Art | Exceptional prints, paintings, sculpture and more
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October 2020Among the chapters of Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte, the Tuscan painter’s handbook for aspiring 15th century artists, you will find the story of an early discovery of ‘a yellow colour called ochre’. -
February 2020Whether pasted on disused buildings or installed hanging from gallery ceilings, Swoon's intimate, local portraits are a modern hagiography.
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February 2020In 'Hawks and Falcons', C.F. Tunnicliffe's last great suite of prints, his chivalric subjects are 'the burnished, steely hard bird of the nobility.’
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February 2020Sidney Nolan painted many Australias: by air, up creek and desert dune, but it is a dread landscape that provides the setting of 1971's Dust.
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February 2020Like Rojas' original, Picasso's 'La Célestine' is a tale of selfish indulgence and bawdy lewdness; we are made voyeurs of its sordid dealings.
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February 2020In 'Our Late Familiars', the undead of Palermo's catacombs are reawoken in Ian Wilkinson's haunting imagery and words from writer Iain Sinclair.
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February 2020For Rothenstein, the rooster's cock-of-the-walk braggadocio and the violent impress of cut timber became the prism for musings on predation.
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February 2020Piper's eccentric etched survey of Brighton is a suite entirely out of sorts – and a perfect summation of the resort's architectural mélange.
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February 2020The sculptures of Andrzej Kuhn are like Sumerian votives. Capsuled within them is a wit and warm-heartedness that was the soul of all he made.
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July 2018In swaggering views of stately homes and resurrectional portraits of crumbling church ruins, the art of John Piper draws power from its sense of place.
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July 2018In paintings like 'Reflections', Brendan Neiland reveals the dance of light that plays out daily on the glass towers and cars that dominate our landscape.
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July 2018With its rich conflation of mythological resonances, Joe Tilson’s cryptic wooden 'Caerdroia' labyrinth offers the viewer little by way of illumination.