A digital casino can be approached in much the same way as a gallery, studio, or performance space: with curiosity, attention, and a clear sense of when to…
A curator’s text can do more than identify an artwork, explain a process or place a work within an exhibition history. When it works with the spoken word, it…
Existing footage carries a history before an artist touches it. A home movie, television excerpt, news report, surveillance recording, educational film, or…
An island can be a place, an object, a body, or a state of mind. Within installation art, it may appear as a raised platform, an isolated room, a floating…
A procession turns movement through shared space into an artistic language. It can be solemn, festive, confrontational or deliberately unresolved, yet its…
The dead have never left contemporary art. They appear in memorials, family photographs, empty rooms, damaged objects, repeated gestures, recorded voices and…
A silhouette can seem like one of the simplest forms in visual art: a dark shape, a recognisable outline, a figure reduced to its edge. Yet that apparent…
A video still can look like a photograph, yet its meaning is shaped by movement, duration and the sequence from which it has been taken. It is a single image…
Works made from organic matter ask us to think about art as something alive, changing and materially vulnerable. Plant fibres, wood, soil, wax, shells, seeds,…
Before a studio becomes a place for making, it is a place for noticing. Morning light settles across a worktable, yesterday’s tools remain where they were…