A Hind’s Daughter at the National Gallery
A bleak, skeletal winter’s landscape, expansive fields of cabbages, a young girl at work: Sir James Guthrie’s A Hind’s Daughter incorporates all the elements of the brutality of working country…
Artist Spotlight: Laila Ajjawi
Depicting peace and hope during times of tragedy Laila Ajjawi is a Palestinian graffiti artist who was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp outside of Irbid, Jordan. While…
Rethinking the National Galleries: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw is the most well-known John Singer Sargent painting in the National Galleries. Sargent was a prominent expatriate American impressionist painter, and it was this portrait that…
The art world’s anti-war message
Bob and Roberta Smith’s emphatic 1997 painting reads “MAKE ART NOT WAR.” But what about making art about war? With the wars and violence taking place across the world right…
Review: ‘Conversations with the Collection’ at the Modern One
Branded as a “new way to experience the nation’s collection,” Modern Art One’s ‘Conversations with the Collection’ is an example of the Scottish National Galleries’ interest in unfamiliar curatorial techniques.…
Review: ‘Your Art World’ at The National
Your Art World was curated for an audience of children to make the gallery space more accessible and a space they could relate to. However, I would encourage students to…
Review: ‘Decades – The Art of Change’ at the Modern Two
To say the 20th Century saw immense changes in art would perhaps be an understatement. The Modern Two’s exhibition ‘Decades: The Art of Change’ transports us through the world of…
Review: Monarchs of the Glen: From Whisky to Wes Anderson at Doveot studios
To commemorate 150 years since the death of Sir Edwin Landseer, Dovecot Studios is currently exhibiting Monarchs of the Glen: From Whisky to Wes Anderson. Curated by Christopher Baker, he…