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 Rebecca Irvin6 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...
Big art crushes: In conversation with the Projet Pangée curators by Layla Leiman22 March 2021 Run with heart and enthusiasm by a trio of female artists, Projet Pangée in Montreal, Canada is a hybrid project-commercial gallery space wi...
A way of being in the world: Agnese Guido by Layla Leiman12 March 2021 The whimsical and weird world conjured up in Italian artist Agnese Guido is both an escape from and product of the real world around us. It ...
Mary Herbert’s pastel-hazed topology of the unconscious mind by Rebecca Irvin3 March 2021 Mary Herbert’s art exists as a sustained engagement with and exploration of that which is elusive and shifting—memory, dreams, indefinable s...
Fluid states of matter: The transition between memory and present consciousness in Xiuching Tsay’s molten compositions by Rebecca Irvin25 February 2021 Growing up in Chonburi, Thailand, artist Xiuching Tsay initially focussed on science-based academic study while treating her natural inclina...
Casting spells: Rebecca Munce takes us inside her whimsical world by Layla Leiman20 February 2021 Once upon a time in the enchanted kingdom of Canadian artist Rebecca Munce’s creation, lives a motley band of shapeshifting symbolic charact...
“Selfish, sulky creatures”: The primal, childlike nature of painter Georg Wilson’s folklore-inspired goblins by Rebecca Irvin8 February 2021 With a practice grounded in art research, painter Georg Wilson draws on the folkloric histories and storytelling traditions of rural England...
Delivering art to a non-exclusive audience through freely accessible curated content at KubaParis by Rebecca Irvin2 January 2021 Berlin and Bonn-based curatorial duo Nora Cristea and Saskia Höfler-Hohengarten run KubaParis, an artistic platform and creative space withi...
The everyday uncanny: Painter Johnny Izatt-Lowry’s defamiliarising of the familiar by Rebecca Irvin17 December 2020 Johnny Izatt-Lowry takes images and objects from the quotidian world of daily existence and transplants them onto the plane of the subconsci...
Ebb and flow: In conversation with Loren Erdrich by Layla Leiman12 December 2020 Water is a paradoxical element. It flows in the direction of least resistance, but as it does it slowly works on the environment, smoothing,...
Interior landscapes: In conversation with Kimo Nelson by Layla Leiman9 December 2020 Landscape art, once chiefly the domain of the picturesque, has gained a new urgency and political charge in recent times as the world grappl...
Uncovering the fluidity of the human animal: the shifting states and worlds of Kinga Bartis’s paintings by Rebecca Irvin26 November 2020 Hungarian Transylvanian-born artist Kinga Bartis creates vivid, dreamlike landscapes inhabited by figures both ethereal and carnal. Having i...
Kaleidoscopic vision in Isabella Cuglievan’s textile-inspired abstract paintings by Rebecca Irvin5 November 2020 Lima-based painter Isabella Cuglievan weaves together a palette of vibrant yellows, turquoise-blues, deep purples and burnt oranges to creat...
