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Viewing Turner Prize 2022

Landing at Tate Liverpool this autumn is the Turner Prize 2022 exhibition, featuring work by the four shortlisted artists: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.

‘The jury has travelled the length and breadth of the country, taking advantage of the easing of lockdown to enjoy the explosion of creativity that has emerged from the pandemic,’ said Helen Legg, Director of Tate Liverpool and co-chair of the Turner Prize jury. ‘The result is a diverse group of artists who impressed the judges with the intensity of their presentations, while also dealing with important issues facing our society today.’

As you meander around the free exhibition, you’ll encounter sculpture and photographic works by Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan’s cast forms in clay and bronze as well as her tea-stained fabrics and bright neon crocheted fishing line pouches filled with a variety of seeds, stones and skins. Also on display are three films by Sin Wai Kin and Phillipson’s RUPTURE NO 6: biting the blowtorched peach, a reimagining of her 2020 Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries commission.

This year’s artists have delivered a visually exciting and thought-provoking exhibition that demands a pilgrimage to Liverpool. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony in December.

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Dates
20 October 2022 — 19 March 2023

Viewing Sonia Boyce: Just for the Record

Just for the record, Sonia Boyce’s inaugural exhibition with Simon Lee Gallery lands this week in London. Coming off the back of a successful stint at this year’s Venice Biennale, where Boyce won the prestigious Golden Lion Prize for Best National Participation for her exhibition FEELING HER WAY at the British pavilion, Boyce’s latest show features new works that extend from her ongoing Devotional project that she began in 1999.

Turning memorabilia collected from black British women in music into visual material, Boyce decorates the gallery space with a geometric patterned wallpaper taken from a growing archive of images saved to her phone. Within this kaleidoscope are also large-scale photographic prints of posters advertising musical events from performers featured in the Devotional project. Looking at questions of appropriation and the people behind the voices of music, Boyce considers the importance of music in our daily lives and offers insight into her contemporary artistic practice.

Coinciding with this exciting exhibition is Boyce’s Cork Street Banners commission, which will be unveiled on 13 October.


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Dates
12 October 2022 — 16 December 2022

Viewing Cecily Brown: Studio Pictures

After working on a large scale for several years with grand commissions displayed at Blenheim Palace and the Capodimonte Museum, British-painter Cecily Brown returns to her roots in a new exhibition of works at Thomas Dane Gallery. As its title suggests, the exhibition comprises smaller canvases (and her smallest work to date) made in and of the studio.

Here Brown easily moves from the loose, gestural brushworks that characterised her larger works into tighter, more focused images that occupy the tight confines of these smaller works without losing the dynamism of her artistic style. The term ‘keyhole views’ – the idea of viewing figures in a natural state, uninhibited by the sense of voyeurism that coined by Edgar Degas – is central to Brown’s pictures as she portrays nude figures in a state of ease and modesty from the comfort of her own studio.

Noting how, ‘you can see things more clearly when they are small,’ Brown uses this opportunity to demonstrate the skill required to paint on a small scale, reminding spectators of other impressive works of a similar format such as Pablo Picasso’s ‘La mort de Casagemas’ from 1901. They may be small, but they are mighty.

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Dates
11 October 2022 — 17 December 2022
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