Virginia Bodman’s paintings and drawings investigate, and give form and presence to ideas about the nature of memory, absence, and exile. Her current work centers on notions of remembrance and celebrates the durability and communicativeness of “things.” She uses a rich mix of visual material drawn from heraldry, nature, 19th-century paintings, and arcane domestic paraphernalia. […]

Sharon Wilson is trained as a painter, but has since developed her career as a multimedia artist and curator who uses video, found objects, digital imagery, drawings, and sound. Interested in the media as a divisive tool for shaping public motivations, as well as looking at the edifices of architecture, of which social control is […]

Natalie Frost works broadly in the medium of print, producing pieces in Braille, laser-cut vinyl, neon, and screen print. Materials and visual content are sourced from familiar mass published/printed items such as public information documents, branding, currency, and wallpaper. Looking increasingly at text and the boundaries of what we define and recognize as language, her […]

This work is drawn from a larger series, Designated Sites of Tranquility, which explores the idea of tranquility and mapping, and responds to research carried out by geographers at the University of Northumbria (UNN). The researchers conducted a social survey that looked at what people think makes the countryside tranquil. This information was then analyzed […]

“I’m not with the victims, but with those making amends,” says Raphaël Dallaporta. The photographer has set up his camera where it happened. He has tried to go beyond the suffering of individual fates, his only certainty being his documentary conviction. Dallaporta doesn’t photograph what’s happening. He doesn’t cover the event; he’s not the news […]

The work, Tremors, a large-scale floor installation simulating cracked earth, is based on a photograph of a dried mud flat, splintered by desiccation cracks. The floor piece is made of MDF boards that were scraped and chiseled. One of my associations to this piece is Walter De Maria’s Earth Room (1977, New York) but, unlike […]

A 24-carat-gold leaf wall painting, a 40-meter-high design on a tower block, and a 5,000-word film script handwritten directly on the gallery walls are brought together in the South London Gallery’s exhibition, Nothing is Forever. Celebrating the completion of the South London Gallery’s £2-million building project, this ambitious group show puts on display wall paintings, […]

Spring Outing is a group project carried out by 12 young artists based in Hangzhou, China. They are: Deng Ji-Yun, Gu Xian-Ye, Hao Xing, Hong Wei, Jin Ya-Nan, Li Wen-Qiang, Lu Yi, Wang Ke-Wei, Xu Shi-Jun, Zhang Wei, Zhang Yi-Shen, and Zhou Ming. The idea for the project came from a game called Big Millionaire. […]

My drawings are usually made in graphite on paper. They are based on photographs that are either taken of places I am visiting or found, which are worked and reworked through successive rubbing out. The successive rubbing out creates a surface that gives the impression that the world is in a process of dissolving. The […]

“Yes” was Marcel Duchamp’s reply at every point scored in the tennis match he and Man Ray played the first time they met in 1915. They played without racquets, nets, or a ball, and neither one spoke the other’s language. It was in the countryside of New Jersey at an artist colony where Man Ray […]