Arts news

• Kip Gresham obituary

  02-09-2024 19:14
  Pioneering printmaker who collaborated with leading artists to print and publish their workKip Gresham, who has died aged 72 of pancreatic cancer, made and published prints of works by leading British and international artists. A pioneer in screen-printing technology, he loved collaborating: “The day-to-day reality is one of dirty hands, bad backs, beautiful colours, seductive papers and, above all, surprises from the artists, those magicians,” he wrote. In his own right, he produced
  
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• From gnarled hands to murder: the show exposing the world’s worst workplaces

  02-09-2024 17:34
  
  Hard Graft, an unsparing new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, showcases artworks that respond to employee exploitation, from the ruined hands of a washerwoman to the lung-damaged workers of Death AlleyOn my way to Hard Graft, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, I sat beside an employee with a lanyard round her neck like a chain whose exhortatory instruction read, “straightforward, purposeful, collaborative behaviours” – but to what end I had no idea. Jo
  
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• Don’t Forget to Remember review – art, identity and the slow disintegration of dementia

  02-09-2024 08:00
  
  This elegiac Irish film documents the relationship between street artist Asbestos and his mother, and the public art project he makes to help process his griefA strange but reassuring ouroboros effect is in place in Ross Killeen’s documentary about dementia. One of the things that ailing Helena is able to recall is her son’s insistence as a child on embracing creative thinking. Now a grown man and operating as a street artist under the moniker Asbestos, art is the means by which he s
  
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