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2023

This year I visited 178 exhibitions, here is my top ten.

Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Perhaps not just an exhibition of the year, but one of a lifetime. Astonishing perfection in every brush stroke; words and reproductions do not capture the empathy contained in every painting that survives by Vermeer. Most of which were brought together at the Rijksmuseum for a truly exceptional exhibition. Unlike so many blockbusters of this type, the paintings did not feel (well ok too crushingly) crowded or overwhelmed by the throngs. Each was given space and a carefully considered semi-circular barrier so visitors could fan out from it. There was little in the way of text panels, no need to contextualise with artworks by other artists; the paintings were each given lots of space in sensitively and richly painted and floor-to-ceiling curtains. They were allowed a dignified space in order to sing to us. I contracted Covid-19 from the trip to Amsterdam which developed into Long-Covid; this left me changed fundamentally as a human as I battle(d) fatigue for months on end. I am still not sure if the impact on my health was worth the trip, but as I write these words I know it was. I will always remember the opportunity to see 28 of the 37 Vermeer’s all in one place at one time.

2. Philip Guston, Tate Modern, London

I want to lick and consume Guston’s paintings metaphorically and perhaps even literally, they ingest the eyeballs and linger in the mouth. Seeing the paintings together made so much sense, perhaps the curation sold the narrative but the exhibition made me think that the foray into full-on abstract expressionism was actually the inconsistency; right from the earliest paintings there was story-telling, narrative, figuration, politics, turmoil and a desire to point out what needs to change societally. With the pure abstract works, ambiguity felt too strong, everywhere else the balance was perfect, enough to be led and enough to form your own thoughts. So many works of greatness all together, the final room of grief was as heart-breaking and poetic as it comes.

3. Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Tate Modern, London

This was an exhibition I had to see. I spent weeks preparing for the trip to go and see it. Having Long-Covid meant that I had to conserve and use my energy intensely - when everything saps strength and leaves you exhausted, from having a shower, to walking up stairs to reading a page of a book, then you have to be careful. T0 go to London for the day to see this exhibition was something I trained and equipped myself for/. I was so glad I did. The exhibition made me feel happy and lightness...an injection of art through the eyes which is so good for the soul. af Klint was paired with Mondrian, which made unexpected sense (to me, I know not to others) with so many surprising overlaps such as in their botanical paintings,and more general link to natural forms, the link to Theosophical thought and of course abstraction. One of my favourite rooms in the exhibition was titled the ether and was filled with sketchbooks, books, works by other artists and this amazing model of Mondrian's New York studio.

4. Mike Nelson, Hayward Gallery, London

A proper art-as-experience encounter, the atmosphere of being within each of the installations by Nelson, restated at the Hayward was palpable; senses, memories, possibilities spiralled outwards, creating new stories and narratives. An embodied and tacit experience of speculative and to be-found-out-and-created knowledge. A novel or series of novellas contained in a material-led happenstance. This felt like the sort of show a big institution is made for, enabling a coming together of elements that would not be possible in the world without the structure behind it.

5. Rebecca Fortnum, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

In many ways the opposite of the behemoth of the shows of the year above; this was a quiet and intimate exhibition of new drawings, paintings and hand-printed wallpaper by Fortnum. The paintings are transcriptions of sculptures by fifteen women who visited or worked at Auguste’s Rodin’s studio. An intention of the work is to offer insight and exposure to these often-overlooked female sculptors. Rodin is known to have trained women to sculpt in the late nineteenth century when they were not allowed to enter into art schools in France, and employed some of them as studio assistants (or the ‘praticienne’ of the show’s title). Many of the women artists that Fortnum has selected to make work from had in what the text panel calls “an extraordinary, and in many cases unpublished, life narrative.” The show also featured drawings of men that were sculpted by the women artists, creating a gendered distinction between female subjects in paint and male subjects in drawings, albeit that the subject of Fortnum’s work is actually the unpictured female artists.

6. Oliver Ventress, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

A beautifully installed coming together of sculpture, sound and video by Ventress that all speculates on what is out there, what might be out there in a delicate oscillation between despair and hope of what our present and future might be. The work beckoned me in quietly, gently insisting that I spend time with it, to slow down by heartbeat to become in line with the tide in one sculpture or the sound emanating from a large grey spherical sculpture (apparently at 210.42hz the theoretical frequency of the moon. With the tuning in to the resonance of the work, came an opportunity to speculate on the future in the present from a position of calm, not panic, all too rare an opportunity in 2023.

7. Chad McCail, Turntable Gallery and tt88

You gotta love a bit of bonkers; a serpentine urban and rural landscape sweeps the carpet tiles on the high street, giants roam the gallery constructed from discarded detritus of the capitalist waste-culture, brains exude from trees and gonzo lizards pelt churches with walnut-like objects. Poke a bit further though and melancholy descends as the worst aspects of humanity seep everywhere: capitalist-greed, paedophilia, and environmental-apocalypse.

8. Brendan Lyons, Bridewell, Liverpool

A joyful form of institutional critique of painting, one rich in materiality. In one gallery several paintings line the walls, completely conventional in description. In one gallery a range of fixings for hanging paintings line the walls, completely conventional in description. That the description is for one and the same gallery is the magic of Lyons work. Each fixing has been constructed fully from paint, being both itself and a simulacra of the hidden elements of painting, an opening up and unlocking. In the other gallery three new pieces are bold in the way the first gallery is subtle. Ivy creeps down the walls and over canvas; parcel tape tries to fix a smashed glass of an empty frame; multiple blank canvas are tapped to the wall with Gaffa and parcel tape…or look a bit closer.

9. Rosa Barba, Tate Modern, London

The Tanks at Tate Modern are a brilliant space to encounter Barba’s work; the atmosphere of the space evokes the type of places the artist is attracted too, places that are pregnant with a past. 3 35mm film installations affectingly occupy the space, the visuals draw you in, the sound quivers with the image, but perhaps most evocatively the projectors percolate all the space in their industriousness that comes close to humanity in their presence.

10. Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Tate Britain, London

I could have had several number tens on this list, significantly I whittled a shortlist down to five, all of which were painting exhibitions. So why does Yiadim Boayake become number ten? Perhaps it is the way she handles paint, something I wish I could inhabit? Or perhaps it is the way she creates stories with paints? Or perhaps it is the way she conjures personal lives, and memories of histories in the people she paints from imagination? Perhaps it is the way she invents archetypes for our time in the presence of the people? Or perhaps it is because I want to look, to spend time, to look harder, nearer, closer, more attentively? Or perhaps it is because I struggle with the words, the paintings do what (my) words can’t, reach the soul.

In 2023 I visited the following exhibitions:

30 December, Pesellino, National Gallery, London

30 December, Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast, National Gallery, London

15 December, Corrupt Vision, General Practice, Lincoln

15 December, Sam Scorer, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

30 November, 8 Acts of Love, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24 November, Made in Scunthorpe, Fountain Arts, Scunthorpe

24 November, Glow Up , 2021, Scunthorpe

24 November, Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels, 2021, Scunthorpe

17 November, Daniel Richter, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

17 November, Endless Variations, Ordovas, London

7 November, Avery Singer, Hauser & Wirth, London

7 November, Christina Quarles, Pilar CorriasLondon

7 November, It All Starts With a Thread, Whitechapel Gallery, London

7 November, Anna Mendelssohn, Whitechapel Gallery, London

7 November, Johanna Billing, Whitechapel Gallery, London

7 November, Nicole Eisenmann, Whitechapel Gallery, London

7 November, In the Studio, Tate Modern, London

7 November, El Anatsui, Tate Modern, London

7 November, Phillip Guston, Tate Modern, London

7 November, Joan Mitchell, Tate Modern, London

14 November, Tread Softly, Gloam, Sheffield

14 November, Paul Housely, Persistence Works, Sheffield

14 November, Autumn Almanac III, Persistence Works, Sheffield

13 November, Nature Positive, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

27 October, Tim Murray-Browne, St. Marks, Lincoln

27 October, Maria Mavropoulou, St. Mary Le Whigford, Lincoln

27 October, Beccy McCray Engine Shed, Lincoln

27 October, Filthy Luker, Lincoln

27 October, Camille Baker, The Drill, Lincoln

27 October, Lumo Workshop and The Network, Lincoln

27 October, Dangerous Times, Lincoln

27 October, Lauren Hubbard, Waterstones, Lincoln

27 October, Touch & Glow, St. Marks,Lincoln

27 October, Marc Renshaw, Wealth Streams Development Agency, Gainsborough

24 October, John Dowling, Link Corridor, Lincoln

24 October, Birth and Design 23, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

21 October, Creativity Unlocked, Salthouse, Lincoln

21 October, Sam Tahmassebi and Harrison Taylor, Cornhill, Lincoln

21 October, Soft Egg, Don't Wear It, Salthouse, Lincoln

21 October, Unweeded, General Practice, Lincoln

21 October, Tyler Barker, Zara Sands, Walking Together, The Collection, Lincoln

21 October, Past and Present Practice, St Mary Le Whigford, Lincoln

21 October, SLQS - Straight from the Horses Mouth, St Mary Le Whigford, Lincoln

21 October, In My Perfect State, Cornhill, Lincoln

20th October, Artists in the Now, The Link Up, Limcoln

19 October, Obscene Pomegranate, Salt House, Lincoln

19 October, Gurminder Sikand, Trace, Nottingham

14 October, Nahem Shoa, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

14 October, John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

14 October, Tom Wood, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

14 October, Tim Spooner, Bluecoat, Liverpool

14 October, Brendan Lyons, Bridewell, Liverpool

14 October, About Face, 50_MV, Liverpool

14 October, Anthony Gormley, Crosby beach, , Liverpool

6th October, Grayson Perry, Lincoln Museum

6th October, Oliver Ventress, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

28 September, Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman & A.L. Steiner, with Sam Roeck): Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos, Nottingham Contemporary

28 September, Green Unseen, Dajongly Gallery, Nottingham

28 September, Reimagining the Victorians, Dajongly Gallery, Nottingham

28, Community Choice, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

21 September, Method Lab 3, Trace Gallery, Nottingham

21 September, John Becka nd Matthew Cornford, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

21 September, Art (School) Histories, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

16 September, Chad McCail, Turntable Gallery

16 September, Chad McCail, Turntable 88 Gallery

10 September, Mark Judson, the hub, Sleaford

10 September, Together we are Powerful, the hub, Sleaford

10 September,Adaesi Ukairo, the hub, Sleaford

9, September, George Boole School, Lincoln Museum

9, September, CODED: Digital Art that Defies Definition, Lincoln Museum

8 September, MA Fine Art, University of Northampton

1 September, The Power of Printed Matter, Beam, Nottingham

27 August, A Sense of Place, Willoughby Memorial Gallery, Corbey Glenn

25 August, Bare, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24 August, Strange Friends, Hauser and Wirth, London

24 August, Connect, Reveal, Conceal, Hauser and Wirth, London

24 August, Holding Space, Hauser and Wirth, London

24 August, To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London

24 August, Glenn Brown, The Brown Collection, London

24 August, The Belly and the Guts, Alice Amati, London

24 August, Tomas Saraceno, Serpentine Gallery, London

24 August, Lina Ghotmeh, Serpentine Gallery, London

24 August, Gabriel Massan, Serpentine Gallery, London

24 August, Atta Kwami, Serpentine Gallery, London

24 August, Matthew Collings, Wellington Arch, London

24 August, Summer Show, Skarstedt, London

24 August, Malediction and Prayer, Modern Art, London

24 August, Moki Cherry, ICA, London

24 August, Samson Kambalu, London

24 August, Nira Pereg, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Vivian Sundaram, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Jannis Kounellis, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Rosa Barba, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Rasheed Araeen, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Art and Text, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Lawrence Weiner, Tate Modern, London

24 August, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Tate Modern, London

10th August, Erwin Wurm, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th August, Lindsey Mendrick, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th August, Leonardo Drew, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th August, Catriona Robertson, Art House, Wakefield

10th August, The Royal Society of Sculptors presents: The Gilbert Bayes Award, Art House, Wakefield

10th August, Tony Wade, Art House, Wakefield

10th August, The Art of the Potter: Ceramics and Sculpture from 1930 to Now, Hepworth, Wakefield

10th August, If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, Hepworth, Wakefield

10th August, Hurvin Anderson Curates, Hepworth, Wakefield

10th August, Hurvin Anderson, Hepworth, Wakefield

25, July, Kresiah Mukwazhi: Kirawa, Nottingham Contemporary

25, July, Abbas Zahedi: Holding a Heart in Artifice, Nottingham Contemporary

25, July, Eva Koťátková: How many giraffes are in the air we breathe? , Nottingham Contemporary

25, July, Jade Foster, TG, Nottingham

25, July, Line Nielsen, Beam, Nottingham

25, July, Residents & Members | Video Materials, Primary, Nottingham

25, July, Sam Keogh, Primary, Nottingham

21 July, The Weight of Words, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

21 July, Egon Altdorf, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

21 July, Things Left Unsaid: Percy Wyndham Lewis, Iris Barry, Helen Saunders and the story of Praxitella, Leeds Art Gallery

7th July, Patrick Hartigan, Moon Grove, Manchester

7th July, Office of Arte Útil, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Standardisation and Deviation The Whitworth Story, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, (Un)defining Queer, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Traces of Displacement, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Albrecht Durer, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Economics the Blockbuster – It’s not Business as Usual, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Tino Sehgal, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

7th July, The Poetics of Water, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

7th July, Yaoi Kusama, Factory International, Manchester

7th July, What's New?, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Friends, Family and Other Animals, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Rethinking the Grand Tour, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Room to Breathe, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Climate Justice, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Trading Station, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Suzanne Lacy, Manchester Art Gallery

7th July, Out of the Crate, Manchester Art Gallery

11 June, Demo Valley, Peter de Wint building, Lincoln

3 June, Sonia Boyce, Leeds Art Gallery

20 May,Opera North: Race, Representation and Authenticity, 1979–2023, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds

20 May, Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds

20 May, Andrew Black, The Tetley, Leeds

20 May, Samra Mayanja, The Tetley, Leeds

20 May, Rebecca Fortnum, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

20 May, Michael E Smith, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

19 May, Re:Collection, Lincoln Museum

26 March, Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

26 March, Rijksmuseum & Slavery, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

26 March, Operation Night Watch, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

25 March, Choosing Vincent, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

25 March, Titus is Back Home ,Rembrant House, Amsterdam

25 March, The Art of Drawing,Rembrant House, Amsterdam

24 March, Visitant Queens, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

19 March, Charlotte Johnnesson, Nottingham contemporary

19 March, Carolyn Lazzard, Nottingham contemporary

19 March, Rosalind Nasashibi, Nottingham Contemporary

19 March, A Commonplace, Nottingham Contemporary

Helen Dearnley, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

18 March, Annie Morrad and Joana Coffee Cerda, Cornhill, Lincoln

13 March, Blubber, General Practice, Lincoln

26 February, Harriet Plewis, General Practice, Lincoln

24 February, Peter Doig, Courtaud Gallery, London

24 February, John Akomfrah, Tate Britain, London

24 February, Haroon Mirza, Lisson Gallery London

24 February, Lines of Empathy, Patrick Heide Gallery, London

24 February, Atiena R. Kilfa, Camden Arts Centre, London

24 February, Mohamed Sami, Camden Arts Centre, London

24 February, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Tate Britain, London

24 February, Aubery Williams, Tate Britain, London

24 February, Lynette Yiadim Boayake, Tate Britain, London

24 February, Ingela Ihrman, Gasworks, London

24 February, group show, Corvi Mora, London

24 February, Nakeya Brown, Greengrassi, London

24 February, Mike Nelson, Hayward Gallery, London

19 February, Horror in the Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

10th February, Twin Realms, General Practice, Lincoln

27th January, Kai Speed and H.Eaven, General Practice, Lincoln

27th January, David Remfrey, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

20th January, Hollow Earth, Nottingham Contemporary

16th January, Bodies of Practice, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

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2022

This year I visited 283 exhibitions, here is my top ten:

1. Kyosai, Royal Academy, London

The most surprising show of the year, a complete time portal that compressed the past with the present and the future. The invention was sublime, I felt joy inside moving from one exquisite print to the next that moved to beaming smiles on the outside. A stunning exhibition by a truly great artist.

2. Soheila Sokhanvari, Barbican Curve, London

The most timely show of the year, where life and art combine together with amazing synchronicity. The subject matter celebrating incredible Iranian women through history is brilliantly and deservedly getting the spotlight at this time, and I hope the bleak picture in Iran shifts as a response to the brave protesters and international pressure. BUT, this show is number two on my list not because of the subject matter, but because of the way that Sokhanvari deals with it to create gorgeous paintings that invite you to linger on them, coupled with a masterclass in how painting exhibitions are not just about what is within the frame but the space that connects the paintings together. The space of the Barbican curve has never looked so good. The power of the work is multitude, but for the two things I point to here there is resonance because of the artist at work. It is powerful because the subject matter comes from the heart, not from the artist putting an important and vital subject into their art because they think that will make it good. Secondly, the power is in the artist's ability to put a powerful essence into the detail, the geometry of a tile, the twisting turn of fabric pattern or the positioning of a hand; these are the details that keep me transfixed on the paintings.

3. In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London

I walked into this exhibition somewhat cynical and left transfixed. The quality of the art within was consistently high, with some artists’ work being stratospheric. Walking into Nick Cave’s section a sense of giddiness exhumed. True his soundsuits really need to be experienced with someone inside them, but they are incredible objects in their own right; the space-bisecting screen of conjoined limbs was inventive and the vogue of wall-sized prints has rarely been done so well. The quality continued through the show, some of the many highlights included Cauleen Smith’s hypnotic multiscreen video installation that livestreamed footage from a diorama of objects and tv’s; Hew Locke’s stunning installation of old and new work (and for that matter how is his Duveen gallery show not on my list?!); Chris Ofili’s stunning paintings (and a sculpture that suggests he should stick to the brushes); Wangechi Mutu’s stunning collages across paper, sculpture and animation…for me only one duff note in the whole show, a pretty good return and I will keep who it was to myself!

4. William Kentridge, Royal Academy, London

It isn’t that long since the Whitechapel/Whitworth’s Kentridge retrospective, so I wondered if there might have been a bit of overkill to see another at Royal Academy. I need not have been worried. You kinda think you know where you are with Kentridge, it is all on the surface pretty familiar stuff, but somehow what he does is extraordinary pretty much every time and even when he uses the same means he conjures something new and different. The range of his media is extraordinary stretching to opera on one side to performances to camera to sculpture, multiscreen animations, collages, soundscapes and for me most affecting charcoal drawings directly onto the wall. Invention flows through this artist’s fingers, an incredible drive.

5. Filippo Caramazza, Handel Street Projects, London

We have had to wait for Tate’s Guston retrospective due to museum director’s twitchy fingers. Caramazza clearly could not wait so created his own immaculate version. His exquisite postcard-size copies (the word reduces all the subtlety that is in Caramazza’s paintings, but being blunt this is what they are) of oil paint on metal plates was superbly presented at Handel Street projects; an example of curation quietly helping an artist’s work to shine rather than drawing attention to itself as is so often the case. Most of all it was a lesson in looking; of looking closely and of close looking.

6. Barbara Walker, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

I missed Walker’s show at Turner Contemporary, a show that looked to be both affecting and effecting. I was so glad I got the chance to see her recent body of work at Cristea Roberts. Walker has long drawn attention to the imbalance in our society of people of colour. In her new work she has stepped backwards in time to show how deep-rooted this is by showing the minor role of black people in the history of art. Walker has left reduced most of historical paintings blank, either with no marks or through embossing and in some by covering her drawings with tracing paper. Her attention is put onto beautiful recreations of depictions of mainly servants, attendants and, yes, slaves in charcoal and conte crayon. Her point is made in a blunt, but poetic way, questions of inequalities of race, of class and of power resonate powerfully and in a lasting way. A picture does speak more than a thousand words with works like these.

7. Lubaina Humid, Tate Modern, London

I have seen much of the work in this long overdue retrospective of Himid’s work before. Seeing it in one place truly reveals her to be one of the most insightful and arresting artists of the past few decades. What came across time again is the spirit of collaboration and collective nature in her work, something I guess that has run through as she transitioned from the theatre to the visual arts, but her paintings and her other work are all the stronger for it. Enjoyably for this show at Tate this extended to a soundtrack that bled from room to room, informing and enriching the work.

8. Louise Giovanelli, White Cube Bermondsey, London

Painting so tasty I want to lick them. Giovanelli brilliantly couples painterly inventiveness with surprising compositional ingenuity. She takes images that exist in the world and brews them up with pigments and brushstroke gymnastics in the studio to create stunning paintings time and time again.

9. Tony Cragg, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

It is funny but the best demonstration of the power of the studio in a gallery this year was not at the Whitechapel (I really enjoyed Century of the Studio btw) but in Tony Cragg’s retrospective at Museo Nouvecento. One room recreated some of his Wupertal’s studio, I could have spent days there. Drawings mingled with maquettes, offcuts, dice, books and other ephemera arranged on studio benches surrounded by photographs of Cragg’s actual studio on the walls around. I first saw Cragg’s studio on a video played when i was on my foundation course and Plymouth College of Art, i was transfixed, inspired and jealous then, 26 years later the feeling remains the same.

10. Raphael, National Gallery, London

The only reason this is not number one on the list is that to do so would be so unfair on most of the other art ever made! A similar argument can be made for why the Cezanne megashow at Tate Modern is not on the list, though in that case I think the crowds had their own negative effect, whereas at the National Gallery i was able to wander around perfectly happily with my mum and in the main avoid the heads listening to audioguides and the pitter patter of selfies.

In 2022 I have visited the following exhibitions.

21 Dec, Refractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

21 Dec, Breathe, Sprirt and Life, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool,

21 Dec, Candice Breitz, Tate Liverpool,

21 Dec, Journeys Through the TateCollection, Tate Liverpool,

21 Dec, Democracies, Tate Liverpool,

21 Dec, Turner prize 2022, Tate Liverpool,

18 Dec, Christmas at Doddington, Doddington Hall

10 Dec, Lisa Tank, Liz McKellen and Stan Smith, Gallery St Martin's, Lincoln

10 Dec, Louisa Chase, Home Studio, Lincoln

9 Dec, Tearing, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

29 November, John Newling, Beam, Nottingham

26 November, Haus, Peter de Wint Building, Lincoln

25 November, Mirror Translatio, General Practice, Lincoln

25 November, Ruth Lennon, Gallery At Martins, Lincoln

18 November, Zadie Xa, Whitechapel gallery, London

18 November, Out of the Margins, Whitechapel gallery, London

18 November, Portal de Plata, Whitechapel gallery, London

18 November, Tracing Absence, Whitechapel gallery, London

18 November, Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel gallery, London

18 November, Stage Effects, Kate Macgarry, London

18 November, Andrew Grassie, Maureen Paley, London

18 November, Cinzia Ruggeri, Goldsmiths CCA, London

18 November, Materials and Objects, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Performer and Participant, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Media Networks, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Celcilia Vicuna, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Maria Bartuszova, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Oswaldo Macia, Tate Modern, London

18 November, Paul Cezanne, Tate Modern, London

17 November, Toil and Trouble, APT gallery, London

17 November, Soheila Sokhanvari, Barbican Curve, London

17 November, Tony Cragg, Holtermann, London

17 November, Antoni Tapirs, Namad Projects, London

17 November, Izumi Kato, Stephen Friedman, London

17 November, Amy Sherald, Hauser and Wirth, London

17 November, William Kentridge, Royal Academy, London

17 November, Danny Fox, Saachti Yatrs, London

13 November, Tennyson and his Friends , Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater

13 November, Isle of Wight Festival, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater

13 November, Terry O'Neill, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater

13 November, IW County Press Camera Club Big 50, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater

13 November, Julia Margaret Cameron, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Freshwater

11 November, Daniel Pettitt, Brighton CCA

11 November, Amalia Pica, Brighton CCA

11 November, Resolve Collective, Brighton CCA

10 November, Famous Women Dinner Service, Charleston, Firle

10 November, Very Private? , Charleston, Firle

10 November, Linder, Charleston, Firle

9 November, Survival Unit, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

8 November, Impending, General Practice, Lincoln

26 October, Trial Run in Our Skins, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

1 October, Usher Gallery Trust Open, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

30 September, Legacy, Central Library, Lincoln

24 September, Erwin Wurm, piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence

24 September, Kawati Vatanajyankur, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

24 September, Claire Fontaine, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

24 September, The Masters of the Twentieth Century: from Guttuso to Vedova, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

24 September, Corrado Gagli, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

24 September, Alfonso Femi, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

24 September, Tony Cragg, Museo Nouvecento, Florence

23 September, Il Culto Del Bello, Academia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence

22 September, Adrian Schachter, Amanita, Florence

22 September, Olafur Elliasson, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

20 September, Setsuko, Gagosian, Rome

20 September, Kiki Smith, Galleria Lorcan O'Neil, Rome

20 September, Retrofuture Macro, Rome

20 September, Richard Serra, Macro, Rome

20 September, Egusto Macchi Macro, Rome

20 September, Eva Barto, Macro, Rome

20 September, Julia Born, Macro, Rome

20 September, Lisa Ponti, Macro, Rome

20 September, Human All Too Human, Villa D'Este, Trivoli

18 September, The Colors of the Ancient ,Capitoline Museum, Rome

18 September, Cursus Honorum. The government of Rome before Caesar, Capitoline Museum, Rome

18 September, Domitian Emperor. Hate and love, Capitoline Museum, Rome

17 September, Titian, Gallery Borghese, Rome

17 September, Chiara Bettazzi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

17 September, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

17 September, Time is Out of Joint, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

15 September, Filippo Caramazza, Handel Street Projects, London

15 September, Carol Robertson, Flowers, London

15 September, Lucy Jones, Flowers, London

15 September, Nokukhanya Langa, Saachti Yates, London

15 September, The Pit Presents, No. 9 Cork Street, London

15 September, Unruly Paradigm, Vanguard Gallery, No. 9 Cork Street, London

15 September, Twenty Late McGarry, No. 9 Cork Street, London

15 September, Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton, Richard Saultourn, London

15 September, Wolfgang Laib, Thaddeus Ropac, London

15 September, Sturtevant, Thaddeus Ropac, London

15 September, Milton Avery, Waddington Custot, London

15 September, Alexander Reben, Gazelli, London

15 September, Ruminatioms, Gazelli, London

15 September, Gallery artists, Max Hetzler, London

15 September, Lucy Skaer, Grimm, London

15 September, Helen Marten, Sadie Coles HQ, London

15 September, April Bey, Simon Lee, London

15 September, The Story of Art as it's still being written, Victoria Miro, London

10 September, Jake Chapman, Turntable Gallery, Grimsby

9 September, Brink, Peter de Wint Building, Lincoln

3 September, Katharina Fitz, Beam, Nottingham

3 September, Painting in a Painting of Itself, Trace, Nottingham

2 September, Sound Bath, General Practice

26 August, Re-Imaged, General Practice, Lincoln

26 August, Sheila Hicks, Hepworth, Wakefield

26 August, Emii Alrai, Hepworth, Wakefield

26 August, Summer of Love, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

26 August, Damien Hirst, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

26 August, On Queer Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

26 August, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

26 August, Jaume Plensa, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

26 August, Robert Indiana, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

13 August, Theaster Gates, Serpentine Gallery, London

13 August, Dominique Gonzalez-Forester, Serpentine Gallery, London

13 August, Back to Earth, Serpentine Gallery, London

12 August, In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London

12 August, Tenant of Culture, Camden Art Centre, London

12 August, Lily van Der Stokker, Camden Art Centre, London

12 August, Recipe for a Table, Camden Art Centre, London

12 August, Emma Talbot, Whitechapel Gallery

12 August, London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery

12 August, Danica Lundy, White Cube Bermondsey, London

12 August, Louise Giovanelli, White Cube Bermondsey, London

12 August, Ilana Savdie, White Cube Bermondsey, London

27 July, Creative Reactions, PSP, Lincoln

27 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Michael Sanders, General Practice, Lincoln

