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• Simon Lewty obituary

  06-01-2022 18:25
  
  My friend Simon Lewty, who has died aged 80, was an artist who inscribed words and images on layers of tissue paper, creating a richly enigmatic body of work. Typically his paintings depicted surreal city chimneys, mandrake roots and figures that might have escaped from some infernal Punch and Judy show, floating amid arcane symbols and inscriptions of dreams.In the late 1980s and early 90s, when his works appeared like timeworn maps of hinterlands haunted by ancestral voices, the environmental
  
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• Tracey Emin to launch ‘revolutionary’ art school in Margate

  06-01-2022 14:44
  
  Artist says she wants to create 30 studios, with strict no-smoking rules and a requirement for students to display their workTracey Emin has said she is launching her own “revolutionary” art school in Margate, part of the artist’s broader plan to transform the seaside town into an “artist’s haven”.The school, named TKE Studios – after her full name, Tracey Karima Emin – will be housed at a former bathhouse and mortuary five minutes from her studio.
  
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