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With “Fix Your Face” at Spike Island, London-born and -based artist Olu Ogunnaike holds a mirror up to Bristol’s colonial history. In June of 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Just weeks ago, Colston’s smeared effigy found a new resting place in an outlying gallery of the city’s […]

The academic rigor of Entangled Pasts is counterbalanced by the poignant responses by contemporary artists and some astonishingly inspired curating.

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change' takes over the main galleries of the Royal Academy until 28th April 2024.

The twin exhibitions will open on February 3 and run for three months

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Neglected public green spaces can be resurrected with a bit of hard work and community spirit

MARGATE NOW announces artists, partners and projects for Sunken Ecologies Sadie Hennessy, Sunken Ecologies, 2021. MARGATE .-MARGATE NOW announces the artists, partners and projects for the 2021 Sunken Ecologies festival programme curated by Anna Colin, with permanent commissions by Nicolas Deshayes, Lindsey Mendick and Olu Ogunnaike, and commissions for the festival duration by headline artists Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Chodzko, Kim Conway, Sonia Overall, Christina Peake, Shamica Ruddock, Holly...

Reconfiguring the figure in contemporary art Reconfiguring the figure in contemporary art At Timothy Taylor, New York, a new exhibition, ‘Reconfigured’ – featuring work by Polly Brown – invites us to re-examine the body as a subject Polly Brown,  Photography: Theo Christelis. Courtesy the artist and Timothy Taylor, London / New York In ‘Reconfigured’, curated by Rose Easton, the work of ten UK-based artists spanning painting, sculpture, photography, print, film, and animation, c...

Olu Ogunnaike’s Radical Revival of London Plane Trees A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities  For London Plain (all works 2020) – a site-specific installation that reclaims Cell Project Space from its temporary, pandemic-induced programming hiatus – Olu Ogunnaike has covered the gallery’s original floor with a herringbone parquet. The artist sourced the lumber from London plane trees, which,...