26 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Annie Morrad, General Practice, Lincoln

16 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Andrew Bracey, General Practice, Lincoln

13 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Sally Plowman, General Practice, Lincoln

8 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Ellie Collins, General Practice, Lincoln

6 July, Joanna Cifre Cerda and Kate Buckley, General Practice, Lincoln

9 July, Lincolnshire Artists Society Open, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

9 July, Micro Worlds, The Collection, Lincoln

9 July, Tangled Branch, The Collection, Lincoln

1 July, Picasso and Ingres, National Gallery, London

1 July, Raphael, National Gallery, London

1 July, Henry Moore and the Tate, Tate Britain, London

1 July, Hew Locke, Tate Britain, London

1 July, Walter Sickert, Tate Britain, London

1 July, Cornelia Parker, Tate Britain, London

1 July, Shawanda Corbett, Tate Britain, London

17 June, Unhappy Days, One Thorseby Street, Nottingham

17 June, Frances Oblitey, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

17 June, Ancient Iraq: New Discoveries, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

17 June, Martine Hamilton Knight, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

17 June, Craig Fisher, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

14 June, Just Call it Art, Peter de Wint, Lincoln

10 June, Michael Kagan and Lily Stockman, Almine Rech, London

10 June, Cristina Iglesias, Gagosian, London

10 June, , Emil Nolde, Bastian, London

10 June, Conversations on Tomorrow,Sadie Coles HQ, London

10 June, William N Copley, Sadie Coles HQ, London

10 June, Eva Rothschild, Modern Art, London

10 June, Katy Moran, Modern Art, London

10 June, Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

10 June, Katherine Bernhardt, David Zwirner, London

10 June, Kara Walker, Spruth Magers, London

10 June, Henni Alftan, Spruth Magers, London

10 June, Martha Jungwirth Thaddaeus Ropac, London

10 June, Marcus Cope, Peer, London

10 June, Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London

10 June, Gabriel Hartley, Seventeen, London

10 June, Tal R, Victoria Miro, London

10 June, Intimacy, Victoria Miro, London

10 June, Romina De Novellus, Richard Saltoun, London

10 June, Andre Butzer, Galerie Max Hetzler, London

10 June, Cloud Point, Paradise Row, London

4 June, Cameron Lings, 2021, Scunthorpe

4 June, Judith Tucker and Harriet Tarlo, 2021, Scunthorpe

4 June, Clare Morton, 2021, Scunthorpe

4 June, Xchange, 2021, Scunthorpe

4 June, Tracey Satchwill, Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe

4 June, Fashion is Rubbish, Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe

1 June, Reclaimation, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent

24 May, Groundings, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

21 May, Meriem Bennani, Nottingham Contemporary

21 May, Assemble + Schools of Tomorrow, Nottingham Contemporary

21 May, The LAB | 1968 – A Gateway for Change, Nottingham Castle

21 May, Caroiline Walker and Dame Laura Knight, Nottingham Castle

21 May, Geoff Diego Litherland, Beam, Nottingham

21 May, Cliff Moughton, Nottingham Society of Artist

8 May, Tom Heath, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

6 May, May Show, X-Church, Gainsborough

5 May, Space Invaders, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

30 April, Esteban Pena Parga, Museum of Lincolnshire'Life

30 April, Emps Piece, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

29 April, Harriet Carter, Birmingham School of art and design

16 April, Perineum/Perineum, Turntable Gallery, Grimsby

2 April, Kottie Paloma, Saachti Yates, London

2 April, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Frieze no. 9, London

2 April, Drive, Waddington Custot, London

2 April, Radio Ballads, Serpentine Gallery, London

2 April, Per Kirkeby, Michael Werner, London

2 April, Mohammed Sami, Modern Art, London

2 April, Bernard Piffaretti, Kate McGarry, London

2 April, John Hoyland, Hales Gallery, London

2 April, Ellie Omiya, Boulakia, London

2 April, On Hannah Arendt: The Conquest Of Space, Richard Saltourn, London

2 April, Latifa Echakhch, Pace, London

2 April, Wang Guangle, Pace, London

2 April, City Entwinned, Paradise Row, London

2 April, Francis Bacon, Gagosian, London

2 April, Hulda Guzmán, Stephen Friedman, London

2 April, Rivane Neuenschwander, Stephen Friedman, London

2 April, Juan Araujo, Stephen Friedman, London

2 April, Alice Anderson, Almeine Reich, London

2 April, Paul Wallach, Bastian, London

2 April, Ryan Sullivan , Sadie Coles, London

2 April, Titus Kaphar, Gagosian, London

2 April, Jake Wood Evans, Unit, London

2 April, In the Round, Unit, London

2 April, Galleries in the Groove, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 April, The Living Studio, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 April, Simone Fattal: Finding a Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 April, The Travel Bureau, Selected by Paulina Olowska, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 April, A Century of the Artist’s Studio, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2 April, Shut the Club Down, South London Gallery, London

2 April, Alice Theobald, South London Gallery, London

2 April, Céline Condorelli, South London Gallery, London

1 April, Ed Ruscha, Bernard Jackobsen, London

1 April, Jeff Elrod, Max Hetzler, London

1 April, Cressi8da’s Dream, Ordovas, London

1 April, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Sprovieri, London

1 April, Aubery Williams, October Gallery, London

1 April, A Sensory Awakening, Han Collection, London

1 April, Impact: Artists in Support of Refugees from Ukraine, Paul Stolper, London

1 April, Premium Interims 3, Royal Academy, London

1 April, Kyosai, Royal Academy, London

1 April, Jock McFadyen, Royal Academy, London

1 April, Francis Bacon, Royal Academy, London

1 April, Susan Rothenberg, Thomas Dane, London

1 April, Glen Ligon, Thomas Dane, London

1 April, A R Penck, White Cube, London

1 April, Take a Picture, Make a Picture, Skarstedt, London

1 April, David Noonan, Modern Art, London

1 April, Gabriel Kuri, Sadie Coles, London

1 April, Fausto Melotti, Hauser and Wirth, London

1 April, Ed Clark , Hauser and Wirth, London

1 April, Hilma af Klint, David Zwirner, London

1 April, Vessles, David Zwirner, London

1 April, Richard Serra and Eduardo Chillida, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

1 April, Barbara Walker, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

1 April, Fragile, Austin Desmond, London

1 April, Kedisha Coakley, Pippy Holdsworth, London

1 April, Ming Smith, Pippy Holdsworth, London

1 April, Dorothy Cross, Frith Street Gallery, London

1 April, Dorota Gawęda, Eglė Kulbokaitė, Amanda Wilkinson, London

1 April, Of the Surface of Things, Alison Jacques Gallery, London

1 April, Rachel Rose, Pilar Corrias, London

1 April, SUBRADAR, Laure Genillard, London

26 March, Dereck Sprawson, Primary, Nottingham

26 March, Sebastian Koseda, Backlit, Nottingham

26 March, Abstract, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

26 March, Hetain Patel, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

23 March, BArch Validation Exhibition, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

4 March, Luke Jerram, The Collection, Lincoln

4 March, Jean-Michel Wicker, TG Nottingham

4 March, Wolfgang Buttress, Beam, Nottingham

4 March, Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary

25 February, 20-21 Open Exhibition of Art and Sculpture, 20-21, Scunthorpe

25 February, Nick Salmon, 20-21, Scunthorpe

25 February, Jessie Davies, 20-21, Scunthorpe

25 February, Dan Rawlings, 20-21, Scunthorpe

22 February, Rachel Garfield, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

19 February, Everything is Research, Bessant Gallery, Wolverhampton

19 February, British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

19 February, British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton School of Art

11 February, Anna Ortiz, Sam Scorer, Lincoln

2 February, Sill Symphony, General Practice, Lincoln

14 January, Kehinde Wiley, National Gallery, London

14 January, Lenore Tawney, Alison Jacques, London

14 January, What Do You See, You People Gazing At Me, Sadie Coles HQ, London

14 January, Shilpa Gupta, Frith St Gallery, London

14 January, Landon Metz Waddington Custot, London

14 January, Danny Fox, Saachti Yates, London

14 January, Angela Bulloch, Simon Lee, London

14 January, A Year in Art Australia: 1992Tate Modern, London

14 January, Phyllida Barlow, Tate Modern, London

14 January, Lubaina Humid, Tate Modern, London

14 January, Anicka Yi, Tate Modern, London

8 January, Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, The Collection, Lincoln

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Top Ten Exhibitions of 2021

This year I visited 227 exhibitions, here is my top ten.

1. 13 November, R H Quaytman, Wiels, Brussels

A masterpiece of an exhibition (yet again) by R. H. Quaytman, my swoon artist of the century. The work in this show was made in response to the 19th Century painter Antoine Wiertz and his Museum in Brussles. At Wiels, a wall was built that dissected the space down the middle, starting right in the middle of the entrance and going all the way to nearly the other end. This meant that there was a circular way of walking through the gallery space to look at Quaytman’s paintings on the wall. A promenade that also encourages people to look at the whole painting, as an object, not just front on, Quaytman is particularly attentive to this, her work encourages this way of looking, the bevelling of her paintings, the plywood material, etc. There is also a link here to Benjamin and Baudelaire and the idea they explored around the Arcades project and the flaneur in the promenade, which relates as Benjamin talked of Wiertz in this, and as mentioned above Baudelaire was openly critical/hostile towards Wiertz.

2. 17 June, Eileen Ager, Whitechapel, London

A complete joy to walk around, being surprised by the smallest things, little details, colour combinations, image shunting, shifts in tone and content, above all invention in abundance and above all a joy in creation and creating.

3. 12 November, Dominique Gonzalez Forester, Jan Mot, Brussels

I am pretty non-plussed about Gonzalez Forester usually, what I read about her often eclipses the work itself. However, this petit exhibition was a lesson in restraint, and the power of the encounter over the visual. To encounter entailed stepping over and under blue cords that spread through the gallery, web-like. This was necessary in order to read words etched onto simple silver rings that bound the cord together. The rings became the pivot of the piece, both structurally to hold the form together and intellectually, as the haiku-like poems were created as words were read between and in connection with the other rings across the space, continue ad infinitum.

4. 18 June, Michael Armitage, Royal Academy, London

Armitage is a storyteller of the highest order. His paintings conjure tails that connect with reality, actual and often pretty humbling examples of human behaviour. But they also conjure fictional tales in line with fairy tales and myths. And they are stories in colour and texture, tales that transcend words and are felt.

5. 18 June, Bracha L. Ettinger, Richard Saltoun, London

I have not seen an Ettinger show before, instead being left to puzzle over her work in reproduction in books and the web; left to puzzle over her own writing and that of other interpreters, most notably Griselda Pollock – often impregnable to my inadequate knowledge, but captivating to what to know and learn more. In reality, my puzzling was more to do with how human and intimate the works are - in size, colour, tone, content, (visual and textual) information…I felt I could encounter them on more level terms face to face, without the weight of expectation.

6. 19 June, Rebecca Fortnum, Natalie Barney Gallery, London

“I stare at the paintings, I am there with them. I sip water as I look. I notice things,the more time I look, the more I see. One is clearly a painting of a woman, she looks like she is from times past, generations back. Her hair is covered with a russet brown cloth. Her eyes are closed, looking downward, she appears lost in thought, akin to prayer, meditation or solitary reflection. Her lips stand out, the colour is the red of raw meat, a glimpse of the internal, it looks fresh and cold. Her skin is like alabaster, hard and cold; a sculpted shell. Her dress is azure blue, the colour of a fiord, perhaps that of her eyes?” Read the rest of the review for a-n here

7. 23 June, Erika Verzutti, Nottingham Contemporary

In a year of pretty much miserableness, this felt like an outpouring of joy, something I hankered for more than usual. Joy was found here in the invention of Verzutti’s mind and hands. Ceramics that are at once playful, transgressive, profound and wonderfully useless in the best possible way.

8. 22 July, Gurminda Sikand, TG gallery Nottingham

Sadly this was to be Sikand’s last show as she sadly passed away this Autumn. I was lucky to meet her at the private view for the TG show and chat with her, I looked forward to getting to know her better, I guess her work will have to talk in place of her speech now. I wrote a review of her show for Art Review’s Remark, which you can read in full here. “My thoughts after leaving Sikand’s exhibition dwell on to how the time of making and viewing can be folded into works of art. A focus on slowing down can be aligned to the exquisite drawings on show. Three years is a long time to make a drawing and the history of making of these drawings is evident. Sikand’s process involves an obsessive attention to rendering things precisely as she wants them, resulting in an accumulation of pencil marks, charcoal and Conté crayon, as the artist attempts to get the form, line and detail or her subjects just so. Her process also involves much partial erasure of these marks using rubbers, sandpaper and wire wool, leaving a residue of what was once there. The drawings are like palimpsests – manuscripts that have been erased for reuse but still bear visible traces of earlier marks.”

9. 19th May, Mat Collishaw, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

I was hooked from the start, an ethereal ghost of a tree spun softly around, delicate scaffolding kept the branches in place; an aged oak digitally scanned to turn into a spider’s silk-like image that was magical, like much of Collishaw’s show, and rooted in scientific enquiry. An exhibition that was equal parts detective mystery novel, carnival, science experiment and nostalgia fest.

10. 9 July, J J Chan, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

I loved the premise of this show, network-esque, this was a web of associations with Chan. Equal parts solo show made of other’s work, group show hinged on a single artist, and/or a curatorial premise that necessitated the vehicle of considering the artist/curator’s history. All of the artists invited to the show have an association with Chan, ex school teachers, lecturers and classmates, bumped heads with current students of the artist. We could chart these relationships, in fact we were encouraged to; but more so we were stimulated to make links between works by artists that on the surface did not have much in common. The diversity of the work was exciting to be around, a grouping of artists that I could not imagine being brought together in a ‘curated’ and ‘themed’ group exhibition, as so often the artist-curated exhibition excites so much more than institutional efforts.

17 December, Hannah Cawthorne, Same Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

10 December, John Constable, Royal Academy, London

10 December, Kehinde Wiley, National Gallery, London

10 December, Nicholas Poussin, National Gallery, London

10 December, Gerhard Richter, , Hayward Gallery, London

10 December, Klaus Weber, Hayward Gallery, London

10 December, Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery, London

10 December, On Hannah Arendt: Truth and Politicsy, Richard Saltourn, London

10 December, Liz Larner, Galerie Max Hetzler, London

10 December, Miquel Barceló, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London

10 December, Rachel Jones, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London

10 December, Landon Metz, Waddington Custot, London

10 December, Patrick Heron, Hazlitt, London

10 December, Josf Albers, Cristea Roberts, London

10 December, Alex Da Corte, Sadie Coles HQ, London

10 December, Alvin Batrop, Modern Art, London

10 December, George Condo, Hauser and Wirth, London

10 December, Georges Braque, Bernard Jackobsen, London

10 December, Jutta Koetther, Levy Gory, London

10 December, Pamela Rosenkranz, Spruth Magers, London

10 December, Ebecho Muslimova, David Zwirner, London

10 December, Cy Gavin, David Zwirner, London

10 December, David Shrigley, Stephen Friedman,London

10 December, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Holtermann, London

10 December, NIGHT | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer, Nahmad Projects, London

10 December, Kurt Jackson, Messems, London

10 December, Candice Brietz, Goodman Gallery, London

10 December, Right About Now, Frieze No. 9, London

10 December, Roger Elfgin, London

10 December, Ronan Bouroullec , Galerie Kreo, London

10 December, Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London

10 December, Marco Tirelli, Cardi Gallery, London

10 December, Richard Serra, Orvodas, London

10 December, Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor, London

9 December, Rose Leventon, Blank, Leeds

9 December, Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

9 December, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

9 December, Beth Shapeero, The Tetley, Leeds

9 December, Superheroes of Leeds, The Tetley, Leeds

9 December, Lauren Gault, The Tetley, Leeds

9 December, Radical Reel, Leeds Art Gallery

9 December, Joana Vasconcelos, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

9 December, Hardeep Sahota, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

9 December, Rachel Kneelbone, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

9 December, Annie Morris, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

9 December, Damien Hirst, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

9 December, Mark Hearld, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

7 December, Pinhole Pictures, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2 December, Coventry-Dresden Modernism, Litten Tree Building, Coventry

2 December, Small Works, Litten Tree Building, Coventry

2 December, House, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry

2 December, Proof, The Old Grammar School, Coventry

2 December, We Bear, Herbert Museum and Gallery, Coventry

2 December, Hyper-Possible, Herbert Museum and Gallery, Coventry

2 December, Turner Prize, Herbert Museum and Gallery, Coventry

27 November, Rachel Carter, the Collection, Lincoln

16 November, Studio Culture, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

14 November, Rene Magritte, Musee Magritte, Belguim

14 November, Fabrice Samyn, Musee Magritte, Belguim

14 November, Aimie Mpane, fine Arts Museum, Brussels

14 November, Fabrice Samyn, fine Arts Museum, Brussels

14 November, Rachel Labastie, fine Arts Museum, Brussels

14 November, Brueghel Unseen Masterpieces, fine Arts Museum, Brussels

14 November, Marc Renard, Marc Minjauw Gallery, Brussels

14 November, Oli B, Macadam Gallery, Brussels

13 November, 3. Emmaneul Tete, Rossi Contemporary, Brussels

13 November, Monika Stricker, dependance, Brussels

13 November, Grace Nduritu, Arcade, Brussels

13 November, Marijke De Roover, Arcade, Brussels

13 November, Angyvir Padilla, Centrale Contemporary Art, Brussels

13 November, Léon Wuidar, Radolphe Janssen, Brussels

13 November, Cecilly Brown, Gladstone, Brussels

13 November, VOD, Micheal Rein, Brussels

13 November, Robin Rhode, Skateroom , Brussels

13 November, Takayuki Sakiyama, Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels

13 November, Jan-Ole Schiemann, Almine Rech, Brussels

13 November, Shift expo, Rivoli, Brussels

13 November, Sergio Breviario, Marie-Laure Fleisch , Brussels

13 November, Xie Lei, Messen De Clercq, Brussels

13 November, Ignasi Aballí, Messen De Clercq, Brussels

13 November, RuiCalcada Bastos, Irene Laub, Brussels

13 November, Bernd Lohaus and Ante Timmermans, OV Project, Brussels

13 November, Dominique Vangilbergen, Nationale, Brussels

13 November, Ruth van Haren Noman, Zwart Huis, Brussels

13 November, Christine Boillat and Nina Haab, Duflon Racz, Brussels

13 November, Ine Lammers, ONE NESS, Brussels

13 November, Mikael Lallemd Pellicer,, Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, Brussels

13 November, Noa Verkeyn & Alexisse Enkonda, Plagiarama, Brussels

13 November, Jerome Le Goff, ANGELINNA, Brussels

13 November, Samuel Levy, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Brussels

13 November, Herr Seele, Zwart Huis, Brussels

13 November. Emmaneul Tete, Rossi Contemporary, Brussels

13 November, Ulrike Bolenz and Inge H. Schmidt, Husk Gallery, Brussels

13 November, Johan De Wilde, Hopstreet, Brussels

13 November, Cast In Eternity, Hopstreet, Brussels

13 November, Vo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

13 November, R H Quaytman, Wiels, Brussels

13 November, Marecel Broodthaers, Wiels, , Brussels

13 November, Marina Pinsky, Clearing, Brussels

13 November, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Clearing, Brussels

12 November, Hahaha: The Humour in Art, ING, Brussels

12 November, Dominique Gonzalez Forester, Jan Mot, Brussels

12 November, Evgeny Antufiev, Mendez Wood DM, Brussels

12 November, Daniel Steegmann Mangrane, Mendez Wood DM, Brussels

12 November, Guglielmo Castelli, Mendez Wood DM, Brussels

12 November, Nino Mier, Brussels

12 November, David Hockney, BOZAR, Brussels

12 November, Antoine Weirtz, Weirtz Museum, Brussels

12 November, Frank Stella Josh Sperling, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels

12 November, Pep Vidal, LMNO, Brussels

12 November, Yves Zurstrassen, Baronian Xippes, Brussels

5 November, Out Plastic Ocean, The Collection, Lincoln

5 November, Wildlife Photography Competition, The Collection, Lincoln

2 November, One Step Greener, PSP, Lincoln

22 October, Eleanor Bartlett, Beam, Nottingham

22 October, Ali Lotz, Four/Four, Nottingham

22 October, Carmen Argote, Primary, Nottingham

11 October, Lois Harlin, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

9 October, Walking in Two Worlds, Oceans Apart, Salford

8 October, Painting Doesn't Count, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool

3 October, Whose Tradition, Tate Liverpool

3 October, Democracy, Tate Liverpool

3 October, Louise Bourgeois, Tate Liverpool

3 October, Lucien Freud, Tate Liverpool

3 October, Emily Speed, Tate Liverpool

2 October, Walter Sickert, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1 October, Helen Hancock, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

1 October, Aga Kowalska, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

29 September, Forensic Architecture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

29 September, Superflex, Pavement Gallery, Manchester

29 September, MA Fine Art show, Holden Gallery, Manchester

29 September, What does it mean to be human?, Home, Manchester

29 September, She Appeared to Vanish, Home, Manchester

29 September, Constellations: Care & Resistance, Manchester Art Gallery

29 September, Suzanne Lacy, Manchester Art Gallery

29 September, Grayson’s Art Club, Manchester Art Gallery

29 September, Pippa Eason, Pink, Manchester

29 September, The Naming of Things Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

29 September, The Annotated Reader, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

25 September, Polyvocality, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

24 September, Michael Shaw, the hub, Sleaford

14 September, Thomas J. Price, The Collection, Lincoln

10 September, Fallow, General Practice, Lincoln

10 September, Threads, University of Lincoln

9 September, Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, the hub, Sleaford

27 August, Creative Reactions, Lincoln Central Library

25 August, Mark Chamberlain, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

6 August, Haegue Yang, Tate St. Ives

22 July, Gurminda Sikand, TG gallery Nottingham

22 July, Grey Crawford, Beam, Nottingham

18 July, Landscape Portrait, Hestercombe, Taunton

13 July, Gustav Metzger, Hauser and Worth, Bruton

13 July, Eduardo Chillida, Hauser and Worth, Bruton

9 July, J J Chan, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

25 June, Jan van Huysum, The Bridge Community Hub, Lincoln

23 June, Erika Verzutti, Nottingham Contemporary

23 June, Mélanie Matranga, Nottingham Contemporary

23 June, Allison Katz, Nottingham Contemporary

21 June, Step 5, X-church, Gainsborough

19 June, Unearthed, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

19 June, Rebecca Fortnum, Natalie Barney Gallery, London

19 June, Matthew Barney, Hayward Gallery, London

19 June, Igshaan Adams, Hayward Gallery, London

19 June, Turner's Modern World, Tate Britain, London

19 June, Heather Phillipson, Tate Britain, London

19 June, Coooking Sections, Tate Britain, London

19 June, Kim Lim, Tate Britain, London

19 June, Otolith Group, Tate Britain, London

19 June, Ima-Abasi Okon, Tate Britain, London

18 June, Emin & Munch, Royal Academy, London

18 June, RA Schools Show, Royal Academy, London

18 June, The Making of an Artist: The Great Tradition, Royal Academy, London

18 June, Michael Armitage, Royal Academy, London

18 June, Prunella Clough & Alan Reynolds, Annely Juda, London

18 June, Ellen Gallagher, Hauser & Wirth, London

18 June, Frank Bowling, Hauser & Wirth, London

18 June, Tommaso Corvi-Mora, Pippy Houldsworth, London

18 June, Stefanie Heinze, Pippy Houldsworth, London

18 June, Bracha L. Ettinger, Richard Saltoun, London

18 June, Martine Syms, Sadie Coles, London

18 June, Pavel Pepperstein, Sprovieri, London

18 June, Tony Cragg, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

18 June, Tom Sachs, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

18 June, Robert Rauschenberg, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

18 June, Auguste Rodin, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Introduction. A Year in Art: Australia 1992 , Tate Modern, London

18 June, In the Studio, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Performer and Participant, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Materials and Objects, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Media Networks, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Ed Ruscha, Tate Modern, London

18 June, Jasleen Kaur, Copperfield, London

18 June, Nero, British Museum, London

18 June, JR, Pace, London

18 June, Ryoji Ikeda, 180 The Strand, London

18 June, Iris Schomaker, Huxley Parlour, London

18 June, Francis Bacon and Peter Beard, Ordovas, London

18 June, Joe Tilson, Marlborough, London

18 June, .ext, Gazelli, London

18 June, Let's Talk About Text, Gazelli, London

18 June, Sonia Delaunay ,Bastian, London

18 June, Dan Perfect, Mucciaccia Gallery, London

18 June, Annan Affotey, Ronchini Gallery, London

17 June, Dubuffet, Barbican, London

17 June, Sharon Hall, Eagle Gallery, London

17 June, Eileen Ager, Whitechapel, London

17 June, Phantoms of Surrealism, Whitechapel, London

17 June, Desde el Salón, Whitechapel, London

17 June, Nalini Malani, Whitechapel, London

17 June, Ayo Akingbade with Duchamp & Sons, Whitechapel, London

17 June, Alvaro Barrington, Emalin, London

17 June, Nicola Tassie Standpoint, London

17 June, Yoke, Ex-lab, London

17 June, Samson Kambalu, Kate McGarry, London

17 June, Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro, London

17 June, Chantel Joffe, Victoria Miro, London

17 June, Avis Newman, Maureen Paley, London

17 June, Mark Fairnington, Handel St. Projects, London

10 June, Art Club, The Hub, Sleaford

10 June, Jo Fairfax, the Hub, Sleaford

6 June, Sanctum, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

19th May, Groundings, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

19th May, Mat Collishaw, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

16th May, Yellow Archangel, General Practice, Lincoln

15th May, Laura Wilson, The Collection, Lincoln

15 May, Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, Natural World Centre, Whisby

26 April, Dereck Sprawson, Beam, Nottingham

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In this strangest of years I visited 72 exhibitions before lockdown and 10 afterwards, I cannot remember a year when I visited fewer exhibitions. Here are my top ten of the year:

1. 10 January, Christina Quarles, Hepworth, Wakefield

In a year where solo shows and more specifically shows of painters dominate my list of favourite exhibitions, the most memorable and joyful was Quarles. She is a painter that I have been interested in for a while, but only seen in reproduction before seeing the work at the Hepworth. In a cliché that is true, they come alive when viewed in person: colours dance, layers sing; marks pulse; strokes jive; images flutter. paint as collage as whole.

2. 18th September, Gordon Dalton, The Auxillary, Middlesbrough

There is no greater praise that I can give other than to say that I felt completely immersed when viewing these paintings; they work at every distance. Normally I find that there is an optimum viewing distance, usually for me it is close up, about the distance I stand with a brush in hand from a canvas in the studio. With Dalton’s work I paced back and forth; going right up to the canvas then standing metres back, the paintings gave something new at every distance.

3. 17 January, The Continuous Image, Oceans Apart, Manchester

A considered and quietly energetic show of six painters, which revelled in their commonality – of touch, mark, gesture, composition – whilst standing proud in each painter’s individuality. This is a show that I wished I had had time to go back to, possibly more than any other this year – it had more to give than a private view can offer.

