The V&A’s Design and Disability is an ambitious and necessary exhibition that places disabled creativity and design at the centre of museum culture, exploring how accessibility, innovation and identity intersect Design and Disability I recently had the opportunity to visit the V&A’s Design and Disability exhibition. It is an interesting one, marking a shift in […]
Kerry James Marshall’s The Histories examines Black experience, identity, and art history through striking, richly pigmented paintings. Kerry James Marshall 2025 has been a year of discovering new (to me) contemporary artists in favourite galleries. I really enjoyed Noah Davis at the Barbican earlier in the year. There was Jenny Saville at the National Portrait […]
Showing inspirations and connections beyond Pierre Soulages’ work alone, the Musée Fabre shows new sides to “the painter of black”. Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre Any serious discussion of the Musée Fabre should account for its relationship with Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), a painter whose career not only reshaped postwar abstraction in France but who also cultivated […]
Claye Bowler’s Top at Queer Britain transforms the artist’s seven-year wait for gender-affirming surgery into an unflinching archival installation. Content warning: lots of representations of breasts, mentions of surgery, medical care. The exhibition itself contains human tissue, bodily fluids, and images of surgery. Top Top by Claye Bowler is on now at Queer Britain. It’s […]
Grayson Perry transforms the Wallace Collection with Delusions of Grandeur. New works meet Old Masters. Reality and imagination blur beautifully. Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection The very, very astute amongst you may recall that there was already a connection between Grayson Perry (Sir Grayson Perry, actually) and the Wallace Collection, before this exhibition. It […]
Multiple exhibitions (including Abstract Erotic) at the Courtauld are an opportunity to explore, learn, and choose a favourite. Mine wasn’t quite what I had expected! Four for the Price of One (Sort Of) I really should be making more use of my Courtauld membership. I purchased one towards the end of last year because I’d […]
Artistic inspiration takes form in Kiefer / Van Gogh, exploring how the places, subjects and intentions in Van Gogh’s work have inspired Anselm Kiefer over the years. Why Kiefer / Van Gogh? The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy (aside, of course, from the Summer Exhibition) sees an interesting pairing of artists take over the […]
Lubaina Himid and fellow Black and Asian women artists continue a project decades in the making in Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985-2025. A Return Trip to the ICA With London’s cultural scene as vast and vibrant as it is, there are most definitely a few venues I don’t visit often enough. Not through lack of […]
Tate Modern’s Leigh Bowery! offers a vivid, if restrained, look at one of performance art’s most unruly icons. Leigh Bowery! Before you say anything, I know I’m at the point in the exhibition cycle again where I’m not leaving you much time to see things. My apologies. In my defense it’s a constantly busy museum […]
I like the idea behind the Barbican’s Feel the Sound, perhaps a little more than the actual experience of visiting. Feel the Sound The Barbican bill their current exhibition Feel the Sound as an “exhibition experience on a different frequency.” This is a clever play on words, but also mostly true. Feel the Sound takes […]
