Vanity Cracked: A review of William Hogarth And Europe, Uncovering City Life at Tate Britain
This link will take you to my review of Hogarth And Europe: Uncovering City Life for Southwark News: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/vanity-cracked/
Tag: William Hogarth
A brief peregrination around William Hogarth on the occasion of his 323rd Birthday
If Hogarth were alive he would be 323 years old today. If the pubs were open I would surely be raising a glass to the greatest painter I know. Hogarth was the first Modernist artist, a man who left us stories that are as insightful about his own time as they are about our own. ...
Bronzed off: My National Pride, Notes on the General Rubric of Public Statues
‘People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them’ James Baldwin ‘The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice’ Mark Twain ‘The future is unwritten’ Joe Strummer Don’t fear The Watchmen Walking the streets with my sketchbook, searching out ideas and energies, I’m often drawn towards street statues....
Rebel Painters Part 2: ‘A National Dissection’ An anatomical analysis of Sir John Soane’s Picture Room and Soane’s curation of the work of William Hogarth
Sir John Soane: Georgian Space Explorer and Time Traveller My favourite room in London is a small well-lit panelled Georgian Picture Room at the back of an architect’s house in Lincoln’s Inn Felds. The architect was Sir John Soane 1753-1837 (portrait below) and the room is in his home which is now a wonderful museum...