The artist evokes a strong religious sensibility in his hybrid sculptures tempered by a welcome sense of humor.
Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.
Two Lesbian Lovers’ Elaborate Art Hoax
Artworks will be attributed to both Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece for the first time in a new exhibition.
A Sámi Artist’s Call for Ancestral Return
Outi Pieski disrupts colonial narratives to instead embody the deep relationship between a landscape and its people.
Can We Survive Without Reconnecting to the Earth?
Acts of Gathering challenges the disconnection between humans and the rhythms of the earth, interrogating the nature of food culture in a rapidly changing world.
Elias Sime Brings Out the Beauty in E-Waste
He seeks to make visible the vast scale of the waste produced by digital technologies, which are also reaching obsolescence with increasing rapidity.
Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.
Women’s Oppression Is the Earth’s Oppression
The work on gender and ecology in RE/SISTERS at the Barbican suggests that it is time to re-examine and re-engage with ecofeminism.
The Prolific Genius of Frank Walter
The Antiguan artist left behind 6,000 paintings and drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, and 50,000 pages of writings.
An Artist’s Ode to Worms
For artist Tamara Henderson, worms represent a link between life above and beneath the earth’s surface, transforming death and decay into rebirth and growth.
Care Isn’t Enough for the Climate Crisis
The exhibition Dear Earth elucidates a broad range of issues around climate change, but stops disappointingly short of a radical call to action.
Carolina Caycedo’s Spiritual Fieldwork
Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.
The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann’s Body Politics
Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.