This spring, Tate Modern will present a major survey exhibition of the work of Do Ho Suh, marking the first major solo ...

Instead of making art that looked like people or things, Hepworth began to make sculptures and drawings using abstract shapes. She was inspired by nature and the world around her. She remembered ...

Patrick Heron is a British painter and art critic. He was born in Yorkshire but moved to Cornwall when he was five. Cornwall was a very important place to him. He spent most of his life there. Heron’s ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

The Camden Town Group was composed of sixteen artists, judged by an inner core to be ‘the best and the most promising of the day’. Controversially, women were not allowed to join, though they formed ...

Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...

From ‘The Tenth Plague of Egypt’ exhibited 1802, JMW Turner, N00470, Tate Collection ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive ...

Suspended, collapsed, stacked, wrapped or folded, the works of Phyllida Barlow spring from an interrogation of some of the most fundamental aspects of sculpture: its physical attributes and its ...

Farley is an autistic artist whose work explores her autism, UK disability culture and inclusion. She subverts the traditional culture of galleries and museums, while acknowledging their dedication to ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...