2025
This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer.
2024
Leonora Carrington spent much of her childhood feeling out of place and not at home.
As we approach Christmas, artist monographs are increasingly appearing on the market, so I begin the October Art Diary with several, which are also linked to launch exhibitions.
鈥楲unar Lullabies鈥� is an exemplary exhibition that showcases inspiration, design, community engagement, and accessibility.
David Lock has unveiled his latest exhibition, 鈥淚n-between Us,鈥� at the Firstsite in Colchester.
A graduate of the legendary East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, this local girl found her form in middle age with a series of vivid landscapes
2023
A new exhibition has filled Firstsite with bold and beautiful paintings 鈥� an immediacy of colour and energy 鈥� commanding the space with their vibrancy and confidence.
Where will you find creative inspiration this autumn? Don鈥檛 miss our guide to some of this month鈥檚 most exciting exhibitions.
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Firstsite Colchester, Newport Street Gallery and Salisbury Cathedral.
The first solo exhibition by the artist Evewright is opening in Colchester this weekend.
A 14-year-old boy has collaborated with Ed Sheeran, Grayson Perry and other artists for a project that has raised more than 拢160,000 for charity.
鈥淚t aspires to be thought-provoking, funny, serious, attractive and fun,鈥� says Lucas of her new all-women exhibition in Colchester, which includes work by Gillian Wearing, Maggi Hambling and Sue Webster.
2023 begins in Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.
2022
The name Denis Wirth-Miller is invariably coupled with that of his lifelong partner, Richard Chopping, and their close friend of many years, Francis Bacon.
Before his death in Colchester aged 94, Wirth-Miller鈥檚 work had been shown in London's leading galleries and acquired by the Queen, the Arts Council England and Contemporary Art Society.