I have a kind of love-hate relationship with Miles Aldridge’s work. Sometimes I love the bright images with dramatic posing and at other times I find his photographs garish and forced. On show at Somerset House is a display of admiration to female beauty. At times the images are so saturated they cease to look […]
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Before learning about the opening of the new summer exhibition at the National Portrait exhibition I had never previously heard of Laura Knight. Considering I have just spent my last semester at university studying the foundations of the Royal Academy and British art up until the early 20th century it was a crying shame. For […]
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I often find exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery to be a little hit and miss. It is such a big gallery space that sometimes it feels like the curators have packed it with many ‘filler’ pieces – those which are on display to make up gaps in shows but aren’t necessarily memorable, or dare I […]
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In 1923 Erwin Blumenfeld opened a leather goods store in Amsterdam. It specialised in ladies handbags and the business went bankrupt in 1935. He had started off his working career as an apprentice dressmaker and would go on to become one of the highest paid and most sought after fashion photographers of the 20th century. […]
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Despite being well-established and critically acclaimed in the states, Ellen Gallagher is little talked of in Britain. This Summer Tate Modern is playing host to her first significant solo show in the UK with a retrospective which covers various art forms and themes. What is immediately apparent among Gallagher’s oeuvre is a strong interest in […]
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