Ode to Africa: Marc Standing’s The Whispering Tongues at Grove Square Galleries
Opening this week at London’s Grove Square Galleries – one of the capital’s newest contemporary art spaces, launched in 2020 – The Whispering Tongues presents a new body of work by artist Marc Standing. Standing is an internationally exhibited and trained artist. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, he obtained a Degree in Fine Arts […]
Simona Cozzupoli
An accomplished artist with a background in Art Criticism, Milan-based Simona Cozzupoli draws from the likes of Cornell, De Chirico and Magritte to create awe-inspiring shadow boxes where the mundane and the magical collide and merge. A master in the art of assemblage, Simona Cozzupoli takes everyday and found objects to make glass-fronted display cases […]
Lateral Geographies: an online residency programme for artists and curators
First conceived amidst the global Covid-19 epidemic to support creative professionals, Lateral Geographies is an online residency programme curated by 1883’s Arts Editor aiming to link artists, curators and audiences in new, challenging ways. The past 12 months have been one long exhausting slog for everyone, and only now we are starting to see the […]
Isolating Together: An outdoor photography exhibition marking one year of lockdown
Isolating Together is a photographic series and outdoor exhibition documenting stories of community, action and solidarity during Covid-19 by Kentish Town-based designer and documentary photographer Karishma Puri. A year ago, at the height at the first wave of the Covid pandemic, Karishma Puri, a Kentish Town-based designer and documentary photographer with an interest in […]
Duggie Fields
1883 is deeply saddened to announce British painter and all-round creative mind Duggie Fields has passed aged 75. With a career spanning fifty years, Duggie Fields was a true British institution. In September 2019, 1883 Arts Editor met the post-pop constructivist artist, as he liked to call himself, to talk art, fashion, and how he […]
ARTCRY
Led by a group of artists, creatives, agitators and producers, ARTCRY is a new fund for artists making work in response to social and political events in the public realm. At a time of great political turbulence and social unease — while we are held in the grip of a global pandemic and torn apart […]