Landscape art used to be described as a way of looking at the world. Now it is often a way of reading what is happening to it. That shift is one of the most important changes in co
Something has changed in the way people look at images. We are surrounded by them more completely than ever, and many of them now arrive with a new kind of smoothness. They can be
If you have ever stood in a gallery looking at a plain cube, a row of repeated forms, a short sentence on a wall, or an ordinary object placed with unusual seriousness, you may hav
Shadows are one of the quietest forces in art, but they do some of the heaviest work. They build atmosphere, shape space, suggest time, direct attention and transform ordinary scen
Andy Warhol remains one of the few artists whose work is recognised even by people who do not usually follow art history. A stack of soup cans, a repeated image of Marilyn Monroe,
If surreal art feels unusually familiar at the moment, that is probably because daily life already contains many of the conditions surrealist artists once tried to visualise. We li
If you have ever seen a sculpture made from coal, cloth, branches, wax, mirrors, stone or even living matter and wondered how something so apparently rough, ordinary or unfinished
Set within the riverside setting of Town Quay Studios, re{current} brings together two local artists whose work is shaped by change, material and a close attention to place. Runnin
Sussex has long held a special place in British art. Its chalk cliffs, open sea, rolling Downs, wooded interior and distinctive coastal towns create a landscape that feels both var
Britain has always looked seaward. As an island nation, the coast is never far away, either geographically or imaginatively. It appears in British art as a place of work, danger, m
