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• Janet Stowell obituary

  26-03-2025 18:49
  
  My mother, Janet Stowell, who has died aged 88, was a trained artist. She also worked as a designer before turning to producing linocut designs as a sideline while raising her family. Later came weaving and teaching tai chi.Janet was born in Didsbury, Manchester, as the youngest of the four children of Gordon Medcalf and his wife, Cecilia (nee Bool), but grew up in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, where her father ran a printing company. Independent and self-reliant from an early age, Janet was 13
  
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• Pam Walker obituary

  26-03-2025 17:57
  
  My friend Pam Walker was a social worker who later turned her attention to painting.After starting out at the London borough of Brent in the early 1970s, a decade later Pam went part-time at the London borough of Barnet so that she could pursue her artistic interests. Working mainly in acrylics and collage, she took as her principal subjects urban landscapes undergoing change, although she also focused on the beaches of the south coast of England, where she went walking with her sketchbooks. Con
  
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• Trump is offended by a painting of himself. For once, I get where he’s coming from | Dave Schilling

  26-03-2025 15:00
  
  We all know what it’s like to be horrified by our own image. In the president’s case, he looks like a large baby in a suitWhile his friends are getting messy in the group chat, Donald Trump simply has more important things on his mind. Namely, himself. The United States’ war plans are being divulged to journalists like gossip on a second-rate Real Housewives spinoff, but the focus of the American president is squarely on a painting of himself that he doesn’t care for. Tru
  
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• The Stimming Pool review – film-makers on the autistic spectrum dive ingeniously into the uncanny

  26-03-2025 10:00
  
  This docufiction is funny and pregnant with ideas – as a group of young artists on the spectrum examine how their creativity and sense of self is shaped by autismHere is an engaging docufictional experiment, an investigation into autism co-created by a group of young artists on the spectrum called the Neurocultures Collective. The resulting film is ingenious, funny, intellectually curious – and pregnant with ideas. It is all about how autism shapes creativity and makes sense of the s
  
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• Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

  26-03-2025 05:55
  
  Wallace Collection, London
  Artworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more straightforwardGrayson Perry is fascinated by outsiders – outcasts, nonconformists, the marginalised and the deviant. He has frequently assumed the outsider position, delivering commentary on class, gender and Britons’ petty snobberies. Across his career, he has
  
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• Khaled Sabsabi show cancelled one month after sacking from Venice Biennale

  26-03-2025 05:11
  Monash University has ‘indefinitely postponed’ upcoming exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, after ‘consultation with our communities’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn upcoming exhibition featuring works by artist Khaled Sabsabi, who was controversially dumped as Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale last month, has been “indefinitely postponed&
  
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