Millen Brown-Ewens

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Freelance Art and Culture Journalist at Freelance

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11 Must-See Exhibitions at London Gallery Weekend 2025

3 days ago | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

For the London art world, it’s been a turbulent few years. From the impact of Brexit, to the economic uncertainty of tariffs in the last few months, there have been myriad challenges. Nonetheless, smaller spaces are increasingly emerging as engines of innovation and experimentation (as shown in Artsy’s 2025 Art Market Trends report). Nowhere is this more evident than at London Gallery Weekend 2025, where the city’s creative dynamism is on full display.
Sex, beauty and the body-how Helen Chadwick shaped British contemporary art

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Millen Brown-Ewens

Provocative, punky and perverse are just a handful of the adjectives often used to describe the work of Helen Chadwick (1953-96). Yet they only hint at the depth of the British artist’s vision. Chadwick was an artist of rare material and emotional literacy and her influence on the language of contemporary British art remains palpable. Chadwick was widely exhibited during her lifetime, but attention to her work declined following her unexpected death in 1996.
Moroccan Photographer Mous Lamrabat’s Vibrant Images Bridge East and West

Jan 30, 2025 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

“Marrakech is one of these places where you don’t have to look for inspiration. It’s always there, it always reaches you,” said Mous Lamrabat in an interview with Artsy. The Moroccan-born, Belgian-raised photographer is known for his sleek, fashion-inspired photographs that channel Morocco’s rich cultural tapestry into iconic visual narratives.
Kenia Almaraz Murillo’s Tapestries Illuminate Threads of Her Bolivian Heritage

Nov 15, 2024 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

When Kenia Almaraz Murillo first arrived in Paris in 2005 at age 11, it was late December and the City of Light beamed through a soft blanket of snow. It’s a memory that the Bolivian artist recalls with fondness. “I had never seen snow before and was completely in awe. It felt so far from home,” she told Artsy as she prepared for her current exhibition at Waddington Custot in London.
This exhibition celebrates feral female desire

Sep 12, 2024 | dazeddigital.com | Millen Brown-Ewens

11 Images The uncaged expression of sexual appetite, free from ego and external projections, is something that generally sits at odds with the reality of the female experience. Women are subject to moral judgments and cultural pressures that dictate how they should express or, more likely, repress their carnal desires.
6 Emerging Indigenous Artists You Should Know

Aug 9, 2024 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

After centuries of being undervalued, marginalized, and misunderstood, Native and Indigenous artists are rightfully claiming their space on the global stage. As many curators forecast in their art trends for 2024, Indigenous artists offering counternarratives to the traditional Western historical record are gaining increased visibility and recognition.
The Next Rising Art Stars, according to Tracey Emin, Frank Bowling, and Other Top Artists

Jun 25, 2024 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

“In the early 1980s Angela and I were interested in exploring artists’ relationships with each other, particularly the kind of support artists were showing in championing each other’s work and career development,” said Matthew Flowers, managing director of Flowers.
Harlem-born artist Tschabalala Self’s colourful ode to the landscape of her childhood

Jun 14, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Millen Brown-Ewens

For Harlem-born artist Tschabalala Self's first solo exhibition in Finland – on show at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA) until May 2025 – she pays homage to her birthplace, assembling and staging a convocation of its inhabitants at ease with their surroundings. The title of the exhibition, ‘Around the Way’, is a Black-American colloquialism that signifies the distinctive characteristics or charms of one’s neighbourhood, evoking a sense of familiarity and belonging.
What Makes a Still Life Good?

Jun 13, 2024 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

Throughout art history, still life was often denigrated as a “lower” form of art. 17th-century Italian painter Andrea Sacchi, for instance, rated it behind landscape painting, and in the 18th century, Royal Academy founding president Joshua Reynolds ranked it lower than landscape, portraits, and history painting. The inanimate and sometimes predictable nature of its subjects—skulls, globes, weighty tomes, and lavish food—has, for centuries, left some art critics cold.
11 Women Artists Who Shaped Post-War Abstraction

Mar 7, 2024 | artsy.net | Millen Brown-Ewens

In the post-war 20th century, sculpture was still a predominantly male domain. And yet, despite the barriers they faced in foundries and workshops, a number of women artists were inspired to adopt unconventional approaches to sculpture. Turning to abstraction, women artists often pioneered new forms and techniques, even if they weren’t recognized for their achievements at the time.