AUTHOR OF ‘GLOBAL ART COMPASS’ AND FORMER SENIOR CURATOR AT DEUTSCHE BANK
ALISTAIR HICKS
Curator and Writer
Author of ‘Global Art Compass’ and former Senior Curator at Deutsche Bank, Alistair Hicks has just co-authored with Robert Ivy ‘Chateau La Coste: art and architecture in Provence’. He is working on a project aimed at changing the way we use museums.
“Lockdown and the present crisis is going to make us re-evaluate how we engage with new ideas and art, but for this little selection I am going to talk about artists with whom I am familiar. The artists themselves have been confronting isolation and how to deal with it.”
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Paola Ciarska, Life and The Pursuit of Pleasure, 2020. Courtesy of IMT.
“Last year I curated the Dialogues Section at the London Fair and IMT Gallery showed Paola Ciaska, who makes work about how we live in our homes. In the past she visited patrons and did portraits of their living style. Now you can have a zoom consultation with her.”
Susan Derges, Seed Constellation 2, 2020. Courtesy of Purdy Hicks.
“Susan Derges, at my wife’s gallery, Purdy Hicks, looked to grow more of her own food. Her work seed constellation is a direct result. She watched the way the seeds grow, the singular ways in which they are germinated, and it made her think how the small and cosmic echo each other, our small thoughts are reflected in the glory of full night sky.”
Leon Kossoff, Fidelma, 1999. Courtesy of Castlegate House Gallery.
“The great thing about going round a Fair is that you can usually find art to fit your mood – well with a Leon Kossoff portrait of Fidelma, a glowing Hughie O’Donoghue wreck and a Sheila Fell landscape Castlegate Gate have the mood covered.”
Hughie O’Donoghue (RA), Exodus 6, 2005. Courtesy of Castlegate House Gallery.
“The great thing about going round a Fair is that you can usually find art to fit your mood – well with a Leon Kossoff portrait of Fidelma, a glowing Hughie O’Donoghue wreck and a Sheila Fell landscape Castlegate Gate have the mood covered.“
Sir Matthew Smith, Seated Model (Woman in Green), 1920. Courtesy of Crane Kalman Gallery.
“There are always galleries you can rely on to come up with fixed reference points. Crane Kalman invariably have a good Matthew Smith.”
English Vernacular Metalworker, Sculptural Early Full-Bodied Cockerel Weathervane, c.1880. Courtesy of Robert Young Antiques.
“But I leave with the must-have purchases of the Fair – Robert Young’s range of cockerel weathervane – Cockle Doo to you too.”
Paola Ciarska, Life and The Pursuit of Pleasure, 2020. Courtesy of IMT.
“Last year I curated the Dialogues Section at the London Fair and IMT Gallery showed Paola Ciaska, who makes work about how we live in our homes. In the past she visited patrons and did portraits of their living style. Now you can have a zoom consultation with her.”
Susan Derges, Seed Constellation 2, 2020. Courtesy of Purdy Hicks.
“Susan Derges, at my wife’s gallery, Purdy Hicks, looked to grow more of her own food. Her work seed constellation is a direct result. She watched the way the seeds grow, the singular ways in which they are germinated, and it made her think how the small and cosmic echo each other, our small thoughts are reflected in the glory of full night sky.”
Leon Kossoff, Fidelma, 1999. Courtesy of Castlegate House Gallery.
“The great thing about going round a Fair is that you can usually find art to fit your mood – well with a Leon Kossoff portrait of Fidelma, a glowing Hughie O’Donoghue wreck and a Sheila Fell landscape Castlegate Gate have the mood covered.”
Hughie O’Donoghue (RA), Exodus 6, 2005. Courtesy of Castlegate House Gallery.
“The great thing about going round a Fair is that you can usually find art to fit your mood – well with a Leon Kossoff portrait of Fidelma, a glowing Hughie O’Donoghue wreck and a Sheila Fell landscape Castlegate Gate have the mood covered.“
Sir Matthew Smith, Seated Model (Woman in Green), 1920. Courtesy of Crane Kalman Gallery.
“There are always galleries you can rely on to come up with fixed reference points. Crane Kalman invariably have a good Matthew Smith.”
English Vernacular Metalworker, Sculptural Early Full-Bodied Cockerel Weathervane, c.1880. Courtesy of Robert Young Antiques.
“But I leave with the must-have purchases of the Fair – Robert Young’s range of cockerel weathervane – Cockle Doo to you too.”
