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Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 13

New story ✏️

Read 'Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group' 👉 buff.ly/BbYLD6l

'Dora Carrington' by Dora Carrington (1893–1932) 📷 National Portrait Gallery

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Jenny Saville's drawings in the long shadow of the Renaissance Madonna | Art UK

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Georgia Louise Luckhurst @georgialouluck.bsky.social · Aug 19

my piece for @artukdotorg.bsky.social up now - on jenny saville and motherhood
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The aesthetic artistic interior: sketching the Victorian home | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 20

From Instagram feeds to Victorian sketches, interiors have long reflected changing taste.

Artistic homes were captured through watercolours and drawings.

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🧑‍🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) 📷 Russell Cotes

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The exquisite corpse: the Mad Libs of Surrealist drawing | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 29

'Exquisite corpse' was surrealism’s Mad Libs ✏️

Discover how this playful drawing game shaped modern creativity in this new story 👉 buff.ly/l3S25JX

🧑‍🎨 Dinos Chapman (b.1962) and Jake Chapman (b.1966) © the artists. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

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A voyage with no destination: Louise Bourgeois's 1960s drawings | Art UK

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Celia Graham-Dixon @celiagrahamdixon.bsky.social · Aug 26

A joy to write about the Courtauld's 'Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s' display for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. You can catch it until September 14th. Thanks so much @elizag.bsky.social for the commission! artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Don’t deliver me from evil

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Aug 1

So excited to publish an interview with the iconic Louise Giovanelli in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this month!

Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

Louise Giovanelli is one of the hottest rising stars of her generation. She spoke to Tandem about modern devotion, the overlap between Catholic imagery and porn, and why people keep asking what’s behind her famous curtains:
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Louise Giovanelli paints modern worship

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy birthday Beatrix Potter 🎂

Before Beatrix Potter's classic literary figures, she had a strong interest in the wondrous world of mushrooms 🍄

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🧑‍🎨 Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 Armitt Museum and Library

Cluster of yellowish-brown mushrooms growing on a dark, weathered tree branch against a plain background.

Detailed botanical illustration of three brown mushrooms with textured caps and long stems on a beige background.

Detailed botanical illustration of orange-capped mushrooms growing among green grass and small plants on a beige background.

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yes it is!

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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · Jul 29

Can confirm that Eliza is an absolute DREAM to work with. If you work on drawings, get in touch with her and the ArtUK team asap ✨

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jul 29

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The sapphic sketchbook: what drawings can reveal about desire | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Jul 19

What can drawings reveal about desire?

For lesbian artists throughout history, sketchbooks have been safe places to explore intimacy, identity, and longing in ways public artworks couldn't.

Read more in this new story 👉 buff.ly/NCyYICO

🧑‍🎨 Gwen John (1876–1939) 📷 @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jul 10

I also read this as a consequence of gig economy/doggedly monetising your hobbies. Obviously rich celebrities don't NEED the money, but I think now it's an expectation that you publicise/professionalise anything you do for 'fun'

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jun 12

We love Dutch <3

Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jun 12

The thing that gets me about this (aside from the obvious cruelty and irrationality) is that it directly impacts British citizens (spouses and children). How can MPs defend this to their voters?? Speaking as someone on a spouse visa

Joanne Leonard’s feminist “intimate documentary” photography finally finds a global audience.

Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jun 4

A really exciting interview in Tandem – Joanne Leonard is 85 and only just getting global recognition for her incredible feminist photography and collage practices. We spoke with her ahead of her first UK show at HackelBury Gallery.

Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 4

Working since the early 1960s, Joanne Leonard has been at the forefront of both the feminist & civil rights movements. These themes run throughout her body of work, particularly in her pioneering “intimate documentary” photographs & her groundbreaking collage practice.

The Intimate Eye

Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · May 16

'Just like a medieval saint'

19th-century artist, author and philanthropist Francesca Alexander has largely disappeared from history, but she was a celebrity during her lifetime.

Read on 👉 buff.ly/oTxZrKc

🧑‍🎨 Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)📷 Sothebys

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The Victoriana of museum “rehangs”

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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · May 27

Museum “rehangs” are everywhere, most recently at London's National Gallery. They inspire furious debate about mixing old art & new politics, but we forget that museums have always done that: their Victorian roots have never been more visible.

Put on your hoop skirts

Drawing St Ives: Modernism and 'French rot' in twentieth-century Cornwall | Art UK

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · May 12

Beside the seaside 🌊

This new story focuses on the artists who depicted the town of St Ives in drawings during the 20th 👉 buff.ly/jwoSigS

'St Ives' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

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A monthly short interview series with interesting artists and art people.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · May 13

Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy
by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio for the @artukdotorg.bsky.social blog
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Pictured: Charity, 1861, oil on canvas by Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)

A painting of children on and around a portico, with a landscape in the background, in which sits a statue of a Madonna & Child. In the foreground, a girl in a red dress with a blue bow in her hair hands an orange to two other girls, at least one of whom is dressed in rags. At the feet of the girl in the red dress is a cloth with more food in it. At the left edge of the painting two more children are seated on the step.

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · May 16

Excited to now be publishing something every week at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social with the addition of "In tandem with..." – our new series of shorter interviews with artists and art people. Read the first one here!

Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

Introducing our new series, In tandem with...
Up first, artist Grace Lee, whose soft, eerie works are like little windows into another world, they tug at assumptions and unravel our routines of looking.

Read her reflections on failure, socks, and the gift of her presence: www.tandem-mag.com/i/

In tandem with Grace Lee

‘I push carpet to the extreme’: The craft genius who makes tufted humanoid wearable sculptures

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · May 16

I interviewed Anna Perach about her amazing tufted carpet sculptures and the drift of modern society away from magical, mystical ways of seeing the word. Her show opens at Richard Saltoun in London today!
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Should carpet as a medium be as highly regarded as painting with oils and sculpting with marble? Anna Perach, an artist born in Ukraine, talks us through her new show inspired by Hoffman’s love triang...

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Queer artist couples show us that great art doesn’t have to be made alone.

Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · May 9

Wonderful new story in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this week with interviews with queer artists about the way they collaborate with and support their partners – a new model for fostering shared, loving creativity in an increasingly relentlessly capitalist art world.

Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · May 8

In Tandem’s latest, María, Isabel Rabassa, Anthony Cudahy, & Ian Lewandowski talk about their shared artistic practices. Read it here:
www.tandem-mag.com/its-a-libera...

It’s a liberation

Queer artist couples show us that great art doesn’t have to be made alone.

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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · May 8

Creating a rebellious blueprint, queer artist couples teach us the importance of the collective, of the shared, and of the community. “It’s a liberation, meeting someone who opens you up,” says María Cuellar.
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It’s a liberation