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One Piece Worth Seeing
Sweet ball and socket joints, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 203 cm
This week I wanted to look at Zoe Spowage’s Sweet ball and socket joints because it does something I always want painting to do. It looks immediate, almost thrown together...
Still Becoming a Collector
When I was on exchange at Parsons in New York in the 90s, temporarily freed from the glowering eyes of the British class system, I found myself dressing completely differently – black shirts and a tan leather coat. Then I came home to Londo...
A Collector’s Note - June
The Diary of an Art Advisor
A short selection drawn from the works I’ve been sharing with collectors over the past few weeks.
What Has Happened to It?
Someone picked up on a line from last week’s piece and asked me to elaborate: “the work transformed what it had touched.” That idea sits close to the centre of the whole problem. Once the old categories begin to fail - high and low, serious...
One Piece Worth Seeing
Work on Paper, 2024-26, Oil, pastel and charcoal on paper, 2 sheets, 39 x 56 cm
This week I wanted to look at a work on paper by Justin Mortimer because it shows something essential about the way he thinks as a painter. Mortimer is one of...
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Greg Rook is an independent art advisor and curator - founder of Blackbird Rook. Writing about contemporary art and the culture around it.
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