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Exploring the beauty in Magdalene Odundo’s pottery

First published in The Gallyry Magazine

Odundo is one of the most talented contemporary ceramic artists working today. I first encountered the work of Odundo at The British Museum’s African gallery while working there as a gallery assistant. The sensual, organic nature of her forms is what first attracted me, and as I examined her forms, I was eager to learn more about them. Odundo was born in 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya, before she moved to Britain in 1971. She originally studied Graphic Design at Cambridge College but then switched to Ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, and later completed a master’s degree in the subject at the Royal College of Art.

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Presence and absence in James Coleman’s Lapsus Exposure

First published in ARTtouchesART

James Coleman is one of Ireland’s greatest artists. He has achieved international acclaim, having exhibited extensively since the 1970s. According to Krauss, Coleman’s work belongs to a ‘post-medium age’, a period where the traditional media of painting and sculpture were rejected in favour of alternative modes of expression. One only needs to think of Donald Judd’s “Specific Objects’, promoting the new ‘three-dimensional works”, liberating artists from the limitations of being confined to a rectangular canvas of painting, and extending their work into the viewers’ realm of vision.

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Lee Krasner: Emerging from Darkness

First published in The Creative Pandemic

Lee Krasner was one of the most talented, influential artists working during the Twentieth Century. She is known to many as Mrs Jackson Pollock, due to her marriage to Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, which has consistently overshadowed her artistic achievements. Krasner’s legacy is not her work, her being a feminist role model or her incredible self-belief as an artist, rather her marriage to Pollock. Let us remember Krasner was painting before Pollock, with Pollock and after Pollock.

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Picasso and Paper: Exhibition Review

Is it still possible to show Pablo Picasso through a fresh lens? Can an artist be explored in relation to paper? A material which is central to all artistic production, can it provide new insights into Picasso’s work?

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Agnes Martin - Collasping Space

First published in The Gallyry Magazine

“The function of art work is the stimulation of sensibilities, the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.” – Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin was a pioneering Abstract artist, known for her distinctly large square canvases. Born in 1912 in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, she spent most her life in the US, becoming a US Citizen in 1940. Martin moved to New York city in 1957, where she would remain until 1967. During this period, she produced the grid paintings that made her reputation and led to her inclusion in important Abstract Expressionist exhibitions.

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A distinct vision of Dublin: The Leeson Street Kiosk

First published in The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Magazine, 2019

Dublin has always been known for its architecture, particularly as a Georgian city. One building which particularly captures the essence of Dublin is a small local kiosk which stands at the junction of Leeson Street and Adelaide Road.

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