The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

Remarkably, Pallant House’s publicity department declare this to be the ‘first major exhibition to explore British still life’. Artists exhibited include (draw a deep breath): Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Lucian Freud, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Anwar Jalal Shemza, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley […]

John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey

Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

John Craxton (schooled and part-brought up in rural Sussex) was inseparable from fellow Goldsmith’s student Lucian Freud in the mid-1940s, and he was, if anything, more successful than his friend during his early career. But after he discovered the pleasures of Greece – where he lived more on than off for the rest of his […]