Anna Moderato – In Use
Anna Moderato, Untitled (2012) The work of Anna Moderato hangs in balance. Still, her sculptures are brim-full of potential movement; they contain motion just as an unstruck tuning fork holds its note....
View ArticleNaum Gabo: Dances in Space
Some time between 1941 and 1946, whilst living in Cornwall alongside artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo made for his daughter Nina a tiny, exquisite ‘toy’. Under a plastic dome...
View ArticleInterview with Felicity Powell
Situated on the Grand Union Canal, flanked by the railway and the Harrow Road, and crowned by the odd concrete elegance of the Westway, Felicity Powell’s studio is surrounded by a strange confluence of...
View ArticleCompendium Wentworthium
“We’re in King’s Cross. We’re even in a place in King’s Cross you couldn’t get to by accident… it has to be a destination.” If there is one thing Richard Wentworth is interested in, it’s context. We...
View ArticleHouse Guests – Archaic Stele
House Guests catalogue, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. An interview followed by a personal response to a cast of an Archaic Stele lent to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, as part of the House Guests exhibition....
View ArticleRoger Hiorns: “A quiet activity in the transformation of forms.”[1]
Roger Hiorns is not here. He was, but he left. The works hum with his departure, a slight frisson, inaudible and alive. Detergent foam drips lethargically from hollows and crevices. Crystal...
View ArticleIn Search of Perfection — an interview with Kitty Clark
There are a number of widely-reported ‘secrets’ to Walt Disney’s parks, part of a popular mythology surrounding the resorts. Beneath The Magic Kingdom there is a network of passages which enable staff...
View ArticleJohn Carter: Art and Process
Based on an interview conducted on 23 January 2013 in the artist’s London studio. On considering the work of John Carter, it is a career that defines exactitude and precision, grounded in theory and...
View ArticleShort Sad Thoughts (1990)
Mark Manders, Short Sad Thoughts, 1990 Short. A length. It gets longer. Pressure makes heaviness felt. Its all just a drag. Dont pull me down with you. The short, sad truth is that its double. The...
View ArticleAcéphale
Young Girl Meditating with Lotus Flower in Her Palm, sculpture in black stone, 10th–11th century A.D., State Museum, Lucknow. This image – statue on red background – is the cover of the Adelphi edition...
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