Husband and wife duo François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, collectively known as Les Lalanne, are one of the most fascinating and prolific art couples of the 20th century. Following the more subdued aesthetics of the early 1960s, the 1970s heralded a taste for a new and bold eclecticism. Les Lalanne were at the forefront of this…
A seminal figure of South Asian architecture, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is widely celebrated for his contributions to the development of architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he pioneered a culturally responsive modern architecture in his native country. In 2018, Doshi became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker…
Born into an affluent and conservative Irish-Catholic family in England in 1917, from the very beginning Leonora Carrington resisted conforming to societal expectations, going onto establish herself as both a critical figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of extraordinary individuality. Her eventful life included a formative relationship with artist Max Ernst, an escape…
Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt, better known as Jyoti Bhatt, was among the earliest students at one of the first art schools founded after India’s independence in 1947. Born in 1934 in the western state of Gujarat, through his prolific career, Bhatt documented rural Indian culture, capturing traditional ways of life, including craft customs at impending risk…
Born in rural Derbyshire in 1941, the daughter of a factory worker and cotton weaver, Vivienne Westwood relocated to Harrow, Greater London with her family as a teenager. It was here that the young designer undertook a jewellery making course at the University of Westminster, then known as the Harrow Art School, but left after…
Born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1956, sculptor Veronica Ryan relocated to London with her family as a young child. The artist is presently based between New York and Bristol. Announced as the winner of 2022’s Turner Prize, Ryan is known for her sculptures evocative of forms and objects from the natural world,…
Pioneering Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, born in 1939 in Omdurman, Sudan, was amongst the first women artists to graduate from the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum in 1963. She followed this with studies in Mural Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and later, Lithography, Typography and Illustration….
Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta produced a diverse and radical body of work that traversed photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installation over the course of her short life. Exploring complex themes including dislocation, separation and our connection to nature, her combination of form and documentation most famously manifested in a series she called…