Lucy Phelan
‘Stories, fables and tails’ at The Tipperary Excel Centre in August is my first solo show and I am very excited at the prospect of seeing ALL the pieces hang together for the very first time. It has been an exciting journey, sometimes peppered with panic and the odd low moment of frustration and doubt. My work deals with story telling. I make big storybook pages, often involving text. I am influenced by icons and altar-panels. I work...
Survival chosen as Art London charity
Survival has been chosen as one of the charities for Art London (6-10 October 2011). To coincide Ghislain Pascal, Director of The Little Black Gallery and long time supporter of Survival, has curated an exhibition of photographs which will all be sold in aid of Survival’s work for threatened tribal peoples. They include some of the greatest names in contemporary photography: Bob Carlos Clarke, Harry Cory Wright, Raymond Depardon,...
Lucian Freud dies at 88
Tributes have been paid to the British artist, Lucian Freud, who has died at his home in London at the age of 88. A grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, he was born in Berlin in 1922 and moved with his family to England in the early 1930s to escape Nazi persecution. The Tate Gallery said his early paintings redefined British art and his later works stand comparison with the great figurative painters of any period....
Turner Contemporary flourishing
How art and culture has turned the tide for Margate – Turner Contemporary reaches 156,000 visits in 3 months Only 3 months after opening Turner Contemporary passed its 12 month target of 156,000 visits. The 156,000th visitor, Edoardo Pacchett from Monza, Italy was congratulated and presented with a bottle of Kentish sparkling wine by Director Victoria Pomery. Ms Pomery said, “It is fantastic to have hit our visitor target so...