4. 24th October, Otobong Nkanga, Mima, Middlesbrough

A show of alchemy. Many of the things in Nkanga’s work could be treated with scepticism, her rise in visibility in museums around the world chimes with various on-trend factors, allowing the institutions to tick lots of boxes in one artist. But I am more inclined to view work for what I see, what I feel, in front of it and Nkanga’s work is exciting, it is different, it has an intensity that made me goosebump prickle when I viewed it.

5. 6th March, Yelena Popova, Holden Gallery, Manchester

Popova’s show made me re-evaluate the artist I thought I knew. Her paintings were on view and I love them dearly (I am lucky enough to now have one in the living room thanks to the brilliant artist support pledge). Her recent tapestries were also in the space and they are truly distinctive, in ways that have a vast collaged-peppering of influences and imagery, whilst also coming together in a way that is unique; the whole is a sums of the parts. But it was the central floor piece that jolted me. Popova’s Scholar Stones were displayed in an exquisite manner, but it was the stones themselves that captivated: they are both micro and macro, somehow natural and unnatural, strange in themselves and loaded with the knowledge that they were collected from sites of nuclear industry.

6. 17 January, Vivian Suter, Tate Liverpool

An environment of paintings, that map out of labyrinth route in the gallery, that makes you look up and roll your head around in a way that felt most akin to a first-person computer game perspective. The installation of paintings was clearly meant to mimic the forest that inhabits Suter’s studio and each painting. It was successful in this, but the show’s true success was that this was not reductive, but opened up possibilities; an artist that resonates deep simplicity, a quality I admire greatly.

7. 29 February, Beg Steal and Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, London

A timely show for me, as appropriation is a key aspect of my PhD. The exhibition chimed because it, like my research, sought to define what appropriation is after the Pictures Generation of the 70’s and 80’s and the remix culture of the 90’s and 00’s, by combining their attitude with the appropriation that has happened for centuries in art. As the show’s curatorial statement says: “For many artists appropriation is about addition or reinterpretation, so that the new creation is unique, yet contains within it copies or traces of the original.” This is what I aspire to in my own work, and the artists in the show are good beacons for this stance.

8. 29 February, Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

Two generations of artist who questioned the political implications of the (moving) image. The exhibition brought together the two artists which allowed time to coalesce, whilst also being distinct. It was this bringing together of commonality and difference that I most admired in this show of two of art’s intellectual heavyweights.

9. 13th March, Denzil Forrester, Nottingham Contemporary

Paintings that are music; a crossing over of art forms. Forrester manages to make paintings that: throb, pulse, are both Accelerando and Diminuendo, jig and jog along and are full of Cadence. They are odd paintings, ones I did not expect to like particularly from seeing reproductions, but sing in an encounter with them.

10. 8th July, Dance First Think Later, General Practice, Lincoln

The single moment that got me through seeing a fraction of the exhibitions I usually see in a year was this one. I put the show together with Kate Buckley and Nick Simpson and it featured the art that we saw being made by artists on Instagram. These were the artists that defied being locked down in lockdown and allowed creativity to win through. These were artists that filled us with joy and pleasure and inspired us. These were artists that developed new ways of working, that laughed in the face of restrictions and turned them into exceptional work. Opening the packages as they arrived and being giddy with seeing art that someone else had made in lockdown, made up for the hundreds of exhibitions I missed. Being able to spend extended time over weeks with this work, which had not been seen in any physical gallery before, was a true treat and made me thankful for the artists in the world. An exhibition that contained 45 artists and pretty much all that is good about art.

ALL EXHIBITIONS VISITED

24th October, Otobong Nkanga, Mima, Middlesbrough

9th October, ///corner.proof.riders, General Practice, Lincoln.

3rd October, The Collection Museum’s Wildlife Photography Competition 2020, The Collection, Lincoln

3rd October, Spotlight on Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Collection, Lincoln

18th September, Gordon Dalton, The Auxillary, Middlesbrough

18th September, CONVERSATION 5: DELIVERY NO.2 , Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

18th September, Enough is Definitely Enough, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

16th September, Animals Out of Place, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

13th September, Refuse Refuse, Priest House Gallery, Great Limber

8th July, Dance First Think Later, General Practice, Lincoln

13th March, Your Changes Could Not Be Saved, Backlit, Nottingham

13th March, Sung Tieu, Nottingham Contemporary

13th March, Diane Simpson, Nottingham Contemporary

13th March, Denzil Forrester, Nottingham Contemporary

13th March, Matt Woodham, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

13th March, A Black Canvas, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

13th March, Dawinder Bansal, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

13th March, Nirvair Singhn Rai and Janhavi Sharma, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

13th March, Shezad Dawood, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

13th March, Wild Harvest, General Practice, Lincoln

6th March, Enough is Definitely Enough, Oceans Apart, Manchester

6th March, Yelena Popova, Holden Gallery, Manchester

29 February, Steve McQueen, Tate Modern, London

29 February, Michael Subotzky, Goodman Gallery, London

29 February, Shirin Neshat, Goodman Gallery, London

29 February, Habitual, Castor Projects, London

29 February, Beg Steal and Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, London

29 February, Cerith Wyn Evans, White Cube Bermondsey, London

29 February, Transparent Things, Goldsmiths CCA, London

29 February, Fantasy Island, Holtermann, London

29 February, Louise Bonnet, Max Hetzler, London

29 February, Nnena Kalu, Studio Voltaire, London

29 February, Anthony Wishaw, Royal Academy, London

29 February, Premiums, Royal Academy, London

29 February, Fischli & Weiss, Sprüeth Magers, London

29 February, Jordan Wolfson, Sadie Coles, London

29 February, An-My Lê, Marian Goodman Gallery, London

29 February, Melvin Edwards , Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

29 February, Kendell Geers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

29 February, Eric Fischl, Skarstedt Gallery, London

29 February, James Turrell, Pace Gallery, London

29 February, Isa Genzken, Hauser & Wirth, London

29 February, Alina Szapocznikow, Hauser & Wirth, London

29 February, Marc Brandenburg, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

29 February, Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

25 February, Andrew Bracey, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

14 February, Tania Blanco, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

14 February, Tulpa, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

14 February, Playing Field, SIA Gallery, Sheffield

11 February, Ian Edwards, The Collection, Lincoln

11 February, Xcept, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

7 February, Annabel McCourt, Usher Gallery Lincoln

27 January, Claudia Pisil, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

17 January, The Continuous Image, Oceans Apart, Manchester

17 January, Forest of Fabrication, RIBA North, Liverpool

17 January, Jacqui Hallam, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

17 January, John Moores Prizewinners, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

17 January, Visual Rights, Open Eye , Liverpool

17 January, Laura Callaghan, FACT, Liverpool

17 January, You Feel Me, FACT, Liverpool

17 January, Alexis Teplin, Bluecoat, Liverpool

17 January, Constellations, Tate Liverpool

17 January, Op art in Focus, Tate Liverpool

17 January, Ugo Rondinone, Tate Liverpool

17 January, Theaster Gates, Tate Liverpool

17 January, Vivian Suter, Tate Liverpool

10 January, Alan Davie and David Hockney, Hepworth, Wakefield

10 January, Christina Quarles, Hepworth, Wakefield

10 January, Edward Allington, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

10 January, Drawing and Ritual, Leeds Art Gallery

10 January, Ayşe Erkmen, Leeds Art Gallery

10 January, Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery

10 January, Slow Painting, Leeds Art Gallery

10 January, Mieke Bal, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds

10 January, Finlay Maier, Sally O’Reilly and Helen Frik, Broadcaster, Waddington

4 January, Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, York St Mary’s

4 January, Bouts Artist in Residence , York Art Gallery

4 January, Anthony Shaw Space, York Art Gallery

4 January, Gillian Lowndes, York Art Gallery

4 January, Coast to Coast, York Art Gallery

4 January, Making a Masterpiece: Bouts & Beyond, York Art Gallery

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2019

In 2019 I visited 491 exhibitions, these are my top ten

1. 6th December, R H Quaytman, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź

For the second year running R H Quaytman has created my exhibition of the year. A remarkable experience that unfolds as you walk through the gallery. Old work from previous ‘Chapters’ is picked up and expanded upon in new work made for Lodz, which is the city that inspired much within her first two ‘Chapters’. The work revels in connections, between the composition within each individual work, between the works in each room, between the rooms that make up the exhibition and beyond into the ‘book’ of Quaytman’s career. An exceptional artist creating work that keeps unpacking and unfolding into new possibilities.

2. 23 November, Danh Vo, South London Gallery, London

A real lesson in how an artist can creatively curate in ways that are inventive and bring new possibilities to familiar works by artists, and introduce new ones. Vo’s exhibition created connections between works that felt like storytelling in space, the sort of story that is told around a fire. One that retains the particularity and circumstance of how the story is told in a particular space and situation that adds volumes to it. In other words it is as much about the way that Vo curated the works in the spaces across the two sites at SLG, as it was what works he selected, as it was about how the new dialogues he created between the works by the context. The exhibition would be different somewhere else and a different time and the works felt different displayed against a backdrop of wallpapers, wood and painted walls. An exhibition I felt lucky to have seen.

3. 1 February, Pierre Bonnard, Tate Modern, London

I visited the Tate Gallery’s (before it became Tate Britain) previous Bonnard show when I was a student and I remember delighting in the colour of the paintings. I thought I knew Bonnard, to be honest I thought he was an artist that was overly familiar. The 2019 show revealed a painter who feels more contemporary and fresh than many I see who are still alive. What struck me most this time was how peculiar the painting’s are, the compositions are often just plain weird, with body parts cut off by the edge of the frame and details being revealed by close inspection that are hidden on first sight. And yes the colour is still just delightfully astounding.

4. 25 July, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Streets of Edinburgh

A complete transportation into a new world created by Cardiff and Miller, through a walk around Edinburgh. Somehow I walked physically in this time and place and mentally projected into a completely parallel world fashioned by the artists. At times hairs stood up on the back of my neck, arms, legs, though sadly not on my bald head!

5. 25 April, Emma Kunz, Serpentine, London

If there was one exhibition I wish I had spent more time in this year it was this one. The drawings are special in the intricate and inventive way that Kunz made their compositions appear completely logical and equally completely bizarre, almost like Umberto’s idea of the paradox of the ‘unhinged’ and the ‘perfect’ works as distinct possibilities for the cult film. These drawings appear to be both simultaneously. That Kunz did not mean for them to be art, but rather spiritual guides makes them more gobsmacking.

6. 22 November, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Camden Arts Centre, London

A parquet floor made of clay atop the usual one made of wood; doors removed and stacked in a room, alongside paintings made of fully gilded icon paintings that are rotated so one is hung in the gallery space, alongside other monochrome paintings made of Euros; a work you have to ask the gallery assistant to show you that is a pendant on her necklace; shoes made from exes’ handbags, the inventive list of descriptions of works could go on

7. 29 September, Holly Hendry, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

An artist that was bigged up by Darren Neave on the drive to visit this show with Joey Richardson on one of our gallery day outs at YSP. A pleasing case of a work being intriguing on Instagram, but those who only saw it on its digital life were not getting anything like the whole picture. The physicality of the work, the smell, the noise, the movements, the sense of awe all needed the physical presence of being in the gallery. We all walked away with an embossed print, which now proudly hangs in the kitchen.

8. 31 August, Christian Marclay, MACBA, Barcelona

Marclay has produced so many memorable works, not least the complete and utter masterpiece that is ‘The Clock’. This show did not include many that I was familiar with and felt more modest than the route of spectacle his work appears to have been taken since that work (such as in the White Cube Mason yard show I saw this year). Both sides of Marclay have a place, but there was something about this show that felt so warming when I visited with/dragged my family along on our summer holidays. Highlights include the numerous and ingenious scores that Marclay makes out of phonetic comic book expressions, a huge blackboard where we were invited to create marks that at times in the show were interpreted by musicians before being erased and a line of text that ran through nearly all of the whole show constructed from music reviews.

9. 26 July, Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art

Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye have put together a exquisitely simple, but complex concept for a cycle of exhibition that explore painting pedagogy. An artist who both paints and teaches in art schools around the UK are invited by the curators and in turn invite a former tutor and current or past students to show alongside them. This edition was fittingly shown in the beautiful, light filled empty fine art studios at Edinburgh over the summer. I was fortunate to be asked to exhibit and selected my old tutor Benet Spencer and former student Kate Buckley to show alongside me. We were in esteemed company alongside Sonia Boyce, Terry Frost, Basil Beattie, Ian Kiaer, Trish Lyons, Katrina Blannin, Dan Hays…..

10. 10 May, Stanley Kubrick, Design Museum, London

Overwhelming. Not just in the wealth of material on show here, but more the obsessiveness of Kubrick and how the tiniest details were poured over. I was pleased to see a couple of the archive boxes that Kubrick had specially made in the show, the last time I saw them they were uncatalogued on the shelves in the archive where much of the show’s object are derived from. The obsessivenes was epitomised for me in seeing hundreds of sheets of typed ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. This is staggering in itself, but Kubrick insisted it was typed in 8 different languages and shot for each so that it felt authentic in those countries. I felt like a child in a sweet shop, or perhaps more appropriately, a toy shop.

11. 30 August, Las Meninas, Picasso Museum, Barcelona

A special slot for the complete and incredible body of work that Picasso made in response to ‘Las Meninas’ that I saw for the first time outside of reproductions. Not strictly an exhibition, but a permanent display, it reinforces what an incredibly playful and inventive artist Picasso was. By taking on the genius of Velazquez and not always paying it the reverence that so many others have, it allows us to unlock new things to see in ‘Las Meninas’ through Picasso’s approach. The biggest impression I left with was how fresh the work is, it had the feeling of smelling still wet paint. I curated an exhibition, ‘Enough is Definitely Enough’ at General Practice in Lincoln this year of different contemporary artists responses to ‘Las Meninas’ and so it is extra fitting that I got to see Picasso’s versions this year.

2019 exhibitions visited

13th December, Moon Show, General Practice, Lincoln

12th December, AAZ, Mansions of. the Future, Lincoln

12th December, Bodies of Practice, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

8th December, Breaching Borders, Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa, Lódź

8th December,The National Exhibition of the Polish Miniature Textiles, Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa. Lódź

8th December, The National Exhibition of the Polish Tapestry, Miejska Galeria Sztuki 0, Lódź

7th December, Izabela Wyrwa / Wawrzyniec Strzemieczny, Galeria Re:Medium, Lódź

7th December, Yoko Ono, Signum Foundation Gallery, Lódź

7th December, Carolina Caycedo & Zofia Rydet, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź

6th December, Neoplastic Room. Open Composition, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź

6th December, Composing the Space. Sculptures in the Avant-garde, MS2, Lódź

6th December, R H Quaytman, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź

6th December, Atlas of Modernity, MS2, Lódź

4th December, Imran Qureshi, Quad, Derby

4th December, Still Undead, Nottingham Contemporary

3rd December, Gallery as Studio, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

23 November, Honey-Suckle Company, ICA, London

23 November, Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni, London

23 November, Antony Gormley, White Cube, London

23 November, Jockum Nordström, David Zwirner, London

23 November, William Anastasi, Malborough, London

23 November, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Malborough, London

23 November, Matrescence, Richard Saltoun, London

23 November, Robert Holyhead, Galerie Max Hetzler, London

23 November, Alessandro Busci, Sensei Contemporary, London

23 November, Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman, London

23 November, Ed Beynard, Stephen Friedman, London

23 November, Bill Woodrow, Pippy Houldsworth, London

23 November, Dark Laughter, Pippy Houldsworth, London

23 November, Nan Goldin, Marian Goodman, London

23 November, Fiona Banner, Frith Street, London

23 November, Guy Ben-Ner, Sadie Coles, London

23 November, Mimei Thompson and Susie Hamilton, Transition Two, London

23 November, Michael E Smith, Modern Art, London

23 November, Hana Miletic, The Approach, London

23 November, Peter Davis, The Approach, London

23 November, Guy Haddon-Grant, Roman Road. London

23 November, Liz Deschenes, Campoli Presti, London

23 November, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Herald St., London

23 November, Hamish Pearch, Soft Opening, London

23 November, James Welling, Maureen Paley, London

23 November, Joao Gabriel, The Ryder, London

23 November, Ross Loveday, Eames fine Art, London

23 November, Anselm Kiefer, White Cube Bermondsey, London

23 November, Danh Vo, South London Gallery, London

22 November, Albert Oehlen, Serpentine Gallery, London

22 November, Sean Cummins, Blyth Gallery, London

22 November, Ian Stephenson, Chelsea Space, London

22 November, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Tate Britain, London

22 November, Steve McQueen, Tate Britain, London

22 November, Sophia Al-Maria, Tate Britain, London

22 November, William Blake, Tate Britain, London

22 November, Mark Leckey, Tate Britain, London

22 November, Christodoulos Panayiotou,Camden Arts Centre, London

20 November, Paul Johnstone, Deda, Derby

20 November, Alison Lloyd, Deda, Derby

15 November, Supernature, The Auxillary, Middlesbrough

15 November, Legacy, The Auxillary, Middlesbrough

15 November, Mikhail Karikis, MIMA, Middlesbrough

15 November, Why Are We Here? With Black Artists & Modernism, MIMA, Middlesbrough

15 November, Ellie Thompson and House of Mesmer, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

15 November, Alan Hathaway, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

15 November, Mountain Size, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

10 November, In the Studio, Tate Modern, London

10 November, Kara Walker, Tate Modern, London

10 November, Nam June Paik, Tate Modern, London

10 November, Bummock: The Lace Archive, Constance Howard Gallery, London

9 November, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Photographers Gallery, London

9 November, Raúl Cañibano, Photographers Gallery, London

9 November, Feast for the Eyes, Photographers Gallery, London

9 November, Shot in Soho, Photographers Gallery, London

9 November, John Flaxman, Royal Academy, London

9 November, The Ancestors, Royal Academy, London

9 November, Laura Knight, Royal Academy, London

9 November, The Making of an Artist: The Great Tradition, Royal Academy, London

9 November, The Making of an Artist: Learning to Draw, Royal Academy, London

9 November, Andreas Gursky, National Portrait Gallery, London

9 November, Cy Twombly, National Portrait Gallery, London

9 November, Elizabeth Peyton, National Portrait Gallery, London

9 November, Gauguin Portraits, National Gallery, London

9 November, Perpetual Shift, The Koppel Project, London

4 November, A Strange Weave in Place and Time, Project Space Plus Lincoln

25 October, The Twin, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

25 October, The Twin, St. Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry

25 October, The Twin, Weaver’s House, Coventry

25 October, Šejla Kamerić, Coventry Cathedral

25 October, The Twin, The Row, Coventry

25 October, The Twin, The Herbert, Coventry

25 October, British Life and Landscape, The Herbert, Coventry

25 October, Peace and Reconciliation, The Herbert, Coventry

25 October, Radical Drawing, The Herbert, Coventry

24 October, Will Hurt, Lincoln Bus Station, Lincoln

24 October, Robin Williamson and Nadya Monfrinoli, Lincoln

24 October, Zach Walker, Posterngate, Lincoln

24 October, Urban Projections, Lincoln Transport Hub, Lincoln

24 October, Lindsey Seers, Lincoln Castle, Lincoln

24 October, Metro Boulot Dodo, St Benedicts, Lincoln

24 October, Metro Boulot Dodo, The Kiosk, Lincoln

24 October, Metro Boulot Dodo, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

24 October, Akeelah Bertram, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

24 October, Annabel McCourt, Mr Dry Clean, Lincoln

24 October, Ashley James Brown and Bernadette Russell, Mr Dry Clean, Lincoln

24 October, Matt Woodham, Mr Dry Clean, Lincoln

24 October, Rhiannon Armstrong, Superfi, Lincoln

24 October, George Eksts, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln

24 October, Thomas Grogan, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln

23 October, Format Graduate Award Show, Quad, Derby

17 October, Soheila Sokhanvari, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London

17 October, Ride the Wild, Levy Gorvy, London

17 October, McArthur Binion, Massimo de Carlo, London

17 October, Ana Cvorovic, Pi Artworks, London

17 October, Károly Keserü, Patrick Heide, London

17 October, My Life in Flux, Cardi, London

17 October, Betty Guggenheim and London, Ordovas, London

17 October, Naoya Inose, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London

17 October, The Form Springs, Senesi, London

17 October, Claire Tabouret, Almine Rech, London

17 October, Claudia Comte, Konig, London

17 October, Betty Parsons, Alison Jacques, London

17 October, Grayson Perry, Victoria Miro, London

17 October, Song Dong, Pace, London

17 October, Kara Walker, Sprueth Magers, London

17 October, Derek Boshier, Gazelli, London

17 October, Mark Bradford, Hauser and Wirth, London

17 October, Nate Lowman, David Zwirner, London

17 October, Henning Strassburger, Blain/Southern, London

17 October, Michael Simpson, Blain/Southern, London

17 October, Jonathan Baldock, Stephen Friedman, London

17 October, Lisa Brice, Stephen Friedman, London

17 October, Alvaro Barrington, Sadie Coles, London

17 October, Joseph Beuys, Bastian, London

17 October, Cy Twombly, Gagosian, London

17 October, Sean Dower, Laure Genillard, London

17 October, Peter Doig, Michael Werner, London

17 October, Ai Wei Wei, Lisson Gallery, London

17 October, Stanley Whitney, Lisson Gallery, London

17 October, Fully Awake 5.6, Freelands Foundation, London

17 October, Sterling Ruby, Gagosian, London

10 October, Aga Kowalska, Angel, Lincoln

8 October, Francesco Scalici, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

3 October, Arantza Pardo, Persistence Works Gallery, Sheffield

3 October, Alex Farrar, Bloc, Sheffield

3 October, Rewriting the Future, Site gallery, Sheffield

29 September, Holly Hendry, The Tetley, Leeds

29 September, James N Hutchinson, The Tetley, Leeds

29 September, Damien Hirst, Leeds

29 September, Yorkshire Sculpture International, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

29 September, Material Encounters, The Hepworth, Wakefield

29 September, Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth, Wakefield

29 September, Ruth Ewan and Oscar Murillo, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

29 September, Holly Hendry, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

29 September, Nigel Hall, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

29 September, Damien Hirst, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

29 September, David Smith, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

28 September, Mechanical Asynchronicity, Nottingham Contemporary

20 September, Dóra Maurer, Tate Modern, London

20 September, Nan Goldin, Tate Modern, London

20 September, Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, London

20 September, Ed Ruscha, Tate Modern, London

20 September, Takis, Tate Modern, London

20 September, Materia, Rosenfeld Porcini, London

20 September, Dean Hughes, Laure Genillard, London

20 September, Valéria Nascimento, Woolff Gallery, London

20 September, Sofia Mitsola, Pilar Corrias, London

20 September, Cui Jie, Pilar Corrias, London

20 September, Notes on Painting II, Koppel Projects Central, London

20 September, Julia Dubsky, Amanda Wilkinson, London

20 September, Francesca DiMattio, Pippy Houldsworth, London

20 September, Bill Woodrow, Pippy Houldsworth, London

20 September, Dayanita Singh, Frith Street, London

20 September, Danh Vo, Marian Goodman, London

20 September, Andrea Zittel, Sadie Coles, London

20 September, Co Westerik, Sadie Coles, London

20 September, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan and Chris Ofili, David Zwirner, London

20 September, Ian Davenport, W1 Curates, London

20 September, James Rosenquist, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

20 September, Vivienne Koorland and Berni Searle, Richard Saltoun, London

20 September, Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Custot, London

20 September, Robert Polidori, Flowers, London

20 September, Antoni Tàpies, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages, Timothy Taylor, London

20 September, Clare Woods, Simon Lee, London

19 September, intrinsic Angel Cafe, Lincoln

8 September, Summer of Ceramics, Doddington Hall

7 September, Ross Oliver, General Practice, Lincoln

7 September, Joey Richardson, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

6 September, Legs, Peter de Wint Building, Lincoln

31 August, Rebecca Horn,Platja de Sant, Barcelona

31 August, Antoni Tapies, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona

31 August, Hannah Collins, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona

31 August, Profound Certainty, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona

31 August, Freak Orlando, MACBA, Barcelona

31 August, Undefined Territories, MACBA, Barcelona

31 August, A Short Century, MACBA, Barcelona

31 August, Christian Marclay, MACBA, Barcelona

30 August, James Turrell, Centre Civic Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona

30 August, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Museum, Barcelona

30 August, Las Meninas, Picasso Museum, Barcelona

30 August, In the Name of the Father, Picasso Museum, Barcelona

30 August, Picasso: The Photographers Gaze, Picasso Museum, Barcelona

29 August, Extraordinary! Collections of decorative and author-centred art , Museu del Disseny, Barcelona

29 August, From the World to the Museum. Product Design, Cultural Heritage, Museu del Disseny, Barcelona

29 August, Dressing the Body. Silhouettes and fashion (1550-2015), Museu del Disseny, Barcelona

29 August, Do you Work or Design? New Visual Communication. 1980-2003, Museu del Disseny, Barcelona

29 August, The best design of the year, Museu del Disseny, Barcelona

29 August, Joan Miro, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

29 August, Tapestry of the Fundació,, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

29 August, Miró-Gaudí-Gomis, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

29 August, Different Trains, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

9th August, Tolkien Society Art Show, Medicine, Birmingham

9th August, Within and Without, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

9th August, Birmingham in the 1980′s, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

9th August, Thoughts on Portraiture, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

26 July, Italian Renaissance 1470 — 1600, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Gothic/Renaissance 1300-1550, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Rococo to Revolution, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Poussin's Sacraments, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Scottish Art 1670 — 1840, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Painting as Spectacle,Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Eighteenth - Nineteenth Century Art, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Cabinet Pictures, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Southern Baroque 1580 — 1680, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Dutch and Flemish Art 1600 — 1700, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, A Century of Scottish Art 1810-1920, Scottish National gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Martin Creed, Scotsmans Steps, Edinburgh

26 July, Alison Watt, Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

26 July, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, WhereSt Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral , Edinburgh

26 July, Amanda Baron, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, Edinburgh

26 July, Caroline Achaintre, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

26 July, The Modern Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Self Evidence - Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

26 July, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

26 July, David Batchelor, Ingelby, Edinburgh

26 July, James Richards, Collective, Edinburgh

26 July, Helen McCrorie, Collective, Edinburgh

26 July, Martin Packer, Edinburgh College of Art

26 July, Yulia Kovanova, Edinburgh College of Art

26 July, Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art

26 July, Corin Sworn, Edinburgh College of Art

25 July, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Streets of Edinburgh

25 July, Riverrun by Io Worthington and Lucy Mullican, Demarco European Art Foundation, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Richard Demarco, Demarco European Art Foundation, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, The Thermos Museum, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Beuys/da Vinci, Summerhall, Edinburgh25 July, Josh Haner, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Jane Frere, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Andrew Sim, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Alan Smith, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Extinction Rebellion, Summerhall, Edinburgh

