Author: Paul Regan
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Major exhibitions in London over Christmas and into the New Year
Royal Academy of ArtsEnds 16.2Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael Opens 28.1Brazil! Brazil! The birth of Modernism National GalleryVan Gogh: Poets and LoversUntil 19.1 Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 – 1350Opens 8.3 Courtauld GalleryGoya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart CollectionOpens 14.2 National Portrait GalleryFrancis Bacon: Human PresenceUntil 19.1 Edvard Munch PortraitsOpens 13.3 Barbican GalleryThe Imaginary…
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Open painting competition deadlines coming up
If you like the idea of having your work on show in a London gallery, the Royal Watercolour Society are now taking submissions for their annual RWS Open exhibition, to be held at the Bankside Gallery. If you make contemporary paintings on paper using water-based media, you might like to have a go at entering.…
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Ikon Gallery – Friends In Love And War.
A quick question to the gallery assistant regarding where might be the best place to start the exhibition turned into a much appreciated five minute introduction to their favourite piece from the show. Turner Prize nominee (probably soon to be the winner) Delaine Le Bas’s, ’What We Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us?’ was, we were…
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Studio Fridays Art Fair 2024
30th October – 3rd November 2024 Congratulations to all 17 of my hugely talented Studio Fridays mentees for transforming the studio into an amazing art fair last week. It was a huge success, and their work looked absolutely fantastic! Private View
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Kate Wilson’s Total Rubbish
Kate Wilson’s Total Rubbish exhibition at the Morley Gallery is ….. really good! If you are in the Waterloo area of London between now and November 21st, I highly recommend that you go and see it. I particularly liked her close up paintings of single pieces of found rubbish; the crumpled plastic coffee lid, a…
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Talking Things
Leslie Bunch and Roland HicksBlyth Gallery, level 5, Sherfield Building Campus: South Kensington Campus10am-5pm dailyUntil 31/10/24 Incredibly detailed paintings that require visitors to spend time with, or they might miss something! Not everything is as it first seems.
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Turner Prize 2024
Who would be your winner of this year’s Turner Prize? Tate BritainUntil 16th February 2025Winner announced on 3rd December 2024. Pio Abad Born and raised in the Philippines, Abad was selected for this year’s Turner Prize for his exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where he responded to artefacts in the collection by adding…
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Two gallery visits and a lot of thinking about collage.
Walking around the Whitechapel Gallery last Thursday evening, I was trying to think if there had ever been a time when I had left an exhibition there, feeling unfulfilled. I don’t think there has been. The curators just seem to always put on a good show. I think this is the case for the Barbican…
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Recent newsletters
I send out email newsletters most weeks, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. If you’d like to receive them, you can sign up here. Recent newsletters: 18th October11th October4th October27th September20th September13th September
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Understanding Abstract Art
The BBC have produced a number of programmes in the past to help us understand how to engage and think about abstract painting. Here are some Youtube links to two series, Rules of Abstraction and Abstract Artists In Their Own Words. Rules of Abstraction (Approx 6 x15 mins): Abstract Artists In Their Own Words (approx…