Don McCullin’s ‘Shaped by War’ Both the persona and work of Don McCullin, conflict photographer and self confessed “war junkie”, have always held a mesmeric allure over me.
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Archives 2009 L O N D O N G R I P online art exhibition A late life adventure: the watercolours of JAMES N.BUTCHER Little Venice, Regents Canal, Maida Vale, London. 20 February 2004 NEW PATHS by James N. Butcher Professor Emeritus of Psychology University of Minnesota Many people possess unrecognized or dormant abilities that are never expressed in […]
Londongrip retrospective art exhibition – Michael Horovitz The paintings on this page are a selection from the work of Michael Horovitz, well-known British poet, performer and artist
LONDON GRIP exhibition Sandra Walker R.I. – Six Watercolours: New York – what painting makes of photography
A London Grip online exhibition of Girlie Paintings by Daphne Plessner
Ilinca Cantacuzino reviews an exhibtion by Miranda Argyle “From where I’m looking, Mr Lekeux”
The Arts in Romania A report for London Grip on the regeneration of the arts in Romania
Phillip Kotokwa – sculptor in stone from Zimbabwe
400 Women: an exhibition by Tamsyn Challenger Curator: Gemma Rolls-Bentley
An art istallation in a West Dulwich church
Clare Doyle rediscovers Andy Warhol on a rainy afternoon …
I first came across the work of Delhi born artist Dayanita Singh in an exhibition and book, Myself Mona Ahmed (2001), a photo-essay about an aging eunuch transsexual (hijra) living in a graveyard in Old Delhi. In this extraordinary body of work – the book contains various different kinds of text alongside the photographs) – one sensed not only compassion, but a collaboration between the person in front of the camera, and the one looking through the lens.
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