Brian J Morrison: Tension
Variously suspended, wedged, curved and grounded are a new body of sculptural works from Brian J Morrison. Shown at The Birley, a fledgling project space and artist studio complex in […]
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Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells
A cell is a modular unit for generating life; it is also an isolating space for protection, reflection and for punishment. For Louise Bourgeois, the cell encapsulates much of what […]
They Are Here: Precarity Centre
Precarity might be an unfamiliar term but it is not an unfamiliar state. Precarity is characterised economically as relating to working conditions that are temporary, casual and intermittent – a […]
After Carl – An interview with André de Jong, Andrew Lacon and Cathy Wade
‘After Carl’ discusses the discrepancies around Carl Andre’s ‘Equivalent VIII’ (1966), its description, measurements, provenance and position within art history in relation to new work made by the artists for […]
Still House: Of Riders and Running Horses
Like a flock of birds, five female dancers circle, gather and glide across the tarmac of a rooftop car park. Their steps draw together every genre of movement. Sharply articulated […]
New Writing Coming Soon
Over the next few weeks I’ll be working on a number of new pieces of writing. These include reviews of the Hannah Collins exhibition of photographic works at Camden Arts […]
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time
The expansive exhibition of work by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat at Guggenheim Bilbao focusses, as it has to, upon works made within a ten year period: an intense and energetic […]
High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk
I parked recently in a small town shopping centre car park for an exhibition opening. Exiting the closed shopping precinct after hours, its uncanny quietness, creepy sterility and oppressively strip-lit […]
Niki de Saint Phalle
In the episode ‘Shoot’, young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper shocks the small-screen audience of ‘Mad Men’ by calmly shooting at her neighbour’s pigeons with a BB gun. Her […]
Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena
MOT Projects’ current exhibition investigates the uses and possible abuses of written, spoken and constructed forms of language. Curated by Cicely Farrer and John Bloomfield, ‘Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena’ […]
