Exhibition reviews

This was an astounding collection of sculpture by women who have incorporated varied materials, ideas and experiences into their work and as usual, the Lakeside… Read More »Breaking the Mould, Lakeside Arts

Continuing my photographic focus this month I wandered into Derby Museum to look at the latest exhibition of a selection of work by Claude Cahun… Read More »Claude Cahum, Derby Museum

This was the first time I’d seen the collected work of Helen Levitt who chronicled New York life in her photographs taken between the wars… Read More »Helen Levitt, Photographers’ Gallery

This was a richly varied collection of 31 contemporary painters who live and work in the UK. I am consistently drawn back to painting as… Read More »Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery

High brow eclecticism, pseudo-avant-garde or simply what art is at; who can judge the nature of the RA’s annual summer exhibition. This was my second… Read More »Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

What a find this was. We’d never ventured into Middlesbrough before so didn’t know such a striking regional gallery exhibited in the town. The work… Read More »Middlesborough Art Gallery

This was a remarkable and totally engaging exhibition and despite the London crowds, there was space to get lost in the chronology of Paula Rego’s… Read More »Paula Rego, Tate Modern

Nottingham artist Mik Godley gave a talk on my BA course and I was influenced by his dedicated investigation into his past as well as… Read More »Mik Godley, Attenborough Arts Centre

Jumping out of lockdown into my first live exhibition was a refreshing experience and reminded me of how much I had missed experiencing art close… Read More »Mat Collishaw, Djangoly Gallery

This was my second visit to the Ferens Open Exhibition in Hull, which I entered successfully in 2019. This year’s exhibition was delayed because of… Read More »Ferens Open Exhibition, Hull

A trip to a London gallery is always overwhelming – world famous art in iconic spaces. Hence we had a one day trip to see… Read More »Lucian Freud, Royal Academy

We had a trip to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield to see the early works of Alan Davie and David Hockney. The significance of this… Read More »Hockney and Davie, Hepworth, Wakefield