Category: London
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Zak Ové’s Triumph at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2016)
The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair presented its fourth consecutive edition at Somerset House in London (6-9 October 2016) – organised by the Fair’s founding director, Moroccan-born entrepreneur and art enthusiast Touria El Glaoui. Expanding in size and scale by an increase of 40% since its inaugural edition in 2013, this year’s 1:54 showcased works by more than 130 artists from…
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Walthamstow, Women and William Morris: Claire Twomey’s “Living Installation” in East London
I was fortunate to visit the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow (east London) this weekend to view a beautiful art installation by British ceramicist Claire Twomey before this temporary exhibition closed to the general public on 18 September 2016. The one-room installation – “Claire Twomey: Time Present and Time Past“ (William Morris Gallery, 18 June – 18…
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Switch House at Tate Modern: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…
It was worth braving the crowds to view the new Switch House extension at Tate Modern on Bankside during its launch week (14-19 June 2016) and explore several new floors of contemporary art from Tate’s permanent collection, as well as selected pieces on temporary display in the featured Artists’ Rooms and themed galleries. For this inaugural summer…
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Navigating the Dreams of an Icon: The Cy Grant Archives at the LMA – a new heritage initiative for 2016/17
The Cy Grant Trust – working in partnership with the education charity Windrush Foundation and London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) – recently received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to catalogue the archives of the writer, actor, musician, barrister and equalities campaigner, Cy Grant (1919-2010). Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant (known as ‘Cy’) was born in Guyana…
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Thin Black Lines: marking time – on faces, within networks, and in exhibition spaces…
As I stood in front of Jelena Bulajic’s large-scale portrait of Alise Lange (2013) mesmerised by the network of fine wrinkles covering her face, my momentary thoughts merged with memories of another contemporary artwork that came back to mind in sharp focus – the image of Lubaina Himid’s topological art map, Thin Black Line(s) (2011). In Bulajic’s work, her mixed-media artistic cartography of facial lines…
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