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Maria Balshaw on her choice of
Between the Two my Heart is Balanced
Currently at Tate St Ives, this is a powerful expression of black female creativity. Two women command the foreground, their ocean journey taking them to a destination we don’t know. The bars of colour between them, the artist says, are maps the women have rejected and torn; the painting suggests the women are re-navigating histories and geographies from a female perspective. This alternative exploration of the movement of peoples suggests an open and empowering future a message that resonates with me.
Maria Balshaw is the director of the Tate
Bob and Roberta Smith s All Schools Should Be Art Schools banner Courtesy of the artist
“Revoke the policy proposals and ensure the continuation of a UK success story. Art is essential to the growth of this country,” says the letter, which is addressed to Gavin Williamson, the education secretary. Other signatories include Zoé Whitley, the director of the Chisenhale Gallery; Alistair Hudson, the director of the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester; and the Turner prize-winning artist Helen Cammock.
Higher education is a fundamental right of all people in this country, the signatories say. “This proposal will detract from one of the UK’s fastest-growing economies. The creative industries contributed £116bn in GVA [gross value added] in 2019 and supports one in every 16 jobs.”
By Lowie Trevena, Wednesday May 12, 2021
The intersection between arts, health and wellbeing is the focus of one of Bristol Photo Festival‘s first summer exhibitions to open.
Jo Spence: From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy runs from May 18 to June 20 at the Arnolfini and celebrates Spence’s work as a photo therapist, in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma.
Described as an “underdog” in the art world, the month-long exhibition will explore how Spence used photography as a tool to raise difficult questions and call out the social inequalities that they experienced or witnessed.
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Exhibition presents work by Phoebe Boswell while she was sequestered at home during the UK s lockdown
Phoebe Boswell, Notes on a Lockdown: World View VI, 2021. Pastel on paper, 44 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Sapar Contemporary announces Still Life: A Taxonomy of Being, the gallerys second solo exhibition of work by Phoebe Boswell. The exhibition features 49 drawings, watercolors, and pastels created between December 2020 and April 2021, while Boswell was sequestered at home during the UKs third government-mandated lockdown. The artworks and the sound of Boswell breathing fill the gallery, encapsulating a time in which breath became perilous and, for many, devices functioned as the primary mediators of being and belonging.