APT8: Philippines and Vietnam

In 2014, Hamish Sawyer travelled to Vietnam and the Philippines with José Da Silva to meet with artists and learn about the context of their artworks for ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. Philippines With a population of over 18 million, the Philippine capital of Manila is the nexus of the country’s art…

Blandford Fletcher’s ‘Evicted’ is a Gallery favourite

As exhibitions, collection priorities, directors, and curators  are constantly changing, in an art gallery it is difficult sometimes to decide what should remain on more-or-less ‘permanent’ display. One of the Gallery’s most popular works with visitors is Blandford Fletcher’s painting Evicted, depicting a mother and daughter and their nosey neighbours. Whenever taken off display, it’s…

Daniel Crooks

Central to Daniel Crooks practice is the idea of the ‘time slice’. By isolating and offsetting small slices of video footage Crooks treats the elements of time and space as a physical and malleable material. ‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until Sunday 25 October brings together a selection of…

Robert MacPherson: Reductive logic

The reductive logic that Robert MacPherson applied to his painting practice in the 1970s is applied here to his tool, the standard house painter’s brush. Examining it closely and considering its history, MacPherson traces a backwards path from use, to purchase, to manufacture and sees that the paintbrush is already a painted object. He relinquishes…

APT8 Highlight: Shigeyuki Kihara

Acquired for the Collection with the generous assistance of Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson, this intriguing series of photographs by Shigeyuki Kihara responds to the images of Samoa taken by Alfred Burton, who visited the Pacific in the 1880s, and looks to redress stereotypes of the Pacific perpetuated in colonial photography. In the late nineteenth century, French artist…