Visual Arts Galleries

Gallery: Christina Broom's Soldiers and Suffragettes

theartsdesk Saturday, 20 June 2015

There were female pioneers of photography before Christina Broom, most notably Julia Margaret Cameron. And others have hidden their light under a bigger bushel: Vivian Meier's body of work remained stashed away only to be discovered after her death. Broom's importance is partly one of timing: she prowled the streets of London at a time of great historical significance.

Tough & Tender: Sheila Rock's English Seascapes

Sheila Rock Tuesday, 19 May 2015

I had never really photographed landscape. But I spent many wonderful weekends in Suffolk and Norfolk along the coast. This project began when I just decided to photograph the sea in a very abstract way. The sky and the light and the flatness were quite inspiring for me.

Gallery: Honoré Daumier and Paula Rego - a conversation across time

Fisun Güner Monday, 17 November 2014

Baudelaire called him a “pictorial Balzac” and said he was the most important man “in the whole of modern art”, while Degas was only a little less effusive, claiming him as one of the three greatest draughtsman of the 19^th century, alongside Ingres and Delacroix.

Gallery: International Exchanges, Tate St Ives

Fisun Güner Sunday, 06 July 2014

This summer, Tate St Ives turned 21. And this makes it as good a time as any for an exhibition repositioning the artists who were associated with St Ives, the small harbour town in Cornwall, where you'll find the gallery on the sea front at Porthmeor Beach.

Lumiere Festival 2013, Durham

Fisun Güner Saturday, 16 November 2013

The trumpeting of a lone elephant can be heard all around Durham city centre, blasting across the River Wear. The organisers of Artichoke’s Lumiere Festival, now in its third biennial year, have been turning up the volume as the evening’s progressed. The 3D elephant, which is the work of French design group Top’là, is a magnificent optical illusion projected onto a replica medieval fortress arch on Elvet Bridge, complete with thunderous audio.

Gallery: Only in England - Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

Fisun Güner Monday, 23 September 2013

Tony Ray-Jones is one of the hidden greats of British social documentary photography. A huge influence on photographers working today, he documented the English at play with great empathy and often surreal humour. Touring seaside resorts during the latter half of the Sixties, his acute observations of English social customs and eccentricities were, he says, intended to capture a distinctly English way of life “before it became too Americanised”.

Gallery: Derwent Art Prize

Fisun Güner Friday, 20 September 2013

You can use a computer to draw, as Hockney does, every day on his iPad, yet, despite all the technological advances the 21^st century has thrown our way, the pencil continues to be the artist’s most basic tool.

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Gallery: The Springtime of the Renaissance

Jasper Rees Sunday, 31 March 2013

The images in this gallery illustrate some of the links and juxtapositions made in The Springtime of the Renaissance. Classical statues which influenced Florentine artists, works reunited for the first time in centuries, sculptural forms reproduced in two-dimensional paintings (see main image) - you can find all of them below. The 20 images are arranged in 10 pairs, each of which represents a theme of the exhibition.

Gallery: Art Projects and The Catlin Guide at the London Art Fair

Fisun Güner Monday, 14 January 2013

The London Art Fair may not have the international heft or VIP glamour of Frieze, but for 25 years it’s been the place to see and buy the best of British modern art.

Photo Gallery: They That Are Left

theartsdesk Sunday, 11 November 2012

For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed without the distinguishing marks of regiment or rank or even any clue to the part of the Armed Forces in which they served. “Faces, only,” says Stevens. “Each deep-etched with who they are and what they did, that we might look, and think - and thank them.”