With consummate skill and dedication Ming Smith has created an extraordinary body of work over the last sixty years. Smith’s … More
Category: Other writing
Water pouring through the sink
Wellcome has commissioned five photographers from five different countries for The Covid-19 Anxiety Project, which coincides with the submission period for … More
Gin Rimmington Jones / The Writing of Stones
The ground floor of Argentea Gallery is hung with seventeen black and white prints shot on location in the partial … More
Kadie Salmon: Restlessly Idling
Kadie Salmon is best known for large-scale black and white photographs, hand-tinted to give a dream-like luminosity, sometimes folded into … More
Everything Looks Different in the Dark: a review of ‘Velvet Black’ by Fleur Olby and ‘Night Blooms’ by Angus Carlyle
Fleur Olby’s ‘Velvet Black’ (2018) and Angus Carlyle’s ‘Night Blooms’ (2020) contain photographs of flowers and other natural phenomena in … More
A Q&A with… Lauren Gault
For her first show in England at Grand Union in Birmingham, Glasgow-based artist Lauren Gault has produced a new body … More
Dragana Jurišić Interview
Former Yugoslavian artist, Dragana Jurišić, who has been based in Dublin for almost twenty years, has developed a beautiful and … More
Artists, curating and disability: “We need to shift the notion of the curator as an author to somebody that listens”
A recent event at MAC in Birmingham brought practitioners and curators together to interrogate ‘the (in)visibility of disabled artists’. Anneka … More
A Q&A with… Barbara Walker
The Birmingham-based artist’s exhibition ‘Vanishing Point’ addresses the underrepresentation of black figures in Western history and presents a new group … More
Madrid: A reflection and an anticipation
A text produced via interview in anticipation of a residency visit to Madrid, 2016, with IED and Grain Photography Hub. … More
Anneka French 