Veronica Ryan recreates commodities such as tea, oranges and vanilla pods as small-scale sculptures — reminding us they are hidden legacies of colonial trade. She works across sculpture, textiles and works on paper, and there are over 100 piec
The all-female line-up in this group show interrogates what beauty is in contemporary society and the impossible standards to which everyone, especially women, are held. Juno Calypso’s photograph of a wig on the floor makes it obvious that perf
Despite having travelled to the South Coast many times for art exhibitions, I had never ventured to Hastings Contemporary. My first visit is to see The Open: Odyssey, the inaugural open submission selling exhibition at the gallery, in partnership wit
The National Portrait Gallery is full of self-portraits, no surprise there. However, in room 32 on floor 1, there is the mundanely titled ‘Self’ by Marc Quinn, and it’s anything but mundane. This cast of his head, among the death ma
It’s sad to walk past the now closed Stephen Friedman, and it’s not the only gallery leaving London. Is London facing another gallery exodus? I’ve written about it in my latest Diary of a London Art Critic (link in bio). . . #London