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We Need to Talk About Kevin
If you are looking forward to having kids, look away now. This is not a film for you. Here a mother despises her evil son, who eventually dispatches half his…
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Nelly Ben-Hayoun's Domestic Volcanoes
“Would you be more popular if you had a volcano in your front room?” asks young designer / artist / mad-scientist Nelly Ben-Hayoun. With the recognisably ambitious "well, why not?"…
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Kate MccGwire
Kate MccGwire’s eerie bird-like forms undulate out of fireplaces and writhe under glass domes at recently opened Soho gallery Pertwee Anderson & Gold. Their sinuous forms are overlaid with painstakingly…
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries
This year New Contemporaries returns home to the embattled ICA. Showing 49 artists working in media as diverse as video, painting, sculpture and animation, it is the longest running of…
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Hew Locke
The work of Hew Locke is a welcome relief from the cold formalism that dominates much art in the UK. His colourful, plastic bedecked sculptures fuse traditions from different cultures,…
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Russian Criminal Tattoos
Russian criminal tattoos are ornate and political charged works of art. These marks, riven in flesh, de-mark criminal histories and tell a hidden countercultural story of Russian life over the…
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Maurizio Anzeri
Maurizio Anzeri is an artist with considerable buzz around him. Picked up by Charles Saatchi as part of Newspeak Part II and winner of a Vauxhall Collective bursary, he's also…
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Matthew Darbyshire
Featuring in the Saatchi Gallery's Newspeak exhibition, currently on, and recently in Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark Altermodern: Tate Triennial, Matthew Darbyshire has been touted by the best of the art world…
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Polly Morgan
If you haven’t had your head in the sand for the past six months chances are you will have heard of Polly Morgan – the artist who has brought taxidermy…
