January Collage

Drill

Drill, 2008

Plaster, Pigment, Steel and Rubber

Rachel Whiteread

Edward Burne-Jones' Strong Footwear Game

Details from The Holy Grail Tapestries, 1890-4

Perseus and The Sea Nymphs, 1877

Very on-trend strappy leather sandals, chain mail ankle boots and feathered footwear - say what you like about Edward Burne-Jones but he had excellent taste in shoes. 

Pink and blue holiday visions

Happy Holiday, 1999

Agnes Martin

The Shore, 1923

Paul Nash

Elsie

Elsie 'Toodles' Thomas, c 1907-8 

Alvin Langdon Coburn 

I went to see the new Pre-Raphaeltite and Photography exhibition today, and while being pretty underwhelmed was struck by how modern some of the early color photography looked - this c.1907 photo could be straight out of a current fashion editorial.

FRANK

The Frank Auerbach exhibition at the Tate ends this weekend - I recommend getting there before it closes its doors on Sunday. It's interestingly curated and crucially not too vast, which allows for you to get to the end of the show without feeling like a lie down.

Love this painting of London in the heat

Hampstead Road, High Summer 2010

Head of William Fever, 2003

"I'm always aware that what Frank produces are Auberbachs first and last... I'm aware of being a prompt. But what transpires and is eventually, declared to be (provisionally) done is something marvellous... These paintings give such a sense of being alive that I for one am pleased that here, whew, I'm still breathing." William Fever, 2015

Picasso at Tate Britain

I am really looking forward to the Picasso and British Modern Art exhibition at the Tate Britain next month. One of my modules during my final term at uni was simply called, PICASSO, so it's fair to say that he is a figure that I have looked quite closely at. Before taking the module, despite Picasso's famous and prolific artistic output, the picture that often came to mind was not even by Picasso but of him:

Taken by Robert Doisneau taken in 1952. Must have been hard to paint with those chubby digits.