The ICA has been a leading space for contemporary culture since 1946. They commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts from their landmark home on The Mall in London; Inviting artists and audiences…
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) was a Russian Painter and Art Theorist. Having relinquished a promising career as a Professor of Law and Economics in Estonia, Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.…
Part installation and part archive display, the objects of House of Le Bas relate to the shared life and experiences of artists Delaine Le Bas (b.1965, UK) and her late husband Damian Le Bas (1963 – 2017, UK). Their work addresses nationhood, land, belonging and…
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter and writer, who characteristically weaved each of these elements into his expressive audio-visual narratives. Between Worlds Building on its reputation for introducing lesser-known artists to British audiences, the Dulwich Picture…
Although artists Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian did not know of each-other, they were both members of the Theosophical Society, and their work integrates shared themes and motifs; Tate Modern unite these through a joint exhibition in ‘The Ether’.…
Surrealism (‘surreality’) and the idea of a collective and individual subconscious are closely related. Considered a timeless tool that surfs the unconscious, it drags up dream-states as a means of re-framing and reshaping the familiar and everyday. Officially sparked in…
This Spring, Tate Britain open a timely exhibition devoted to the Rossetti generation. The individuality and cultural defiance of their approach to art, love and lifestyles was once considered radical. Today they are reimagined in an immersive show, using spoken…
Artist, novelist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud (Pennsylvania 1939) has innovated across sculptural and literary formats throughout her seven-decade career. Chase-Riboud’s exploration of sculptural technique and materiality are defined by the interplay between folds of cast bronze or aluminium, and coils…
Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (Sudan 1939) is considered a pioneering contemporary artist; her paintings where human and plant-forms intertwine, contemplate the cyclical flow of life and the intangible aspects of women’s lives in Sudan. Drawing from a diverse range of contexts,…
