GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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MICHAL BONCZA sees an exhibition of photography that offers intriguing glimpses of Britain
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[Huxley-Parlour]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles, 2007-2020
Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON once said: “A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos,” adding elsewhere that “it is an illusion that photos are made with the camera … they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
There is ample evidence here that Jamie Hawkesworth fully concurs as the work effectively displays much of the approach advocated by Cartier-Bresson. Particularly noticeable is the uniformly sublime composition, robust in appearance and mostly in close up which mesmerises.
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