Anna McNay

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Articles

Edvard Munch Portraits

1 month ago | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

The artist’s portraits have flown under the radar, but getting to know his sitters reveals a lot about Munch himself Installation view, Edvard Munch Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2025. © David Parry.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

2 months ago | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood Mickalene Thomas, Afro Goddess Looking Forward, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel, 60 x 96 in (152.4 x 243.8 cm). © Mickalene Thomas.
Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed

2 months ago | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

The lesser-known of two successful sisters is given her rightful place in 20th-century history thanks to an assiduous gallerist and loyal friend Hélène de Beauvoir. Amar Gallery, London 23 January – 30 March 2025 by ANNA McNAY As an only child, I have never known the misery of being a second child destined to only ever be second best. This was something Hélène de Beauvoir (1910-2001) lived with from the day she was born.
Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol

Feb 11, 2025 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

There are no buts! This small exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath has considered every angle and every detail and the result truly is a bijou gem Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol, installation view, Holburne Museum, Bath. Photo: Jo Hounsome. Holburne Museum, Bath 24 January – 5 May 2025 by ANNA McNAY An exhibition on portraiture at the Holburne Museum, renowned for its 18th-century collection? Hmm, so what’s new?
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

Jan 17, 2025 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

This delightful if dark exhibition brings ‘Mrs Eric Ravilious’ out of the shadow of her husband, ensuring that, in future, she is known in her own right as Tirzah Garwood Tirzah Garwood, Etna, 1944. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Fleece Press/Simon Lawrence.
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words

Nov 27, 2024 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

While medieval texts may best be understood as a collaborative production, not deriving from a single authorial voice, this blockbuster exhibition nevertheless successfully presents medieval women – from and in all walks of life – in their own words Prayer book made for Queen Joanna I of Castile, Bruges (modern-day Belgium),1486–1586. © British Library Board.
Lindsey Mendick - interview: ‘My brain is not my best friend’

Nov 25, 2024 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up Lindsey Mendick (b1987, London) is most definitely a name to watch, although, if you’re only being made aware of her now, where have you been?
Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches

Nov 21, 2024 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

There is so much to be said, and much still to be learned, about this one astounding and complex painting, and this two-year evolving display at Compton Verney hopes to offer an enlightening introduction Unknown artist, Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches, c1655 (detail). Oil on canvas, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire, UK.
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c1504

Nov 14, 2024 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

Set in Florence at the turn of the 16th century, this exhibition is a portrait of drawing, every bit as much as it is a lively tale of three renowned artists Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John the Baptist (The Burlington House Cartoon), c1506-08 (detail). Charcoal with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, 141.5 x 104.6 cm. The National Gallery, London.
Mali Morris - interview: ‘A phrase that I use as a mantra is “What if?”’

Sep 26, 2024 | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

In the run up to her exhibition at Hatton Gallery, Morris talks about her processes of applying and removing paint and the dynamic between planning and chance As Mali Morris (b1945, north Wales) prepares to turn 80 in February, she returns to Newcastle upon Tyne, where she first went as a student in 1963, to showcase a survey of her paintings from 1978 to today.