Blocks of colour juxtaposed. Applied then worked with thinners to pull back the history of their application and reveal the organic intermeshing of paint and fibre – a subtle staining that contrasts with the methodical linear sweeps of turpentine. At least, I assume that to be the case. They sit pleasingly framed in their white [...]
Photo: Manuel Vason Early this week I bought a collection of weathered garden gnomes at an outdoor auction in Norfolk (don’t ask!). They have been sitting in the car all week leading rise to speculation as to what they get up to while the car is parked up – and a suggestion that they may [...]
As if lifted from a painting by Paula Rego a soldier guides seven blindfolded men across a desert waste. It looks like an illustration to the tale of the goose that laid the golden egg and it is is really big and it is very colourful – very rich saturated colours (printed by Chau Digital [...]
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the Belgian choreographer, has created some of the most memorable duets I have seen. For example in the extract from Faun performed at Sadlers Wells on their taster day earlier this year two dancers (James O’Hara & Daisy Phillips) glided sinuously around and through each other as if totally entranced by their [...]