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SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Jan 8, 2025 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

Sonia Boyce, Exquisite Tension, 2006, Single-channel HD colour video with sound and archive colour photographic print. Video duration: 4 minutes © Sonia Boyce.All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024Courtesy of the artist, APALAZZO GALLERY and Hauser & Wirth GalleryEXHIBITIONSonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation at Whitechapel GallerySometimes, the only true way to tell if an artwork has made an impact on us is to work out if it's made us feel something.
Photographer Vlad Zorin on Love, Hate and Everything In Between

Dec 2, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

Minutes before I interview the France-based Russian photographer Vlad Zorin on Zoom, I flick through one of my most cherished books, Amour: How the French Talk About Love by journalist and documentary maker Stephanie Rousselle. You could argue this act was done in preparation for the interview, (I admittedly did have a hunch some stories would be of interest to Zorin, based on the complex nature of romance embedded in his work) but in truth, it was much more simple than that.
Gucci’s Triumphant Ode to London

Nov 24, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

The human moths about the lightDash and cling close in dazed delight,And burn and laugh, the world and wife,For this is London, this is life!A stanza taken from A Ballad of London – Richard Le GallienneThe Barbican Estate, designed by the firm of architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in the 1960s, Central London, 1971. Photo Evening Standard / Hulton Archive via Getty ImagesLondoners may just be some of the most miserable people you've ever met. Why?
SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Nov 20, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

'With Love from France' (2024), Vlad Zorin. Courtesy the Artist and Upsilon GalleryEXHIBITIONWhy Vlad Zorin’s Unmasked Exhibition at Upsilon Gallery Is as Spectacularly Shocking as It Is Intimate'Some time ago, I started asking questions - questions about my own sexuality and my country. People were also asking me questions. The most common one being, 'Vlad, are you gay?' I didn't really have an answer. So, I embarked on this journey of interviewing other young men to find one.
SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Nov 13, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

EXHIBITIONArtist Laura Footes Brings Tracey Emin on Board To Curate Her Debut Solo Exhibition at the Carl Freedman Gallery, A Healing DreamThe magic of one's interior world has provided endless inspiration for artists past and present and Margate-based painter Laura Footes - who is also part of Tracey Emin's TKE Studios program - is no different.
When Artists Become Parents, Parenthood Becomes Art

Nov 13, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

Aldo van den Broek and Johnny Mae Hauser have more in common than you think. Yes, they're both artists who use their work as a leverage for self-discovery and reflection but they're also romantically intertwined; bound by a kinship that inspires them as people as well as artists.
SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Nov 6, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

Say Goodbye To SHOWstudio's SHADOW-BAN exhibitionIf you haven't managed to make your way down to 22D Ebury Street yet to see our seminal exhibition SHADOW-BAN, then what have you been doing? Including art by Peter Saville, Von Wolfe, Tom of Finland, Harley Weir, George Rouy, Simon Foxton and more - you'd have to have a very good reason to miss this.
SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Oct 30, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

The Black Ear by Ken Currie, 2023 ©Antonio Parente, courtesy of Flowers GalleryKen Currie Presents The Crossing at Flowers GalleryKnown for his mesmerisingly haunting depictions of mortality, once you know the key ingredients to a Currie painting, identifying any piece of work by the artist becomes second nature.
Horses vs Humans: Welcome to Patrick H. Jones' Exhibition 'Target'

Oct 28, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue

The horse as a motif has drawn thousands of artists over thousands of years; Franz Marc, George Stubbs and Pablo Picasso included. Heck, even an entire art movement sprouted from Marc's own horse studies titled Der Blaue Reiter, (The Blue Rider) in 1909, marking the beginning of German Expressionism and including artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. But what symbolism does this animal carry, if any at all?
SHOWNews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

Oct 23, 2024 | showstudio.com | Christina Donoghue |Jack Davison

'Vogue: Inventing the Runway' at LightRoomEXHIBITIONVogue: Inventing the Runway at LightRoomPulling on Vogue's extensive archive to create a cinematic experience that explores the history of the fashion runway show while bringing together the industry’s leading voices from the past, present, and future, Vogue: Inventing the Runway honours the catwalk while also revolutionising how we experience exhibitions. What is a fashion show and why do they have so much power to cause a furore?