Acts of Creation: On Motherhood in Art

06.05.2025

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, installation view, 2025, DCA. Photos by Ruth Clark

Curated by Hettie Judah, this powerful Hayward Touring exhibition addresses one of European art history's blind spots, presenting artworks that explore the true realities of motherhood. Jen McLaren reviews...

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Process, Process, Process

By Lena Kammerer, 29.04.2025

Process, Process, Process, exhibition install photo

Organised in partnership with Aberdeen Artists Society, this exhibition delves into the often invisible labour, tools, and inspirations that underpin artistic practice. Lena Kammerer reviews.

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Steve McQueen: Grenfell

By Patricia-Ann Young, 03.04.2025

Steve McQueen Grenfell 2019 still courtesy the artist

McQueen forces us to look, look and look again, even when all we want is to look away, writes Patricia-Ann Young about Steve McQueen's confronting film about Grenfell

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Wings of a Butterfly

By Greg Thomas, 28.03.2025

Pierre Bonnard 'Garden at Le Canet', c. 1943. Photograph by John McKenzie

“I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly” wrote Pierre Bonnard in 1947. The statement is the starting point for Ingleby’s current exhibition, which brings together 12 artists that explore Bonnard’s inheritances in contemporary painting and sculpture. Greg Thomas reviews.

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Petra Bauer: Sisters!

By Greg Thomas, 19.03.2025

Petra Bauer, Sisters!, 2011, digital film, 123mins, still. © Petra Bauer. Courtesy the artist.

Petra Bauer's 2011 film Sisters! is an assemblage of fly-on-the-wall footage that drops viewers into the interior spaces and working lives of the West London charity Southall Black Sisters. Now showing at The Fruitmarket, it offers a sometimes harrowing but ultimately uplifting glimpse of feminist activism in the UK, writes Greg Thomas.

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Jack Vettriano (1951–2025)

By Neil Cooper, 05.03.2025

Jack Vettriano, At The Party (c1990). The Fleming Collection

Jack Vettriano, who as died aged 73, was one of the most successful contemporary Scottish artists ever. His success may have been self-made, but he remained a people’s painter to the end writes Neil Cooper.

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