by Alan Todd | Aug 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
There is no doubt that our lives if not governed by ritual and geared to it. Organised repetition of the same acts in the same order are part and parcel and where no ritual exists, we invent one. Some rituals are small time and domestic while others involve large...
by Alan Todd | Jul 14, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
You could describe the art of today as the product of the introspective mirror. A FB friend of mine says that in fact all art is a selfie. In some ways that is true if you remove the propogandists and those who continue to hold up a mirror to nature and even...
by Alan Todd | Jun 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition – a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
by Alan Todd | May 20, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
I visited an exhibition by two artists this week of small sculptures and paintings and then went to the artist talk a few days later. Whereas on first sighting I had been impressed by the tactile and whimsical use of materials for the sculptures and the use of...
