Category Artist Inspiration
Brighton CCA is the Gallery Space that is now run privately but still open for student use and very focused on collaboration. They “focus is on supporting the development of artists’ practice and practice-based research; nurturing cross-disciplinary dialogue and placing the… Continue Reading →
A mind map of work by Rob Flowers, Anna Ginsburg and Ambivalently Yours for my artist visual report.
My friend Jake Bussell ran his first live draw along workshop on YouTube yesterday. He normally runs life drawing classes and teaches drawing, so because of the lockdown he decided to start a weekly online live stream to inspire his… Continue Reading →
When I went to London as a kid my mum would always take us to the National Gallery, a very different gallery from the Alte Nationale. I found the Alte Nationale surprisingly progressive for ‘old art’, and not religious at… Continue Reading →
Opposite the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg there was an exhibition at Museum Berggruen, contrasting Pablo Picasso and Thomas Scheibitz’s work. I was not really a fan of Scheibitz’s work, finding it lacking in context and meaning, with too much focus on aesthetics…. Continue Reading →
In February while in Berlin I visited the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, an art museum focused on Surrealism located opposite the Charlottenburg Palace. All works in the gallery are “either directly related to the Surrealist movement or can be considered precursors of… Continue Reading →
The East Side Gallery is. the largest stretch of the Berlin Wall still standing, stretching 1.3km. It was painted by 118 International Artists in an organised Project in 1990 after the fall of the wall. The East Side Gallery was… Continue Reading →
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism, which of course made this exhibition very fascinating to me. I walked in not really knowing much about her apart from my memory of a quick google search I’d… Continue Reading →
Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus Walking into the Tate Modern and seeing a huge working fountain was incredible. I spent some time just sitting next to it and drawing. I absolutely love it, the shapes created by the clay mould the… Continue Reading →
We went to the Brighton Toy and Model Museum which is underneath Brighton station. It has a large collection of models, mostly from before the widespread use of plastic and short-lived consumer products. The time period captured is The Golden… Continue Reading →