The Easel

15th April 2025

Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur asks not if it’s great or even good art, but if it makes you laugh – and it does

Mark Hudson | The Independant | 26th March 2025

Perry, a potter and famously a transvestite, seems a very British artist., His art is both cerebral and full of anti-establishment humour. A new show of pots, prints and tapestries, spread amidst the ornate rococo splendour of London’s Wallace Collection, is a case in point. Replete with fictitious identities, it includes items such as a tapestry in “hallucinogenic” colour that “makes you chuckle with respect at [its] mad hubris”. The only thing that doesn’t work, says a writer, is Perry’s claimed status as an underdog.

Singh in exultation

Skye Arundhati Thomas | The World of Interiors | 11th April 2025

What is going on in Singh’s paintings? A “pioneering” post-Independence artist, her works combine Indian elements like folk narratives and court painting with Surrealist influences. Teeming with ideas her works present detailed narrative tableaux that are “incohesive yet beautiful”. Even western eyes can detect themes of domestic life and India’s history of communal violence. Having struggled to interpret Singh’s work, one writer seems to give up and simply admires the “lush colours”.

8th April 2025

Ed Atkins’ Digital Surrealism Unfolds in Tate Britain’s Largest Survey to Date

Jessie James | Stupiddope | 4th April 2025

As mundane digital functions infiltrate daily life, we all acquire a digital representation of ourselves. Atkins survey show in London focuses on these versions of  ourselves, on the “me and “not-me”. His work deals with “the in-betweens: between physical and digital”, in ways that are deeply human. Emotion matters, death matters, people are awkward. “Atkins dares to ask what it means to be human when your body is rendered in code and your feelings come with a loading screen”.

Older links
Newer links