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Clutching a quill and pots of ink, Philip Sutton ended his 421-day care home lockdown this week by heading out to do what has been impossible since the Covid pandemic began: observe something new and capture it on paper.
The 92-year-old Royal Academician, who built a reputation as one of Britain’s most celebrated colourist painters, has been confined to Harbour House, a Quaker care home in Dorset, since 9 March 2020 under government guidelines to protect vulnerable people.
Policies discouraging care home residents from going out have led to desperate complaints that people were in effect being imprisoned even as infection rates fell. And the rules have denied Sutton fresh landscapes, his regular long beach walks and the joy of unexpected encounters. But this week, he, and hundreds of thousands of others, were finally released from the longest of lockdowns.
Roswitha Robertson: The dressmaker extraordinaire who put Hastings fashion design on the map
7 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Roswitha and Rawden Robertson loved each other dearly. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
In many ways, Roswitha Robertson was Hastings answer to Coco Chanel. In her 92 years, she forged a career in dress making and fashion design that turned heads, drew crowds and won her countless accolades, all out of her home on Queen St.
Roswitha, a perfectionist who pushed those around her to meet her exacting standards, was born and raised in Germany.
She studied fashion at Art School Vienna, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, as well as the famous theatres of London where she was part of a team who designed costumes for famous actors and dancers including Dame Margot Fonteyn, a prima ballerina assoluta (literally absolute first ballerina ), a title reserved only for the very best, and only granted to three ballerinas in the 20
Paula Rego Retrospective Announced At Tate For Summer / /
This Summer sees Tate Britain open the largest and most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Paula Rego. Born in Portugal in 1935 during the authoritarian dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar to anti-fascist parents, her work is highly personal and politicised. Rego is an uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power who redefined figurative art and revolutionised how women are represented. The exhibition will feature over 100 works, including collage, paintings, large-scale pastels, drawings and etchings. It will span Rego’s early work from the 1950s to her richly layered, staged scenes in the 2000s.
Logan Havens Installation view, Pia Camil: Three Works (Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, April 10 – September 19, 2021). Photograph by Logan Havens. Courtesy the artist; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/ New York/ Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. During the last few weeks, when the evening sky starts to dim, a downtown building has been beaming out gorgeous colors into the streets: magenta, pink, green, yellow, royal red. The nightly light show comes through the big glass doors of MOCA-Tucson contemporary art museum. But the source of this rainbow beauty, astonishingly, is a batch of tossed-out T-shirts. Inside the museum’s enormous Great Hall, the shirts brilliantly dyed and sewn together into giant tarps dangle from the ceiling. Tethered to ship rigging, they shift and sail high above the gallery
at home: Artists in Conversation
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at home: Artists in Conversation brings together curators and artists to discuss various artistic practices and insights into their work.
About Cecily Brown
Brown is a British artist and graduate of the Slade School of Art who has lived and worked in New York since the 1990s. She is a leading contemporary painter whose work combines abstraction and figuration, transcending classical notions of genre and narrative by drawing on a wide range of art historical references. Inspired by the fantastical visual worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya, the organizational principles of William Hogarth, and the gestural expressionism of Willem de Kooning, Brown creates energetic and atmospheric canvases that swirl with fragmented bodies.