Art | Spring Exhibitions: Alice Channer, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Linder Sterling
4/5 Stars In the sunlit, spacious exhibition rooms of The Hepworth Wakefield gallery, a new series of fascinating works of art take centre stage. Three artists, Alice Channer, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Linder Sterling all display their new collections, ranging in form from sculpture to collage, and more. Channer’s work consists of a series of [...]
Art | Vladimir Markov: Displays and Fictions
3/5 Stars At the Henry Moore Institute, the Vladimir Markov exhibition displays the artist’s sculpture through a set of photographs, publications and a painting dating from 1910. A Latvian painter and originally an art theorist, he explored a universal theory for the development and understanding of art which centred on studies of art of all [...]
Art | The Most Expensive Paintings of All Time
Sotheby’s art auction last week cements the fact that even in our less-than-stable economic climate, the value of good art is on the rise every day- and people are certainly willing to pay good money for it. The auction in London brought in a staggering £74 million- Sotheby’s second-highest total for a February sale of [...]
Interview | Village Books
Village are a newly established independent art bookstore. Based in the Corn Exchange in Leeds City Centre, the shop also deals in creative magazines and zines, functioning as a small publishing house. Kelechi Anucha caught up with Ben Holmes, one half of the partnership behind the project. ‘I graduated from Leeds University about two years [...]
Photography | One by One…By the Way
4/5 Stars In the spacious exhibition room of Leeds Gallery, a series of photographs hang along the walls, giving their viewers an exclusive view of what it is like touring with not one, but two of the most well-known rock bands in the music industry. Tony Woolliscroft has been touring with the Foo Fighters and [...]
The Artist’s Muse
Throughout history, the source of inspiration for many great artists has been a particular special person whom they find to be unique. Holly Holder looks into the role of the artist’s muse, and ponders over its place within the modern day art world Karl Lagerfeld, of Chanel fame, will be turning eighty this year; his work [...]
Art | Cutting into Colour
3/5 Stars Confined to a wheelchair and restricted by further disabilities, Henri Matisse was forced to abandon painting towards the end of his life. A true artist, he did not let this prevent him from continuing to create masterpieces. The solution he found was to cut shapes from coloured paper and arrange them as images [...]
Instagram and Lomography: The Reel Deal?
Current fads see us reaching for our smartphones to capture the moment with a Lo-fi filter. Marysia Korzeniowska considers whether our passion for quick fixes is eroding the traditional art of photography. What camera do you shoot with? Instagram. The new fad is readily available for anyone who enjoys taking pictures, providing users with the [...]
Art | Leeds City Digital Portrait
Leeds City has just had its digital portrait taken, courtesy of Artist Brendan Dawes. Dawes’ work engages very much with space, shape and the relationships between people and objects, making him an ideal candidate to embark on the project. Dawes’ has created six portraits in total, all at the behest of EE, to consolidate the [...]