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Hugh Mendes: Painting Famous Artists’ Obituaries

ByRuth Millington 12/01/2023

Meet Hugh Mendes, the contemporary artist taking famous obituary examples of great artists as his haunting modern muses… Where does an artist’s creative inspiration come […]

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Exhibition | Roberto Pagliarulo: ‘An Amalfi Dream’

ByRuth Millington 17/08/2020

In his 3rd solo show at Highgate Contemporary Art in London, Roberto Pagliarulo will exhibit 20 Italian landscape oil paintings and ink drawings, inspired by […]

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Activist artists | 12 famous protest art examples

ByRuth Millington 07/08/2020 3

History is filled with famous protest art examples. Over the last 100 years, artists have been outspoken protesters on issues from LGBTQ+ rights and feminism […]

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Brutiful Brum: Q & A with painter Elliott Packham

ByRuth Millington 12/06/2020

After studying architecture, Elliott Packham turned to painting. Today, he depicts the ‘concrete jungle’ that is Brutalism, celebrating and capturing the simple block-like geometry of […]

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Art History’s Heroes: from Hercules to hospital workers

ByRuth Millington 04/06/2020

This week my friend’s 5-year-old daughter drew him a picture. She was standing on a beach, and next to her was a nurse waving an […]

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SUPA DIP! Art postcard lottery for Women’s Aid

ByRuth Millington 07/05/2020

Have you heard? SUPA Gallery is launching an exciting ‘SUPA dip’ art postcard lottery. Supporters will have the opportunity to own a mini-masterpiece by some […]

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Exhibition | Arthur Lockwood’s industrial watercolours at BMAG

ByRuth Millington 07/02/2020

A new exhibition of paintings by renowned Birmingham artist Arthur Lockwood (1934 – 2019) has opened at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG). The artist […]

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Lost Lowry painting sells for £2.6 million

ByRuth Millington 21/01/2020

A recently discovered painting by L. S. Lowry, The Mill, Pendlebury (1943), has sold for more than £2.6 million, after 70 years hidden away in America! […]

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Review |William Blake at Tate Britain: Heaven or Hell?

ByRuth Millington 03/11/2019

300 artworks by William Blake. Heaven or hell? I headed to Tate Britain to see their colossal retrospective and find out. Here’s my review. Tate […]

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Exhibitions | 10 female solo shows in London

ByRuth Millington 28/10/2019

I recently discovered gowithYamo, one of the best free art apps on the market. It allows you to find exhibitions, art fairs & events nearby […]

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Art historian, critic and author

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