25 July, Bobby Niven, Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden, Edinburgh

25 July, Damien Cifelli, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

25 July, The Long Look: The Making of a Portrait, National Portrait gallery, Edinburgh

25 July, All That the Rain Promises and More..., Arusha, Edinburgh

25 July, Derrick Guild, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

25 July, Intimate: A Portrait, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

25 July, Nicole Farhi, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

25 July, Samson Young, Talbot Rice, Edinburgh

25 July, Cindy Sherman, Stills, Edinburgh

25 July, Grayson Perry, Dovecoat Studios, Edinburgh

25 July, Bridget Riley, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

25 July, Sriwhana Spong, Institut français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh

25 July, Alfredo Jaar, West College Street, Edinburgh

25 July, Nathan Coley, Parliament Hall, Edinburgh

19 July, Richard Hamilton, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

19 July, Bloc Projects Members Show, Bloc, Sheffield

19 July, Revolve, S1 Art Space, Sheffield

19 July, A Strange Weave of Time and Space, Site, Sheffield

11 July, Katie Hallam, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

11 July, After Richmond, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

9 July, Lis Rhodes, Nottingham Contemporary

5 July, Fiona Carruthers, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

3 July, John Plowman, Broadcaster, Waddington

1 July, Collision Drive 2, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

30 July, Sally Plowman, Broadcaster, Wellingore

29 June, Developing Relationships and Sustaining Practice, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

29 June, 'Such is life' Nolan and the Kelly Myth, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

25 June, The Rodd: Its Architecture, People, and Landscape, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

24 June, Nolan's Time at the Rodd, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

20 June, Elements, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

15 June, Pete McKee, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

15 June, John Ruskin, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

15 June, Abstraction and Art Now, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

15 June, This Life is so Everyday, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

15 June, David Orme, Sidney and Matilda, Sheffield

14 June, The Aerodrome, Ikon, Birmingham

14 June, She Speaks the Truth, Medicine Gallery, Birmingham

14 June, Fifty Objects, Fifty Stories, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

14 June, The Young Turner, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

13 June, Festival of Arts, Hereford College of Arts

6 June, Exchanges, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, The Reno at the Whitworth, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, Ancient Textiles from the Andes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, Li Yuan-chia, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, Pearl Alcock, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, Joy For Ever, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6 June, Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery

6 June, Halima Cassell, Manchester Art Gallery

6 June, And Breathe, Manchester Art Gallery

6 June, Get Together and Get Things Done, Manchester Art Gallery

4 June, Evan Roth, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

3 June, Cataclysm, Bonnington Building, Nottingham

24th May, Pie 'n' Ears, University of Lincoln

18 May, Homespace, General Practice, Lincoln

18 May, Opem The Collection, Lincoln

18 May, Collision, The Collection, Lincoln

10 May, Stanley Kubrick, Design Museum, London

10 May, Debra Welch, Chelsea Space, London

10 May, Joan Synder, Blain Southern, London

10 May, Zhuang Hong Yi , Unit London, London

10 May, Chloe Wise, Almine Rech, London

10 May, Cy Twombly, Bastian, London

10 May, Gerhard Richter, Gagosian, London

10 May, Visions Of The Self: Rembrandt And Now, Gagosian, London

10 May, Elizabeth Peyton, Sadie Coles HQ, London

10 May, Astrid Klein, Sprueth Magers, London

10 May, Reinhard Mucha, Sprueth Magers, London

10 May, William Eggleston, David Zwirner, London

10 May, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Thaddeus Ropac, London

10 May, Sylvie Fleury, Thaddeus Ropac, London

10 May, Giovanni Ozzola, Gazelli Art House, London

10 May, Input / Output: Painting After Technology, Galerie Max Hetzler, London

10 May, Lili Dujourie, Richard Saltoun, London

10 May, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec,Galerie Kreo, London

10 May, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, Simon Lee, London

2nd May, Groundings, St Marks, Lincoln

2nd May, Hoda Afshar , Mansions of the Future, Lincoln

25 April, Collision Drive 1, Wimbledon Space, London

25 April, Bruce Mclean, Bernard Jacobson, London

25 April, Christian Marclay, White Cube, London

25 April, In the studio, Ordovas, London

25 April, Geta Brătescu, Hauser and Wirth, London

25 April, Stefan Brüggemann, Hauser and Wirth, London

25 April, Land Grab, Sadie Coles, London

25 April, Lawrence Lek, Sadie Coles, London

25 April, Allan Sekula, Marian Goodman, London

25 April, Anna Barriball, Frith Street, London

25 April, Derek Jarman, Amanda Wilkinson, London

25 April, Bea Schlingelhoff, Arcadia Missa, London

25 April, Christopher Hanlon, Domobaal, London

25 April, A Work, Hollybush Gardens, London

25 April, Bruno Pacheo, Hollybush Gardens, London

25 April, Tom Hackney, Eagle, Gallery London

25 April, Re-Assemble, Collyer Bristow, London

25 April, Emma Kunz, Serpentine, London

25 April, Hito Stereyl, Serpentine, London

25 April, The Future is Female, Dellasposa, London

25 April, Rob and Nick Carter, RNat5A, London

25 April, Spencer Finch, Lisson Gallery, London

25 April, Channa Horwitz, Lisson Gallery, London

8 April, Richard Ansett, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Jamie E Murray, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Graeme Oxby, Bear, Derby

8 April, John Angerson, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, The Brexit Lexicon, Furthest from the Sea, Derby

8 April, Disagreements, Masks & Open Ground, Furthest from the Sea, Derby

8 April, Matthew Arnold, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Ana Teresa Vicente, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Garrett Grove, Quad, Derby

8 April, Maria Sturm, Quad, Derby

8 April, Alone With Empire, Quad, Derby

8 April, Steven Barrett, Quad, Derby

8 April, Liza Ambrossio, Quad, Derby

8 April, Guanyu Xu, Quad, Derby

8 April, Seunggu Kim, Quad, Derby

8 April, Gloria Oyarzabal, Quad, Derby

8 April, Kensuke Koike, Quad, Derby

8 April, Mutable/Multiple, Quad, Derby

8 April, Caroline Furneaux, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Feature Shoot 4: Annual Awards, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Karl Oirhi, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Third Nature, The Tramshed, Derby

8 April, Tram Man, The Tramshed, Derby

7 April, Rose Finn Kelcey, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Mike Nelson, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Joanna Piotrowska, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Markéta Luskačová, Tate Britain, London

7 April, William Dobson, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Don McCullin, Tate Britain, London

7 April, Sandra Gamarra, Tate Modern, London

7 April, Media Networks, Tate Modern, London

7 April, Dorothea Tanning, Tate Modern, London

7 April, Franz West, Tate Modern, London

7 April, Jelly Green, Gallery Oxo, London

7 April, Kader Attia, Hayward Gallery, London

7 April, Diane Arbus, Hayward Gallery, London

5 April, Aphasia Art, Phoenix, Exeter

5 April, Naomi Hart, Phoenix, Exeter

5 April, Lily Myers, Phoenix, Exeter

5 April, Jacqui Hallam, Phoenix, Exeter

5 April, What do you Collect?, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

5 April, Steffen Dam, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

5 April, Sam Broughton, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

5 April, Bedwyr Williams, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

5 April, Woman Artists, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

5 April, Extreme Imaginations, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

29 March, Enough is Definitely Enough, General Practice, Lincoln

23rd March, Sally Plowman, The Broadcaster, Waddington

22nd March, Darren Neave, General Practice, Lincoln

22nd March, The Community Live in Nottingham, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

21st March, Familiar Machines, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

21st March, On the Sixth Day, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

21st March, Landing in the Pantheon, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

11 March, Rubber Reboot, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

8 March, Andrew Bracey, General Practice, Lincoln

1 March, Luke Jerram, The Collection, Lincoln

1 March, Keith James, The Collection, Lincoln

19 February, Woman Power Protest, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

19 February, Too Cute, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

19 February, Forward: New Art from Birmingham, Medicine, Birmingham

19 February, Matthew Krishanu, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

19 February, Haroon Mirza, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

17 February, Lincolnshire Artists’ Society Exhibition 2019, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

17 February, Hold the Front Page, The Collection, Lincoln

17 February, Georgia Preece, The Angel, Lincoln

15 February, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Nottingham Contemporary

15 February, Elizabeth Price, Nottingham Contemporary

8 February, Stefan Sehler, Handel Street Projects, London

8 February, Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, Matts Gallery, London

8 February, Marc Baldwin, Bermondsey Project Space, London

8 February, Tracey Emin, White Cube Bermondsey, London

8 February, Condo, Southard Reid, London

8 February, Anna Ratti, Amanda Wilkinson, London

8 February, Cajsa Von Zeipel, Arcadia Missa, London

8 February, That Which is Not Drawn, Marian Goodman, London

8 February, Raqs Media Collective, Frith Street Gallery, London

8 February, Repeat Repeat, Freelands Foundation, London

8 February, Theo Triantafyllidis, Zabludowicz Collection, London

8 February, In the Shadow of Forward Motion, Zabludowicz Collection, London

8 February, Pierre Huyghe, Serpentine Gallery, London

8 February, Grace Wales Bonner, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

8 February, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Sadie Coles, London

8 February, Ryan Sullivan, Sadie Coles, London

1 February, Joseph Beuys, Tate Modern, London

1 February, Ellen Gallagher, Tate Modern, London 1 February, Magic Realism, Tate Modern, London

1 February, Jenny Holzer, Tate Modern, London

1 February, Pierre Bonnard, Tate Modern, London

1 February, Prints I wish i had Published, Bernard Jackobson, London

1 February, Cornelia Parker, Royal Academy, , London

1 February, Ulay, Richard Saltoun, London

1 February, Lydia Okumura, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1 February, Robert Rauschenberg, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1 February, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Zwirner, London

1 February, Robert Fraser's Groovy Arts Club Band, Gazelli Art House, London

1 February, Condo, Dan Gunn, London

1 February, Condo, Project Native Informant, London

1 February, Condo, Mother’s Tankstation, London

1 February, Condo, Koppe Astner, London

1 February, Paul Feiler, Redfern Gallery, London

1 February, Flowers Contemporary I, Flowers Gallery, London

1 February, Richard Pousette-Dart, Pace, London

1 February, Martin Creed, Hauser & Wirth, London

1 February, Zoe Leonard, Hauser & Wirth, London

1 February, Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby and Tal R, Victoria Miro, London

1 February, Approaching Abstraction, Blain/Southern, London

1 February, Bosco Sodi, Blain/Southern, London

1 February, Felix Bernstein & Gabe Rubin, Pilar Corrias, London

1 February, Ken Okiishi, Pilar Corrias, London

1 February, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Tiwani, London

1 February, Mari Katayama, White Rainbow, London

1 February, Gareth Cadwallader, Josh Lilley, London

1 February, Ian Kiaer, Alison Jacques, London

1 February, Forms of Address, Laure Genillard, London

1 February, Paracosmic Review, Transition Two, London

1 February, Joins, Cell Projects, London

1 February, Nicholas Deshayes, Modern Art, London

1 February, Charlotte Posenenske, Modern Art, London

1 February, Shapeshifters, The Approach, London

1 February, Vanessa Safavi, The Approach, London

1 February, Mauro Bonacina, Roman Road, London

1 February, Manifest Content, Campoli Presti, London

1 February, Agata Ingarden, Soft Opening, London

1 February, Juliette Blightman, Maureen Paley, London

1 February, Michaela Eichwald , Maureen Paley, London

1 February, Condo, Herald St, London

1 February, Condo, Emalin, London

1 February, Condo, Kate Mcgarry, London

1 February, Andrew Bick, Hales Gallery, London

30 January, Polar Encounters, The Polar Museum, Cambridge

30 January, Enriching Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

30 January, The Gentle Art: Friends and strangers in Whistler’s prints, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

30 January, Collecting and Giving, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

30 January, Whistler and Nature, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

30 January, Bummock: The Lace Archive, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

23 January, Louise Bourgeois, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

23 January, Julie Mehretu, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

23 January, Evan Roth, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

23 January, Rose Garrard, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

17 January, Lincoln Print Fair, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

4 January, Land, City, Sea, The Collection, Lincoln

4 January, Intervals, The Collection, Lincoln

4 January, Rosie Ann Boxall, The Collection, Lincoln

3 January, Lulu Alyahya, Broadcaster, Waddington

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Top Ten shows of 2018

This year i visited 317 exhibitions, these are my top ten:

1. 13th January, R H Quaytman, The secession, Vienna

Hit by a vast, huge blank wall on entering the space, the recently re-discovered Van Veen painting to the right, otherwise emptiness, a seed of preparation, as you would, for exercise, a warm up to see Rebecca Quaytman’s masterclass in painting and installing painting. I am reminded of Abramovic at Whitworth and how she prepared us for seeing durational art. Reminded of Mark Cousins description of ‘yinghi’ walls built in front or behind main doorways. The ‘arrow’ on which 22 of the 27 RHQ sat on is incredibly powerful as a device in the space – focus and lets the eye wander in equal measure. I am invited to look, to look from afar and then come in, close up, to pay attention. SO much to pay attention to and I was fortunate to be able to spend extended time on multiple visits. The exhibition marked my first act of my PhD adventure, and Quaytman’s attention and incorporation of art made by others is a key part of the research I am embarking on. She is undoubtedly in a symbiotic relationship with the works of others.

2. 21 April, Pablo Picasso, Tate Modern, London

My thought will not be an unique one; how was so much, of such quality, made in one year, by one artist? I am still enthralled by this now several months on and looking through the catalogue it is a joy to be able to relive memories. Hopefully this is a format that can be returned to by Tate and other uber-museums.

3. 24 November, Amy Sillman, Camden Arts Centre, London

Most of all what I felt in visiting this exhibition was joyfulness and pleasure in an artist exploring and playing with painting. I have to be honest I have not really ‘got’ other artist’s interest in Sillman before. I have seen works, but never a solo show of hers. She fits perhaps the current critical trend of networked painting (Joselit, Graw and co) where the painting connects in a way akin to the rhizome and web/social media. Her works make sense to me not as individual works, but as connections between (her) works. The whole is greater than the parts; the sum itself more interesting than the individual elements. But more than this, the way that Sillman shifts from studio to situation is perhaps where the joy emerges most for me: paintings hung as washing line, paintings hug on magnets on top of paintings, huge mural-like compositions made of many smaller individual parts, zines and animations ‘pickled’ amongst the paintings, collages of differently sized paintings snaking along a wall. Most of all I walked around with a large Cheshire cat.

4. 6 December, Fractopia, General Practice, Lincoln

A rare treat of an exhibition where the qualities of the studio truly transfer to the gallery environment. The sense of experimentation in the work was in perfect harmony with the care and attention in the realization of this Gesamtkunstwerk. The individual pieces collaged together material from yesteryear, derived from books from encyclopedic tomes magpied from secondhand and charity shops. The deluge of imagery from across centuries was ‘evened’ by the artists, Nick Simpson and Kate Buckley’s truly collaborative and innovative approach to creating imagery, a back-and-forth process of hand/laser/digital cut and paste. This approach of creating imagery was transferred to the installation, with intriguing and multiple display solutions, involving hat pins, shelves, hand-made clips, lighting-as-artwork, collaged projections of collaged films. The artists spent seven weeks installing the exhibition, something unheard of. All for one night of an exhibition, reversing the normalities of an exhibition. This reminded me of a truly excellent sauce, the concentration of multiple ingredients, made of an extended period of time delivers a shot of richness devoured over a short period of time and remembered more fully for it.

5. 14th January, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

A treasure trove of an exhibition charting the role of artist publishing as a form of exhibition/artwork. Different selections were made by art world luminaries of influential books that were felt to take the form of artworks, most of which could be picked up and handled (itself all to rare in exhibitions that have long at similar ideas that treat the things as objects all too often). The books were shown in multiple ways, most dominantly on distinctive and prominently bonkers roofs-as-shelves, but also as projections, chronologies, wall displays, etc. An exhibition that took a research and archival approach, but the curators never forgot (as some so often do) that the exhibition has to work as a form in itself, to be dynamic, intriguing, careful and sensitive, and most of all to educate by being interesting and rewarding to a visitor.

6. 21 September, Alun Williams, Handel St Projects, London

Handel Street projects has perhaps the highest rate of excellent shows of any gallery in London, I cannot remember visiting anything other than careful and beautifully installed shows of brilliant art there. This exhibition of a new series of paintings by Alun Williams rewarded the (this) viewer in multiple ways. Williams’ approach is to research a subject extensively, in this case Thomas Paine, and to pull all this research into field visits to a place or places associated with the figure in the hope of finding a stain en situ that can become a surrogate and abstracted portrait of the historical individual. This stain portrait then appears wittily in multiple places, often associated with the research conducted, and painted in a dizzying array of painterly styles, often recalling past ‘titans’ of painting, such as Malevich and Ivon Hitchens in this selection. The triumph of the work is that it is simultaneously witty, clever, sensitive, dense, light, fun and serious. All this is done in what appears to be effortless manner, whilst also also clearly not being this case at all.

7. 12th January, Michael Armitage, South London Gallery, London

Paintings that make you want to talk; to share what the thought processes you believe the artist made in creating them. They are paintings that are simultaneously clear about subject and obscure easy readings; that are intensely painterly, but in many ways feel more like written reports or filmed documentaries; that are large in size, but feel like they are intimate; that feel familiar, but are also, or rather ‘other’; simple, but complex; dense, but light; just ‘dumb’ paintings that are intensely thoughtful and thought provoking.

8. 6 April, Fred Wilson, Pace, London

Further proof (if any more is needed) that artists often/can/do curate the most interesting group exhibitions. Fred Wilson is an acknowledged master of the form of the artist-curated exhibition, managing to create an experience of a total installation comprised of manifest disparate parts that marry in complete concord. This was like taking a ride in the Tardis around the Orientalist Mediterranean, with artworks gathered from multiple times and places. Wilson combined his works with those by others, but in a way that all felt like it was part of his creation, towards a harmonious whole; so that his own authorship was strangely present at all times and also did not matter was iota either. Intense, clever and rich. Another example of a museum show in a commercial gallery (albeit one touring from the Istanbul Biennial).

9. 7 November, Serving Library V David Osbaldeston, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

The juxtaposition of the objects and images collated over time into the Serving Library, with a new work by the consistently excellent David Osbaldeston worked in an incredibly forceful and curious way. Osbalsdeston presented a number of silkscreen prints of abstract rulers leaning against a wall. Each distinct ruler (or marker) was captioned by a character title, such as Illusionist, Translator, Recidivist or Swindler. These markers and their accompanying titles stayed in my mind as I approached the plethora of material surrounding Osbaldeston’s billboard on the walls. The Serving Library’s collection was thus transformed (as it is when collated in the annual publications) into different ways of seeing the material; a piece of graphic design, or fashion photograph or vinyl cover or artistic print are transmuted when looked at through the lens of being a swindler, liar, falsifier or a trixster.

10. 29 November, Ala Ebtekar, The Third Line, Dubai,

An exhibition that felt to me, like looking up at the night sky. Not because of the imagery alone, which was lunar and celestial, but because it made my mind wander to far away possibilities. Ebtekar appears to use historical material such as ancient manuscripts as catalysts to create new possibilities and journeys, rather than as items to transfer content from and into his work. This creates a strange contradictory stance where these materials feel almost equally essential and unnecessary to his work. Essential in that they clearly use (physically in some cases) these materials as springboards for the content of Ebtekar’s work; unnecessary in that it feels like the artists is using them as ‘fuel’ to burn in order to go somewhere else with them. What I mean by this is it does not feel like each historical item is absolutely necessary to the creation of the individual works. In an age of art-as-research it feel refreshing that in this case the artist is clearly more focused on the possibilities of what art can be and do, than the seduction (and perhaps ease) of letting the content derived from the research dominant that discourse and direction of the work. So for example, the vitrine so common to exhibitions of recent times is recharged as a sculpture, with only a few items laid out sparsely. Some of the surrounding images on the walls feature pages from manuscripts, but rather than being wholly referential to the content, the artist has cut the content away, leaving ghostlike abstracted structures.

Nearly top tens

Honourable mentions should be made for William Kentridge at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, which would have been near the top of my list, if I had not seen it at the Whitechapel last year; Mika Rottenberg, at Goldsmiths CCA, London, which was utterly wonderful, but perhaps suffered from becoming a little over-familiar with her work and The Louvre in Abu Dhabi, which is an example of both how work can be displayed in an exquisite way when such care and attention (and resource) is put towards how an object is displayed, and to telling a chronological history of art across a hugely wide and varied geographical range.

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Exhibitions Visited in 2018

17th December, Intervals, The Collection, Lincoln

13th December, Bodies of Practice, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

13th December, Liz Davies, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln

12th December, Simeon Barclay, The Tetley, Leeds

6 December, Approaching Affective Zero, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln

6 December, Fractopia, General Practice, Lincoln

1 December, The Louvre, Abu Dhabi,

29 November, In the Age of New Media, The Atassi Foundation, Dubai,

29 November, L’Ecole de Tunis , Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai,

29 November, Huda Lufti, The Third Line, Dubai,

29 November, Ala Ebtekar, The Third Line, Dubai,

29 November, Nasir Nasrallah, The Jamjar, Dubai,

29 November, Simon Back, Showcase, Dubai,

29 November, Lalla Essaydi, Leila Heller, Dubai,

29 November, Kenny Scharf, Leila Heller, Dubai,

29 November, Nancy Lorenz, Leila Heller, Dubai,

29 November, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai,

29 November, The Monochrome Revisited, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai,

29 November, Farah Foudeh, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai,

29 November, Joana Escoval, Grey Noise, Dubai,

29 November, Ana Mazzei, Green Art Gallery, Dubai,

29 November, Hoda Tawakoi, Gallerie Isabelle Van den Eynde, Dubai,

29 November, Material Pursuits, D. Academy, Dubai,

29 November, Fernando Botero, Custot Gallery, Dubai,

29 November, Anahita Razmi, Carbon 12, Dubai,

29 November, Sunil Gawde, 1X1 Gallery, Dubai,

29 November, Thaier Helal, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai,

29 November, Group Exhibition, Total Arts, Dubai

29 November, Visual Dialogues, Total Arts, Dubai

26 November, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Alia Farid and Aseel AlYaqoub, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Crude, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Mounira Al Solh ,Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Maha Malluh, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Lala Rukh, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Chiharu Shiota, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

26 November, Mukesh Shah, XVA Gallery, Dubai

26 November, Martin Giesen, Majlis Gallery, Dubai

25 November, Out of Focus/Union, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai

25 November, Urban Poetry, Opera Gallery, Dubai

25 November, Mathieu Hutin, The Empty Quarter, Dubai

25 November, Amir Ismail, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai

24 November, Sublime Hardware, Luxembourg & Dayan, London

24 November, Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Looked so Marvelous as When you are Here, Levy Gory, London

24 November, Jedd Novatt, Waddington + Custot, London

24 November, Aziz + Cucher , Gazelli, London

24 November, Ryan Mrozowski, Simon Lee, London

24 November, Yun, Hyong-Keun, Simon Lee, London

24 November, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mazzolini, London

24 November, Fiona Tan, Frith Street Gallery, London

24 November,Dara Birnbaum, Marian Goodman, London

24 November, John Baldessari, Marian Goodman, London

24 November, Gordon Matta Clark, David Zwirner, London

24 November, Amy Sillman, Camden Arts Centre, London

24 November,Chris Burden, Gagosian, London

14 November, Testing 1,2,3 Project Space Plus, Lincoln

7 November, Darius Powell & Ben Spiller, Derby Museum and Gallery

7 November, Derby: From War to Peace, Derby Museum and Gallery

7 November, Lydia Crumb, Loovre Gallery at Surface Gallery, Nottingham

7 November, Penumbra, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

7 November, Off Centre: Nottingham Photography Festival, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

7 November, Notts Zine Library, Nottingham Contemporary

7 November, Scarlet Crawford, Nottingham Contemporary

7 November, Still I Rise, Nottingham Contemporary

7 November, Serving Library V David Osbaldeston, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

4 November, Ashley Holmes, Two Queens, Leicester

4 November, Mateus Domingos, The Phoenix, Leicester

4 November, Tristram Aver, Leicester Print Workshop

4 November, Christopher Samuels, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

4 November, Criminal Ornamentation, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

31 October, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth, Wakefield

31 October, Andy Cropper, APG works, Sheffield

31 October, Construction House, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

31 October, Linda Benedict-Jones, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

31 October, Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

31 October, Liquid Crystal Display, Site Gallery, Sheffield

31 October, From Darkness to Light, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

31 October, Josh Whitacker, Bloc, Sheffield

26 October, Daniel Rapley, The Collection, Lincoln

26 October, Ellen Brady, The Collection, Lincoln

21 October, Kate Groobey, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

21 October, Polly Apfelbaum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

21 October, Inspire 2018, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

21 October, With and Without, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

21 October, Suzie Hunt and Tony McClure, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

21 October, Collecting Birmingham, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

19 October, Gerard Williams, General Practice, Lincoln

12 October, Tania Bruguera, Tate Modern, London 12 October, Christian Marclay, Tate Modern, London

12 October, Alec Finlay, Southwark Park, London

12 October, Marcia Farquhar, Dilston Grove, London

12 October, Marcia Farquhar, CGP, London

12 October, Ivor Cutler, Goldsmiths CCA, London

12 October, Mika Rottenberg, Goldsmiths CCA ,London

12 October, From the Inside Out, Drawing Room, London

12 October, Martin Eder, Newport St Gallery, London

12 October, Nicholas Pope, Sunday Painter, London

12 October, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Gasworks Gallery, London

11 October, Anna Metzger, Broadcaster, Waddington

11 October, Anna Metzger, Broadcaster, Wellingore

2 October, Nordic Design and Craft, Manchester Art Gallery

2 October, Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition, Manchester Art Gallery

2 October, And Breath, Manchester Art Gallery

2 October, Annie Swynnerton, Manchester Art Gallery

2 October, Kate Heywood, Manchester Art Gallery

2 October, The Booth Centre: Arrival, Home, Manchester

2 October, David Ogle, Home, Manchester

2 October, In the Land, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, Exchanges, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, Bodies of Colour: Breaking with stereotypes in the wallpaper collection, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, Goya and Hogarth, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, Alice Kettle, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

2 October, William Kentridge, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

29 September, Callum Beaney, Wallner Gallery, Nottingham

29 September, Mandy Payne, Angear Visitor Centre, Nottingham

29 September, Rana Begum, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

25 September, Matthew Houlding, The Tetley, Leeds

25 September, Tai Shani, The Tetley, Leeds

25 September, Senga Nengudi, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

25 September, Lothar Gotz, Leeds Art Gallery

25 September, Allison Wilding, Leeds Art Gallery

25 September, Katrina Palmer, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

25 September, Guiseppe Penone, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

21 September, Alun Williams, Handel St Projects, London

21 September, Ed Ruscha National Gallery, London

21 September, Daniel Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London

21 September, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Marian Goodman, London

21 September, Michael Kidner, Flowers, London

21 September, Ian Davenport, Waddington Custot, London

21 September, Harold Ancart, David Zwirner, London

21 September, Victor Burgin, Richard Saltoun, London

21 September, Wanda Czelkowska, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

21 September, Joseph Beuys, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

21 September, Daniel Richter, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

21 September, Conrad Shawcross, Victoria Miro, London

21 September, Designers & Jewellery 1850 –1940, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

21 September, Print Rebels, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

21 September, John P. Williams, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

8 September, Giles Round, Nostell Priory, Wakefield

8 September, Chippendale: the Man and the Brand, Nostell Priory, Wakefield

8 September, Hepworth, Wakefield

8 September, A Contemporary Collection, Hepworth, Wakefield

8 September, Modern Nature: British Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Hepworth, Wakefield

8 September, Giles Round, Hepworth, Wakefield

8 September, Viviane Sassen, Hepworth, Wakefield

8 September, Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, Hepworth, Wakefield

7 September, TIGHT, Peter de Wint Building, Lincoln

3 September, Mark Steadman Cogglesford Mill Sleaford

24 August, Nadya Monfrinoli,, Doddington Hall

24 August, Sculpture at Doddington, Doddington Hall

21 August, Neon, NCCD, Sleaford

21 August, Woman’s Work, NCCD, Sleaford

21 August, Jacqueline James, NCCD, Sleaford

21 August, How are you Doing Sleaford? NCCD, Sleaford

14 August, Trix & Robert Haussmann, Nottingham Contemporary

14 August, Pia Camil, Nottingham Contemporary

28 July, Impossible City, The Collection, Lincoln

23 July, Impossible City, General Practice, Lincoln

12th July, Nia Fekri, Broadcaster, Wellingore

10th July, Nia Fekri, Broadcaster, Waddington

5 July, Miriam Bean, Phoenix, Leicester

5 July, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Two Queens, Leicester

5 July, Alison Carpenter Hughes, Gajiko Project Space, Leicester

29 June, Practice and Research in Action, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

26 June, Sidney Nolan, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

20 June, Mountain of Tongues, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Harry Martins, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Studio Artists Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Dohm Shop, Nottingham Contemporary

