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• Mike Cumiskey obituary

  29-02-2024 21:34
  
  My father, Mike Cumiskey, was an artist who took commissions and staged exhibitions at the same time as pursuing a more or less full-time career as an art teacher and, latterly, headteacher.Across his working life Mike, who has died aged 82, held exhibitions at venues such as the Studio Club, the Bluecoat (Liverpool), Uxbridge civic centre, the National Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago and in Stern (Germany), Manchester and Edinburgh. Continue reading...
  
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• Adelaide Biennale 2024: light takes centre stage in ‘tender’ survey of Australian art

  29-02-2024 15:00
  
  Instead of leaning into the political, the exhibition of 24 artists is a gentle invitation to look at ourselves – and the world – anewGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf there is one word to describe curator José Da Silva’s Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, it is light. Many of the works he has brought together for the three-month show are interested in the properties of light: the way it refracts off trees and the sky; the way it can play with a painter&rsq
  
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