Cynthia Hawkins

Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D: Chapter 4

★★★☆☆

On until 1 November 2025

Context is everything, as a judge once proclaimed. That context might need contexts, too, and Hawkins says her canvases throw back to some others, which, in turn, root their ideas in an event now too distant to recall. The verdict? Nice story, but it’s nonsense. Hawkins’s wet paint abstractions – colour washes straight out of the tube, unmixed – transparently overplay reference and recall. Painter’s tape and oil bars – what is being tied to what here? – make for barely circumstantial evidence. Left to her own devices, Hawkins (whose work, in company, was a highlight in the Condo jumble programme) reveals that her studio was no crime scene. 


notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:

Noah Davis at The Barbican ★★★☆☆

Advanced Views (view_652561e84c4ab) template: Can't write template file

Advanced Views (view_65875b3a6405b) template: Can't write template file

Davis’ canvases give an account of time more sensitively than the Victorian portrait photograph

Willie Doherty, Remnant at Matt’s Gallery ★★★☆☆

Willie Doherty

Remnant

★★★☆☆

Doherty’s tragipoetic timing can be masterly.

I’m so gay for you at Miłość ★★☆☆☆

Advanced Views (view_652561e7b35ac) template: Can't write template file

★★☆☆☆

This “celebration of queerness” is no orgy

Botond Keresztesi, NPC (No-one Paints Chrysopoeia) at Seventeen ★★★☆☆

Advanced Views (view_652561e84c4ab) template: Can't write template file

Advanced Views (view_652561e7b35ac) template: Can't write template file

★★★☆☆

There is no “too much” in this fantasy meme game.

Thibault Aedy, Dilara Koz at Filet ★★★☆☆

Thibault Aedy, Dilara Koz

Caressed and Polished and Drained and Washed

★★★☆☆

These ideas can’t last beyond the pop-up show’s closing date.

Medusa at Union Gallery ★★★☆☆

Ada Bond, Rebecca Davy, Karen Densha, Sam Owen Hull, Hilary Jack, Rachel Goodyear, Evita Ziemele, et al.

Medusa

★★★☆☆

Interpreting a tale this grotesque, ugly, and venomous will take thousands of years

×