“Pre-colonisation Caribbean luxury”: Bony Ramirez’s multimodal artworks draw on the opulence of traditional portraiture to exalt underrepresented narratives by Rebecca Irvin6 January 2022 In Bony Ramirez’s portraits, sculptural, drawn and painted, the compositional techniques of Renaissance portraiture are applied to the depic...
Celebrating bodily intimacy and desire: Krzysztof Strzelecki’s ceramic visions of a gay utopia by Rebecca Irvin13 December 2021 Artist Krzysztof Strzelecki works across a vast array of mediums—photography, installation, painting and ceramics, all of which intersect an...
Lines of discovery: In conversation with Holly Mills by Layla Leiman28 October 2021 Holly Mills is intimately familiar with the unknown. Through a gestural and emotive process, she’s made herself at home in not knowing, in d...
Chasing my tail: In conversation with Philip Hinge by Layla Leiman30 September 2021 To take a trip into the absurdist world of Philip Hinge’s paintings, drawings and installations is to find yourself wandering a chaotic inte...
The bedrock of the imagination: Sebastián Hidalgo’s fantastical interpretations of reality and sensory perception by Rebecca Irvin23 September 2021 Sebastián Hidalgo’s painting practice is an explorative one. Working between different mediums and grounds—oil paint, ink, graphite; marble,...
The potter’s condition: In conversation with Gustav Hamilton by Layla Leiman15 September 2021 Gustav Hamilton found his way to ceramics after being dropped from the school choir. By way of pottery, he has found a home for himself in t...
Hiding in plain sight: Masks and the psyche in Lysandre Begijn’s vivid wall sculptures by Layla Leiman9 September 2021 For Lysandre Begijn, art and the psyche are intricately related. The brightly coloured “sad face” figures that recur throughout her work per...
Rituals, stories and charmed objects in the work of Astrid Terrazas by Layla Leiman26 August 2021 Astrid Terrazas’s deeply symbolic artwork merges dreams, ancestral folklore and lived experiences. Working in an illustrative style with exp...
Hide and seek: In conversation with Sarah Bechter by Layla Leiman4 August 2021 A leopard lies on a blood red terrazzo floor—half camouflaged, half on display. It rests midway up a flight of stairs that go nowhere, frame...
“A community is essential to what we do”: Fortnight Institute’s non-traditional, multimodal gallery model by Olha Pryymak2 August 2021 For Fortnight Institute’s founders, Fabiola Alondra and Jane Harmon, collaboration forms the bedrock of their undertaking as curators an...
The interplay of density and softness, stillness and motion, in Aks Misyuta’s exuberant figurative paintings by Rebecca Irvin23 July 2021 Painter Aks Misyuta has forged a distinctive practice of composing figurative still lifes made up of inflated figures endowed with exaggerat...
“Paintings About Nothing”: Absurdist humour, nudity and long-tailed dogs in William Schaeuble’s artworks by Rebecca Irvin6 July 2021 The large-limbed human figures which populate William Schaeuble’s paintings are limber and dynamic, with the childlike capacity to move swif...
The nature of strangeness: Cheri Smith’s pursuit of the unknowable in our organic surroundings by Rebecca Irvin18 May 2021 Cheri Smith’s artistic practice is one that is intimately connected to the natural world. Her childhood in rural Essex and her ongoing fasci...
Bucolic decadence: Victor B.P Bengtsson’s search for springtime in his theatrically staged paintings by Olha Pryymak6 May 2021 For Copenhagen-based painter Victor B.P Bengtsson, the canvas provides a stage on which to play out his dreams of an elysian, eternal spring...
Painted poetry: Daniel Correa Mejía’s search for the mystical and transcendent elements of human existence by Rebecca Irvin27 April 2021 In Daniel Correa Mejía’s paintings, the figures and gestures we encounter in the quotidian realm are transplanted onto a plane of reality wh...
The butterfly in the mud: in conversation with ASMA by Layla Leiman1 April 2021 “…a mythological open narrative of an encounter at the shore of a lagoon”. This is the opening line of the exhibition text for a show titled...
