Author: Jack
Review: A Green and Pleasant Land?
- By Jack
My review of the latest Harris Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, A Green and Pleasant Land?: Rural Life in Art is now online on Corridor8. You can read it here. […]
CVAN Feature: Simeon Barclay
- By Jack
In today’s fast-paced digital society, what role does the humble postcard play? As people increasingly use smartphones and apps such as Facebook and Instagram to capture and circulate their own […]
Review: Geta Brătescu
- By Jack
Artist, illustrator, printmaker, performer: Jack Welsh discovers an exceptionally varied and prolific body of work spanning sixty years at Tate Liverpool’s Brătescu retrospective… What significance does the studio hold for […]
Review: György Kepes: The New Landscape
- By Jack
György Kepes: The New Landscape 15 April – 19 June 2015 Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University In 1951, Hungarian-born polymath György Kepes organised The New Landscape at The […]
Feature: Class of 2015
- By Jack
Class Of 2015: The North-West’s Top Fine Art Graduates Revealed Nominated by their tutors, Jack Welsh reveals the top art graduates from across the North-West region, from Blackpool to Wirral and everywhere in-between; […]
Review: History is Now
- By Jack
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain Hayward Gallery, London / Tue 10 Feb 2015–Sun 26 Apr 2015 With campaigning for the 2015 General Election vigorously under way, three artists – […]
CVAN NW Critical Writing Bursary
- By Jack
I’m delighted to say that I’ve been successful in securing a place on Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West’s critical writing programme. Having attended the first workshop two weeks ago, I’m […]
Review: Not: The Art of Resistance
- By Jack
Not: The Art of Resistance, Holden Gallery, Manchester (19 January – 27 February 2015) In Herman Melville’s novella Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853), the narrator recounts the story of Bartleby, a […]
Feature: Art Party – The Skinny
- By Jack
You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You: Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party When Bob and Roberta Smith wrote his public letter of protest against the marginalisation of […]
Drawing Paper 7
- By Jack
I have new drawing work in the excellent Drawing Paper, produced by Mike Carney and Jon Barraclough: After almost 2 years of Tumblr radio silence we are pleased to announce […]