ESSAY I AI and Animating: ‘The Artist and the End’
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension of drawing and painting. Artificial intelligence has enabled Hellen Rose and I to move from purely documentary making to creating animated films and music videos. During COVID-19 we staged the […]
REVIEW I Listen rather than declare: La Biennale di Venezia Arte, 2026
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition In Minor Keys, 2026, was realised posthumously by the team she assembled, and by a wider climate of conflict and division. Against this backdrop, its invitation to slow down and […]
REVIEW I Grounding Ambition at Newcastle
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the opening performances (many did not). Creation, 2020, is a beautiful work and was perfectly chosen for this event, celebrating the spirit in art that doesn’t look at what is but […]
Sanne Koelemij
Sanne Koelemij’s collaged compositions recalibrate conventional dialogues between colour, shape and material.

