In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, empty and unfinished properties emerged across the globe, following years of frenzied construction during the “boom years”. For the month of March in 2013, I curated the Future State […]
Author: Emma Cummins
Writer | @EmmaCummins
David Shackleton: ‘His paintings remind us of the restorative power of nature in a busy, urban world’
It’s interesting that a young artist living in London chooses to predominantly paint landscapes. In David Shackleton’s sparse pastoral scenes, we never see the city. There’s no background buzz of technology, industry or commerce. There […]
Gone Girl and Broken Harbour: Contemporary ghost towns and the ‘murdering middle classes’
Through stories of alienation, murder and marriage breakdown, Broken Harbour and Gone Girl explore the devastating impacts of economic austerity and unemployment – but what can we learn from these popular works of crime fiction? What do […]
Exhibition review: Arena, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria
Mark Francis is best known for his paintings of microbiology – from depictions of magnified cells to glossy images of spores, sperms and DNA. Through amplified scale and deliberate scientific inaccuracy, these earlier works toyed with […]
