MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
Latest editorial
Transports of delight
Michal Boncza reviews Poster Parade: A Century of Creative Women at the Transport Museum, London WC2
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
4/5
This remarkable exhibition, featuring work by women poster designers for London Underground, celebrates the extraordinary visual contribution they have made to public art over 100 years.
The array of distinctive styles on show is astonishing, starting with Ella Coates’s delightful autumnal watercolour Kew Gardens by Tram from 1910 and the seasonal theme is continued in Summer Joy by Lama Knight — the first woman ever to be elected to the Royal Academy — in which vigorous charcoal strokes outline the figures of women and girls on a shore of a boating lake with the splashes of contrasting colours completing a seductive, relaxing landscape.
Similar stories
SIMON DUFF is thrilled by a visceral, no-holds-barred exploration of the expressive powers of raw material
KIM CULLEN enjoys the survey of social work and working-class lives to be found in the superb work of British-Jamaican photographer Sandra George
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
