The Easel

5th March 2019

From Charcoal to Lipstick, Drawing’s Potential for Experimentation and Rebellion

Sophie Ruigrok | Frieze | 4th March 2019

New York and London both have institutions dedicated to drawing, as if the art form needs special support. Some see it as just a working tool, more bridesmaid than bride. London’s Drawing Biennial 2019 suggests it reigns supreme as a means of experimentation and caricature. Says one artist, it’s “a space of reflection and speculation … the fulcrum of [my] practice”.

26th February 2019

Painstakingly perfect and utterly peculiar – the drawings of Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Otto Saumarez Smith | Apollo | 18th February 2019

If your building designs verge on the madcap, are you an architect? That is the conundrum that is Lequeu. Contemporary tags (“proto-Surrealist”) seem ill-fitting yet so too is the descriptor French classicism. Are his drawings any more than a “psychotic mélange”. Are they “knowing pastiches of architectural culture, or the expression of obscure private obsessions?”

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