Marked by Images: The Remembered Film & Douglas Gordon

Part II. fig v) The next example of Gordon’s work is Through a Looking Glass (1999) (Fig v). This piece is a visual representation of a psychological process. The work is taken from Martin...

The Forgotten Self -Melancholy and the fleeting remembrance of things lost Part I.

Objectives I intend to examine the contemporary usage of the term melancholy within visual art. My interest lies in its association with loss, time, and its connection with ‘the past’. I will...

Marked by Images: The Remembered Film & Douglas Gordon

Part I. Prologue) Encouraged by Victor Burgin’s (1941- ) book The Remembered Film, I will analyse this text and explore how certain cinematic images or scenes are absorbed by, and stay with the...

Working on ‘Big Dinner’ exhibition at Limbo, Margate

Pipe has recently been working with Limbo, an exciting artist led arts space in Margate, on their current exhibition Big Dinner. This is the first of a series of shows which will make up their...

Lee Friedlander & Post Modern Photography: Deconstructing Albuquerque, New Mexico (1972)

In this article I will examine a specific photographic image. Lee Friedlander’s photograph, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1972) is the image I intend to scrutinise. Whilst attempting to deconstruct this...

A week at Pipe, and changes are afoot…

Follow our wicked adventures on: Instagram. . ... . and see what’s on our minds at Pinterest[Pinned: William Kentridge, The Seventh Seal, Eva Hesse. . . ] We are also making some visual changes to...

William Turnbull, the man who never stopped drawing

Portrait of William Turnbull (1922 – 2012) taken in his studio in the 1960’s When the Scottish artist William Turnbull died on the 15th of November last year, it was the end of a life that was as...

The Greatest Films Ever Made According to Pipe, Numbers 5 – 1

The Art of Film Making The process of selecting my ten favourite films ever made was something that, once undertaken, I certainly relished. I knew however, after reading Sight & Sounds’ list and...

The Greatest Films Ever Made According to Pipe, numbers 10 - 6

Sight and Sound have conducted their poll of the greatest films ever made every decade since 1952. So in September 2012 they presented, in various forms, their 7th definitive list of the world’s...

London Art Fair: a photographic record

This was Pipe’s second consecutive trip to the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Angel. As was the case in 2012, the shear amount of works on show was truly staggering; not to...

You know his name; & now so do I. This is Robert Gober…

Whilst visiting the exhibition From Death to Death and Other Small Tales late last month I became intrigued by the sculptures of Robert Gober, which featured in the show. This is the main impetus...

‘From Death to Death and Other Small Tales’ Exhibition – a Pipe Review

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, minus the wind and rain This piece is intended at letting anyone who reads it know - fairly briefly - what I thought of the current exhibition at the...

Recommending the Art of Francis Upritchard

Fig 1: A recent portrait of the artist in question, Francis Upritchard I first became aware of the work of Francis Upritchard when I was reviewing the Simon Starling curated show at the Camden Arts...

Mood 1: Something Old, Something New

A Mood, as depicted through Pipe’s photographs. Site Worth Familiar Eddie Growth Cease Reminisces…

Living in the ‘Real World’ with Turner Prize Winner Elizabeth Price

Fig 1: Elizabeth Price in front of her video projection, for The Turner Prize 2012, at Tate Britain From those eventually nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the decision as to who should be...

Pipe’s December Change: not ‘going back to basics’

Me; We; Us; I; Her; Him; One: Pipe As much as ‘We/I’ (only one person writing this) have enjoyed writing and researching the longer articles, which have been Pipe’s mainstay over the last few...

Jimmy Campbell Article

‘Half Baked’ is a gloriously subtle record. The art of Campbell’s music is that it seems blissfully unaware of its own artistry. It is refreshing today that someone is still able to, at least give...

A Response to ‘The Yellow House’

Figure 1 & 2: A portrait by Lucien Freud of the author of the The Yellow House, Martin Gayford (titled: Man with a Blue Scarf; 2004), beside the cover of his book. Introduction This article is not...

An Un-Typical Tate Trip

Dreaming of an Art ‘Trip’ The Only Way to Get Ready Escape from a Jubilee Soaked Suburbia Getting Focused More Reality Please Panoptical View Abandoned Modern Sculptures no.1 AMS no.2 AMS no.3 Lost...

Recommending Zizek (& Hegel)

I first became aware of Slavoj Zizek whilst studying film theory. I read some of his work when writing what would become a sort of ‘dissertation’. My subject for this paper was an investigation...

John Cooper Clarke is just a Poet

The Man himself…ICE! “First its fun, then it isn’t, then its hell. I can’t really think of anything to add to that story. It seems to be the time worn trajectory.” When listening to John Cooper...

Mr. Sammler: ‘A Connoisseur of Chaos’; A brief response to Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Photo: Alvin Langdon Coburn, ‘Fifth Avenue from the St. Regis, ca. 1905; taken from the cover of the Penguin Classic Edition of the book. I. Buses were bearable, subways were killing. Must he give...

Opening of Psychosis Part II:I Is Someone Else & Psychosis Part III Hilda Hellwig at Färgfabriken, Stockholm

From the exhibition notes: Psychosis is a long-term project. Through exhibitions, publications, film screenings and seminars we illuminate various aspects of the subject. The aim is to use art in...

Pipe @ the London Original Print Fair 2012

Selected works by Ian Hamilton Finlay Harald Miller, Fuck Art, Lets Dance (2011) Art & Language, Illustration for Art-Language 4 (2011) A bunch of Hockneys William Nicholsson – I is of Idiot Henri...

David Hall’s End Piece, at the P3 Gallery

The P3 Gallery – a part of the University of Westminster’s Marylebone campus - has currently been transformed into an incredible ‘sci-fi esque’ setting for David Hall’s exhibition End Piece…. The...

a Sunny Sunday in the pub with the Guardian

The Guardian bangs on the big drum! Ah, where to put it? where to put it?(Please excuse my shaky hand). And when we though it couldn’t get much cheesier... It DID

Peter Blake: “Blake’s Artists and Other Collages” at Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm. . .

Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm is at the moment showing 37 artworks by Sir Peter Blake (who Pipe spotted at the London Art Fair earlier this year). In this exhibition Blake, reminds us that he is...

MARKET art fair; Stockholm 2012

Pipe went to Stockholm for a hectic art weekend. Our first stop was the Nordic region’s leading fair for contemporary art; Market. With galleries from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland...

Mark Thomas: The Manifesto

Mark Thomas has always been largely indefinable as an “entertainer”. Even sitting here now using this job title as a definition seems wholly wrong and doesn’t do adequate justice to his work....

Friday morning. . .