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The new interiors magazine TON – the first issue is out now – has two pieces by me on very different but equally extraordinary homes. TON’s founder and editor-in-chief Jermaine Gallacher – who works with art director Rory Gleeson and editorial director Ted Stansfield – commissioned me to write about Dave Baby’s apartment close to […]
Perfect Binding, the recently published book by British experimental filmmaker/broadcaster/bookseller William English, is a psychogeographic portrait of a particular strain of cultural activity in a particular place at a particular time: the Midlands city of Leicester from the 1950s to the 70s.
The new issue of international interiors magazine apartamento includes my feature about British artist Duggie Fields and his extraordinary mansion flat in inner west London neighbourhood Earl’s Court.
“For this solo exhibition to happen in the same year that we celebrate 100 years since some women were legally considered human and therefore entitled to vote is deeply significant for me. The formation of my feminist project always meant that I needed to be a figurative painter – this made me, right from the […]
“Harrison embraces age-old symbols and fanciful myth, irrational beliefs and exuberant sexuality to name just a few in order to speak vividly about our own time and provide a different perspective on the disciplines of painting and sculpture” Fuck Me is the title of the new show by great British artist David Harrison at Lungley […]
“I, too, had to maintain a certain degree of detachment, and indeed to want and expect nothing of him; the paradox will always remain that, if David Bowie had not been David Bowie, then David Bowie and I could have been friends.” Edward Bell, 2017 Edward Bell first encountered David Bowie when the rock chameleon […]
Among my current projects is an article for Apartamento about the great British artist Duggie Fields and his flat in London’s Earl’s Court.
Sweet relief from travails personal and political was provided last night by visits to openings of two contrasting yet similarly satisfying creative endeavours in our great capital.
Tonight sees the opening of a group show featuring the work of one of my favourite contemporary figurative artists, Emma Hopkins. Hopkins’ work unflinchingly considers the raw beauty of the human anatomy and physiognomy. As she says: “I paint people from the inside out.”
“So great to see an eclectic range of images and objects that challenge norms and play with moral codes” The Courtauld’s Documenting Fashion blog The Conformist – artist Paul Kindersley’s celebration of great British non-conformity of expression – is now entering its final few days. If you have the opportunity, I recommend a visit to […]