20 June, Linder: House of Fame, Nottingham Contemporary

20 June, Thom Trojanowski, Trade Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Cindie Cheung, TG, Nottingham

20 June, Beth Collar, Primary, Nottingham

19 June, Antony Gormley, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

13 June, General Public, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

13 June, Mixrice, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

13 June, Inherited Purposes, Grand Union, Birmingham

12 June, Synthesis, Hereford College of Arts

9 June, Mandy Lee Jandrell, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

9 June, Daniel Rapley, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

5 June, Natasha Monfared, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

1 June, Bradley Oliver-White, General Practice, Lincoln

25 May, Illustration degree show, University of Lincoln

25 May, Proximity, University of Lincoln

25 May, Insert Art Here, University of Lincoln

24 may, Postman Time, Blue Rooms, Lincoln

23 May, 32 degrees, University of Lincoln

28 April, Circus: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture, NCCD, Sleaford

28 April, Unseen, NCCD, Sleaford

21 April, Bartolome Murillo, National Gallery, London

21 April, Edgar Degas, National Gallery, London

21 April, Tacita Dean: Still Life, National Gallery, London

21 April, Michael Rakowitz, Forth Plinth, London

21 April, Christian Boltanski, Marian Goodman, London

21 April, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles HQ, London

21 April, Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London

21 April, Lee Ufan, Serpentine Gallery, London

21 April, Ian Cheng, Serpentine Gallery, London

21 April, Sondra Perry, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

21 April, Manuel Espinosa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

21 April, Ilona Kesseru, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

21 April, Matthew Day Jackson, Hauser & Wirth, London

21 April, Lorna Simpson, Hauser & Wirth, London

21 April, Wim Wenders, Blain Southern,London

21 April, Gabriella Boyd, Blain Southern, London

21 April, Recent Acquisitions, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Joan Jonas, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Pablo Picasso, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Adapt to Survive, Heni Project Space, London

21 April, Andreas Gursky, Hayward Gallery, London

20 April, Documents Alternatives, BSAD Gallery, Bath

19 April, Rie Nakajima, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

19 April, Langlands & Bell, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

12 April, Machines Will Watch Us Die, Holden Gallery, Manchester

11 April, Exhibition Untitled, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

6 April, Gabriele Di Matteo, Handel St Projects, London

6 April, Leonor Atunes, Whitechapel Gallery,London

6 April, Art Capital, Whitechapel Gallery,London

6 April, Mark Dion, Whitechapel Gallery, London

6 April, Invisible Cities, Waddington Custot, London

6 April, Andrzej Wroblewski, David Zwirner, London

6 April, Runtime Error, Paul Coulon, London

6 April, Paulo Bruscky, Richard Saltoun, London

6 April, Fred Wilson, Pace, London

6 April, Richard Serra, Gagosian, London

6 April, Michelangelo Pisteletto, London

6 April, Roy Newell, Simon Lee, London

6 April, Jan Frank, Nahmad Projects, London

6 April, Jonna Kina, Beaconsfield, London

6 April, John Copeland, Newport St Gallery, London

6 April, Rachel Howard, Newport St Gallery, London

6 April, Myra Greene, Corvi Mora, London

6 April, David Musgrave, Greengassi, London

4 April, Chiharu Shiota, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, In My Shoes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Simon Armitage, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Revolt and Revolutions, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Alfredo Jaar, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, School Prints, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, Serena Korda, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, Anthony McCall, Hepworth, Wakefield

22 March, Cozens and Cozens, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Beyond Borders, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, South Asian Modernists 1953-63, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, John Staezker, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, In The Land, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Cecily Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Apna, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

10 March, Upholstery: Evolution to Revolution, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Celia Smith, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Winter & Kurth, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Class of 2017, NCCD, Sleaford

7 March, Print!!, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

23rd February, Tom Martin, The Collection, Lincoln

23rd February, Andy Weekes, The Collection, Lincoln

18th February, No Method, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

16th February, The Real DMZ, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

9th February, From The Land - Henry Moore, Ewen Henderson & Other Artists, The Collection Lincoln

9th February, Photographing Tutankhamun, The Collection Lincoln

6th February, Transitional States, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2nd February, Nikolaus Gansterer, The Broadcaster, Wellingore

1st February, Subjectively Objective, Nuneaton Museum and Gallery

1st February, Object Relations: Images in photography and painting, Nuneaton Museum and Gallery

27th January, Yellow Belly, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Jane Walker, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Hotel Drawings, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Sinclair Ashman, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Annabel McCourt, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

26th January, Bummock, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

23rd January, Line, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

14th January, Florian Hecker, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

14th January, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

14th January, Herbert Albrecht, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, In Her Majesty's Hands: Medals of Maria Theresa, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Point of View #20: Girolamo da Treviso, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Reflections, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

13th January, Bruno Peinado, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Lionel Favre, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Hilario Isola, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Markus Redl, Gallery Kandlhofer, Vienna

13th January, watching sugar dissolve in a glass of water, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Nature Stories, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Julian Turner, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Art into Life!, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Hans Schabus, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Gilbert Bretterbauer, Art Box, Vienna

13th January, Bill Seaman, Schauraum, Veinna

13th January, Ken Lum, Public Art Vienna

13th January, Lawrence Weiner, Public Art Vienna

13th January, Station Rose, Station Rose Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Michael Koch, Jan Arnold, Vienna

13th January, Elisabeth Czihak, Eikon Schaufenster Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Martha Jungwirth & Eva Schlegel, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Sakshi Gupta, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Sudarshan Shetty, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Chaux, Marin Janda Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Peter Jelitsch, Crone Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Christine de Grancy, Crone Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Material Traces, Charim Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Jürgen Klauke, Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

13th January, Birgit Jürgenssen, Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Olga Chernysheva, The Secession, Vienna

13th January, R H Quaytman, The secession, Vienna

12th January, The Unlimited Dream Company, Hannah Barry Gallery, London

12th January, Ilona Sagar, South London Gallery, London

12th January, Michael Armitage, South London Gallery, London

12th January, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Hauser & Wirth, London

12th January, Monika Sosnowska, Hauser & Wirth, London

12th January, Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, London

12th January, Carmen Herrara, Lisson Gallery, London

12th January, Roy Colmer, Lisson Gallery, London

12th January, Speech Acts, Lisson Gallery, London

1st January, Rob Flint, The Broadcaster, Waddington

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Exhibitions Visited in 2017

Bracey Top Ten exhibitions of the 2017

This year I have visited 448 exhibitions, these are my top ten:

1. Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern, London

An exhibition that kept rewarding as I passed from one room to another, without resorting to too many artworks fatigue so often the case with these ‘important’ retrospectives. So many familiar works that I have read and seen in reproduction were transformed by a direct encounter, not least how much there is to see in the de kooning drawing.

2. Philip Guston, Hauser and Wirth, London

An exhibition seemingly made for the year of Trump. Each drawing contained so many ideas, so much cheerfully disguised vitriol. These were works I did not really know about before and they made me again re-evaluate Guston’s late magnificent paintings.

3. William Kentridge, Whitechapel Gallery, London

The most sober gleefulness that an artist can fling at you, a master of quiet spectacle. Kentridge is like the best comedians, someone able to deal with the big political issues, in a way that feels empathetically underhand in the way you are driven along with it. I would have been happy with the first room, the heart skipped as more rooms were encountered.

4. Andy Holden & Peter Holden, Former Newington Library, London

Nostalgia is such a good thing when it is treated with the dignity, subtlety, good humour and grace that the Holden father-son tag team showed. A beautiful show, in a perfect location.

5. Jasper Johns, Royal Academy, London

So many masterpieces, but actually it was the works that felt wrong that gave the most. I visited with my good friend, John Rimmer, and we spent more time talking about the awkward, messy and haphazard works, which over the time of discussion turned into inventive, smart and downright boss works. Clever-funny.

6. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marian Goodman, London

A master class in the stillness of movement. Poetry and conceptual beauty that grew from work to work. Seeing the show reinforced my belief that a series by an artist in the right hands is something that keeps giving in its learning, a far cry from the churn it out approach of lesser artists.

7. Andrew Bick, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

Each painting was exquisite, but what made the show really stand out was the attention to detail in the staging. The works were cleverly installed so to revel in an approach of peak-and-see as works were revealed through doorways and floors. The relationship to the space was deeply inherent in the works, none more so in the compositions of the drawings shown on beams inserted seamlessly into the gallery.

8. Soheila Sokhanvari, The New Art Gallery Walsall

A warm exhibition of works that cleverly toed the line between deeply personal and the universal, whilst being particular to a geography/time/political situation. This was an exhibition that I felt an initial closeness too in my own work, perhaps more than any other this year, which happily started unpacking so many differences to my own the more time I spent in the gallery.

9. Assemble, Lincoln Cathedral

The smell, oh the smell still lingers.

The smell of freshly hewn wood dominated one of the most beautiful spaces in the country, Lincoln Cathedral’s Chapter House (not that I am biased). The intensity of the timeless business of the woodsmen, met with a rare sense of calm and respect from those that gathered. The talk of the gallery being the new cathedral is nonsense, but there was something spiritual in seeing this work being in this space that transcends art and religion.

10. documenta 14, Kassel and Skulptur Projekte Münster

I visited both for the first time. I was heartened by the surprisingly large amount of awful art (and poor signage), including what I believe to be the most ethically dubious piece of work I have ever encountered. The sheer scale and ambition of the behemoth exhibitions overwhelmed and I felt the curatorial often diminished the good artworks and excused the poorer ones. However the highlights of individual artworks in both exhibitions was ultimately what I will remember. Read my review here

Exhibitions visited in 2017

8th December, Turner and the Whale, Hull Maritime Museum, Hull

8th December, Turner Prize, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

8th December, Jason Bruges, Beverley Gate, Hull

8th December, A Colossal Wave!, Hull Marina, Hull

8th December, Alexander Reichardt, The Deep, Hull

8th December, Torn, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

8th December, Martin Parr, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

8th December, Olivia Arthur, Torn, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

7th December, Rob Flint, Division of Labour, London

7th December, Hannah Richards, By OTHER MEANS, London

7th December, Animal Mirror, SCAN, London

7th December, Nathalie du Pasquier, Camden Arts Centre, London

7th December, Christian Nyampeta, Camden Arts Centre, London

3rd December, Katharina Grosse, South London Gallery, London

3rd December, Zach Blas, Gasworks Gallery London

3rd December, Dan Cohen, Newport Street Gallery, London

1st December, Superflex, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Red Star Over Russia, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Ilya and Emila Kabakov, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Modigliani, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marian Goodman, London

1st December, Ken Currie, Flowers, London

1st December, Christmas Pop-Up Prints and Editions Sale, Victoria Miro, London

1st December, Stan Douglas, Victoria Miro, London

1st December, Sophie Jung, Blain/Southern, London

1st December, James White, Blain/Southern, London

1st December, Bram Bogart, Vigo Gallery, London

1st December, Polly Apfelbaum, Frith Street, London

1st December, Arthur Jafa, Store X, London

1st December, Jeremy Shaw, Store X, London

1st December, Virgil Abloh and Ben Kelly, Store X, London

1st December, Ryoki Ikeda, Store X, London

1st December, Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery, London

1st December, Drawing Together, Coulthard Gallery, London

1st December, Chaim Soutine, Coulthard Gallery, London

1st December, Sean Lynch, Ronchini, London

1st December, Phillip King, Thomas Dane, London

1st December, Mark Vaux, Bernard Jackobson, London

1st December, Haim Steinbach, White Cube, London

1st December, Impulse, Pace, London

1st December, Gilbert and George, Levy Gorvy, London

1st December, LIGHT IN MOTION: Balla, Dorazio, Zappettini, Mazzoleni, London

1st December, Tony Matelli, Marlborough, London

1st December, Two Decades – British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s, Marlborough, London

1st December, Markers, Zwirner Gallery, London

1st December, Lee Bul, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Medardo Rosso, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Arnulf Rainer, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Willem de Kooning, Skarstedt, London

1st December, Richard woods, Chelsea Space, London

1st December, Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870 – 1904), Tate Britain, London

1st December, Marguerite Humeau, Tate Britain, London

1st December, Rachel Whiteread, Tate Britain, London

1st December, Wade Guyton, Serpentine Gallery, London

1st December, Rose Wylie, Serpentine Gallery, London

28th November, Joana Cifre Cerda, Project Space PLus, Lincoln

16th November, Alican Erkol, Nottingham Contemporary

16th November, States of America, Nottingham Contemporary

16th November, Documents, Alternative #1, Airspce Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

14th November, Gallery From Gallery As Studio, Project space Plus, Lincoln

10th November, Andrew Bracey, Isherwood Gallery, Wigan

10th November, The Edwardians, Manchester Art Gallery

10th November, The return of Memory, Home, Manchester

10th November, Brass Art, Chetham’s Library, Manchester

10th November, Digital Matters, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester

10th November, Abstraction and Art now, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, William Blake, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, Going Public - The Kirkland Collection, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, Ravilious & Co, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

3rd November, Film, Free & Easy Plays a Blinder, Primary, Nottingham

3rd November, (co)Here, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

3rd November, Lightseekers | Art as Life, Quad, Derby

2nd November, Cally Spooner, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London

2nd November, Commissions from Performa’s Archives, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London

2nd November, Leonor Antunes, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London

2nd November, ISelf Collection: The End of Love, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2nd November, Jasper Johns, Royal Academy, London

2nd November, Marilyn, Flowers, Lips, Gun, Mirror, Cactus, Orvodas, London

2nd November, Marcel Broodthaers, Hauser & Wirth, London

2nd November, Jack Whitten, Hauser & Wirth, London

2nd November, T J Wilcox, Sadie Coles, London

2nd November, Metafisica da Giardino, Nahmad Projects, London

2nd November, Gary Hume, Spruth Magers, London

2nd November, Sherrie Levine, David Zwirner, London

2nd November, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2nd November, Robert Longo, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2nd November, Reading di Chirico, Tornabuorni, London

2nd November, Tom Wesselmann, Gagosian, London

2nd November, Brice Marden, Gagosian, London

2nd November, John Akomfrah, Barbican, London

2nd November, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbican, London

29th October, Tom Dekyvere, Lincoln Castle

29th October, Assemble, Lincoln Cathedral

24th October, Daz Disley, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24th October, General Practice, LPAC, Lincoln

24th October, Jamie Shovlin, Superfi, Lincoln

24th October, Usher Young collective, Collection, Lincoln

24th October, Nicolas Canot & Gabriel-Marie Farey, Ruddocks, Lincoln

24th October, Sian Wright, Guildhall, Lincoln

24th October, Hetain Patel, Centra Market, Lincoln

24th October, Laurence Payot, Ruddocks, Lincoln

24th October, Scenoscme, St Swithans, Lincoln

24th October, Invisible Flock, Ruddocks,

24th October, Karl Ohri, Frequency, Lincoln

24th October, Andy Gracie, Postengate, Lincoln

24th October, Matt Humphries, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

23rd October, Serving Library, Exhibition Research lab, Liverpool

23rd October, There But Different, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool

22nd October, Roy Lichenstein, Tate Liverpool

22nd October, In the Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat, Liverpool

22nd October, Culture Shifts, Open Eye, Liverpool

21st October, Helmet Lemke, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Enlighten, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Owl Project, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Foreigners, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, 60/70, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Risham Sayed, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Neha Choksi, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Waqas Khan, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Mehreen Murtaza, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Hetain Patel, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Sooni Taraporevala, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Barbara Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Beyond Dementia, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Cozens and Cozens, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Cornelia Parker, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Beyond Borders, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Raqib Shaw, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Maeve Brennan, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, South Asian Modernists 1953-63, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Steve McQueen, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st October, Raqs Media Collective, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

6th October, Tennyson’s Wake, Methodist Chapel, Waddington

4th October, The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

3rd October, Caroline Wright, The Collection, Lincoln

23rd September, Jake Moore, The Collection, Lincoln

20th September, Michelle Forrest Beckett, x-Church, Gainsborough

14th September, MAtter, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

12th September, Daniel Richter, Camden Arts Centre, London

12th September, Jennifer Tee, Camden Arts Centre, London

12th September, Andy Holden & Peter Holden, Former Newington Library, London

12th September, Norman Ackroyd, Eames Fine Art, London

12th September, Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London

12th September, Marianna SImnett, Matt’s Gallery, London

12th September, Jean Dubuffet, Pace, London

12th September, Eileen Agar, Redfren Gallery, London

12th September, Conroy Maddox, Redfern Gallery, London

12th September, Julie Cockburn, Flowers Central, London

10th September, The New Observatory, Fact, Liverpool

10th September, Art at the Heart of the Bluecoat, Bluecoat, Liverpool

10th September, Abacus, Bluecoat, Liverpool

10th September, Coming Out, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2nd September, Ross Oliver, General Practice, Lincoln

31st August, Master of All Trades, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

31st August, Everything Flows, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

26th August, Flow, Kingston Art Group Gallery, Hull

26th August, States Of Play, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Dead Bod, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Jamie Reid, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Len Price, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Ferens: Hull's Philanthropist, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Masterpieces from the Royal Collection: Rembrandt The Shipbuilder and his Wife Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Nick Hunt, The Deep, Hull

26th August, Tania Kovats, The Deep and C4DI, Hull

25th August, Michael Pinsky, Hull’s Tidal Surge Barrier

25th August, Claire Morgan, Princess Quay, Hull

25th August, Richie Culver, Whitefriargate, Hull

24th August, Louisa Chambers, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

24th August, Star City, The Collection, Lincoln

15th August, Rob Britt, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

13th August, I want! I Want!, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

13th August, My Story, Our Journey, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

13th August, Sheela Gowda, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

13th August, Sidney Nolan, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

13th August, Matthew Pagett, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Claude Monet, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Only Light and Shadow, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, More Real Than Life, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Rachel Goodyear, The New Art Gallery Walsall

13th August, Soheila Sokhanvari, The New Art Gallery Walsall

13th August, Quentin Blake, The New Art Gallery Walsall

13th August, Promiscuous Collaboration, The New Art Gallery Walsall

13th August, Barbara Nicholls, The New Art Gallery Walsall

3rd August, Aphantasia, AND event Space, London

3rd August, John Latham, AND event Space, London

2nd August, Jimmy Robert, Peer, London

23rd July, Pierre Huyghe, Thomas Schutte, Skulptur Projekte Munster

22nd July, Tom Burr, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster

22nd July, Michael Asher, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Munster

22nd July, Nicole Eisenman, Rebecca Horn, Mika Rottenberg, Michael Smith Ayse Ekmen, Oscar Tuazon, Remy Zaugg, Laura Favaretto, Huang Yong Ping, Claus Oldenberg, Thomas Schutte, Hito Steyerl, Jorges Pardo, Ilya Kabakov, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ei Arakawa, Donald Judd, Rosemarie Trockel, Susan Phillpsz, Denni Adams, Koki Tanaka, John Knight, Nora Schultz, Michael Dean, Alexandra Pirci, Daniel Buren, Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Skulptur Projekte Munster

21st July, Jeremy Deller, Aram Barholl, Guntersdorfer/Klassen, Pelles Empire, Cosima Von Bonin & Tom Burr, Herve Youmbi, Dan Graham, Geroges Brecht, Herman de Vries, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sany, Ludger Gerdes, Andreas Bunte, Martin Boce, Richard Tuttle, Lothar Baumgarten, Nairy Baghramian, Silke Wagner, Justin Matherly, Skulptur Projekte Munster

20th July, Untern Unter Ground, Kafe Neu, Kassel

20th July, Buffet Tomago, Tokonoma Kassel

20th July, We & The Others, Warte Fur Kunst, , Kassel

20th July, Museum Fur Sepulkralkultur, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Grimmwelt Kassel, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Documenta Halle, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Naturkundemuseum Im Ottoneum, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Fridericianum, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Ehemaliger Unterirdischer Bahnhof, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Tofufabrik, Documenta, Kassel

20th July, Neue Neue Galerie, Documenta, Kassel

19th July, Neue Galerie, Documenta, Kassel

19th July, Palais Bellevue, Documenta, Kassel

18th July, Mardi Gras Requiem, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

11th July, Hope, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

8th July, Olivier Marc Thomas Leger, Harley Gallery, Wisbech

8th July, Harley Gallery Open, Wisbech

8th July, Artempo, Clumber Park

7th July, Richard Smith, Flowers Gallery, London

7th July, Ha Chong-Hyun, Almine Rech Gallery, London

7th July, Pablo Picasso, Gagosian, London

7th July, Since 1972, Cardi Gallery, London

7th July, Guy Mees, David Zwirner, London

7th July, Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, London

7th July, Joseph Beuys, Waddington Custot, London

7th July, Rothko, Cage, Turrell, Nahmad Projects, London

7th July, Painting on the Edge, Stephen Friedman, London

7th July, Channing Hansen, Stephen Friedman, London

7th July, Nathalie du Pasquier, Pace, London

7th July, Adrian Villar Rojas, Marian Goodman, London

7th July, Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman, London

7th July, Summer Breeze, Frith St Gallery, London

7th July, Gabriel Kuri, Sadie Coles, London

7th July, Ida Applebroog, Hauser & Wirth, London

7th July, Lee Lozano, Hauser and Wirth, London

7th July, Aleksandar Duravcevic, Ordovas, London

7th July, Philip Guston, Hauser and Wirth, London

7th July, Milton Avery, Victoria Miro, London

7th July, Berner Vanet, Blain Southern, London

6th July, Free Range, Old Trumans Brewery, London

6th July, Emanuel Almborg, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, Q&A: Artists in Conversation, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, Self Portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, Benedict Drew, Whitechapel Gallery London

4th July, Exhausted Academics, Nottingham Contemporary

4th July, Lara Favaretto, Nottingham Contemporary

4th July, Wu Tsang, Nottingham Contemporary

3rd July, Images of Research, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

1st July, Felicity Shum, the Collection, Lincoln

26th June, Joana Cifre Cerda, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24th June, Gemma Green, The Broadcaster, Waddington

24th June, Grennan and Sperandio, Waddington Village hall

23rd June, Ellen Brady, the Broadcaster, Wellingore

20th June, Lesbos and Syria, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, The Frua-Valsecchi collection, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, From Kabul to Kolkata, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Sampled Lives, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

19th June, Aid&Abet, Elan, Cambridge

19th June, Jem Finer, Supercomputer, Cambridge

18th June, Hidden From View: The 5th Duke of Portland’s Art Collection, Harley Gallery, Wisbech

18th June, Claire Curneen, Harley Gallery, Wisbech

12th June, Summer Show 2017, HCA, Hereford

7th June, Fractopia, General Practice, Lincoln

5th June, CLM MMXIV – MMXVII, Ruddocks, Lincoln

4th June, Barbara Hepworth, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Henry Moore , Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Gyorgy Gordon, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Disobedient Bodies, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Approaching Thunder, Hepworth, Wakefield

2nd June, The Bees Knees, Cambridge School of Art

27th May, Punctuated³, The Collection, Lincoln

26th May, Do Not Microwave, Art Building, Lincoln

25th May, BA Photography show, General Practice, Lincoln

24th May, Nox: Masking the Figure, General Practice, Lincoln

23rd May, Transporting the Past into the Future: Archaeology of the Lincoln Eastern Bypass, The Collection, Lincoln

21st May, John Latham, Serpentine Gallery, London

21st May, Speak, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

21st May, Chris Ofiii, National Gallery, London

21st May, Alberto Giacometti, Tate Modern, London

21st May, Mark Wallinger, St Paul’s Cathedral, London

14th May, Zak Ove, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, Anne Purkiss, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, (Re)Construct, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, Tony Cragg, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th May, Bernard Lavier, Kunstmuseum Luzern

10th May, Claudia Compte, Kunstmuseum Luzern

10th May, Von Früh bis Spät, Kunstmuseum Luzern

7th May, Fritz Glarner’s “Rockefeller Dining Room” revisited by Alfredo Häberli, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Marlow Moss, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Cerith Wyn Evans, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Andrew Bick, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, SPeak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zurich

7th May, Collection on Display: «Communities», Migros Museum, Zurich

7th May, Liz Magor, Migros Museum, Zurich

6th May, Damien Carbanes, Foundation Fernet-Branca, St Louis

6th May, Rachel Lumsden, Fondation Fernet-Branca, St Loius

30th April, Arttu Merimaa, Sinne, Helsinki

30th April, Ars17 Hello World!, Kiasma, Helsinki

30th April, Marcus Eek, Helsinki Contemporary

30th April, Juhana Moisander, Simo Ripatti and Nora Tapper, Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki

27th April, Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi, Finnish Salvation Army, Helsinki

27th April, Food Waste, Virka Gallery, Helsinki

27th April, Shawne Michaelain Holloway, Sorbus, Helsinki

27th April, Art Jewellery Tales, Venture Gallery, Helsinki

27th April, Elisa Heinonen, Gallery G 12, Helsinki

27th April, Tiina Vainio, Galleria Bronda, Helsinki

27th April, Maija Närhinen, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki

27th April, Pekka Niskanen and Robert Aeberhard, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki

22nd April, Secrets of the Soul, Freud Museum, London

22nd April, Paul Coldwell, Freud Museum, London

22nd April, Martine Syms, Camden Arts Centre, London

22nd April, Paul Johnson, Camden Art Centre, London

22nd April, Geta Brătescu, Camden Art Centre, London

21st April, Antonio R Montesinos, SCAN Project Room, London

21st April, Perverts, Cell Project Space, London

21st April, Elizabeth McAlpine, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

21st April, Christina Mackie, Herald St, London

21st April, Fugazi, Division of Labour, London

21st April, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, Maureen Paley, London

21st April, Concrete + Clay, Roaming Room, London

21st April, Collectors Choice II, Gimpel Fils, London

21st April, Tony Cragg, Holtermann Fine Art, London

21st April, The Ends of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, London

21st April, Double Take, Skarstedt Gallery, London

21st April, Lucio Fontana, M&L Fine Art, London

21st April, Jean Tinguely, Nahmad Projects, London

21st April, Colour, is, Waddington Custot, London

21st April, Peter Dreher, Mayor Gallery, London

21st April, Richard Tuttle, Pace, London

21st April, Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London

21st April, Sam Francis, Bernard Jacobson, London

21st April, Elif Uras, Pippy Houldsworth, London

21st April, Stefanie Heinze, Pippy Houldsworth, London

21st April, Sol Le Witt, Marian Goodman, London

21st April, Annette Messager, Marian Goodman, London

18th April, Megan Smith, Two Queens, Leicester

18th April, Viktor Timofeev, Two Queens, Leicester

18th April, No Copyright Infringement Intended, Phoenix, Leicester

17th April, Tom Hackett, The Collection, Lincoln

12th April, Ordinary Radar, General Practice, Lincoln

8th April, Ryan Martin, PS Mirabel, Manchester

8th April, Sharon Leahy Clark, Paper Gallery, Manchester

8th April, The Hum, Caustic Coastal, Manchester

8th April, Leo Fitzmaurice, Caustic Coastal, Manchester

8th April, John Akomfrah, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, New Sculpture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Deanna Petherbridge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Andy Warhol, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Sooni Taraporevala, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Barbara Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

5th April, Interotium, Interactive Design, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

