Rupert Arrowsmith News Today

I’m interested in how words with particular identities and backgrounds—“spirit,” “God,” “thought,” “tranquility”—take part, without comment, and perhaps without full knowledge, in a metamorphosis, a movement across meanings that leads not so much from the “West” to the “East” as, subtly and suggestively, away from the Enlightenment to a new emergence and sense of the “literary.”

His drawings and paintings directly bring to the fore the political, religious and cultural concerns of the early 21st century.

We are witnessing the wholescale hijacking of public space by an interdependent oligarchy of corporate and political special interests