Feature: Biennial Associate Artists
- By Jack
“Completely committed to the development of young talent”: Introducing Liverpool Biennial’s Associate Artists Programme In offering international travel expenses, curatorial mentorships and commissions, Liverpool Biennial is giving artists based in […]
Review: The Necropolitan Line
- By Jack
I’ve written a review of Katrina Palmer’s solo exhibition The Necropolitan Line at Henry Moore Institute for The Double Negative. Read it here: http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/01/katrina-palmers-the-necropolitan-line-reviewed/
Feature: An Imagined Museum
- By Jack
Within Tate Liverpool’s new exhibition An Imagined Museum hangs Martin Kippenberger’s large oil painting The Modern House of Believing or Not (1985). Kippenberger’s anarchic sense of humour and irony are […]
Review: Glasshouse
- By Jack
The camera silently glides across a row of glass panes. Piercing sunlight dances across these surfaces, accentuating layers of dirt and the passage of time. Glimpses of an overgrowing garden […]
Feature: Super Slow Way
- By Jack
My feature on Super Slow Way, commissioned by CVAN as part of its #writecritical programme, has been published on The Double Negative. Read it here. Image: Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg, western red […]
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; […]