Highlights

The British Art Prize 2024
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw                                                                                                                                                                                    The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]

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Features

London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places

What’s in a name? London place names decoded We’re surrounded by street signs every day and casually type these sometimes odd-sounding addresses into Google Maps without a second thought about what they mean or where the name came from. The Romans founded the city of Londinium [London], so you’d expect a Latin root somewhere. Let’s […]

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Reviews

The British Art Prize 2024
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw                                                                                                                                                                                    The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]

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Eddy Kamuanga

  • Mangbetu
    Mangbetu (Exhibition)
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

    A year after Eddy Kamuanga lluanga’s much talked about London debut at the Saatchi Gallery’s Pangaea II, his October Gallery exhibition again brought the Democratic Republic of Congo to the heart of the capital. However, this time the 24-year-old artist addressed concerns about the mining of coltan, a mineral used in almost every electronic device […]