An album of contemporary artists and musicians negotiating the crypto art world - each artist as a blackbird, singing in the dead of night, throwing their creativity out into the digital void.
As contemporary art history unfolds in real-time, the story of British abstraction is still being told. Its untapped richness is traceable through ‘known unknowns’ such as Hopkins, whose work links the post-war period with the present day.
The body is not a closed system. It is porous, soft, and yielding—subject to forces greater than itself. Kate Burling’s paintings linger on this uneasy truth.
By focusing on taxidermied specimens and natural history collections, Fairnington transforms hyperreal detail into a meditation on imperfection, time, and the ways we attempt to preserve life.
Against a backdrop of the new digital ®evolution and approaching ninety years since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ we present an exhibition tracing the legacy of Benjamin’s prophetic work, and reconsider it in the present moment.
