British Art Fair | By Gay Hutson
British Art Fair Co-Founder and Director, Gay Hutson, shares her memories of 40 years running art fairs.
Ghosts in the walls | John Monks at Long & Ryle
Has Long and Ryle got bigger? No, the Pimlico gallery hasn’t had an extension: they are currently showing the latest exhibition of the painter John Monks, a modern master of…
Straddling form and function | The increasing collectability of ceramic art
‘Potty for it!’ gushed an Elle Magazine headline in October 2022, describing ‘the new wave of ceramics that have reached cult status’. And the jaunty pot puns didn’t stop there:…
PIVOTAL: Digitalism
Filmmaker and ‘digitalist’ Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou is curating a cutting-edge digital art exhibition for British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery. Here she explains to Alex Leith how advances in technology have…
All angles at once | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at British Art Fair 2024
British Art Fair has teamed up with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust to organise an exciting new show. On display throughout the 2024 fair at Saatchi Gallery, the Trust will exhibit…
The milk of dreams | Leonora Carrington at Newlands House Gallery
In May this year, Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s 1945 oil painting, Les Distractions de Dagobert, sold at Sotheby’s New York for a staggering $28.5 million, the highest sum ever achieved…
Twisted Sinews | The art of trees
The British public’s horrified reaction to the sickening criminal felling last autumn of one of Britain’s best-loved natural landmarks – the famous sycamore near Once Brewed on Hadrian’s Wall –…
Deconstructing the mugs | The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain at Pallant House
The founding President of the Royal Academy Joshua Reynolds dismissed still life painting as a minor genre, lower in the pecking order than historical paintings, landscapes and portraits. And to…
A queer arrangement
The second major show at Charleston’s new gallery in Lewes, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece, an Untold Story, raises more questions than it answers.
Winter highlights: UK public galleries
Highlights of British artists at public art galleries this winter.