Award-winning sculpture park transforms vacant shop into gallery for young people An award-winning sculpture park has transformed a vacant high street shop into an art gallery for young people The National (Scotland) · Aug 26
‘So full-frontal, you feel like a voyeur for looking’: Lindsey Mendick: Where You End and I Begin review With snogging snails, conjoined lovers and her own pug Telly as Jesus, the ceramicist sculpts a mangled mythology of her own relationships The Guardian - UK · Jul 3
Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom The Guardian - UK · Jan 19
Artwork to explore why Elizabeth I would not marry Robert Dudley Exclusive: Artwork offering fresh perspective on queen’s relationship with courtier to go on display at Kenilworth Castle The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2024
From gnarled hands to murder: the show exposing the world’s worst workplaces Hard Graft, an unsparing new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, showcases artworks that respond to employee exploitation, from the ruined hands of a washerwoman to the lung-damaged workers of Death Alley The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2024
Edinburgh Art Festival 2023: from bog dancing to binge drinking What to see at Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, championing women and queer artists, whether exploring Scottish bogland on film or casting hedonism in ceramic Wallpaper · Aug 20, 2023
Lena Dunham to be special guest at Edinburgh Art Festival LENA Dunham, the star of hit comedy-drama series Girls, has been announced as a special guest at a performance during the Edinburgh Art Festival. The National (Scotland) · Aug 7, 2023
Girls star Lena Dunham to be special guest at Edinburgh Art Festival event She will join sculpture artist Lindsey Mendick for a conversation entitled Shameful Women on August 19. The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2023
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to The Bear: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, and the acclaimed US restaurant drama returns. Here are all the essential cultural happenings over the next seven days The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2023
Sublime futurism, Renaissance inspiration and getting smashed – the week in art Herzog & de Meuron build their dreams, Paula Rego cultivates Crivelli’s garden and Lindsey Mendick binge drinks – all in your weekly dispatch The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2023
Artist Lindsey Mendick on the National Gallery show The Ugly Duchess: “I’m not sure how funny this satire is” The rising star artist visits an exhibition that raises questions of just how much our attitudes to women have changed in the last 400 years Evening Standard · May 4, 2023
Lindsey Mendick: Where the Bodies Are Buried; Leonardo Drew – review Anxiety – and growing up with British TV – inspire Mendick’s huge multimedia show, while the cycle of life explodes from grit and dust in Drew’s fine chapel installation The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023
Lindsey Mendick review – Brookside’s buried body is a ceramic letdown This show, inspired by the soap’s notorious murder plotline, looks like it was a lot of fun to put together – but sadly there’s little here for the viewer The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023
‘Before cancer I was really unhappy’: Tracey Emin on the joy of founding her own art school When she thought she was dying, Emin vowed to create a lasting legacy. Now she has opened the doors of a new art school and studio complex in Margate, and found fulfilment in helping younger artists The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023
Wallpaper · Mar 17, 2023 Ceramic artists: top trail-glazers breaking the mould A way with clay: discover the contemporary ceramic artists firing up a new age for the medium
The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2023 ‘Artists are moving here from Brooklyn’: Empire of Light puts Margate’s magic in the picture The east Kent seaside setting for Sam Mendes’ latest film is now home to stylish restaurants and bars, and world-class artists
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2022 Neon wonders, sex scandals and the horror of modernism – the week in art Light relief from the 24 Hour Psycho creator, York becomes sin city, and the dark heart of modernist architecture is exposed
The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2022 On my radar: Jessica Hynes’s cultural highlights The actor and director on what the Romans have done for her, a beguiling staging of a Japanese animation and a peerless podcast
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022 Strange Clay review – dynamic ceramic Twenty-three artists explore the potential of this ancient material in works that tackle issues from Post-it note wars to feudalism and porn
The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022 Strange Clay review – gleeful globs, erupting goo and an octopus in the toilet This contemporary ceramics show has everything from beautiful pitchers and sexy pots to stupid knick-knacks
The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2022 From Where the Crawdads Sing to Uncoupled: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Whether you’re partial to a swampy murder-mystery based on a bestseller or a divorce drama with Neil Patrick Harris, our critics have you covered for the next seven days