity within Lines of Beauty
The exhibition Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth opened at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery on 14th February 2020, featuring a selection of more than 50 artworks from Chatsworth House’s Devonshire collection. Divided into six sections, the entrance area presented an art-historical timeline and overview of the aesthetic preferences of successive owners of the Devonshire collection…
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Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night – Dark Matter
British-Liberian conceptual artist Lina Iris Viktor’s exhibition – ‘Some Are Born to Endless Night – Dark Matter’ (Autograph, Rivington Place, London, 13 September 2019 – 25 January 2020) – featured more than 60 works on paper and canvas (including several new commissions) from a recent portfolio of photographic self-portraiture and performance-based installations that she has…
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Eugene Palmer: New Paintings
It was a pleasure to visit the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, to view a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Jamaican-British contemporary figurative artist Eugene Palmer. Curated by Richard Hylton, the exhibition “Eugene Palmer: Didn’t it Rain: New Paintings” (27 January – 24 March 2018)…
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