Steve Russell
Contributor
UK
Steve Russell, artist. Dealing with issues of self, identity and symbols through the medium of paint, ephemera and other drawing materials. My practice is a figurative style that marries diverse elements into an instantly recognizable, idiosyncratic idiom that is at times touching, dramatic and visceral. Using line and dramatically visceral expressive colour, I produce images that manage to be optimistic and intriguing, even in seemingly mundane or problematic contexts.
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Extinction Beckons
Mike Nelson, is an internationally acclaimed British artist, born 1967 in Loughborough, he works in London. Extinction Beckons is a major exhibition, which includes sculptural...
Painting on Printed Matter
Russell has long painted on printed matter. Here follows a selection of works—made between 2002 and 2023—that use postcards, maps, and various flight and travel...
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
Leaving the polychromatic Southbank and entering through the doors of the Hayward Gallery I was gently propelled into Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time Machine. This retrospective exhibition...
When Forms Come Alive
When Forms Come Alive, curated by gallery director, Ralph Rugoff, spans over sixty years of contemporary art, featuring twenty-one international artists. Direct representation is mostly...
Legion: Life in the Roman Army
The exquisite head of Augustus, Rome’s first Emperor, welcomes you to Legion. It is a wonderful, comprehensive exhibition, which tells the story of the men,...
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art brings together over one hundred artworks by fifty international practitioners, covering the period from the 1960s...
Judy Chicago
This retrospective is titled Revelations after the unpublished manuscript Judy Chicago wrote and illustrated while making the Dinner Party. The manuscript has been updated with...
Yinka Shonibare CBE
British Nigerian Yinka Shonibare returns after two decades to the Serpentine Gallery with a compact greatest hits exhibition plus bonus tracks. A constant is his...
Hew Locke: what have we here?
‘This is like walking round my head, there is no direct route, choose your own route’, says Hew Locke after two years of collaboration, delving...
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
This exhaustive survey of Mike Kelley (1954-2021) is frightening, intriguing, loud, funny and very American. It’s packed with his sculptures, videos, models, photographs, and multi-disciplinary...
Silk Roads: British Museum
This magnificent exhibition celebrates and expands the concept of the ‘Silk Road’. The derivation of the Silk Road began in the 18th century reflecting on...
Tavares Strachan: There is a Light Somewhere
Tavares Strachan’s There is a Light Somewhere show at the Hayward finished at the end of September. It was a stunning show exhibiting the Bahamian’s...
Noah Davis
This exhibition is beautifully curated, chronologically arranged, each piece has room to breathe, a very illuminating and contemplative experience. Davis painted something like 400 works...
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
Mickalene Thomas is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. All About Love includes paintings, collage, photographs, installations and films. Her mixed media portraits are vivid and glamorous...
Linder Danger Came Smiling
A retrospective exhibition of Linder Sterling, who has been provocatively pushing boundaries since the late 1970s in the Manchester punk scene, with her collage, performance,...
Leigh Bowery!
Leigh Bowery arrived in the UK from Australia in 1980. He grew up in a conservative family in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne. He was...
Electric Dreams Art and Technology Before the Internet
Electric Dreams is a large and complex show looking at the work of more than seventy artists who were at the beginning of the computer...
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun
Edward Burra (1905-1976) and Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988), 13 June – 19 October 2025, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Two for the price of one,...
The Genesis Exhibition by Do Ho Suh
The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk The House, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG 1 May 2025 – 19 October 2025, ‘Walk The House’,...
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
Born in 1904, son of a wealthy timber merchant, educated at Harrow and Cambridge. His fascination with glamour, high society and photography started at an...
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