Since 1972, video artist, Wendy Clarke, daughter of independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, has conceived and produced numerous interactive installations and tapes that have been exhibited internationally on television, in museums, galleries and public places. Hosted on Sunday 24 November 2019 in London by LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image…
Now open and running until 26 January 2020, Hayward Gallery presents a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. Developed in close collaboration with the artist herself, and in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland, it is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Tracing…
Hailing from Glasgow, London-based poet and academic Nisha Ramayya’s diverse pamphlets include Notes on Sanskrit, Correspondences, and In Me the Juncture, as well as Threads, co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil. This autumn, the poet published States of the Body Produced by Love, her first full-length book. Love is a many-headed snake in Ramayya’s…
New York-based photographer Phyllis Galembo’s portraiture illuminates the transformative power of costume and ritual. She highlights the creativity of the individual, morphing into a fantastical representation of themself, having brought together materials gathered from the immediate environment to idealise their vision of mythical figures. Her images capture the raw and fascinating aspects of ceremonial garb….
Gareth Wrighton works between a variety of media including knitwear, tailoring, photography and computer modelling, producing work that examines the touch of hand in the digital age. The Central Saint Martins alum takes on the globalisation of garment production, and the impact of fast fashion on the communities in which it is made and consumed….
Selected from one of the LVMH Prize’s most culturally diverse shortlists to date, South African womenswear designer Thebe Magugu has been chosen as the winner of the 2019 award. Based in Johannesburg, the 26-year-old’s designs caught the attentions of an eminent jury that included the likes of Marc Jacobs, Nicolas Ghesquière, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Humberto…
Composer and playwright Klein’s distinct artistic vision has propelled her to become one of the UK’s most intriguing and uncategorisable producers and performers. Using chopped-up and warped mobile phone recordings of her own voice, piano, and guitar playing, day-to-day sounds, and samples from Nigerian B movies, Klein’s ruminating assemblages feel at times architectural in their…
Hailing from Hanoi, Vietnam, Quasar Khanh was born Nguyen Manh Khanh in 1934. When he married his wife, French fashion designer Emmanuelle, in 1957, Khanh decided to adopt the pseudonym Quasar, referring to a star that shines from millions of light years away. The latter half of the sixties saw the designer and engineer’s career…