Wonderful surprise to visit HCMC’s Cactus gallery on the closing day of this exhibition, and to find that it is their best exhibition to...

Read part 1 here My personal impression is that Vietnam, a dynamic nation with a wide multicultural heritage, currently shows little...

I find it had to articulate why I think this exhibition is so bad, whilst trying to ask the right questions about what I am seeing. On...

Saigon Creative talk, in which I discussed some of the most beautiful, funny or thought provoking art that I have seen in Europe in the...

This is the full version of the article published in pages 46-47 of issue 42 of Asia Life magazine in September 2011. [ezcol_2fifth] How...

This is my first finished lacquer painting, titled ‘The F word’. I started making it at the beginning of August 2011, and found the...

I’ve now lived in Vietnam for over a year! The best thing is that I started taking lessons to learn the traditional lacquer painting...

My first day at the Hong Kong Art Fair 2011 was full of joyous finds. A year earlier I’d moved from London to Vietnam, and on my visit to...

Long, sad, disappointing story. The beautiful old and disused market, Cho Van Thanh, that I passed by on my way to work each day has been...

An alternative art project where inner vision and stored emotions clash with poor data memory. Do you recognise the artworks described...

[singlepic id=414 w=320 h=240 float=left]Maintaining an art practice alongside a regular job is all the harder if you live in an exciting...

This exhibition review was originally written for The Word HCMC magazine, and published in June 2011. This is the unedited version:...

After a year of getting to know the fairly limited Vietnamese art scene, I jumped across the water to expand my horizons. Two days...

This article was originally written for Sustainable Urbanism site ThisBigCity.net [ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] For the...

[wpcol_1quarter id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_3quarter_end id=”” class=”” style=””] Vietnam was the first country...

San Diego State University, California, early 2001. A low-lit exhibition in one of the university galleries displays white textile...

Temple Bar, Dublin, around 1999. The large shop-front windows of the corner gallery are obscured by the contents of the art gallery: the...

Unlike nearby Asian countries that are about to enter the year of the rabbit, Vietnam chooses to start the year of the cat. And Ho Chi...

Who was the artist who needed a whole bunch of people to move en masse up and down Tate Modern, London, creating some kind of monolithic...

I think I saw this show somewhere in Eastern Europe, around 2007-8. I think the artist was French. The works were large ‘paintings’ made...