Monday 04 December 2023
A show which aims to dispel our monochrome idea of Victorian Britain is at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. As Britain’s industrial revolution gained pace, new scientific breakthroughs allowed the...
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Friday 03 November 2023
Owen Jones (1809–74) was a Victorian polymath, architect, designer, publisher, decorative artist, critic and theorist, whose influence through The Grammar of Ornament (1856) continues to this...
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Thursday 19 October 2023
The updated catalogue of the V&A’s collection of studio ceramics is well worth the wait. It is a weighty tome and the companion to Oliver Watson’s much admired 1990s catalogue. Alun Graves has...
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Monday 02 October 2023
Phoebe Traquair was a dynamo of an artist, creating many ambitious embroideries, illuminated manuscripts, easel and mural paintings, furniture decoration, enamels and bookbindings, as well as...
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Friday 08 September 2023
Crammed with excellent photographs this book aims to give a comprehensive account of the work and practice to date of a distinguished sculptor who transcends any distinction between art and...
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Thursday 10 August 2023
In the early 2000s the author of this book sensed an untold story within Haslemere’s vernacular buildings. She began to investigate the story of five local ‘Peasant Artists’ (actually moneyed and...
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Wednesday 26 July 2023
Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) was one of Britain’s foremost equestrian painters in the tradition of British impressionism. She was an expert horsewoman with an innate understanding and love of her...
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Monday 10 July 2023
Given the popularity of the distinctive hand-built, matt-glazed vessels of British studio potter John Ward (b.1938), it is surprising that until now, little has been written about his work....
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Wednesday 14 June 2023
The William Morris Society in Hammersmith, London is exploring the talents of designer John Henry Dearle (1859-1932). Dearle was William Morris's apprentice and successor at Morris & Co. Although...
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Wednesday 31 May 2023
This summer, two London venues showcase the art of eyewitness impartial reportage by the Anglo-Polish artist Feliks Topolski RA (1907-89), and his connections with the British Royal Family,...
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