MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Political art draws large crowds
CHARLOTTE DIXON recommends an exhibition that spits in the face of politicians, police and oil giants
(L) Ekaterina Egorushkina, Public Order (detail) 2023; (R) Mark Shepherd, Ship Of Fools, 2024
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Rage against the dying of the light
Clapham Omnibus Theatre, London
THIS is an angry, refreshing art exhibition at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham Common. Organised via The Red Art Club, Curated by Amber Hill, Ameilia Varley, Enya Esteban, Eva and Isabel Valdez, this is a sizzling exhibition of political art from 21 different artists.
Using the final line from Dylan Thomas’s poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, this exhibition spits in the face of politicians, of oil giants and leaders. The Red Art Club calls for a collective unified front against the forces that seek to destroy us.
Ekaterina Egorushkina’s painting is of the Metropolitan Police kettling peaceful protest. It could be of today’s Just Stop Oil protesters, treated as criminals as the right to protest is removed. History will have a different perspective.
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