Ruth Millington

While the canon of art history is filled with female nudes, visions of Black femininity are largely absent. Challenging these traditional perspectives, and reframing the […]

For his major solo show, ‘Autofictions’ at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, Shaun Morris has visited late night truck stops, his local […]

If I could choose one artist from history to paint my portrait, it would be John Singer Sargent. This Great American painter depicted high-society sitters […]

Above all, Paula Rego (1935 – 2022) was an extraordinary storyteller. Through drawing, collage, printmaking and painting, she reinvented and reframed traditional folklore, famous fairy […]

“Silver thread” lives in two worlds. Spiritually, it’s the bright tether between body and soul. In the studio, it’s literal metal—heavy, malleable, quick to tarnish—drawn […]

Artists don’t have all the answers. Instead, the best ones pose questions. In the case of British figurative painters Debbie Baird and Brian Wood, who […]

There’s beauty to be found in urban wastelands, post-industrial sites and weathered surfaces. This is what painter Cristina Gardiner ARBSA encourages viewers to see in […]

Bursting with colour, expression and individuality, more than 50 exhibited artworks at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery prove a point made famous by Pablo Picasso: “Every child […]