31st March, Claire Baily and Ian Jackon, Losers Gym, Nottingham

31st March, Giorgio Saddoti, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

31st March, Strangers Not Allowed on These Works, Nottingham Castle

31st March, Matthew Darbyshire, Nottingham Castle

29th March, Postcard Exhibition, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

22nd March, Me, Myself and I, The Collection, Lincoln

22nd March, Lyndall Phelps, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, What Do I Need To DO To Make It OK?, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, 3D Printing: The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, Syann Van Niftrik, NCCD, Sleaford

18th March, The Place is Here, Nottingham Contemporary

18th March, Trevor Sutton, Class Room, Coventry

18th March, Jean Painlevé, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

18th March, Oliver Beer, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

13th March, ABBA, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

10th March, Nathan Coley, Paraffin, London

10th March, Richard Wilson, Annely Juda, London

10th March, Monochrome, Ordovas, London

10th March, Maria Lassnig, Hauser & Wirth, London

10th March, Elif Uras, Pippy Houldsworth, London

10th March, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Pippy Houldsworth, London

10th March, John Bock, Sadies HQ, London

10th March, The supreme rifts…a measured propinquity, Marian Goodman, London

10th March, Jaki Irvine, Frith Street, London

10th March, Park Seo-Bo, White Cube, London

10th March, Barabara Karsten, Thomas Dane, London

10th March, Anna Gallaccio, Thomas Dane, London

9th March, Speed Processing Slowly, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

4th March, Eye of the Artist, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Our Choice, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Annie O’Ne, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Garrett Phelan, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, Irish Art 1870-1970: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, The Way Home - Mid Twentieth Century Irish Works, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, Gut Instinct, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

1st March, John Hyatt, Home, Manchester

1st March, ...In Dart Times, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

1st March, Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Manchester Art Gallery

1st March, Wynford Dewhurst, Manchester Art Gallery

1st March, Suki Chan, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester

22nd February, New Art West Midlands 2017, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Connected Histories:Muslims in the First World War, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Birmingham Big Art project, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Roger Hiorns, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

11th February, A Contemporary Collection, Hepworth, Wakefield

11th February, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Hepworth, Wakefield

11th February, Anthea Hamilton Reimagines Kettles Yard, Hepworth, Wakefield

3rd February, James E Smith, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

1st February, Migrations, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Anne Gibbs, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Kate Haywood, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Journeys and Visions: Twentieth Century Artist Series, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Journeys between Art & Life: Richard Glynn Vivian, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Glenys Cour, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Lindset Seers, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

27th January, Opem, The Collection, Lincoln

27th January, Christopher Wiles, The Collection, Lincoln

25th January, Yellow Belly, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

20th January, John Baldessari, Marian Goodman, London

20th January, Condo, Sadie Coles HQ, London

20th January, Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London

20th January, Ken Price, Hauser & Wirth, London

20th January, Jennifer Guidi,Massimo de Carlo, London

20th January, In Pursuit of Caravaggio, Robilant+Voena, London

20th January, Josef Albers, David Zwirner, London

20th January, Sigmar Polke, Michael Werner Gallery, London

20th January, This Space is Occupied, Unit 1 Gallery, London

20th January, I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London

20th January, Painter’s Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London

13th January, Art is a Lie The Makes Us Realise Truth, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

6th January, In the Studio, Tate Modern, London

6th January, Wilfredo Lam, Tate Modern, London

6th January, Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern, London

6th January, William Kentridge, Whitechapel Gallery, London

6th January, Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London

6th January, Tameka Jenean Norris, Ronchini Gallery, London

6th January, Marcus Harvey, Vigo Gallery, London

6th January, John Currin, Sadie Coles HQ, London

6th January, Hugo Wilson, Parafin, London

6th January, Alan Davie, Gimpel Fils, London

6th January, Mai-Thu Perret, Simon Lee, London

6th January, Pat Steir, Dominique Levy, London

6th January, Thomas Ruff, David Zwirner, London

6th January, Rose Wylie, David Zwirner, London

6th January, Preface #1, Kamel Mennour, London

6th January, Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni Art, London

6th January, James Ensor, Royal Academy, London

6th January, Tom Pope, Grazelli Art House, London

6th January, Francesco Jodice, Gazelli Art House , London

6th January, Charlie Roberts, Malborough Contemporary, London

6th January, Catherine Goodman, Malborough Fine Art, London

6th January, Magnus Plessen, White Cube, London

6th January, Caragh Thuring, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

6th January, David Shrigley Fourth Plinth, London

6th January, Pablo Picasso: Print as an original art form, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

6th January, Vicken Parsons, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

6th January, Maíno’s Adorations: Heaven on Earth, National Gallery, London

6th January, Beyond Caravaggio, National Gallery, London

6th January, AnthonyGormley, National Portrait Gallery, London

6th January, Luc Tuymans, National Portrait Gallery, London

3rd January, Nicola Streeten, The Broadcaster, Waddington

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Top Ten Shows 2016

In 2016 I visited 495 exhibitions, this is my top ten (with an additional 10 that could easily have made the list).

1. 23rd April, Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection, Coulthard Gallery, London

Seeing an exhibition like this makes you realise how rarely it is that I have a truly transcendent and transformative visit to a gallery; I go to as many exhibitions as I do to have experiences such as this one. I had no real knowledge of Botticelli’s drawings before the exhibition and so this perhaps made the experience more intense and unexpected; he is clearly a genius, but not an artist I have given too much attention to in all honesty. The work in this show was so incredibly contemporary it could appear in the next Vitamin D edition and not look out of place other than to knock the other artist’s out of the water. Each exquisite drawing in Botticelli’s visual translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy transported me to a world far better than the one that we lived in during 2016; an exceptionally beautiful descent through purgatory to hell, as opposed to the contemporary world of Brexit, Syria and Trump.

2. 2nd November, Time is Out of Joint, La Galleria Mostra Nazionale, Rome

A masterclass lesson in how to curate; classical sculptures eyed modernist paintings; Duchamp’s bicycle wheel seemingly looked on with amazement at the artist’s decade earlier conservative painting, a vast table of plaster casts jumbled together like the busiest streets with labels feeling like lost property tags and most spectacularly and magically a Guiseppe Pennone’s vast canvas formed a backdrop of a mouth created from thorns for a huge classical sculpture, which in turned was reflected in the turquoise lusciousness of Pino Pascali’s floor work, flanked by Mondrian, Klein, et al. The title recalled Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but for me also the dystopian novel by Philip K Dick, which linked in subject to some of the works in the show, however, for me, this was the most utopian of group exhibitions in 2016, a veritable Eden of art. This was a tardis of an exhibition that kept giving whilst in the gallery and afterwards, being simultaneously surprising, fun, playful, intelligent, transportative, moving, profound, sincere and thought provoking. More of this ilk please (and an English translation of the catalogue also, per favore).

3. 1st August, Ragnar Kjartansson Barbican, London

An artist that I wish I was! I first came across Kjartansson’s work when he represented Iceland at the Venice Beinnale in 2009 and have looked out for and constantly been captivated by his work ever since. The exhibition felt like the greatest hits album of an artist who managed to squeeze in some well-loved B-sides among the hits, making you appreciate and be surprised even more. The highest accolade I can give to the artist and to this outstanding survey is that it is genuinely emotionally moving, something very hard to achieve by an artist and for me to feel, without being manipulated in a Hollywood manner. Swoon!

4. 15th January, Early Mondrian, David Zwirner, London

This was an exhibition that made me re-think and re-asses someone who I have studied and thought I knew well. I was aware of the early landscapes, but seeing them together and out of the context of his later work made me see and believe Mondrian was a radical well before de Stijl. The compositions in these small canvases was genuinely bizarre, in one a tree, central in the composition, fills half the canvas blocking the view that conventionally would be depicted and making the composition all the more intriguing and ‘telling’ about the environment. Mondrian’s grids and colour have now become embedded into culture, familiar to all, this exhibition of paintings, drawn together by Karsten Schubert, felt genuinely surprising, uplifting, baffling, truthful, visually intelligent and above all wonderfully odd, more so in light of the familiarity of the modernist paintings that came later.

5. 28th April, HIlma af Klint, Serpentine Gallery, London

If I was encountering the work in this exhibition for the first time then it would be number one in my list; the work of af Klint is stupendous, magical and transportative, taking me to another place. The Serpentine is an ideal venue to see her work, the layout and architecture amplifying the qualities inherent in the paintings, increasing their potency. However for me, I did not learn too much more about them than when I saw them a couple of years ago in Berlin in the way I did with the work of the artists in the exhibitions above this one in the list. In other words this is my top exhibition of the year if it had occurred five years ago and I was encountering the work for the first time, art to fall in love to and with.

6. 23rd April, Channa Horwitz, Raven Row, London

Beautiful work, beautifully installed. Horowitz came across as a complete artist, where the conceptual, intellectual, aesthetic and receptive qualities all came together in a perfect art marriage. Raven Row was a superb venue for the work, the switch between the larger spaces downstairs and the smaller intimate, domestic spaces above allowed you to see different qualities in the work, or perhaps rather that you entered a different state of mind in order to experience the work. An exhibition and an artist that I do not think I could tire of, the two visits to the show was not anything like enough.

7. 27th December, Maurizio Cattelan, Monnaie de Paris, Paris

What to say? I am not sure as I write this, other than to say the architecture in a venue full of Parisian pomp and opulence was a perfect counterpoint to Cattelan’s work, adding new layers of meaning to the work. The end of ‘Him’ felt like the perfect conlusion, something that had been built up to through the show, which was then returned to through necessity by the entrance being the same as the exit. The demeanour of the prayer of the Fuhrer had the paradoxical humility, but also felt appropriately inhuman in the small room. The most telling aspect was the draw the work or perhaps Hitler had to a small girl, someone unaware of the evilness of the man, but something that seemed to captivate her for several minute as she sat in the corner staring at him. I wish I could have had access to her thoughts.

8. 25th August, Malerei 2.0, Mumok, Vienna

An opportunity to revel in painting; the sumptuousness of David Reed’s exquisite work, the surprise of an early oil painting and canvas by Daniel Buren, Kippenberger’s stupendous skip of trashed canvases, Laura Owen’s, intoxicating multi-contextual collaged rhapsodies in paint, the list could go on. The moment that tipped this show (well actually an adjunct display to the exhibition) into a truly memorable one was the incorporation of a vast room reconfigured as a gallery store; racks of paintings creating a labyrinth-esque journey through the front and backs of a vast array of canvases, masterpieces mixed with forgotten great artists of yesteryear, with contemporary painters, with modernist has-beens. The whole installation was perhaps greater than the elements; a curatorial conceit it may have been, but a truly magnificent one.

9. 14th February, Lothar Gotz/Duncan Grant, The Collection, Lincoln

Duncan Grant’s somewhat hidden mural that occupies a side room in Lincoln cathedral is perhaps becoming more recognised as a result of this exhibition a little downhill at the Collection, thanks to Lothar Gotz and curator, Ashley Gallant. I must admit I am not a particular fan of Grant, they appear a little cliché and chocolate box to my untrained eyes, the story of the man far more interesting than his works. However the MDF one-to-one scale recreation of the chapel in the museum transformed both the gallery space and the cathedral into something else, to my mind something intoxicating thanks to Gotz’s vibrant, alternative re-imagining of the mural. The drawings in the gallery around shimmered, if I was religious I could imagine the transcendent potential of them into a contemporary, abstracted version of the halo. This was the exhibition I visited the most this year, seven times, I hope it tours somewhere as hinted so I can see again in a new venue.

10. 28th December, Cy Twombly, Centre Pompidou, Paris

I missed Twombly’s retrospective a few years ago at Tate Modern, so this opportunity to see so many in one space was too an opportunity to miss. A master of composition, these are paintings that look easy, knocked off almost casually. Like so many things that appear simple, this is simply not the case; these are paintings that have been hard won and are infinitely complex. To create something that is so balanced, whilst having so much content must have been hard to achieve. An artist that started his career with paintings that most artists could only hope to ever conceive making and, through a career that continually refined and developed, moved on to create later works in his old age that are truly astonishing. The Pompidou show gently guided you through a staggering body of work, without feeling overwhelmed or tired, in fact quite the opposite. For me, it made me wonder, I wonder if I gave something new a go, could I make a radical jump with the work I do?

Ten honourable mentions of exhibitions I cannot believe are in the top ten (in no particular order)

27th July, Making and Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London

22nd March, James Coleman, Marian Goodman, London

28th July, Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London

18th March, Simon Starling, Backlit and Nottingham Contemporary

22nd March, Mark Wallinger, Hauser and Wirth, London

6th May, Plasters: Casts and Copies, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Dan Flavin, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

29th June, Francis Alÿs, David Zwirner Gallery, London

24th August, Beton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

30th July, Mary Heilmann, Whitechapel gallery, London

Exhibitions Visited in 2016 part 2

28th December, Mirceau Cantor, Brancusi Studio, Paris

28th December, Jean-Luc Moulène, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Polyphonies, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Art and Liberty, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Politiques de l'art, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Cy Twombly, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Frédéric Bazille, Musee D’Orsay, Paris

28th December, Spectaculaire Second Empire, 1852-1870, Musee D’Orsay, Paris

27th December, Benjamin Katz, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Eva & Adele, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Bernard Buffet, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Carl Andre, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Duy Anh Nhan Duc, Bettina Gallery, Paris

27th December, Maurizio Cattelan, Monnaie de Paris, Paris

14th December, CiIla Eisner, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

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13th December, Monica Bonvicini, Baltic, Gateshead

13th December, Amanda Beech, Baltic, Gateshead

13th December, Deimantas Narkevičius, Baltic, Gateshead

13th December, Richard Hobson, Laing Gallery, Newcastle

13th December, Rosie Morris, Laing Gallery, Newcastle

10th December, Otobong Nkanga, Nottingham Contemporary

10th December, Marguerite Humeau, Nottingham Contemporary

10th December, Nottingham Castle Open

10th December, Alice Gale Feeney, Nottingham Castle

10th December, S Mark Gubb, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

9th December, Response, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

3rd December, Louisa Chambers, Gallery No 1, Repton

2nd December, Midpointness, Airspace Gallery, Stoke

30th November, Reflections on the Air War, Projet Space Plus, Lincoln

9th November, Slowly I Found My Way In, The Collection, Lincoln

3rd November, Chiesa di san Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

3rd November, Angelo Marinelli, Quasi Altrove, Rome

3rd November, Sergio Lombardo, 1/9unosunove, Rome

3rd November, P D Athanas, Evasioni Art Studio, Rome

3rd November, Marco Giordano, Frutta, Rome

3rd November, Jannis Kounellis, Gavin Brown Enterprise, Rome

3rd November, Adriana Vanejáro, Gagosian Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Kiki Smith & Betty Woodman, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome

3rd November, Brunos Aller, Honos Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Una Visiona Italiana, Montoro 12 Contemporary Art, Rome

3rd November, Tris Vonna Michell, T293, Rome

3rd November, Giovanni Kronenberg, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Pernament Collection, Galleria Doria Pamphilij, Rome

3rd November, Chiesa San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome

3rd November, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

2nd November, Quadrennial di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

2nd November, Camille Henrot, Fondanzione Memmo, Rome

2nd November, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

2nd November, The Independant: Base, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, Shahzia Sikander, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, MAXXI Collection, MAXXI, , Rome

2nd November, Premio MAXXI 2016, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, The Lasting, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome

1st November, Permanent Collection, Gallerie Borghese, Rome

1st November, Roma Anni Trenta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Roma

1st November, Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Roma

31st October, Permanent Collection, Vatican Museum, Rome

28th October, Phillippe Parreno, Tate Modern, London

28th October, Laura Owens, Sadie Coles HQ, London

28th October, Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London

27th October, Anya Gallaccio, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, New Sculpture, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, Idris Khan, Whitworth, Manchester

23rd October, Mary Martin Thomas, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Editions and Objects, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, David Shrigley, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Kaws, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Not Vital,Yorkshire Sculpture Park

21st October, Dinh Q. Lê, Site Gallery, Sheffield

21st October, Tom Beesley, Bloc, Sheffield

17th October, On Display, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

17th October, A Beautiful Disorder, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

17th October, A Beautiful Disorder - Maquette Exhibition, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

16th October, The National or the Skip, Averard Hotel, London

16th October, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Serpentine Gallery, London

16th October, Helen Marten, Serpentine Sackler, Gallery, London

15th October, Cilla Eisner, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

4th October, ESP, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

30th September, Here and Now, NCCD, Sleaford

30th September, Class of 2016, NCCD, Sleaford

29th September, BP Portrait Award, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

29th September, Inspired By, The Collection, Lincoln

29th September, Euan Uglow/Sargy Mann, The Collection, Lincoln

27th September, Phil Cosker, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

22nd September, Some People Can Dream Even If They Are Not Sleeping, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

22nd September, The Art of Drawing, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

22nd September, Craft Open West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

22nd September, Dorothy Cross, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

18th September, Phil Cosker, All Saints, Branston and Holy Cross, Scopwick

17th September, Phil Cosker, X-Church, Gainsborough

16th September, David Batchelor, Handel Street Projects, London

16th September, David Korty, Sadie Coles HQ, London

16th September, Streams of Warm Impermanence, DRAF, London

16th September, Richard Serra, Gagosian Gallery, London

16th September, The Infinite Mix, The Store, London

16th September, Giuseppe Penonne, Marian Goodman, London

16th September, Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London

16th September, Uri Aran, Sadie Coles HQ, London

16th September, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carrol/Fletcher, London

16th September, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Carroll/Fletcher, London

16th September, Dorothea Tanning, Alison Jacques, London

16th September, Kes Richardson, Fold Gallery, London

16th September, Concrete Inspirations, Arup Gallery, London

16th September, Ed Herring and Roger Palmer, Richard Saltoun Gallery London

15th September, Constellations, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Francis Bacon, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Maria Lassnig, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, The Oratory, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, ABC Cinema, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Bluecoat, Liverpool

15th September, New Contemporaries, Bluecoat, Liverpool

15th September, Mark Leckey, The Walker, Liverpool

15th September, John Moores Painting Prize, The Walker, Liverpool

15th September, Associate Artists, India House, Liverpool

15th September, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FACT, Liverpool

15th September, Lucy Beech, FACT, Liverpool

15th September, Mark Leckey, Blade Factory, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Cains Brewery, Liverpool

10th September, Felicity Shum, The Collection, Lincoln

9th September, &, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2nd September, Tales of the City, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, Buried Treasure, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, All the World’s Stage, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, Curious Beauty, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

1st September, Nature’s Ape, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

28th August, Conceptual Art in Britain, 164-1979, Tate Britain, London

28th August, Pablo Bronstein, Tate Britain, London

27th August, Albertina Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Aldo Giannotti, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Landscapes and People, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Jim Dine, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Monet to Picasso, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, From Alexandria to Abu SimbelEgypt in early photographs 1849–1875, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

26th August, Merchant Favoured by the Emperor, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

26th August Mario Garcia Torres, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

26th August 45 Years, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

26th August Plamen Dejanoff, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna

26th August Alois Mosbacher, Art Box, Vienna

26th August, RTL LTR, Art Mark Galerie, Vienna

26th August, Joana Vasconselos, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Tony Cragg, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Javier Perez, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Jessica Stockholder, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

26th August, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

26th August, Oswald Oberhuber, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

26th August, Helnwein and Hundertwasser , Baha Fine Art, Vienna

26th August, Gottfried Helnwein, Baha Fine Art, Vienna

26th August, Borjana Ventzislavova, Backer Strasse, Vienna

26th August, Ajnhajtclub, Frei raum Q21, Vienna

26th August, Vienna 1900, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Egon Schiele, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Theodor von Hörmann, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Valerio Adami, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Manon de Boer, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Vincent Fecteau, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Gustav Klimt - Beethoven Frieze, Secession, Vienna

25th August, Pakui Hardware, Mumok, Vienna

25th August, We Pioneers:Trailblazers of Postwar ModernismMumok, Vienna

25th August, Malarei 2.0, Mumok, Vienna

25th August, Elizabeth Grubl, Eikon Schaufenster, Vienna

25th August, Ina Loitzl, ASIFA, Vienna

25th August, Roland Maurmair, Schauraum, Vienna

25th August, Wolfgang Homola, Typopassage, Vienna

25th August, Anthony Lister, MQ forecourt, Vienna

25th August, Mariel Rodríguez, Artistic Bokeh, Vienna

25th August, Summer in the City, Station Rose, Vienna

25th August, Urban Memories, Jan Arnold, Vienna

25th August, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

25th August, Julian Opie, Krobath, Vienna

25th August, Ron Mueck, Theseus Tempel, Vienna

25th August, James Lewis, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna

25th August, I ’air du temps, Kerstin Engholm, Vienna

25th August, Michael Riedel, Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna

25th August, Fabian Seiz, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna

25th August, Tim Plamper, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna

25th August, Summer in the City, Gabriele Fulterer + Christine Scherrer, Vienna

25th August, Peter Baum, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Retrospect: Kinetika 1967, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, 21 er Pavillion 2016, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Cornelius Kolig, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, The Language of Things, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Ai Wei Wei, 21 er Haus, Vienna

24th August, Rachel Whiteread, Judenplatz, Vienna

24th August, Celebration, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

24th August, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

24th August, Beton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

19th August, Martin Creed, Hauser and Wirth, Bruton

3rd August, Sarking, Project Space Plus Lincoln

1st August, Ragnar Kjartansson Barbican, London

]31st July, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Flat Time House, London

31st July, Bummock: Attention/Detail, hARTslane Gallery, London

30th July Margo Wolowiec, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

30th July NIck Relph, Herald St, London

30th July Planned Obsolescencence, The Ryder, London

30th July Wolfgang Tillmans, Maureen Paley, London

30th July Being There, Vilma Gold, London

30th July Brian Griffiths, Vilma Gold, London

30th July, Miami Vice, Transition Gallery, London

30th July, Barjeel Art Foundation Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Edwina Ashton, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Keith Sonnier, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Mary Heilmann, Whitechapel gallery, London

29th July, Materials and Objects, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Living Cities, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Performer and Participant, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Between Object adn Architecture, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Wen Ying Tsai, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Start Display, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Active Sculpture, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Artist and Society, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Bhupen Khakhar, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Mona Hatum, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Thierry Madiot plays Tarek Atoui, Tate Modern, London

28th July, Matthew Stone, Somerset House, London

28th July, Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London

27th July, Making and Unmkaing, Camden Arts Centre, London

27th July, Hiraki Sawa, Parafin, London

27th July, Continium, Vigo Gallery, London

27th July, Richard Höglund, Ronchini Gallery, London

27th July, Painting as Neo Avant Garde, Jerome Zodo Gallery, London

27th July, David Hockney, Annely Juda Gallery, London

27th July, Anthony Caro, Annely Juda Gallery, London

27th July, Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

27th July, Carlo Carrà, Blain/Southern, London

27th July, Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven, Pilar Corrias, London

27th July, Parastou Forouhar, Pi Artworks, London

27th July, Joshua Citarella, Carroll/Fletcher, London

27th July, Eva and Franco Mattes, Carroll/Fletcher, London

27th July, Gallery Artists, Art First Projects, London

27th July, Alexandra Haynes, Art First, London

27th July, Lygia Clark, Alison Jacques Gallery, London

27th July, Summer Show, Riflemaker, London

27th July, The World is Yours as Well as Ours, White Cube, Gallery, London

27th July, Group Show, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London

27th July, The Edge of Printing, Royal Academy, London

27th July, Ron Arad, Royal Academy, London

27th July, Jelena Tomasevic, Handel St Projects, London

22nd July, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 130 Years, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Inspire 16: The Young Creatives of Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Faith in Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Art in Crisis, Bom, Birmingham

22nd July, Laura Oldfield Ford, Grand Union, Birmingham

22nd July, Pamela Scott Wilkie, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Patrick Killoran, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Jesse Bruton, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Kan Xuan, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

21st July, Zheng Haozhong, CFCCA, Manchester

21st July, Yu Chen-Wang CFCCA, Manchester

21st July, Stanley Chow, CFCCA, Manchester

21st July, The Gardener Digs in Another Time, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Portraits, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Visions of the Front 1916-18, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Wallpaper, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Tibor Reich, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Nico Vascellari, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Anya Gallaccio, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Behind The Sun, HOME, Manchester

21st July, Louise Giovanelli, International3, Manchester

21st July, Capturing Science: Images Past and Present, John Rylands Library, Manchester

21st July, Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World, John Rylands Library, Manchester

20th July, Ruth Levene and Ian Nesbitt, Bloc, Sheffield

20th July, Made in Sheffield, Millnelium Galleries, Sheffield

20th July, Shaped from the Earth – Sheffield Ceramics, Millnelium Galleries, Sheffield

15th July, Michael Buelter, Nottingham Contemporary

15th July, Yelena Popova, Nottingham Contemporary

10th July, Cornelia Parker, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

10th July, Itinerant Mind, The Collection, Lincoln

10th July, A Question of Guilt, The Collection, Lincoln

8th July, The Wild, Summer Lodge, Nottingham

7th July, Raqs Media Collective, Gynamsium Projects, Lincoln

7th July, Dissonance, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

7th July, Hurvin Anderson, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

6th July, Playground, Site Gallery, Sheffield

6th July, Northern Light, SIA Gallery, Sheffield

2nd July, Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Welcome: Patforma South East, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Sidney Thomas Cooper, The Beaney Canterbury

2nd July, taking The Line For a Walk, The Beaney Canterbury

2nd July, Prescriptions, The Beaney Canterbury

1st July, Angel Harding & Wuon-Gean Ho , Leicester Print Workshop

1st July, Michelle Keegan, Leicester Print Workshop

1st July, Picasso Ceramics, New Walk Museum, Leicester

1st July, German Expressionism, New Walk Museum, Leicester

29th June, George Shaw, National Gallery, London

29th June, Nairy Baghramian, Marian Goodman Gallery, London

29th June, Joseph Grigely, Marian Goodman Gallery, London

29th June, Massimo Bartolini, Frith St Gallery, London

29th June, Raymond Pettibon, Sadie Coles HQ, London

29th June, Louise Nevelson PACE Gallery, London

29th June, Joby Williamson, Pippy Houldworth Gallery, London

29th June, Ayan Farah, Pippy Houldworth Gallery, London

29th June, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Sprovieri Gallery, London

29th June, Guillermo Kuitca, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London

29th June, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London

29th June, NOT VITAL, Ordovas Gallery, London

29th June, Jim Hodges, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

29th June, Gego, Dominique Levy Gallery, London

29th June, Francis Alÿs, David Zwirner Gallery, London

29th June, David Hammons and Mike Kelley, Simon Lee Gallery, London

29th June, Bas Jan Ader, Simon Lee Gallery, London

29th June, Bjarke ingels Pavillion, Serpentine Gallery, London

29th June, Alex Katz, Serpentine Gallery, London

29th June, Etel Adnan, Serpentine Gallery, London

22nd June, Gerard Williams & Danica Maier, Broadcaster, Waddington

21st June, The Sound of Silence, Nottingham Castle

21st June, Arnesby Brown, Nottingham Castle

21st June,Gordon Cheung, Nottingham Castle

17th June,Assemble and Simon Terrill, S1 Art Space, Sheffield

17th June, Rob Flint, Bloc Billboard, Sheffield

16th June, Pukka, Cosmic, Stoke on Trent

16th June, Unity, Stafffordshire University, Stoke on Trent

16th June, Sam Treadaway, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent

13th June, Images of Research, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

7th June, Brueghel and his Time, Fitzwilliam Museum and gallery, Cambridge

7th June, Celebrating the First 200 Years, Fitzwilliam Museum and gallery, Cambridge

7th June, 1816: Prints by Turner, Goya and Cornelius, Fitzwilliam Museum and gallery, Cambridge

