Tate Britain
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews the intensely colourful, identity-questioning work of British artist Hurvin Anderson, on at London´s Tate Britain.
The lifelong, dynamic process by which our identity is shaped, both consciously and unconsciously, is a combination of our genes, internal traits, personal choices, and external environmental factors. Where we are born, grow up, and where we choose to live as adults also factor in heavily. British artist Hurvin Anderson, a Jamaican man born and…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the new ED ATKINS show, now on at London’s Tate Britain Gallery.
One of the best art shows in London is also one of the hardest to tell you about. Influential British multi-media artist Ed Atkins presents a mind-blowing series of works from the last fifteen years, now on at Tate Britain. Atkins is best known for his computer-generated videos and animations. Repurposing contemporary technologies in unexpected…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the stunning thought-provoking exhibition THE 80s: PHOTOGRAPHING BRITAIN at London’s Tate Britain
The beginning of the AIDS crisis, mass unemployment, urban riots, the Miners’ strike, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Thatcherism, Section 28, the build-up to the controversial Poll Tax and much more…the 1980s on paper look pretty traumatic for the UK. This holds true for photographic paper too, as is borne out by the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SARAH LUCAS HAPPY GAS a brilliant, fun, thought-provoking show @ Tate Britain
Cock, tits, arse, sex, cigarettes, ham sandwiches on sliced white bread, lurid tabloid headlines and suggestive photographs. What passes for a perfect day at the seaside for most Brits, is also the backbone of British artist Sarah Lucas’s work of the past thirty years, now enjoying a well-deserved retrospective, Happy Gas, at London’s…
