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.
Cynthia Hawkins Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D: Chapter 4
Cynthia Hawkins
Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D: Chapter 4
★★★☆☆
On until 1 November 2025
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Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, Delaine Le Bas
Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, Delaine Le Bas
Turner Prize 2024
★★☆☆☆
Even the artists approach this edition with ennui.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips
Inside, Before They Speak
★★★★☆
No object exists without its double, no form without an opposite. Phillips’s dainty assemblies of ceramic, steel, and PVC tube exist only as much as something else—the artist’s body and mind, for example—took a lead in shaping them. The resulting…
Abel Auer
Abel Auer
The shadow of tomorrow draws an ancient silhouette
★★★☆☆
Auer is more interested in the fate of painting than humanity and thus stands apart from the army of zealots who make eco art today.
Florian Meisenberg
Florian Meisenberg
What does the smoke know of the fire?
★★★★☆
Meisenberg’s paintings are either the product of a conspiracy or documents of a conspiracy theory.
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Fils, ta vision!
★☆☆☆☆
There’s little for the eye to hang on and none of the punk culture of Relph’s earlier practice emerges from the works.
Kate Burling, Anna Choutova, Douglas Cantor, Nettle Grellier, Gosia Kołdraszewska, Lydia Pettit, Olivia Sterling, Sophie Vallance Cantor
Kate Burling, Anna Choutova, Douglas Cantor, Nettle Grellier, Gosia Kołdraszewska, Lydia Pettit, Olivia Sterling, Sophie Vallance Cantor
Cherry Bomb!
★★☆☆☆
An exhibition about… cherries confuses Chekhov with Nabokov.