7th June, Being Modern: Kettle's Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and gallery, Cambridge

4th June, Production Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

4th June, Kathrin Böhm, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

4th June, Chloe Ashley, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

4th June, Birmingham People and Change in the Inner-City, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

4th June, Turning to See: From Van Dyck to Lucian Freud, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

4th June, Dan Flavin, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

3rd June, Electric Eye, Cambridge school of Art

2nd June, If Not Now, When?, Bonnington Building, Nottingham

2nd June, XYZ, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

1st June, Jewellery and Object, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

1st June, Creative Advertising Degree Show, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

1st June, Illustration Degree Show, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

1st June, Show Sixteen, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

1st June, Resolution, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

27th May, Apex, project Space Plus, Lincoln

14th May, Title, The Collection, Lincoln

14th May, Heroes, Ruddocks, Lincoln

13th May, Becky Fawcett, 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

13th May, The Other Mountain – Contemporary Chinese Jewellery, 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

13th May, Paul Crook, 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

13th May, To Draw is to Be Human, 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

13th May, Liz West, 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

13th May, Precious Little Gems, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

12th May, John Newling, Syson, Nottingham

12th May, Publishing Rooms, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

11th May, Life On Mars, Brayford Pool, Lincoln

9th May, I Can't Give Everything Away, Brewhaus, Lincoln

9th May, We Prick You, The Outhouse, Lincoln

7th May, University of Lincoln Drama BA: Site-Specific Performances, The Collection/Usher Gallery, Lincoln

7th May, David Amos, The Collection, Lincoln

7th May, The Lincolnshire Artists' Society Anniversary Exhibition, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

6th May, A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

6th May, Wayfaring, &Model, Leeds

6th May, Yorkshire: Hepworth, Moore and the Landscape, Hepworth, Wakefield

6th May, My Secret Wakefield, Hepworth, Wakefield

6th May, Tim Sayer Bequest, Hepworth, Wakefield

6th May, Martin Parr, Hepworth, Wakefield

6th May, Plasters, Casts and Copies, Hepworth, Wakefield

1st May, Ridges and Furrows, The Natural World Centre, Whisby

28th April, HIlma af Klint, Serpentine Gallery, London

28th April, Das Institut, Serpentine Sackler, London

28th April, Tomma Abts, Greengrassi, London

28th April, Glenn Sorensen, Corvi Mora, London

28th April, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Gasworks Gallery, London

26th April, Marie Angeletti, Arundel Gate Court Gallery, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Paul Sietsema, Biggins Brothers, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Pat Hearn and Shelley Lake, Dina, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Charles Atlas, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Scratch Video, 156 Arundel Street, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Beatrice Gibson, Bloc Projects, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Michel Auder, S1 Artspace, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Mark Fell, The Link Pub, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Hannah Sawtell, Site Gallery, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Richard Sides, 121 Eyre St, Arts Sheffield

26th April, Steven Claydon, Moore Stree, Arts Sheffield

23rd April, james Lund, Whitechapel gallery, London

23rd April, Harun Farocki, Whitechapel gallery, London

23rd April, Imprint 93, Whitechapel gallery, London

23rd April, Channa Horwitz, Raven Row, London

23rd April, Imran Qureshi, Barbican, London

23rd April, Bruegel in Black & White, Coulthard Gallery, London

23rd April, Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection, Coulthard Gallery, London

23rd April, Hans Haacke, 4th Plinth, London

23rd April, Dutch Flowers, National Gallery, London

23rd April, Avedon Warhol, Gagosian, London

14th April, Sunscreen, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

14th April, Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

12th April, Raqs Media Collective, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

7th April, Home Lab, 56 Arboretum Avenue, Lincoln

31st March, Gerard Williams, The Broadcaster, Waddington

25th March, The Portland Miniatures, Harley Gallery, Worksop

25th March, Rose, English, Harley Gallery, Worksop

25th March, Peter Blake, Harley Gallery, Worksop

22nd March, Michael Joo, Blain/Southern, London

22nd March, Chantel Joffe, Victoria Miro, London

22nd March, Eduardo Chillida, Ordovas, London

22nd March, Mark Wallinger, Hauser and Wirth, London

22nd March, Djordje Ozbolt, Herald St Gallery, London

22nd March, Stephen Claydon, Sadie Coles, London

22nd March, Anna Barriball, Frith St Gallery, London

22nd March, James Coleman, Marian Goodman, London

22nd March, Barry Flanagan Waddington Custot Gallery, London

22nd March, Wang Guangle, Pace Gallery, London

22nd March, Joe Tilson, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

22nd March, Paul Winstanley, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

22nd March, Francesco Arena, Sprovieri, London

22nd March, Rachel Goodyear, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

22nd March, Dropping the Guru, PIppy Houldsworth Gallery, London

22nd March, Alberto Giacometti, Luxembourg and Dayan, London

22nd March, Piero Manzoni, Mazzoleni, London

22nd March, Sterling Ruby, Spruth Magers, London

22nd March, So I Turned Myself to Face Me, Malborough Contemporary, London

22nd March, Joe Tilson, Malborough Contemporary, London

22nd March, Jac Leirner, White Cube, London

22nd March, Betty woodman, ICA, London

22nd March, Jeff McMillan, Handel St Projects, London

19 March, NK Arts, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

18th March, Wayne Burrows, Nottingham Contemporary

18th March, Simon Starling, Nottingham Contemporary

18th March, Simon Starling, Backlit, Nottingham

18th March, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

16th March, Postcard Exhibition, Project Space Plus, lincoln

10th March, De/Structured, Backlit, Nottingham

10th March, Imprints of Culture, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

10th March, Appertisers, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham

10th March, Now for Tomorrow II, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham

8th March, Research and Practice, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

4th March, Drawn From Life: People On Paper, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

3rd March, In the Making: Ruskin, Creativity and Craftsmanship, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

3rd March, Godfrey Sykes, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

3rd March, The Age of Abstraction: Women Artists, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

3rd March, Bridget Riley, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

27th February, David McSherry, the Collection, lincoln

27th February, Marc Renshaw, the Collection, lincoln

24th February, Olga Jevrić, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

15th February, The Alternative Document, Project Space Plus, lincoln

14th February, The Anatomy of Objects, The Collection, Lincoln

14th February, Lothar Gotz/Duncan Grant, The Collection, Lincoln

12th February, Darren Bader, Sadie Coles, London

12th February, Chritiania Soulou, Sadie Coles, London

12th February, Oliver Payne, Herald St, London

12th February, Bridget Smith, Frith St Gallery, London

12th February, Yuken Teruya, Pippy Holdsworth, London

12th February, Gavin Turk, Pippy Holdsworth, London

12th February, The Calder Prize, Pace Gallery, London

12th February, Premiums: Interim Projecs 2016, Royal Academy, London

12th February, Group Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

12th February, Pack Seo-Bo, White Cube, London

12th February, Alexander Da Cunha, Thomas Dane, London

12th February, Lari Pittman, Thomas Dane, London

12th February, Miro’s Studio, Mayoral, London

12th February, We Land, Repetto Gallery, London

12th February, Tom Wesselmann, David Zwirner, London

12th February, Ed and Nancy Keinholz, Spruth Magers, London

12th February, Harmony Korine, Gagosian, London

12th February, Albery Ohelen, Gagosian, London

12th February, A R Penck, Michael Werner, London

12th February, Michael Craig Martin, Serpentine Gallery, London

12th February, Simon Denny, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

5th february, The First Humans, Plymouth Arts Centre

1st February, Emma Neuberg, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art

1st February, Soil Culture: Deep Roots, Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth

23rd January, Rebecca Lee and Belén Cerezo, Belton House, Belton

15th January, The Names, Transition Gallery, London

15th January, Bruegel, Not Bruegel, The Courtauld Gallery, London

15th January, Bridget Riley, The Courtauld Gallery, London

15th January, Peter Lanyon, The Courtauld Gallery, London

15th January, Elizabeth Peyton, Sadie Coles, London

15th January, Gary Simmons, Simon Lee Gallery, London

15th January, Early Mondrian, David Zwirner, London

15th January, Raoul De Keyser, David Zwirner, London

15th January, Hoyland, Caro, Noland, Pace Gallery, London

15th January, Claire Barclay, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

15th January, Wayne Gonzales, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

15th January, Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London

15th January, Fabio Mauri, Hauser & Wirth, London

15th January, Rachel Goodyear, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

15th January, Alina Szapocznikow, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

15th January, Clem Crosby, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

15th January, Sculpture 4Tet, Marian Goodman Gallery, London

15th January, Anne de Vries, Cell Project Space, London

15th January, Danai Anesiadou, Wilkinson Gallery, London

15th January, Sung Hwan Kim, Wilkinson Gallery, London

15th January, Tightrope Walk, White Cube Bermondsey, London

15th January, Gilbert & George, White Cube Bermondsey, London

12th January, Micromegas, Project Space Plus, lincoln

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Exhibitions visited in 2015

This year I visited 197 exhibitions, this is my top ten of the year.

1. Agnes Martin, Tate Modern, London

An exhibition to make you stop, look, think, re-think, pause, contemplate, re-imagine, focus, let go, free yourself and so much more. So much more than almost everything else created recently appears able to do somehow. Serious, serious art.

2. Frank Auerbach, Tate Britain, London

How to fall back in love with a painter. I can clearly remember seeing my first Auerbach in the flesh on a school trip to the Tate, allowing something reproduction can never replicate, true experiential power. Over the year he somehow became an ‘A-level’ artist in my head, which over the last year has been re-awakened mainly because of encountering an exquisite small painting in Sheffield with my friend Lee HassalL and by reading Catherine Lampert’s fabulous book on sitting for Auerbach. This show was rich in a way that was a feast for the eyes and impossible for words to encapsulate. Thoughts raced from the eyes to the brain and quickly were replaced by new ones or conversely a time and space was opened up for the eyes to overpower the brain and a little like the experience of the Agnes Martin retrospective allow slowed down contemplation. If anything there as too much here to be able to contemplate with any proper respect.

3. Lynda Benglis, The Hepworth, Wakefield

A show that pulsed with pleasure and enjoyment; intellectually and materiality rich. The curatorial journey through different bodies of work mimicking the geographical spread of Benglis’ studios worked superbly well. Nothing captured me more than the tension and impossibility of a join of paper mache in on of her wall sculptures all year. I could have stared and explored that for hours.

4. Glenn Ligon- Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary

A very smart show indeed, again confirming the brilliance of an artist curated group show, which allowed the works of diverse artists to be brought together in surprising and purposeful ways and most of all to allow the work to breath with imagination and thought. I went with my son and I hope I never forget the joy of turning around and finding him lying on the floor fascinated by Beuys interacting with a coyote and the conversation that resulted.

5. Gerard Williams, Handel Street Project, London

A show that rewarded looking and a real pleasure to see such a strong show by a friend. Seemingly simple work, that was anything but. Beautifully crafted works, created from exquisite and surprising selection of details of foreign currency peeping through peepholes in the encasing constructed of marine plywood. The installation of the work was a masterclass in how work can be further lifted by precision and care.

6. Michael Borremans, David Zwirner Gallery, London

An artist that keeps on giving, his painting never fail to send excitement in my heart and veins. Dramatically installed with spot lit paintings hanging on black walls, in the hands of most artists this theatricality would over power the work, here it only helped the work unravel and let the eye wander of Borremans imagination.

7. George Shaw, Wilkinson, London

George Shaw has long been an artist of interest to me since seeing his work in the John Moores as a student. The intrigue fo this show was the counter play between the 2 floors. On the upper floor were his usual meticulous enamel paintings of the housing estate of his childhood, revealing an artist at the top of his game and also the pricking of déjà vu through the surprising incorporation of puzzling elements in to the composition which played with the authenticity of photography and played more into elements of memory or imagination. Downstairs was the revelation though, here the painting which falsely felt like monochromes opened up a space that was even more desolate and interesting.

8. Love is Enough, Birmingham Museum and gallery

Andy Warhol and William Morris are perhaps unlikely bedfellows, but in the hands of Jeremy Deller they had much to link, both politically, ideologically and aesthetically. Brass bands and Acid house; Pop art and Arts and Crafts.

9. Daksha Patel, John Rylands Library, Manchester

I have seen several shows in the John Rylands and all have suffered from the magnificence of the architecture and ambience of this (my favorite Manchester) building. Daksha Patel’s beautiful renderings of the puzzling reality of what science and medicine reveals our bodies to be constructed of in her delicate drawings were a joy and revelation to behold.

10. Paul Neagu, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Like most of the exhibitions on this list, the Neagu show was one I wish I had longer to have spent with; the work for me conjured far more than anything in the British Art Show next door. I know I did not spend long enough to give the work the justice it deserved, only scratched the surface, but few shows have lived on in my mind as much as this one. I had not encountered the work of the artist before and this show, as ever exquisitely mounted by the Henry Moore institute, was a superb introduction. An artist I look forward to finding and discovering more about.

23rd December, In the Frame, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery

23rd December. Gerhard Richter, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery

10th December, Des Hughes, The Hepworth, Wakefield

10th December, Hepworth in Yorkshire, The Hepworth, Wakefield

10th December, Gertrude Hermes, The Hepworth, Wakefield

10th December, Enrico David, The Hepworth, Wakefield

10th December, Bob and Roberta Smith, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th December, Jonny Hannah, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th December, Bill Viola, Yorkshire Sculpture park

1st November, The Borrowers:Part One, The Tetley, Leeds

1st November, The Feast Wagon, The Tetley, Leeds

1st November, Jem Finer, The Tetley, Leeds

1st November, British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery

1st November, Object Lessons, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

1st November, Paul Neagu, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

27th October, Illuminos, Posterngate, Lincoln

27th October, The Stan Project, Drill Hall, Lincoln

27th October, Squidsoup, Waterside, Lincoln

27th October, Seeper, Lincoln, Castle, Lincoln

27th October, Louise Orwin, The Collection, Lincoln

27th October, Freedom Lies, The Collection & The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

27th October, Francesco Proto, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, The Office for Creative Research, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, Shun Ito, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, Joana White, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, Nick Driftwood, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, Co_Lab, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

27th October, Michelle Walsh and Hazel Donnelly, St Mary Le Wigford, Lincoln

24th October, Subodh Gupta, V&A, London

24th October, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Britain, London

24th October, Frank Auerbach, Tate Britain, London

24th October, Let There be Light, Revisited, Gazelli Art House, London

24th October, Childish Things, Skarstedt, London

24th October, Gerhard Richter, Dominique Levy, London

24th October, Oscar Murillo, David Zwirner, London

24th October, Thomas Demand, Spruth Magers, London

24th October, Lee Ufan, PACE, London

24th October, Fiona Banner, Frith Street, London

24th October, William Kentridge, Marian Goodman, London

24th October, Udo Rondinone, Saide Coles HQ, London

24th October, Oona Grimes, Tintype Gallery, London

24th October, Gerard Williams, Handel Street Project, London

22nd October, New Contemporaries, Primary, Nottingham

22nd October, Alien Encounters, Nottingham Contemporary

22nd October, Oliver Tirré, Syson, Nottingham

22nd October, New Contemporaries, Backlit, Nottingham

22nd October, New Contemporaries, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham

20th October, Annika Eriksson, The Old Liberal Club, Lincoln

10th October, Class of 2015, NCCD, Sleaford

10th October, Michael Brennand-Wood, NCCD, Sleaford

30th September, Daksha Patel, John Rylands Library, Manchester

30th September, Black on Black, Manchester Art Gallery

30th September, Matthew Darbyshire, Manchester Art Gallery

30th September, Pat Flynn, Manchester Art Gallery

30th September, Melaine Manchot, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

7th September, Earth - Art = Eh, Art and Design Building, lincoln

7th September, to be discussed, Project Space Plus, lincoln

30th August, Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 30th August, Rob Ryan, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

30th August, Caro in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

27th August, Lauren Gault and Allison Gibbs, CCA, Glasgow

27th August, Ripples on the Pond, GoMA, Glasgow

27th August, The Ballet of the Palette, GoMA Glasgow

27th August, Urs Fischer, Modern Institute Glasgow

27th August,Alistair Gow, Glasgow Print Studio

27th August, Comic Art: Millarworld and Beyond, Glasgow Print Studio

27th August, Open for Business, Street level Photoworks, Glasgow

20th August, Case of Curio, X-Church, Gainsborough

20th August, Gerard Williams, Usher Gallery, lincoln

17th August, Jenny Holzer, Hauser and Wirth, Bruton

17th August, Radić Pavilion, Hauser and Wirth, Bruton

10th August, By-Product, Project Space Plus, lincoln

8th August, 20th Century Studio Ceramics, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

8th August, Love is Enough, Birmingham Museum and gallery

8th August, Julie Brook, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

8th August, Takehisa Kosugi, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

8th August, Vanley Burke, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

29th July, Exercises in Empathy, Site Gallery, Sheffield

27th July, Mulch, St Mary’s Guildhall, lincoln

18th July, Waiting Room: the provisional artwork, X-Church, Gainsborough

16th July, Snobs and Clowns, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

10th July, Jonathan Turner, Waddington Youth Club

8th July, One Day Something Happens, Nottingham Castle

3rd July, Jacqueline Bebb, Nottingham Contemporary

3rd July, Pablo Bronstein and the Trerasures of Chatsworth, Nottingham Contemporary

3rd July, Cornucopia, Syson, Nottingham

2nd July, Tristram Aver, Newstead Abbey, Nottingham

30th June, Icons of Rhetoric, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

28th June, Lincolnshire’s Secure Unit, The Collection, Lincoln

28th June, Lincolnshire’s Great Exhibition, The Collection, Lincoln

17th June, Sprayed, Gagosian, London

17th June, Lucy Heywood, Handel St Projects, London

17th June, Peter Davies, The Aproach, London

17th June, George Shaw, Wilkinson, London

17th June, Ben Woodeson Berloni, London

17th June, Gabriel Orozco, Marian Goodman, London

17th June, Fiona Tan, Frith St Gallery, London

17th June, Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, London

17th June, June: a Painting Show, Sadie Coles, London

17th June, Karen Kilimnik, Spruth Magers, London

17th June, Julian Opie, Alan Cristea, London

17th June, Alighiero Boetti, Mazzoleni Gallery, London

17th June, Burning, Cutting, Nailing, Skarstedt, London

17th June, Michael Borremans, David Zwirner Gallery, London

17th June, Witty, Sexy Gimmicky: Pop Art 1957-67, London

17th June, Georg Baselitz, Tate Modern, London

17th June, Nam June Paik, Tate Modern, London

17th June, Energy and Process, Tate Modern, London

17th June, Making Traces, Tate Modern, London

17th June, Sonia Delauney, Tate Modern, London

17th June, Agnes Martin, Tate Modern, London

15th June, Ruth Ewan, Central Library, Lincoln

15th June, Ruth Ewan, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

12th, June, A Greater Freedom: Hepworth 1965 - 1975, Hepworth, Wakefield

12th June, Plaster, Casts and Copies, Hepworth, Wakefield

8th June, Unit 7, Changing Spaces, Cambridge

5th June, Real, Cambridge School of Art

3rd June, Conservation Degree Show, University of Lincoln

3rd June, We Are, I am, It is, University of Lincoln

3rd June, The Nascency, University of Lincoln

3rd June, Twenty Fifteen, University of Lincoln

3rd June, Fifteen, University of Lincoln

29th May, Three Times Around the Sun, University of Lincoln

28th May, Harry Ousey, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

28th May, Jeremy Leigh, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

21st May, Painting in Time, The Tetley, leeds

13th May, 一纸素笺, St Mary e Whigford, iincoln

10th May, Sound Matters, NCCD, Sleaford

10th May, Emile Osbourne, NCCD, Sleaford

10th May, Vija Celmins, NCCD, Sleaford

10th May, Dan Fox, St Nicholas, Burton Pedawrdine

10th May, Pat Van Boeckel, St Andrew;s, Heckington

9th May, Sirens of Titan, Postergate, lincoln

9th May, Simon Payne, Usher Gallery, lincoln

9th May, Picture the Poet Usher Gallery, lincoln

8th May, Timequake, St Mary’s Guildhall, lincoln

8th May, Sustainability Art Prize 2015, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

8th May, Bettina Furnée, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge

8th May, Rothschild bronzes, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

8th May, David Kindersley, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

8th May, Modern Heroism: Printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

8th May, Eduardo Paolozzi, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

8th May, Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

8th May, Xu Bing, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

7th May, Whitney McVeigh, St Peter’s Church, Cambridge

7th May, David Kindersley, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

7th May, Circuit Curates: Grace and Speed, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

7th May, Contemporary Drawings, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

7th May, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

7th May, Purdah Press, Speakers Corner, lincoln

7th May, Deadeye Dick, General Practice, lincoln

5th May, Michelle Forrest-Beckett, labplus, lincoln

5th May, Evening Gold, Curio Reactions, lincoln

3rd May, Misc Don, The Collection, lincoln

1st May, Michael Fullerton, S1, Sheffield

1st May, Stanley Royle, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

1st May,Edward Bawden, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

1st May, listening, SIA Gallery, Sheffield

1st May, listening, Site Gallery, Sheffield

27th April, Malynda Umland, labplus, lincoln

17th April, Bob and Roberta Smith, The Broadcaster, Wellingore

13th April, Ellen Brady, General Practice, Lincoln

9th April, David John Scarborough, Nottingham Castle

9th April, Natasha Daintry, Nottingham Castle

9th April, Cornish Light, Nottingham Castle

9th April, John Smith and Paul Housley, Attic, Nottingham

9th April, S1 Show #1, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham

9th April, Craig Fisher and Derah Swann, Nottingham Contemporary

9th April, Glenn Ligon- Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary

6th April, Keith James, Whisby Natural World Centre, Lincoln

30th March, Bob and Roberta Smith, The Broadcaster, Waddington

6th March, Roger Hiorns, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

6th March, Henry Moore, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

6th March, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

6th March, Parallel of life and art, The Hepworth, Wakefield

6th March, Toby Ziegler, The Hepworth, Wakefield

6th March, Making a Modern Collection, The Hepworth, Wakefield

6th March, Sculpting the line, The Hepworth, Wakefield

6th March, Lynda Benglis, The Hepworth, Wakefield

2nd March, A.L.E, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

25th February, Tempus Fugit, Syson Gallery, lincoln

13th February, Easterlies, The Collection, lincoln

12th February, The World Outside, SIA gallery, Sheffield

12th February, Picturing Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

12th February, The Illustrated Aviary, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

6th February, John Plowman, Nottingham Castle

6th February, Richard Slee, Nottingham Castle

3rd February, ‘This is all I am going to say, you know what I mean’Project Space Plus, lincoln

30th January, Viewpoint, The Collection, lincoln

29th January, Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, Ruskin Gallery

29th January, Confined 70X70, Changing Spaces, Cambridge

28th January, Chapman Brothers, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

21st January, Chunmei Liu, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

9th january, Kate Buckley, The Broadcaster, Wellingore

9th January, Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle

7th January, Preceded By Octothorpe, General Practice, lincoln

5th january, Tao Zhang, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

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Exhibitions visited in 2014

My Top Ten Exhibitions of 2014

I visited 252 exhibitions this year, here is my top ten.

1 - Sigmar Polke, Tate Modern, London – A show where some of the work literally gave me Goosebumps because it was so good. So much fine work, so much was still missing; how good was Polke? up there with the very, very best.

2 - Richard Hamilton, Reina Sofia, Madrid – What a master. I missed the show when it was at Tate, but somehow the spaces at Reina Sofia suited an artist that always pushed at exhibition design, in a way that the white cube spaces at Tate Modern were unlikely to have tested or challenged the work. Hamilton’s work still manages to surprise, despite his prevalence and importance and I can only imagine it will continue to grow as time passes, the work is of it’s time and transcends it.

3 - Matisse: Cut Outs, Tate Modern, London – A complete joy from start to finish, made all the better for the companion being my one year old son.

4 - Gego, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds – An artist to be jealous of, such playfulness with material, the sculptural objects were infinitely captivating in their apparent simplicity, that unfolded into immeasurable possibilities. The drawings were quite simply perfect.

5 - Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy, London – An artist that I find it surprisingly easy to be dismissive of, how can his work measure up to the claims and subject he imparts onto it? Standing in front of the work, all of that slips away and I am convinced that he is one of the few artists that can stand up to what is trying to deal with. The early paintings in his attic dealing with the legend of Siegfried were of real influence to me when I was on foundation and I wish I had seen them in person then, they might have had greater impact. The books with watercolour on plaster were the highlight though; tender and tough.

6 - Tom Hackney, Untitled Gallery, Manchester – A Show of paintings that were each full of ideas; only a handful of works were necessarily on view in this tiny gallery, but each made me want to look harder and longer and wish I did not have to rush for the train.

7 - Jack Bilbo, David Zwirner, London – It was so good to see these idiosyncratic drawings being aired in such a illustrious Blue chip gallery and they looked all the better for this setting. Sparkling with life and genuine originality.

8 - Pierre Huyghe, Hauser & Wirth, London – Perhaps the oddest artist filmwork I have seen for since I don’t know when. The show went from near-kitsch with a recreation of a ruined sculpture, through tanks of murky Monet water to devastated Fukushima populated by a weirdly wandering girl, revealed to be a monkey with a clothes and a face mask. The film could have been as near-kitsch as the opening sculpture, instead it was truly chilling.

9 - Transmission, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok – A group show comprising of artists responding to past relics, culture and artefacts from Thailand and surrounding countries that was beautifully installed, from works that were truly captivating.

10 - Martin Creed, Hayward Gallery, London – To be honest when i visited i would have been surprised if this was in my top ten. Nearly a year after visiting I still cannot work out if this was an overstuffed retrospective of an interesting artist with too many lesser works, installed in a way that did not really suit and fit any of them particularly well – or the only way of dealing with a retrospective by Creed.

