A dejected-looking burnt orange-hued figure subtly lords over a courtyard at Goodenough College, the location of the Bloomsbury Art Fair. It is, in fact, a bronze sculpture of the Minotaur. The disarming piece has a way of provoking mixed reactions from passers-by: long pitiful gazes, giggles, awe and acts of [...]

Attention art lovers! The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is just around the corner and on Wednesday 30th May it hosts its legendary Preview Party, marking the official opening of the exhibition. The Summer Exhibition, astonishingly, has run every year since the Royal Academy’s foundation in 1768, even during times of [...]

Some of you may know that Ronnie Wood – the Ronnie Wood, bassist for The Rolling Stones – is an artist. In fact, if you Google him you get more references to his art than you do his music. That his name is up there for more than the heights [...]

In June 2011, in a small gallery in Notting Hill, purveyors of contemporary art, COMODAA, introduced a new talent to the discerning British public. As part of a group show, Young Guns, one artist in particular caught people’s attention and was the only featured artist to sell out his works [...]

“A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.” Man Ray – October 2nd 1966. When I think Man Ray, I think painter, filmmaker, sculptor, [...]

Charlie Smith London is exhibiting Welsh-born Wendy Mayer’s first London solo show, presented by international art curator and filmmaker, Simon Rumley. Rumley first saw Mayer’s work in 2010 and promptly acquired several pieces. Subsequently he included her in The Future Can Wait exhibition, the museum-scale show for emerging artists that [...]

Artist, photographer and filmmaker Paul Joyce takes an uncompromising look at David Hockney’s current exhibition at The Royal Academy, and muses over 30 years of friendship with the venerated artist…