Daisy Parris’s paintings emerge from a tension between language and abstraction,
immediacy and reflection, gesture and structure. Colour, fragments of text, collage and vigorous painterly marks coexist on the canvas, creating images whose emotional intensity resists a single interpretation. Words enter the paintings as traces of memory, thought and lived experience, while colour acquires a psychological force that exceeds any fixed vocabulary of emotions.
In an age saturated by images, Pam Evelyn’s paintings propose a different experience of
looking: physical, prolonged and deeply attentive to the life of the surface. Her expansive
canvases emerge through dense accumulations of oil, where colour, gesture, erasure and
matter remain visibly entangled. Occupying an unstable territory between abstraction,
figuration and landscape, forms appear, dissolve and return.
The Medical Humanities paper published by the BMJ is the third in a series of papers led by Professor Paolo Pozzilli, in which he’s set out his research on the Renaissance aristocrat, Simonetta Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli’s muse, who died at just 23 from suspected tuberculosis.
Christie's auction MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art realised USD$8,940,800. Held at The Abu Dhabi EDITION on 1 November, the evening sale was the first fine-art auction in Abu Dhabi, bringing together a selection of works by artists from across the Middle East and North Africa.