Gifford’s lazy assemblages of textiles and oil paint – applied so thickly that it’s a miracle the canvases don’t bring the gallery walls down with them – are interested in little but their own form. A handful, as if to expose the artist’s obsessive yet underdeveloped idea of a masterstroke, incorporate domestic objects like the detritus of the laundry room or scraps of the bedroom curtain. Whatever stories these compositions bore in the artist’s studio, in the collector’s home they’ll only gather dust.
Lydia Gifford Low Anchored Cloud
Lydia Gifford
Low Anchored Cloud
★★☆☆☆
On until 13 April 2024
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Nanténé Traoré
Nanténé Traoré
She says it's the high energy
★★☆☆☆
Bodies clash with lights in front of Traoré’s Narcissus camera.
Amanda Wall
Amanda Wall
Femcel
★★★☆☆
There’s no dignity in paint when the arc of art history tends to “show hole”.
looking to the futurepast, we are treading forward
★☆☆☆☆
The contemporary is of no interest to a nation whose future is yet to be dug out from the ground.
Christo
Christo
Early Works
★★★★☆
To appreciate Christo’s early works against his wishes, one must forget his later stunts.
Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick
The Sleepwalkers
★★★☆☆
Gillick’s practice lacks obviously consistent character, save for it is sparseness of means and the ungraspability of its referents.
Renate Bertlmann, Cullinan Richards, Ayla Dmyterko, Permindar Kaur, Rebecca Parkin, Tai Shani, Penny Slinger, Georgina Starr, Unyimeabasi Udoh
Renate Bertlmann, Cullinan Richards, Ayla Dmyterko, Permindar Kaur, Rebecca Parkin, Tai Shani, Penny Slinger, Georgina Starr, Unyimeabasi Udoh
Bitch Magic
★★★☆☆
There will be no women when this spell breaks. And no need for magic, either.
