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Viewing Three artists make the line come alive at Lyndsey Ingram

The humble line is the linking thread between the trio of artists in Lyndsey Ingram’s new show, ranging from the minimal to the exuberantly gestural. As Elliott Puckette says, “I was completely compelled by the line from the get-go. It had more possibilities than form or shape or colour.” Carved into wooden boards prepped with gesso, kaolin and chalk, her colourless loops have a rare energy, while Aimée Parrott‘s vivid sweeps of printed ink, acrylic and fabric dye are more pictorial, suggesting volcanoes, storms and waves. Meanwhile, Tanya Ling’s “Line Paintings” are deeply personal, evoking the movement of her body across paper in her studio. In her new work, “An Odici”, 2024, her customary blue line has evolved into a dense mass of coloured brush strokes, with unusual intensity. Prepare to be hypnotised by these wonderfully discombobulating works.

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Dates
14 March 2024 — 26 April 2024

Viewing The magic and mess of motherhood at the Arnolfini

The wild rollercoaster of motherhood is in the spotlight in Acts of Creation, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition that begins at the Arnolfini in Bristol. Evoking the joy, pain, mess and mishaps of this lived experience, the show is a riposte to the idea that a women’s artistic career is over when she conceives, revealing how procreation itself can give birth to creative inspiration.

Curator Hettie Judah, who wrote the 2022 book, How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents), has gathered together works by new and established artists, including scenes from Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table Series, which show a mother and daughter at table, oscillating between closeness and tension, and Billie Zangewa’s silk collage “Every Woman” depicting the artist and her young son amid a sea of junk and toys. Motherhood is the muse – stretch marks, breast pumps, plastic clutter and all.


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Dates
09 March 2024 — 26 May 2024
Opera curtains play a starring role in the work of Antoine Wagner, whose photographs of their blood-red, silky folds at Tristan Hoare Gallery make us look at them anew. The French-American artist and film director has captured those that adorned opera houses graced by soprano Maria Callas throughout her 36-year career. Through his lens, we see how they are more than just stage coverings – they play an active part in shaping an audience’s experience, concealing and revealing, and serving as visual and symbolic thresholds.

Wagner’s new video work, Where It Starts, It Ends invites us to have an intimate exchange with the visceral velvet fabric. When staring at the abstract drapery, you can almost imagine yourself in Callas’ shoes, counting down the seconds to when she will step on stage. After viewing Wagner’s work, you’ll never see a stage curtain the same way again.

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Dates
08 March 2024 — 05 April 2024
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