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Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor review – sexy latex and gobs of gum as a stately home gets trashed

From an explosion of plywood chairs to something akin to big gobs of bubblegum stuck to the walls, the imaginative exhibition reverberates with Barlow’s punk irreverence

The Guardian - UK

Blurred Lines: How the World of Fashion and Art Collided Once Again this Season

Designers, sculptors and graffiti artists are teaming up to craft innovative collaborations. Here are the art-inspired collections to know about...

Marie Claire

Roksanda's Autumn/Winter 2025 collection included three upcycled pieces- here's what to know

Take a peek inside the brand's colourful wonderland

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Roksanda channels sculptor Phyllida Barlow at London fashion week show

Teetering designs, upside-down fabrics and garments made from offcuts created a feel of topsy-turvy drama

The Guardian - UK

Roksanda brings sculptural silhouettes to London Fashion Week

The Princess of Wales’ beloved designer played with space and shapes at London Fashion Week.

The Independent UK

In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

In a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundings

The Guardian - UK

Material Worlds review – sculpture made of carpet fluff proves textile art is cool at last

This touring show celebrates once-maligned fibre in all its wildly imaginative forms, riffing on familiar yarns and fabrics to reach less obvious realms of thought

The Guardian - UK

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Sculptor Alison Wilding: ‘Some of my works are very huggable. But I don’t want anyone else to touch them’

She’s one of the UK’s most revered sculptors. Yet Wilding is often overlooked. She talks about making art out of dead frogs, her feminist awakening and why ‘work comes from work’

The Guardian - UK

Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted review – exhilarating glimpses of a colossal talent

This is the retrospective the artist never had in her lifetime, including her last sculpture series. Despite the skilful curation, visitors will yearn for Barlow’s special touch

The Guardian - UK

In memoriam: celebrating the lives and work of those we lost in 2023

We honour and remember some of the influential creatives lost during 2023, through the Wallpaper* tributes that ran throughout the year

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‘Why don’t we know more of her? It’s upsetting’: dance genius Bronislava Nijinska

Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a trailblazer

The Guardian - UK

Florence Peake review – riffing and writhing topless on the canvas

Factual Actual: Ensemble is a performance about painting, and painting as performance, that feels like an open-ended ritual

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Dame Phyllida Barlow obituary

Paul de Monchaux writes: Phyllida Barlow provided my students with a memorable ‘physical adventure’ in sculpture

The Guardian - UK

Phyllida Barlow obituary: renowned sculptor who was also an influential art teacher

Phyllida Barlow was 16 years old, and in her first term at art school, when one of her teachers noted that her painting had a sculptural quality, and suggested that she work in clay instead. It was, she said, “an awakening”.

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2023: can the city’s art scene bounce back?

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023 is about to kick off following years of restrictions. Catherine Shaw explores what we can expect in and around this year’s fair (23-25 March 2023), and whether Hong Kong can bounce back to reclaim the title of ‘Asia’s art hub’

The Guardian - UK

We all have one teacher who really made the difference – Phyllida Barlow was mine

At the Slade, she was the one you always paid attention to: she took you seriously and cared deeply about art and the people trying to make it, says writer Dale Berning Sawa

The Guardian - UK

What I learned watching Phyllida Barlow create a funny, majestic work for morally shabby Brexit Britain

The great British sculptor, who died this week, had a thrilling intelligence – and her messy, tottering, giant installations made you see and feel the world differently

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: How British-Somali citizens are disappearing to ‘culture rehabilitation centres’

A report published by the Observer tells the story of young people of Somali descent being held against their will to be ‘de-westernised’

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British sculptor Dame Phyllida Barlow dies at the age of 78

The renowned artist, known for her large-scale installations made from everyday materials, enjoyed a career lasting almost six decades.

The Independent UK

Phyllida Barlow death: Celebrated British sculptor dies aged 78

Barlow is survived by ‘a British art dynasty’

The Guardian - UK

‘Going big suited her. Going very big’ – the uncontainable brilliance of sculptor Phyllida Barlow

The British artist, who has died aged 78, turned detritus into sprawling installations that were so huge sometimes you feared for your safety – and your clothing

The Guardian - UK

Dame Phyllida Barlow obituary

British sculptor determined to turn convention on its head to create vast, uncontainable works of art

The Guardian - UK

Phyllida Barlow, British sculptor, dies aged 78

Artist rose to international prominence after four decades teaching art, and was made a dame in 2021

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The Guardian view on Maeve Gilmore’s art: out from the shadows

Editorial: Cliches about the toll of domesticity on creativity undermine the achievements of this brilliant woman – and others like her

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