Category: United Kingdom
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Review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, 2023
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. The 2023 showcase at Somerset House featured paintings, sculpture, fine art photography, ceramics, mixed-media installations and other creative outputs by more than 170 artists and collectives from continental Africa and the diaspora.
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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…