This week I visited the HCMC Fine Arts Museum to see Khai Doan‘s ‘Dipolar’ exhibition. The Vietnamese artist, who is fun to talk to, has...

I have great respect for the ability (which I perceive as innate – but I’m no psychologist) to give meaning to drawings/doodles that we...

The drawings are all very well executed, but it’s the variety of people and faces that engages the eye more than technical precision....

‘It is work that the artist produce outside the demands, pressures, and expectations of others in the process of wrestling with their...

I first saw these large (about 2 metres tall?) photographs of nightscapes in a gallery around London’s Mayfair, I reckon around...

[singlepic id=98 w=320 h=240 float=left] This giant bird was off Brick Lane, London, summer 2010. A cute-but-gigantic rodent by the same...

I’ve recently moved from London to Saigon, and last night I phoned my grandmother to let her know all is well here. When I told her I was...

‘Painters and writers share a common moan about the fear of the empty page. There is the blank canvas, the “tabula rasa.” There is...

Joana Vasconcelos‘ exhibition in Haunch of Venison a couple of weeks ago, and I wasn’t planning to write about it because a) I’m busy...

There’s nothing like a good dose of culture shock to creativize one’s zest for life. Around the time of the great tsunami, I lived in...

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has exposed the art viscera inside the Hayward gallery, London. I won’t digress much talking about the...

Cross Hyde Park facing East, get to the Serpentine Gallery, see no red (as you arrive from the West). Encounter a make-shift white box....

Those of you in London some weeks ago may have noticed these adverts in the Southbank space were graffiti and skateboarding interrupt the...

[singlepic id=199 w=320 h=240 float=left]Excited about being in Birmingham on a nice sunny day, I dashed to Ikon gallery first, and dove...

I visited Manchester’s Cornerhouse and Birmingham’s Ikon gallery in the same week, and was set on fire with neurological sparks seeing...

Artur Zmijewski on how he perceives his role as stage-manager of his own filmed participatory workshop: ‘the situation is that the art...

Madder139 gallery, and I was pleasantly intrigued by the Cervantian look of the man, but mostly attracted to the 2D image collaged over...

[singlepic id=189 w=320 h=240 float=left]My art practice is rusty, for a few more months. It’s on hold while I put energies into my art...

Open Arts Cafe. From the link a friend sent me on fb, I expected it to be geared towards fine arts performance, but instead of being all...

Strolling up to the Serpentine Gallery on a fine London morning I happened upon a wonderful little exhibition in the Royal Geographical...