MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Ishbel Myerscough: Grief Longing and Love, Flowers Gallery London
Compelling glimpses of inner lives in works by acclaimed portrait painter
Two Painters, 2019
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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
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INTIMATE self-portraits and portraits of family draw the eye in this free exhibition of new works by British artist Ishbel Myerscough, which explore a universal journey of loss and longing.
An acclaimed artist, she studied at the Glasgow and Slade schools of art and won the National Portrait Gallery’s annual Portrait Award competition in 1995.
Myerscough is recognised for her highly detailed and meticulously observed portrayal of her subject matter, which over the past three decades has primarily included herself, her close friend and fellow artist Chantal Joffe and their families.
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