AmeriTunnel: Fabulous new Land Art Project to join UK and USA with Tunnel

For most artists, thinking big means hiring a larger studio. For the contemporary Welsh land artist Dafydda ap Gruffydd, it means proposing a tunnel between Wales and North America. Her latest work, AmeriTunnel, is perhaps the most ambitious piece of land art conceived in Britain since someone first looked at a hillside and thought, “That would … Read more

Ptolemy Bognor-Regis Crowned Supreme in the Vasinsky Award for Art in the Abstract

In a decisive victory Ptolemy Bognor-Regis, the wünderkind represented by the Pimlico Wilde Gallery, has claimed this year’s coveted Vasinsky Award for Art in the Abstract. The judges, who say they deliberated for all courses of their tasting menu dinner at the Arudelie restaurant , declared Bognor-Regis’s entry A Monologue in Beige #4 to be … Read more

Meet the Artist: Jane Bastion

Welcome to the first in our Meet the Artist series, where we step beyond the canvas, the stage, and the studio to explore the people behind the art. Today, we begin with someone whose creative output seems to live halfway between shadow and sound: Jane Bastion. Jane doesn’t walk into a room,she drifts in, like … Read more

Rucks Among the Rodins: The Inaugural Inter-Art Dealer Rugby Tournament in Berkeley Square

There are few sights as glorious as Berkeley Square, that bastion of Georgian serenity, transformed into a makeshift rugby pitch for the inaugural Inter-Art Dealer Rugby Tournament. Organised by the indefatigable Roberto Andretti of Hogge Spike (the same Andretti who has made a cottage industry out of rediscovering neglected sculptors like Ferkin Wykes), the day … Read more

The Catalogue Essay for Stillness in Orbit: The Slow Modernities of Ellinor Cade

Dr. Penelope Voss, Reader in Temporal Aesthetics, University of Lowestoft “We do not dwell in time as much as we loiter beside it, occasionally brushing the hem of its garment.” , Ellinor Cade, notebook fragment, undated To approach the work of Ellinor Cade is to enter an architecture of deceleration,a perceptual corridor where the modernist … Read more

Fine Artists for Things to be Better: March in London for Things to be Better

This Saturday, the streets of London were taken over by a colourful parade of individuals who call themselves “Fine Artists for Things to be Better.” The group, which had no clearly defined purpose except for general improvement in everything, marched for a cause so ambiguous, even the participants struggled to explain it. The march, which … Read more