British Art News
The latest news in Modern and Contemporary British Art.
by Alex Leith
MARTYN R MACKRILL
If Martyn Mackrill hadn’t been a marine artist, he would almost certainly have become a marine engineer.
CLAES OLDENBURG
Pace Gallery have announced the sad passing of the Swedish-born American artist Claes Oldenburg, on Monday July 18, aged 93.
BAWDEN, RAVILIOUS AND THE ART OF GREAT BARDFIELD
Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious met on their first day at the Royal College of Art in 1922, and immediately became firm friends.
LUCIAN FREUD: THE PAINTER AND HIS FAMILY
The exhibition includes Freud’s only known sculpture, The Three-legged Horse (1937) and early paintings, including The Palm Tree (1944), gifted to his aunt, Anna. There will also be better-known works, drawn from galleries and private collections, ranging across the artist’s 60-year career.
DRAWN TO WAR
The first week's bookings for Margy Kinmonth's new feature-length documentary about Eric Ravilious have way exceeded expectations and this carefully crafted, poignant movie will be showing in cinemas around the country, throughout the summer.
DIANA ARMFIELD
Browse & Darby have represented the painter Diana Armfield since 1979, and the Cork Street gallery will display her Centenary Exhibition – postponed since 2020 – until July 28.
R.B. KITAJ AT PIANO NOBILE
Piano Nobile have announced their representation of the estate of the late American-born painter R.B. Kitaj, who spent the bulk of his prolific working life in England.
KERRY HARDING: EDGE OF DAY
Kerry Harding lives in Cornwall, and the Cornish landscape is the subject of her work.
INTERVIEW WITH JAMES HYMAN
‘We established James Hyman Fine Art in 1999 to specialise in post-war British art. This was the area I focused on for my PhD at the Courtauld Institute, so it was wonderful to develop this passion.’
PAULA REGO
The news was broken to the world by Victoria Miro, the gallery which has represented her since 2020.
VICTOR WILLING
The Mayfair gallery Timothy Taylor has announced its representation of the Estate of Victor Willing.
POSTWAR MODERN: NEW ART IN BRITAIN 1945-65
How did the horrors of WW2 change the shape of British art?
BRITISH ART FAIR SUPPORTS RACE AGAINST DEMENTIA CHARITY
British Art Fair is pleased to be supporting the installation of ‘Red Highland Stag During Rut’, a life-size bronze sculpture by the renowned British sculptor Tessa Campbell Fraser FRBS
LUCY WERTHEIM
Towner Eastbourne has unveiled two interconnected exhibitions which reveal the galvanising role played in the birth of Modern British art by a little-remembered art-world pioneer, Lucy Wertheim.
BARBARA HEPWORTH IN AMSTERDAM
The show has been guest-curated by Hepworth’s granddaughter, the art historian Sophie Bowness.
ADVENTURE IN ART
In 1930 Lucy Wertheim was showing a French friend around London, and she felt ashamed that no art gallery was dedicated to representing contemporary British artists painting in the ‘Modern’ style.
MASTERPIECE LONDON
Masterpiece London, one of the set-piece events in the English summer calendar, opens on Thursday June 30 2022.
MODERN BRITISH EXHIBITION AT OSBORNE SAMUEL
This summer’s highly anticipated Modern British collection at Osborne Samuel includes a number of pieces that have not been seen publicly for a very long time.
BLAST, BRITISH ART FAIR’S NEW MAGAZINE EDITED BY COLIN GLEADELL
British Art Fair is pleased to announce the launch of BLAST, the first art market magazine to focus entirely on Modern and Contemporary British art.
WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM AND JONATHAN MICHAEL RAY
The pairing of these two seemingly disparate artists serves, interestingly, to reveal what it is that they share: not just a deep connection with the mysterious and ancient landscape of West Cornwall, but a brilliantly diverse creativity.