Maria Bartuszová

I love it when galleries put on shows of artists who have perhaps been forgotten or whom deserve to be better known to the general public, rather than the rarified strata of the art world. The Tate is particularly good at highlighting artists, such as Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and bringing their work to a…

Corpus Variations – David Sowerby

‘It begins and ends with the body, seasoned with an existential narrative in both the fabric and the form.’ This weekend is the last chance to see the great show ‘Corpus Variations’ by the British Armenian sculptor David Sowerby at the Florence Trust. ‘Made from the discards and off cuts from my proud and humble…

Opening Weekend and Journey Retraced

The first three days of our Open September went excellently, with the weather holding and lots of local visitors from the neighbourhood dropping by. One gentleman who remembers the Florence Trust moving in in ’88 said how nice it was to be welcomed into the church grounds after the gate being locked for so long….

The London Mastaba: Christo at the Serpentine

Originally posted on Modern Eccentrics:
The Serpentine Gallery has become synonymous with treating us to a new Summer Pavilion every year. The year, the structure has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and has been created from stacks of concrete roof-tiles. Stylish and austere in the official photographs (but now full of folding chairs…

Antony Gormley

Firstly, go and see this show NOW as it is only on till the 3rd of December… Few contemporary sculptors working today are as involved with the human form as Antony Gormley, who describes the body as ‘a place of experience, emotion, consciousness, memory and imagination.’ The Royal Academy’s autumn show is invariably a ‘blockbuster’,…

Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack

Finishing this weekend at the Barbican is a fun and quirky site-specific exhibition ‘Wetwang Slack‘ by the New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard. This is the 30th commission for The Curve, the exhibiting space that runs across the back of the building and it is often a challenging space for artists but one that results in…

The London Mastaba: Christo at the Serpentine

The Serpentine Gallery has become synonymous with treating us to a new Summer Pavilion every year. The year, the structure has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and has been created from stacks of concrete roof-tiles. Stylish and austere in the official photographs (but now full of folding chairs and coffee machines) and with…

Andy Goldsworthy at the Yorkshire Scuplture Park

In 2007, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Andy Goldsworthy partnered with the curators at the YSP to produce an exhibition that brought together ‘…an unprecedented range of work by Goldsworthy, forming the largest and most ambitious project ever curated at Yorkshire Sculpture Park to date.’ YSP ’07 Working throughout the…

Anish Kapoor at the Brighton Festival

This year, I am attempting to get various parts of my life organised and in order, and one of the first things I’m doing is to go through my photographic archive. Due to a mishap, jonathandredge.com was snapped up by someone in Japan (!) so I am reassessing my photographic profile, and re-posting series of…

Select Festival 2017

This year, Stroud International Textiles have introduced an open call competition to create ‘original creative head adornment’ as part of the Select Festival. The selected and winning works will be exhibited in a Shop window trail through the town centre. The SitSelect festival is also pleased to feature the launch of DIS/rupt, the Textile Study Group‘s new exhibition project, which…

Looking Forward – ‘Another View’ at the RBSA, May 2017

After the success of ‘Fracture’ at the Hoxton Arches, this year Prism will be exhibiting in both Birmingham in May and London in October. The title of this year’s exhibition is ‘Another View’, and we are thrilled that my image of Ross Belton’s (@spottedhyenas) piece ‘Split Traditions’ has been selected for the press and publicity…

Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern

This show is like a starting point. Art movements in the second half of the 20th Century, seem to have sprung from ideas explored here, and each room posts it’s own ‘what if we…?’ question. This retrospective show, currently at Tate Modern and moving to MOMA in May, is filled with works that radiate imagination and…