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Thomas Philips lord Byron on tour from @NPGLondon with the coming home project @Newstead_Abbey is brilliant - makes such a difference seeing it in a space he inhabited 💛really pleased I saw this it’s changed my whole view on the artwork 👍
Paula Rego @MK_Gallery contains some absolute gems - The Pillowman triptych in particular so emotive + deeply effecting. Portuguese tones and landscapes add to how fantastical, rich and harrowing these layered images are - I was unable to look away from pilowman.
Pre meeting daydreaming with Anthony Van Dykes ‘Drurnken Silenus supported by Satyrs c1620 @NationalGallery - fleshy silliness, characture and the most beautiful teqnique come together here. Extravagant ( date I say camp? ) this piece brims with life 👌
Lande @Pitt_Rivers such an emotional space - surviving delicate and touching pieces of art on the brutal reality of migration in camps such as ‘the jungle’ - a powerful exhibition with ethics and purpose 👍
17th century treasures in art from @DulwichGallery 💛my first visit and loved it, staff incredibly nice too feels very welcoming
Herald Sohlberg @DulwichGallery really captivating - dramatic shifts in medium and detail culminate in the final space looking at spirituality. Atmospheric, experimental at times with pronounced twinges of melancholy for me, beautiful stuff 💛
Research trip to lovely @BM_AG and spent some time daydreaming in front of the Rubens piece on James 1st c1632 - poignant to consider the finished commission at the Banqueting House in Whitehall was the last artwork James’s son Charles 1st saw before his execution.
Evening trip to @The_Herbert catching up with colleagues and seeing the new exhibitions 👍big congrats to @NilupaYasmin_ for her amazing sculpture intervention and the CASE artists for their show ⭐️please do go if you can and send love to local artists and emerging talent 👌
Painting Childhood exhibition @ComptonVerney a really intelligent and emotional space. Elegant classical spaces and masterpieces are followed by thoughtful and warm contemporary studies - jaw dropping collection of national works too ⭐️
Visit to see the knife angel in Coventry - a powerful reminder what community art can do 💛knives taken from perpetrators inscribed with the names of victims by their families, reshaped into a giant sculpture. So utterly saddened in front of this.