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Megan McCabe

Words by Bryony Quinn, Friday 16 December 2011

Using family and found snapshots that already hold their own sentimentality, the expressive re-renderings by painter Megan McCabe use the nostalgic aesthetic to reductive, gestural effect. The liberal marks and colours blend the movements of the people into their environment so that the quality of space within each image is a constant and subtle shifting of movement, never really coming into full focus and in that way, playing up to their representations of memories.

Work / Art Daniel Fletcher uses a playful spirit to represent the excitements and anxieties of daily life

We’ve previously championed the work of Daniel Fletcher, a master of curating shapes together in a way that make you feel fuzzy and warm with their considered simplicity. Daniel has started to gradually step away from illustration transferring his work to canvas, but with the same prepossessing qualities of his older work.

Lucy Bourton — 16 October 2017
Work / Art Fukt magazine presents the erotic drawings of David Shrigley, Tracy Emin and many more

Fukt is a magazine, based in Berlin, dedicated to contemporary drawing. Overseen, since 2001 by editor Björn Hegardt, it is a visual celebration of the medium and has featured the likes of David Shrigley, Keith Haring, Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois and William Kentridge alongside new and exciting artists over its span of 16 issues.

Ruby Boddington — 12 October 2017
Work / World Mental Health Day Hospital Rooms uses visual art to spark positive change in service users

Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that believes in the “enduring power of the arts to instil value, dignity and wellbeing in people.” They work with mental health practitioners, service users and commission museum and gallery quality artists to create “site specific, inventive and compliant environments,” for predominantly secure and locked mental health units. They also run creative workshops for service users within said units.

Ruby Boddington — 10 October 2017
Work / Art Inside artist Hassan Hajjaj’s “homecoming exhibition” at Somerset House

Hassan Hajjaj’s culture-clashing work is perhaps best described by way of his nickname, “the Andy Warhol of Marrakech”. This month, the British-Moroccan artist is taking over Somerset House in a “homecoming” exhibition in partnership with 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, his first UK solo show in seven years. Hassan Hajjaj: La Caravane presents Hassan’s dynamic body of work across photography, performance, music, fashion and design to date and brings in new work in the form of photographs and sculptures which combine contemporary North African culture with globally familiar Western iconography.

Bryony Stone — 09 October 2017
Work / Art Frieze Art Fair 2017: Feminist art, bronze sculptures and mop heads

The time has come once again for London’s Regent’s Park to be taken over by two massive tents and swathes of well-dressed arty people, where the clinking of champagne bottles and glasses becomes a sort of wind chime echoing across the park. Yes it’s Frieze week.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 05 October 2017
Work / Art Artist Cristina BanBan reveals our endless need for distraction

We’ve long championed the work of artist Cristina BanBan, whose bold, two dimensional portraits have been recently fleshed out into a more shapely approach, switching the fine lines of paintbrushes brushes for a more impressionistic kit of spray paints. “I believe my paintings are getting more precise in terms of the technique and style and also the narrative,” Cristina says. “I always work from my imagination but I am pushing more and more to bring detail and character to each subject. I get a stronger sense of the back-story for each character and this is coming through more in the work. My colour palette is bright, matching the boldness of the figures. I’m still interested in exaggerating.”

Bryony Stone — 04 October 2017