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1 week ago | studiointernational.com | Juliet Rix

Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea Scape Wolterton, a Palladian house built for Horatio Walpole, younger brother of the UK’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, who lived about 25 miles away at more opulent Houghton Hall, is the latest to join the trend for stately homes to display modern art.

1 month ago | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

Helen Chadwick’s unwillingness to accept any binary division of the world allowed her to radically explore the mechanisms of the body – physically, emotionally, sensually, sexually and sensorially Helen Chadwick, Piss Flowers, 1991-2. Installation at Frieze, 2013. © Estate of Helen Chadwick. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York. Photo: Peter White.

1 month ago | studiointernational.com | Miguel Benavides

The art lover and philanthropist has died aged 84 Dame Jillian Sackler, 1940–2025. Photo: Miguel Benavides. The philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler, who has died on Tuesday, aged 84, from oesophageal cancer, was born in 1940 in Stoke, England. Her parents, Kenneth Tully and Doris Queenie Gillman Smith, met while working at the Midland bank. Jillian’s younger brother, Bryn Tully, died in 2019.

1 month ago | studiointernational.com | Anna McNay

To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out by Janet McKenzie, published by Birlinn Limited, 2025. reviewed by ANNA McNAY “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” writes Susan Sontag in her essay Illness as Metaphor.1 Not everyone, however, knows what it is like to use the “bad passport” early in life.

2 months ago | studiointernational.com | Christiana Spens

Spanning four centuries and diverse cultures, this show of more than 7o works, including paintings, prints, drawings and objects, explores the mysteries and myths of the world beneath our oceans Tom Anholt, Deep Dive, 2022. Courtesy Josh Lilley, London. Copyright Tom Anholt and Josh Lilley. Photo: Gunter Lepkowski.