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Pieter Obels and Feng Xiao‑Min: a compelling exploration of nature through steel and paint

Pieter Obels and Feng Xiao‑Min: a compelling exploration of nature through steel and paint

The two artists have very different, yet curiously complimentary, responses to nature.

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Pippa Catterall

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place shows how ideas of scenery have evolved across 300 years of art

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place shows how ideas of scenery have evolved across 300 years of art

This exhibition is not about British, or even English landscapes, but about how a broad range of British artists responded to the landscapes they...

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Pippa Catterall

Dreaming in Colour: dreamlike images and uneasy visions flood London’s Opera Gallery

The surrealist aspiration to evoke a sense of the marvellous and mysterious in the everyday permeates the exhibition.

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Pippa Catterall

Tracey Emin: A Second Life – Tate Modern’s must‑see retrospective explores trauma and transcendence

By centring her own experience in her work, Emin also humanises and universalises it.

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Pippa Catterall

The architecture of the new Queen Elizabeth II memorial aims to commemorate her as ‘a unifying force’

Even the memorial to Queen Victoria, undoubtedly the most commemorated woman in British history, is relatively modest in scale compared to this new...

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Pippa Catterall