Tag: sculpture

Tom Dale, Machine Borders (2025)

The Gosport ferry takes five minutes and shuttles back and forth across the Solent all day long. I was very pleased by its existence because Maps was advising me to somehow walk on water to get from Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport Museum and Art Gallery.  As we rode the high…

Daniel Pryde-Jarman at Sidney Nolan Trust

Sidney Nolan Trust is a bucolic arts centre, which nestles in a valley carved out by a glacier. Along with acres of green land, the late Australian artist’s Herefordshire estate comprises a calmly ramshackle residential home, a preserved studio overstocked with spray paint, and an outlying barn which has become…

Karla Black, Waiver for Shade (2021)

Taking a break from her hallmark candy-coloured sculptures, Karla Black has responded to a former warehouse at Fruitmarket with an installation comprising a ton or so of black soil. The light is low, here, in the gallery’s new space. But the minimal illumination is amplified by the introduction of gold…

Interview: Sahej Rahal

The artist appears to have a simple and urgent proposition: to render the past absurd is to neutralise the rhetoric of the political right. Without a golden age to hark about, no one can promise to make America, the UK, or India ‘great again’. And we can instead progress to…

Bob and Roberta Smith, Letter to George Osborne (2015)

You cannot help but wonder: did a 50-line letter painted onto the front and rear of a pair of white radiator units have any incidental effect on government policy? Did it really spark a heated debate? Beyond the headlines about tax credits, the Autumn Statement revealed that the Arts Council…

The Chapman Brothers, Sturm und Drang (2015)

To hear this described, you might imagine something on a more imposing scale: a blasted tree hung with bodies of soldiering age, the reconstruction of a Goya etching. But the truth is, Sturm und Drang looks a bit like a toy. This wicked bronze plays out in the shadow of the…