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Your Last Work Is Your Estate
What an artist should put in order before somebody else is left to decide what survives.
On Sunday I wrote about what happens after an artist dies without having prepared their work, their family or anyone else for their absence. I describ...
After the Last Work
There is a house in Wiltshire where the work of a serious artist is stacked against every wall. Floor to ceiling in some rooms. Rolled canvases in the hallway. Works on paper in folders that haven’t been opened in years. The artist died in...
One Piece Worth Seeing
Sarah Slappey, Squeeze, 2018, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 50.8 cm
People say this about musicians all the time: I only like the early stuff. It’s often annoying - a way of saying, I was there before you, before the thing became too clean, too su...
What Are You Actually Interested In?
Last week I wrote about the embarrassment of liking things. About the small pause that arrives when someone wants to say “I love that” but feels the need to wrap the sentence in qualifications first. This is the artist’s version of the same...
One Piece Worth Seeing
Marilyn Hallam, Not Finding a Pose, 1992, oil on canvas, 152 x 114 cm
When I was first drawn to Marilyn Hallam’s work, it was paintings like this that held me. The figure in a room. The window. The sense of someone caught between activity...
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