Vivienne Roberts Projects

04/09/2025

n his essay The Painter of Modern Life, Baudelaire writes that modernity consists of the transient and the contingent - one half of art, while the other lies in the eternal and the immutable. He speaks of drawing from fashion its poetic essence within the context of history, of extracting the eternal from the ephemeral. To describe his vision of modernity and beauty, he coins the phrase “immutable ephemeral”. He sought to capture the fleeting beauty of his time while revealing something unchanging within it. Poetry, he believed, should express that duality. This philosophical observation resonates with Jonathan Schofield’s vision of painting. As he says: “It’s the momentary made solid, the passing gesture held in coloured pigment - painting as luminous - painting as a way to hold time.”
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JONATHAN SCHOFIELD
The Defiance of Summer
Solo show Part I: 30 Sept - 31 Oct
Part II: 4 Nov - 21 Nov
.hector

20/01/2025

We figure in the top 5

Violence, hair, school memories, underwater worlds and gold.

01/11/2024

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30/10/2024

Ornament of Dust Diane Howse builds worlds through abstraction. Ricocheting between harmony and dissonance her symphonic compositions of colour, gesture and form present exhilarating journeys for the eye. We find ourselves getting mesmerized by gauzy polychrome mists or trying to decipher thickets o...

27/08/2024

10/07/2024

Understand a painting as a sum of chords and once and for all break away from any naturalist idea. (Edouard Vuillard)

23/05/2024

With an emphasis on creativity in education, are really does matter.

Listen to Episode 4: Bob & Roberta Smith on Art as a Human Right from Public Art & The Economics of Imagination. On episode four, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by artist Bob & Roberta Smith, who is known for his politically activated slogan paintings and his belief in art as a human right. One...

16/05/2024

Mark Wright, Borghese Gardens I, II, III Watercolour on paper.
‘SOTTOBOSCO’ until 20 June, at The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, EC1N 8HN

14/02/2024

ART EXISTS LIKE LOVE BETWEEN US ALL