07 June 2019

Mike Nelson and Frank Bowling

Showing at Tate Britain now. 

Asset Stripper by Mike Nelson (till 6 October) -





 Frank Bowling (till 26 August) -

This one reminded me of the Mother Holle story but its title is Moby Dick.
In the version my Oma read to us, when the girl returns home
she shakes the featherbed one last time and out fall golden coins.

"Sam'Sentinal" 1999 -Small-scale work consisting of stitched
and glued sections of coloured canvas (influenced by his
mother, "maker of everything in the line of sewing")


"Wafting" 2018 - Bowling laid canvases on the floor, tucked up their
corners, and let pools of watery paint dry. 

The fabric was made in China and brought
from Zambia by a grandson

We also had a close look at Sixty Years, a new(ish) display of works from the collection showing key ideas in recent British art as represented in the work of women artists.

And at some of the great floors throughout the building -


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