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Peter Marsh in Broken Ground @ Phoenix
A skull in a three dimension grid speaks of death and eternal life. This one belongs to a fox, at an end in physical terms, but which enjoys an afterlife of sorts in a gallery. The virtual scaffold...
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Vera Kox, If I should loose the reason, can I choose again II, 2012
This bench-like sculpture is made with showermats. The candy covered suckers draw the eye and hold the attention, so this work could be the most attractive in its show. But it seems perverse to pick...
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Interview: Corinna Spencer
Corinna Spencer, he listened, 2012, New touring exhibition Tainted Love positions itself somewhere between group show and group therapy. Twelve artists have produced work with the theme of obsessive,...
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Bedwyr Williams, Stevenson Screen (2012)
Whether you call it a weatherbox or, more correctly a Stevenson Screen, this object provokes even more curiosity than usual. It doesn’t belong in a gallery. It doesn’t often exude a blue light. The...
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Matthew Stone, Propaganda (2012)
This piece floats on a perilous sea of style mags; they buoy up a marble-effect plinth. Matthew Stone is not cool, he is stone cold. But these publications have more gravity than usual. Their covers...
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Mona Hatoum, Afghan (red and black), 2008
There’s a rug shop in Brighton called GAFF (Great Art For Floors). This might raise a few eyebrows and concerns for art’s proper place in the world. But then there’s this piece Mona Hatoum. Perhaps...
View ArticleLeah Gordon, Atis Rezistans: The Sculptors of Grand Rue (2012)
Just as Joseph Beuys once declared his reciprocal love for America, in this film you will see a Haitian artist state: “I like vodou and vodou likes me.” He goes so far as to add, “Everyone likes...
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Jochem Hendricks, Warlord, 2009-2010
You cannot see them, but you believe them to be there. Sewn into the lining of this greatcoat are hundreds of coins. They give it both physical and metaphorical weight. But were it not art, the...
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Huw Bartlett, Harry from Ikea (2013)
It’s a freedom of speech issue. If you are a global corporation like IKEA you can afford to take out a full page in a national broadsheet. If you are a little known artist you can barely afford to...
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Interview: Gavin Turk
(c) Uma Jovita Valaityte Sculptor Gavin Turk is perhaps best known for work about Gavin Turk. He has dressed as Sid Vicious and posed for a waxwork, or dressed as a vagrant. He has posed for photos as...
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Alex Hoda, Schliere (Streak), 2012
This sculpture makes a meal of a piece of gum. It may be marble, but it was once a remnant piece of a habit-forming chew. And now it is the size of a torso. Visitors may be struck at the muscularity,...
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Steve McQueen, Queen and Country (2003-08)
In terms of medium, Steve McQueen is in unusual territory with his celebrated philatelical artwork Queen and Country. Just don’t expect to see any of this piece come through your letterbox. 179 sheets...
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Mark Wallinger, Heaven (1988)
This sunday calls for a religious artwork, a blasphemous one even. What you see is a bird cage, a fishing lure and two pairs of mean looking hooks. It looks like a remake of Why Not Sneeze Rose...
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Photodiary: Franz West at The Hepworth Wakefield
This was my first visit to The Hepworth and I was blown away by a) the David Chipperfield building and b) the setting by the River Calder. Here’s a view from one to the other. We were here for the...
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Photostory: Ryan Gander at Manchester Art Gallery
Ryan Gander is an artist who embodies the dictum by Jasper Johns, which goes: ”Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.”. His work is multi-faceted. Consider this homemade calendar...
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Photos: Museo Nacional de Escultura
A National Sculpture Museum is to be found in a small city, some 200 km north of Madrid. But don’t expect too much marble, bronze or mixed media here in Valladolid. During their golden age, Spain’s...
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Alan Magee, Return to glory (2014)
Two disks grace the gallery. One sits on the floor. One hangs on the wall. Looking closer, their outer rims can be identified as hula hoops. But there will be no gyrating here today. Both hoops have...
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Rachael Champion, Naturally Occurring Brutalist Structure (2013)
An observation: spheres of Perspex and pea shingle have gravity in the same way that planets do. This piece by Rachael Champion has neither colour nor much visual stimuli, yet it has pull. Taken in...
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Eduardo Chillida, From Within (1953)
It hangs like a chandelier designed to throw shade. You cannot walk beneath it without speculating on your own death. And it’s made of iron, technology of another age. The view’s not so great from...
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Nick Davies, From Tippex Forms (i-iv) (2014)
It’s a curious thing. It is hoped that not many typos find their way from this keyboard onto your screen. But a recent blog post for Bad at Sports had at least three. My very bad. What made it strange...
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