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• On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights

  16-03-2025 14:00
  The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsenBorn in Cornwall in 1997, Georgia Ellery attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she met Taylor Skye, with whom she founded the electro-pop duo Jockstrap; their 2022 debut album, I Love You Jennifer B, was nominated for the Mercury prize. In 2019 she starred in the Mark Jenkin film Bait. She is also a member of the Mercury-nominated Black Countr
  
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• Britain’s ‘trailblazing’ female war artists finally come out of the shadows

  16-03-2025 14:00
  
  A new exhibition and documentary celebrate the women who have been undervalued for yearsIn April 1945, Doris Zinkeisen became the first female artist to enter the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, just as the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was making his historic broadcast about the horrors that went on inside its walls.Zinkeisen was working as a nurse for the British Red Cross, which had also commissioned her to paint Belsen. It was where the Royal Academy graduate did her most fa
  
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• ‘Evict the Charleston Scroungers’: row in Lewes over the Bloomsbury group’s legacy

  16-03-2025 11:00
  
  A debate is raging over the future of a council building used for art exhibitions as public services in the Sussex town are squeezedWhen the doors closed on two art shows in the Sussex town of Lewes last weekend, a record number of people had crossed the threshold of Southover House to look at works by Picasso and Grayson Perry.For 18 months, the former council office building has housed a pop-up outpost of Charleston, the former home of key members of the Bloomsbury group, which is nearby in th
  
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• ‘Fishing in Cornwall is like a metaphor for life’: photographer Jon Tonks on landscape, community and the perfect catch

  16-03-2025 10:00
  
  Tonks spent 18 months documenting the fisherfolk of the south-west, learning about the community’s relationship with the sea, and how the future could be more sustainable for the fishersTwo figures bend over a ship’s gunwale, busy with a net, their bright yellow oilskins in brilliant contrast to the inky night. A flock of gulls, eerily spectral in the camera flash, frenzied by the impending catch, flap and wheel in a void so black that sea and sky are one. With their backs turned, it
  
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• Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair

  16-03-2025 10:00
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  Strindberg and his psychic double and the fierce sister of Nietzsche are among the stars in this show devoted to the Norwegian painter’s tremendous portraits – yet the omissions are glaringIn the autumn of 1908, Edvard Munch admitted himself to Dr Daniel Jacobson’s private clinic in Copenhagen to be treated for acute alcohol-induced psychosis. Over the next eight months, Jacobson helped him give up nicotine as well as drink. Of the stream of im
  
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