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Me and more me, an instagramer's review of from Self to Self-Expression at the Saatchi Gallery

Me and more me, an instagramer’s review of from Self to Self-Expression at the Saatchi Gallery

Although I’m on extended hiatus from Instagram at the moment, I feel that the two years when I exclusively devoted all my creativity to that social media platform gives me a certain authority to review as an “Instagramer.” An aficionado of the true home of the selfie and someone who has, I must confess, taken quite a few of them. “Love Hotel” by June Calypso Apparently this exhibition was an…

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#art #art in social media #Business #contemporary art #feminism #from self to self-expression #june calypso #People #Photography #social media #the saatchi gallery #what is a selfie #women

The Daily Post: Bewitched by Entangled

Monday’s Muse – whispering grass

A Cape, A Skateboard and a very Fat Cat: ingredients for the film of the year.

I can’t guarantee that A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the only Iranian feminist vampire movie you’ll ever see but I’m pretty sure it will be the best. With each exquisite frame perfectly judged, it’s as visually rewarding as a trip to any art gallery. With it’s beautiful, sad and funny performances, it captures your emotions. With it’s sharp take on the absurdities of gender (the pumped up…

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#A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night #Ana Lily Amirpour #Feminist Film #Iranian film #Vampire

The National Gallery is erasing women from the history of art

This article, by Griselda Pollock, has been reblogged from The Conversation website. Under the title Inventing Impressionism: The Man Who Sold a Thousand Monets, the National Gallery in London recently mounted an exhibition about Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). It’s just finished, but don’t worry if you didn’t see it, I’m about to tell you why you shouldn’t have. This is how it was presented on the…

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Hide and Seek - a retrospective of Eileen Cooper at the RA

Hide and Seek – a retrospective of Eileen Cooper at the RA

Eileen Cooper in the exquisite surroundings of the John Madejski rooms at the RA where her show Hide and Seek is on. Last Friday I was thrilled to meet Eileen Cooper RA at a viewing of her new show at the Royal Academy of Arts. A retrospective of her work from the past 4 decades, the show is entitled Hide and Seek and includes series of 11 drawings and prints which she gifted to the RA in 2001.…

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#Eileen Cooper #magical realism #Royal Academy of Art #women artists #women&039;s art

Deborah Turbeville

Breaking all the Rules – Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty A very brief review of the McQueen exhibition on my other blog, beasts of Fashion.

Naked Truth: the story of female life models at the RA

To celebrate International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March, the Royal Academy of Arts has been running a series of blogs on women’s involvement with this venerable institution. Read the excerpt below and also you can follow the links to find posts on The R.A.’s Founding Women and the fight Victorian women’s had to undertake to recieve arts training

In the final blog in our International Women’s…

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#International Women&039;s Day #life model #Royal Academy of Arts

London Art Fair 2015

Last week I was lucky enough to be in receipt of a preview ticket to the London Art Fair courtesy of Melba Palhazy at Equator Connect (exciting art projects from them coming soon, watch this space…). Once I’d done the red carpet and the free champagne drinking (only one, being semi-dry January) I eventually managed to look at some art. Art fairs can be overwhelming experiences and are not…

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#Featured #Felicity Warbrick #Ilona Szalay #Jemma Appleby #Lisa Wikens #London Art Fair #Marijke Vasay #Nancy Fouts #Romina Ressia #Susise MacMurray

Thursday's notes: Queens of Cork Street

Thursday’s notes: Queens of Cork Street

Despite the breast beating that goes on about the gender bias in the art world (of which Collage is as guilty as anyone), there is an embarrassment of fabulous work by the Grande Dames of art on display in London the moment. At Victoria Miro, as the exhibition of carefully chosen photography by Francesca Woodman ended, Yayoi Kusama and Alice Neel took over. The indefatigable Rose Hilton has…

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#Francesca Woodman #Marlborough gallery #Messum&039;s gallery #Paula Rego #Rose HIltpn #Victoria Miro

So, you're not going to Frieze?

So, you’re not going to Frieze?

Well, I was going to Frieze. However, despite having a new and beloved press card I wasn’t organised enough to go to the press day. On the other day I was intending to go, the delights of the world’s most fabulous, cool and influential art fair have been usurped by my son’s school Harvest Festival.

Hmmm. I worried that this choice meant I wasn’t serious enough about art. How can you live 30…

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#2014 #art fair #contemporary art #Frieze

Wylie's Win

Wylie’s Win

PV Windows and Floorboards by Rose Wylie, the winning painting in this years John Moore’s painting prize.

As Collage is not created by the most youthful of spring chickens we are always thrilled when a someone over thirty is recognised for being anything other than ‘good for their age’. So when, last week, the 80 year old Rose Wylie won the 29th John Moores painting prize (the ‘Oscar’ of the…

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#Jerwood Gallery #John Moores Painting Prize #Rose wylie

Tent at the London Design Fair

From the Korean Craft exhibit

Last week Collage visited Tent, a craft and design fair at the Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch which was part of the London Design Fair. It was interesting to attend something where so many of the dynamic and successful exhibitors were women, working alone or having set up partnerships or their own businesses. I had the definite impression that craft and design…

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#craft #London Design Fair #TENT

Taking out the Trash: Luc Besson's "Lucy", Linda Benglis and the art of being a good feminist

Taking out the Trash: Luc Besson’s “Lucy”, Linda Benglis and the art of being a good feminist

This month two cultural touchstones from my past re-emerged. Although the film director Luc Besson and the artist Lynda Benglis seem to share little, they in fact have long successful careers and an intense creative drive in common. Oh… and the same initials. Besson has always had a piece of my heart ever since he directed Subway, a literally underground film from 1986 starring Christophe Lambert…

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Friday's Notes

Friday’s Notes

A few weeks ago I visited the Photographer’s Gallery in London for the first time to see Primrose, an exhibition of colour photography from Russia. Now, we all know how much I like a bit of Soviet art (although the work on display here stretches back to Imperial Russia) but my sometime companion, Miss Jones is a major convert. I have created a Russian art monster …. Although the older images are…

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#20/21 art Fair #Carole Lambard #Julie Blackmon #Lynda Benglis #marina Abramovic #Michaela Nettell #Photographer&039;s Gallery #Richard saltoun gallery #Rosalind Davis #Thomas Dane Gallery #Zap Zeitgeist

Past Future Perfect: the Modern Art of South America at the RA

What is the point of art?

This is a question beloved of artists and non-artists and people who know what they like and they don’t like (insert “shark”, “bed”, “light-bulb” or “poo”). For centuries the point of art seemed fairly straightforward; to memorialise, glamorise, pay homage to and simply to represent. Then, roughly 150 years ago, that began to be challenged. Let’s not be so simplistic as…

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#Lygia Clark #Lygia Pape. Gego #Radical geometry #Royal Academy of Art #South American art

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