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Poet, collector, art critic since mid-1980s, importer & proprietor of John Cornall Antiques and Art, 28 West St., Warwick gallery & showrooms specialising in antique painted furniture, folk art & art.
When commercialism and limited possibilities characterise the art establishment, it is hardly surprising to find young artists, once again, making art about art and about the art world. Meiying Collins’ contribution to this group exhibition is Read on…
Colony, Birmingham
6-28 November
Adam Dant's traditional-looking comic strips don't at first look hip, but he is an international star. He won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2002 for his Anecdotal Plan of Tate Britain, 2001, and recently had his second show at the Adam Baumgold Read on…
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts
Centre, Coventry
27 September – 5 December
Both of these exhibitions present novel approaches to drawing. Susanna Heron's 'Elements' consists of seven, long elliptical forms – or 'elements' – transcribed one on each of seven walls of the main partitioned gallery. These shapes Read on…
Siân Bowen: Ream
11 January – 8 February
There's a wonderful essay by naturalist and travel writer Barry Lopez entitled Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire in which Lopez lovingly describes the excitement and mystery of working with a wood-fuelled anagama kiln called The Dragon. It is just such Read on…
As part of the Spirit of Friendship Festival celebrating the Commonwealth Games, Canadian artist Jen Hamilton and British artist Jen Southern combined forces to create 'Distance made good', a locally orientated project with a suitably global Read on…
The Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon 5 July – 11 August
In the eyes of post-modern theory, ego as the generator of meaning in art is anathema. Modernist painting has received bad press for years in this regard because of its supposed connection to self-expression, but this has sometimes seemed a sweeping Read on…
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 7 May – 29 June
"It's weird. A flock of seagulls? An alien invasion?" "No, I think it's someone inside the building trying to whistle the theme tune to the The Sweeney!" Schoolboys walking home along West Bromwich's High Street are bemused and amused by Hewitt and Read on…
High Street, West Bromwich and Limited Edition CD 23 November – 19 December
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