GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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‘Meticulous and precise yet bursting with life’
CJ Stone looks forward to a retrospective of printmaker BEN SANDS’S work
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DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
BEN SANDS is one of those artists you’ve probably never heard of, but should have. He worked in woodcuts and linocuts as well as being an expert typesetter and accomplished painter.
I first became aware of him when his son Matt started putting photographs of his prints on Facebook.
Even with this less than ideal presentation, I could see straight away that this work was something special. It is meticulous and precise and yet bursting with life at the same time.
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