31st December, Kate Buckley,. The Broadcaster, Waddington

20th December, Lincoln A to Z, The Collection, Lincoln

20th December, Andrew Bracey, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

20th December, (detail), Usher gallery, Lincoln

16th December, Reel#7, General Practice, Lincoln

11th December, Andrew Bracey, Nottingham Castle

11th December, Re-Unpacking, Nottingham Castle

8th December, Geoff lee, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

30th November, Centenary Stitches, The Collection, Lincoln

30th November, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Life, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

30th November, Emily Wardill, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

25th November, Rob Flint, The Broadcast, Wellingore

21st November, Ana Genovés, Standpoint Gallery, London

21st November, Pieter Vermeersch, Carl Freedman Gallery, London

21st November, Nogah Engler + Ori Gescht,��Mummery + Schnelle, London

21st November, House Party, Kate McGarry, London

21st November, Kader Attia, Whitechapel Gallery, London

21st November, Fraser Muggeridge, Whitechapel Gallery, London

21st November, Sculptors papers from the Henry Moore Institute Archive, Whitechapel Gallery, London

21st November, Mike Nelson Selects from the V-A-C Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London

21st November, Richard Tuttle, Whitechapel Gallery, London

21st November, Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman, London

21st November, Polly Apfelbaum, Frith St Gallery, London

21st November, Matthew Barney, Sadie Coles, London

21st November, Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy, London

19th November, Cilla Eisner, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

18th November, Jantze Tullet, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

14th November, Hankering For Classification, Toast, Manchester

14th November, The Sensory War, Manchester Art Gallery

14th November, Liu Xiadong & Pak Sheung, CCCA, Lincoln

11th November, Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

7th November, Tom Hackney, Untitled Gallery, Manchester

7th November, Hardeep Pandahl, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

7th November, Noel Clueit, Bureau, Manchester

31st October, Fourth Drawer, Nottingham Contemporary

31st October, EM14 Arrivals, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

31st October, Bob Robinson, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

30th October, One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure, General Practice, lincoln

29th October, Bartram and O'Neil, Sound Spiral-Gnarl Fest, Lincoln

18th October, Agnieska Polska, Nottingham Contemporary

18th October, Raphael Hefti, Nottingham Contemporary

18th October, Trent to Trenches, Nottingham Castle

18th October, Fields of Battle: lands of Peace, Nottingham

16th October, Deborah Swann, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

16th October, Alison Lloyd, TG, Nottingham

16th October, Edwin Burdis, Primary, Nottingham

13th October, Malevich, Tate Modern, London

13th October, Richard Tuttle, Tate Modern, London

12th October, Sigmar Polke, Tate Modern, london

6th October, Tragic Disturbances, Project Space Plus, lincoln

3rd October, Concerning the Bodyguard, The Tetley, leeds

3rd October, Cross Currents: French Art in the Leeds Collection, Leeds art gallery, Leeds

3rd October, Shezad Dawood, leeds art gallery, leeds

3rd October, Thomas Housego, Leeds Art Gallery, leeds

3rd October, Narrating Objects, leeds art gallery, leeds

3rd October, Lygia Clark, Henry Moore Institute, leeds

3rd October, Gego, Henry Moore Institute, leeds

1st October, Delaine, Damien and Damien le Bas, PH1, York

1st October, Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller, New School House Gallery, York

1st October, Andrew Cross, National Railway Museum, York

27th September,Davy and Kirsten McGuire, St John the baptist Church, Colsterworth

27th September, Make Your Mark, Blue Owl Art, Grantham

26th September, Rob Flint, The Broadcaster, Waddington

26th September, Saturday Art Club Exhibition, The Collection, lincoln

26th September, Rob Flint, The Collection, lincoln

26th September, Danica Maier, The Collection, lincoln

26th September, Texture, Gallery St Martins, lincoln

20th September, Phyllida Barlow, Tate Britain, London

20th September, Frank Auerbach, Tate Britain, London

20th September, Olafur Eliasson, Tate Britain, London

20th September, Pierre Huyghe, Hauser & Wirth, London

20th September, Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, London

20th September, Adriano Costa, Sadie Coles, London

20th September, Jack Bilbo, David Zwirner, London

20th September, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Spruth Magers, London

20th September, Jim Dine, Alan Cristea, London

20th September, Kendell Geers, Stephen Friedman, London

20th September, Raqs Media Collective, Frith Street Gallery, London

20th September, Jon Thompson, Anthony Reynolds, London

20th September, Live And Let Die, Modern Art, London

20th September, Eva Berendes and Andrea Bunte, Ancient and Modern, London

20th September, Cut/Copy/Paste, Beers Contemporary, London

20th September, Nicola Tassie, Standpoint Gallery, London

19th September, Sophie Lee, IMT Gallery, London

19th September, Eliuzabeth McAlpine, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

19th September, Matt Paweski, Herald St., London

19th September, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Maureen Paley, London

19th September, Yuri Pattison, Cell Projects, London

19th September, Jewyo Rhii, Wilkinson Gallery, London

19th September, Nuclear War: What’s In It For You?, Vilma Gold, London

19th September, Phillip Allen, The Approach, London

19th September, (detail), Transition Gallery, London

16th September, Moonshot Woodstock, GP, Lincoln

12th September, Upstairs, A+D Building, Lincoln

12th September, Carry On Regardless, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

22nd August, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Rock Paper Scissors, Lincoln

22nd August, Oliver Laric, The Collection, Lincoln

18th August, Mandy Bray, The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford

18th August, Amberlea McNaught, The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford

18th August, Designer Data, The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford

18th August, Meekyoung Shin, The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford

17th August, Baselitz and his generation, Bristish Museum, London

16th August, Chew Chew, Transition, London

16th August, Henry Wessel, Tate Modern, London

16th August, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper, Tate Modern, London

16th August, Matisse: Cut Outs, Tate Modern, London

9th August, Mimei Thompson, Trade, Nottingham

9th August, A to Infinity, TG, Nottingham

9th August, Strange Business, Syson, Nottingham

9th August, Nine, Surface Gallery, Nottignham

9th August, Andrew Gillespie, Nottingham Contemporary

9th August, Carol Rama, Nottingham Contemporary

9th August, Danh Võ, Nottingham Contemporary

6th August, Pop Art Myths, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

6th August, Inventos. Ideas que cambian vidas, Caxia Forum, Madrid

6th August, Mediterraneo, CAxi Forum, Madrid

6th August, La Corbuissier, Caxia Forum, Madrid

5th August, Alberto Schomme, Museo del Prado, Madrid

5th August, El Greco and Modern Painting, Museo del Prado, Madrid

5th August, Saint Andrew (after Ribera) by Fortuny, Museo del Prado, Madrid

5th August, Evil vanishes. Egusquiza and Wagner´s Parsifal, Museo del Prado, Madrid

4th August, Kerry James Marshall, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid

4th August, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid

4th August, Las Meninas,The Prado Museum, Madrid

4th August, Hanne Darboven, Reina Sofia, Madrid

4th August, Richard Hamilton, Reina Sofia, Madrid

4th August, From Revolt to Postmodernity, Reina Sofia, Madrid

4th August, The Irruption of the 20th Century: Utopias and Conflicts, Reina Sofia, Madrid

4th August, Playgrounds, Reina Sofia, Madrid

2nd August, Marko Mäetamm, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2nd August, As Exciting As We Can Make It, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2nd August, Cornelia Parker, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2nd August, Static: Still life Reconsidered, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

2nd August, True to life?, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

2nd August, Zarah Hussein, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

2nd August, Mexico: Pleasure, Devotion, Balance, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2nd August, Grace Schwindt, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

20th July, Traci Kelly, The Broadcaster, Waddington

20th July, Traci Kelly, BroadcasterChine event, Coleby

16th july, Michael Bowdidge, Mik's Front Room, Nottingham

16th July, The Wild Project, Primary, Nottingham

16th July, Rachael Bradley, TG, Nottingham

11th July, Finding the Value, York St. Mary's

11th July, The Manchester Connexion, the New Schoolhouse gallery, York

2nd July, Someone had blunder'd, The Collection, Lincoln

25th june, Accidents Need Not Happen, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

16th June, Contemporary Lens Media, AAD Building, Lincoln

16th June, Product Design degree show, AAD Building, Lincoln

12th June, Opem, The Collection, lincoln

11th June, Creative Advertising, AAD Building, Lincoln

11th June, Illustration BA shows, AAD Building, Lincoln

11th June, Show Fourteen, AAD Building, Lincoln

11th June, The Future of History, AAD Building, Lincoln

8th June,Suwit Maprajaub & Peerawayt Krasaesom, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok

8th June, Utai Nopsiri,100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok

8th June, Tao Zhou, BACC, Bangkok

7th June, Dale Konstanz, Kathmandu Photo gallery, Bangkok

5th June, (detail), H Project Space, Bangkok

3rd June, Group Show, Bangkok Sculpture Centre @BACC, Bangkok

3rd June, Norman Foster, BACC, Bangkok

3rd June, Gadget Boys, BACC Peoples Gallery, Bagkok

3rd June, Transmission, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok

3rd June, Group Show, Tang Gallery, Bangkok

3rd June, Chaiporn Panichrutiwong, Number 1 Gallery, Bangkok

3rd june, Myint Swe, Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok

2nd June, Shen Wei, H-Gallery, Bangkok

30th May, AAD 1E18, LSAD, Lincoln

30th May, Nine, Project Space Plus, lincoln

30th May, Translated Thoughts, LSAD, Lincoln

19th May, Sensing Lincolnshire, The Collection, Lincoln

16th May, Owl Project, Curio, Lincoln

13th May, Raqs Media Collective, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

30th April 2014, Fiona Rae/Dan Perfect, Nottingham Castle

30th April 2014, Mik Godley, Nottingham Castle

29th April, AA2A ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln

24th April 2014, Peace & Love, TG, Nottingham

24th April 2014, Joanne Lee and Debra Swann, Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham

24th April 2014, Carlos Noronha Feio, Nottingham Contemporary

24th April 2014, Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary

24th April 2014, Liam Aitken, Syson, Nottingham

23rd April 2014, Aesthetica Art Prize, York St Marys, York

12th April 2014, Seen Created 2, Terry O'toole Theatre, North Hyekham

11th April 2014, In the Midst of the Breakers, The Usher Gallery, lincoln

9th April 2014, The Big Exhibition, ProjectSpacePlus, lincoln

20th March 2014, Gast, General Practice, lincoln

20th March 2014, Jeremy Deller curates All that is Solid Melts into Air, Nottingham Castle

16th March 2014, Creating a Scene, NCCD, Sleaford

16th March 2014, Black Sheep: A Draker Side of Felt, Creating a Scene, NCCD, Sleaford

16th March 2014, Kate McBride Curates: The Window Collection, , NCCD, Sleaford

14th March 2014, The Temporary, ARTicle gallery, Birmingham

14th March 2014, Possession (II), Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

13th March 2014, Dale vN Marshall, Herbert Museum and Gallery, Coventry

7th March 2014, Seen This?, Hopkinson Gallery,Nottingham

7th March 2014, Fresh Meat, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham

7th March 2014, Your All Tork, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

7th March 2014, The Eight Artistic Principles, Attic, Nottingham

7th March 2014, Bank, Trade, Nottingham

7th March 2014, Tala Madani, Nottingham Contemporary

7th March 2014, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Nottingham Contemporary

6th March 2014, Floriajn Roithmayr, Site Gallery, Sheffield

6th March 2014, Interactive at Sheffield, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

6th march 2014,Printing Sheffield, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

5th March, A Machine Aesthetic, ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln

28th Feb 2014, Imagination of Matter, New School Gallery, York

22nd Feb 2014, Verso, Sam Scorer Gallery, lincoln

22nd Feb 2014, Modern Masters, The Collection, lincoln

18th Feb 2014, David Tremlett, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

14th Feb 2014, Joseph Banks: A Great Endeavour, The Collection, Lincoln

7th Feb 2014, Samantha Donnelly, Ceri Hand Gallery, London

7th Feb 2014, Open Forest, Jerwood Visual Arts

7th Feb 2014, Paul Klee, Tate Modern, London

7th Feb 2014, Henry Callahan, Tate Modern, London

7th Feb 2014, Inverted House, Tate Modern, London

7th Feb 2014, Transformed Visions, Tate Modern, London

7th Feb 2014, Energy and Process, Tate Modern, London

7th Feb 2014, Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London

7th Feb 2014, John Carter, Royal Academy, London

7th Feb 2014, Hans Arp,Hauser and Wirth London

7th Feb 2014, Zheng Enli, Hauser and Wirth London

7th Feb 2014, Alex Van Gelder, Hauser and Wirth London

7th Feb 2014, Paul Gauguin, Ordovas, London

7th Feb 2014, Manuel Espinosa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

7th Feb 2014, Bill Woodrow, Royal Academy, London

7th Feb 2014, James Turrell, Pace, London

7th Feb 2014, Almost Bliss:Notes on Derek Jarman's Blue, Chelsea Space, London

7th Feb 2014, Painting Now, Tate Britain, London

7th Feb 2014, Alison Wilding, Tate Britain, London

7th Feb 2014, Richard Deacon, Tate Britain, London

6th Feb 2014, Martin Creed, Hayward Gallery, London

6th Feb 2014, Sun Xun, Hayward Gallery, London

6th Feb 2014, A Machine Aesthetic, Text+Work, Bournemouth

3rd Feb 2014, Irene Brown, Gallery of Wonder, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Marilyn Monroe, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Markus Karstieβ, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Pre-Pop to Post-Human, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Eduardo Paolozzi, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, James Quinn, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Colour Boundary, Gallery North, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Thomas Bayrle, Baltic, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Salla Tykka, Baltic, Newcastle

3rd Feb 2014, Sara Barker & Ryder Architecture, Baltic, Newcastle

20th Jan 2014, Barrie Tullett, ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln

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My Top Ten (12) Exhibitions of the year

I visited 297 exhibitions this year and here are my top 10 of the year, which i found impossible to do so there is actually a very subjective and flawed top 12.

1 - Hilma af Klint, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Nothing in the exceptional work downstairs prepared me for the awe I would experience when entering a room upstairs in the Hamburger Bahnhof. A suite of af Klint’s oversized watercolours completely overwhelmed me; literally causing hairs on the back of my neck, arms, toes, eyebrows to stand on end. An experience that I think will always live with me; work so completely perfect is so rare to come encounter, a whole series of works all so equally perfect is almost unique.

2 - The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Bluecoat, Liverpool and Nottingham Contemporary

Is Leckey an even better curator than artist, or is it actually all part of the same thing. This is how to do a group show, a lesson in artistic/curatorial craftsmanship.

3 - The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

Stunningly put together, again an artist (Simon Faithful) crafting an exhibition that everyone should have gone rushing to see and then amusingly fallen over in joy, a la Buster Keaton. READ MY REVIEW HERE

4 - Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale

The best Biennale main exhibition that I have seen. Gioni sure knows how to select bloody good artists, playful when it needed to be playful, sincere when it needed to be sincere, surprising when it needed to be surprising; thoughtful and splendid throughout.

5 - Rosemarie Trockel, Serpentine, London

Was this a solo show with works by other artists peppering Trockel’s own or another staggeringly good group show selected by an artist with a large proportion of her own works. Who cares, when an exhibition is this good? A lesson in how to learn so much about an artist, by positioning, selecting and inviting thought by looking.

6 - Rudolf Stingel, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

I got completely seduced by spectacle in Venice this year, there was a lot of it, and no more visible than Stingel’s show at Palozzo Grassi. Usually a show like this leaves too much of a bitter taste in my mouth, but this was just too much of a knockout firework display of a show to do any such thing.

7 - Mike Nelson - To The Memory of Honore de Balzac, Matt Gallery, London

A beautifully installed labyrinth of a show, with no need for Nelson’s usual maze of walls; a spillage of sculptures that required hours of wandering feet and eyes to truly relish and savour. Like all his work it was all in the detail, the beauty of seeing it in one room is that all this detail is impossible to take in at once.

8 - Anna Von Hausswolff, Chris Watson & Hildur Guonadottir, Lincoln Cathedral

To be able to transcend the majesty the architecture of Lincoln cathedral and be transported through to the deep sea and crackling ice by sound alone was truly breath-taking.

9 - Cloud Illusions I Recall, IMMA, Dublin

Proof again that artists put on the best shows (for me anyhow). I travelled to Dublin especially to see the show and was initially a little underwhelmed, but few shows have remained in my mind as prominently since. A good red wine of a show, mature, mellow and getting better all the time. READ MY REVIEW HERE

10 - Emma Hart, Camden Arts Centre, London

A show to smile at, be disturbed by, to feel guilty about unashamedly liking so damn much.

11 - Martino Gamper, Benaki Museum, Athens

Reminded me of Richard Wentworth at his best; that wonderful ability they both share in spotting the best potential in something, far from Making Do and Getting By.

12 - Manet, Royal Academy, London

An artist king. Much was absent in this show or obscured by someone listening to their audio guide, what was there was sickeningly good and i was first in so got a bit of time to spend some quality time before the masses arrived. Oh for an empty gallery full of Manet.

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Exhibitions visited in 2013

19th December, Nina Beier, Nottingham Contemporary

19th December, The Family Bible and Other Fables, Syson, Nottingham

19th December, Paul Waplington, Nottingham Castle

19th December, Avi Gupta, Nottingham Castle

12th December, santa head/ jesus legs, Greyfriars, Lincoln

12th December, A Song for An Art School - Caseroom Press, ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln

29th November, David Kirshner, The Collection, Lincoln

15th November, Leonardo Da Vinci, Accademia, Venice

15th November, Overplay, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice

14th November, Bedwyr Williams Wales Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Whitney McVeigh, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice

14th November, Gavin Turk, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice

14th November, Portable Nation, Maldives Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Lee Kit, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Carlos Marreiros, Marcau Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Reflective Nature, Kenya Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Bill Culbert, New Zealand Pavilion, Venice

14th November, This is Not a Taiwan Pavilion, Taiwan Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Glasstress-White Light/White Heat, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice

14th November, Ornamentation, Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice

14th November, The Monument of a Monument, Ukraine Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Palazzo Falier, Venice

14th November, Catherine Lorent, Luxomberg Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Jasmina Cibic, Slovenia Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Irena Lagator Pejovic, Montenegro Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Mladen Miljanovic, Bosnia & Herzegovina Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Denes Farkas, Estonia Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Rudolf Stingel, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

14th November, Richard Mosse, Ireland Pavilion, Venice

14th November, Antoni Tapies, Musee Fortuny, Venice

13th November, Valentin Carron, Swiss Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Urban Art, Venezuelea Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Jesper Just, Denmark Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Vadium Zakhorov, Russia Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Koki Tanaka Japan Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Anri Sala, France Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Shary Boyle, Canada Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Jeremy Deller, Great Britain Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng & Dayanita Singh, Germany Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Konrad Smolenski, Poland Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Simryn Gill, Australia Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Wilfredo Diaz Valdez, Uruguay Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Petra Feriancova & Zbynek Baladran, Czech and Slokac Republic Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Terike Haapoja, Nordic Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Mathius Poledna, Austria Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Vladimir Peric & Miloš Tomic, Serbia Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Mohamed Banawy & Khaled Zaki, Egypt Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Silk Map, Venice Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmus, Romania, Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Greece Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Inside/Outside, Brazil Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Gilad Ratman, Israel Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Sarah Sze, USA Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Zsolt Asztalos, Hungary Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Antti Laitnen, Finland Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Encyclopedic Palace, Giardini, Venice

13th November, Mark Manders, Netherlands Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Belguim Pavilion, Venice

13th November, Lara Almarcegui, Spain, Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Tavares Strachan, Bahamas Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Kamikaze Loggia, Georgia Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Transfiguration, China Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Vice Versa, Italian Pavilion, Venice

12th November, The Atlas of the Empire, Latin American Pavilion, Venice

12th November, North by Northeast, Latvia Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Sakti, Indonesia Pavilion, Venice

12th November, In a World of Your Own, Bahrain Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Ali Kazma, Turkey Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Petrit Halilaj, Kosovo Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Alfredo Jaar, Chile Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Imaginary Fact, South African Pavilion, Venice

12th November, In Principio, Holy See Pavilion, Venice

12th November, Nicola Costantino, Argentina Pavilion,Venice

12th November, Encyclopedic Palace, Arsenale, Venice

9th November, ASCO, Nottingham Contemporary

9th November, Geoffrey Farmer, Nottingham Contemporary

9th November, Candice Jacobs, Syson, Nottingham

9th November, Recreation Ground, Attic, Nottingham

9th November, The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

8th November, Misdirect Movies, Meter Room, Coventry

5th November, Cao Fei, CFCCA, Manchester

5th November, Jon Astbury, CFCCA, Manchester

5th November, Jeremy Deller, Manchester Art Gallery

5th November, Radical Figires: Post War British Figurative Painting, Manchester Art Gallery

5th November, Grayson Perry, Manchester Art Gallery

5th November, Thomas Horsfall's Gift to Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery

5th November, Alison Erika Forde, Manchester Art Gallery

29th October, Chris Watson, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

29th October, Industrious, Trafalgar House, Sheffield

29th October, Be Our Guest, Trafalgar House, Sheffield

29th October, Nicholas Party, Trafalgar House, Sheffield

29th October, Zero Hours, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

29th October, Zero Hours, SIAD, Sheffield

29th October, Zero Hours, Bloc Gallery, Sheffield

29th October, Zero Hours, Site Gallery, Sheffield

26th October, Frank Abbott, Nottingham Castle

26th October, Simon Raven, Nottingham Castle

26th October, Nottingham Castle Open 2013

20th October, Timothy Chesney and Bret Battey (Trope), Drill Hall, Lincoln

20th October, Alexis Rego, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

20th October, Dave Griffiths - Babel Fiche, Bath House at Lincoln Castle

20th October, Emma Dex Dexter, St Mary Magdalene Church, Lincoln

20th October, Rachel Olin, The Collection, Lincoln

19th October, Anna Von Hausswolff, Chris Watson & Hildur Guonadottir, Lincoln Cathedral

19th October, Matt Wetherly, AAD Gallery, Lincoln

19th October, Mike Downing, Thomas Parker House, Lincoln

19th October, Stanza, Thomas Parker House, Lincoln

19th October, Jasim Ghafur, Drill Hall Cellar, Lincoln

19th October, Trope, Posterngate, Lincoln

19th October, Chris Riley - Apollo Raw and Uncut, LPAC, Lincoln

18th October - Tony Conrad, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

18th October - 1/4" Much, Chad Varah House, Lincoln

18th October - Juneau Projects, Pop up space, Lincoln

18th October - Chris Levine, `St Swithians, Lincoln

18th October - Curio, St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln

16th October - Duncan Rowland, LABPLUS, Lincoln

4th October - Misdirect Movies, Greyfriars, Lincoln

27th September - Paul Johnson, The Collection, Lincoln

27th September - Colour Love, The Collection, Lincoln

26th September - Double Indemnity, Cornerhouse, Manchester

21st September - Menu, Art and Design Building, Lincoln

20th September – Ori Gersht, Rosario Lopez and Mariana Mauricio, Mummery + Schnelle, London

20th September – Billy Childish, Carl Freedman, London

20th September - Anna Boghiguian and Goshka Macuga, INIVA, London

20th September – Florian Meisenberg, Kate MacGarry, London

20th September – The Floating City, Rich Mix, London

20th September - Tom Price, Hales Gallery, London

20th September - Raphael Hefti, Ancient and Modern, London

20th September – Data, Contemporary Art Society, London

20th September – John Staezker, Contemporary Art Society, London

20th September – Michael Landy, National Gallery, London

20th September – Here We Go: Index, Carsten Schubert, London

20th September – Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London

20th September – Re-view: Onnasch Collection, Hauser & Wirth, London

20th September – Ben Nicholson, Bernard Jacobson, London

20th September – linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

20th September – Richard Serra, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

20th September – Rosemarie Trockel, Spruth Magers Gallery, London

20th September – Jockum Nordstrom, Camden Arts Centre, London

20th September - Emma Hart, Camden Arts Centre, London

14th September, Steampunk Art Exhibition, The Collection, Lincoln

14th September, 150 Years, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

14th September, Whats Going On, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

14th September, Where are we now?, The Collection, Lincoln

13th September, Strata, Thomas Parker House, Lincoln

26th August, 12 X 12, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

26th August, Hanning Bohl, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

26th August, The New Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

26th August, Tobias Zieloney, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

26th August, Katja Stunz, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

25th August, Old Master Paintings, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin

25th August, Suse Weber and Veit Stratmann, After the Butcher, Berlin

25th August, Body Pressure, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

25th August, Martin Kippenberger, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

25th August, Hilma af Klint, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

24th August, Polite Parasites, Ozean, Berlin

24th August, At the Outset, Circus, Berlin

24th August, Rolf lindemann, Galerie Gesellschaft, Berlin

24th August, On Paper, Eigen + Art lab, Berlin

24th August, Feminine/Masculine, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin

24th August, Ute Behrend, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin

24th August, lutz Friedel, Galerie Berlin, Berlin

24th August, Vision und Konstruktion, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin

24th August, 7+1, Jordan Seydoux, Berlin

24th August, Horst Antes, Deschler Galerie, Berlin

24th August, Kader Attia, KW Institute, Berlin

24th August, Wonderful: Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, me Collectors Room, Berlin

24th August, Olivia Steele, Circle Culture, Berlin

24th August, Mariana Vassileva, DNA, Berlin

24th August, Ulrich Pester, Ralph Schuster, Anna Virnich, Spruth Magers, Berlin

24th August, Kraftwerk, Spruth Magers, Berlin

24th August, Joseph Kosuth, Spruth Magers, Berlin

24th August, Abstrakt, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

24th August, Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today II, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin

24th August, Horst Antes, Martin Gropius Gallery, Berlin

24th August, Meret Oppenheim, Martin Gropius Gallery, Berlin

24th August, Anish Kapoor, Martin Gropius Gallery, Berlin

23rd August, Franka Hornschemeyer, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

23rd August, Fabian Marcaccio, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

23rd August, Marcel Odenbach, Galeries Crone, Berlin

23rd August, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered together in a ave and Grooving With Pict, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin

23rd August, Portikus Under Construction, Tanya leighton Gallery, Berlin

23rd August, Agus Suwage, Arndt, Berlin

23rd August, Kjell Erik Killi Olsen, loock Gallery, Berlin

23rd August, Anders Kjellesvik, Monique Van Gendereen, J Ariadhitya Pramuhendra, Galerie Michael Jansen, Berlin

23rd August, John Stezaker, Capitain Petzel, Berlin

23rd August, Thomas Kilpper, Nagel Draxler, Berlin

21st August, Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary

21st August, Upritchard Famiiy Coection, Nottingham Contemporary

21st August, Reliquary, Syson, Nottingham

21st August, Make Believe, Nottingham Castle

7th August, Liam Gillick, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

7th August, What Lies Beneath, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin

7th August, I KnOw yoU, IMMA @ NCH, Dublin

7th August, Willie Doherty, IMMA @ NCH, Dublin

6th August, Sean Lynch, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

6th August, Lee Welch, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

6th August, Francis Bacon Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

6th August, Mario Garcia Torres, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

6th August, Starting Over, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

6th August, Shades of Grey: Painting Without Colour, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

6th August, Frank Walter, Douglas Hyde Gallery

6th August, Eoin McHugh, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

6th August, Cloud Illusions I Recall, IMMA, Dublin

3rd August, Ellen Gallagher, Tate Modern, London

3rd August, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, London

12th July, Antony Hall, Untitled Gallery, Manchester

12th July, Yelena Popova, Bureau, Manchester

12th July, Rachel Goodyear, International 3, Manchester

12th July, Lee Mingwei, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

12th July, Do it, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

6th July, Hybrid Stories, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

5th July, The Ends of Art, Beton7, Athens

5th July, Martino Gamper, Benaki Museum, Athens

4th July, Misdirect Movies, Standpoint Gallery, London

28th June, Constellations, Tate Liverpool

28th June, Moyra Davey, Tate Liverpool

28th June, Marc Chagall, Tate Liverpool

20th June, Spaceship Unbound, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

20th June, Collaborate, PS Mirabel, Manchester

20th June, Performing Paper, Paper Gallery, Manchester

12th June, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Nottingham Contemporary

12th June, Trade Secrets: ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Nottingham Contemporary

11th June, Josh Richardson, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

5th June, Smart Moves, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

5th June, Ali Roscoe, The Collection, Lincoln

4th June, Beauty is the First Test, National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford

3rd June, Equilibrium, Thomas Parker House, Lincoln

31st May, Deep Philosophical Thoughts Stole My Bike, Greestone, Lincoln

25th May, Thesis, Queen's Gallery, Bangkok

24th May, Metamorphosis and Flux, H Project Space, Bangkok

24th May, Montien Boonma, Jim Thompson Art Gallery, Bangkok

24th May, Pharmacide Art and Counterfit Goods, BACC, Bangkok

24th May, Possession (1), BACC, Bangkok

24th May, Gallery Artists, H Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, Out of Sight, Tang Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, Graduated Emergence, Number 1 Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, Kathawut Pollasu, Number 1 Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, A Tale of Two Tribes, Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, Dayu, Artery Post- Modern Gallery, Bangkok

23rd May, Melanie Grise, Maya's Secret Gallery, Bangkok

19th May, Nancy Holt, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

19th May, Callum Innes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

10th May, The Utopian Buck Stops Here, Bureau, Manchester

10th May, Alec Shepley, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

9th May, Millennium People, Stokes Warehouse, Lincoln

9th May, Empire of the Sun, Tower Bar, Lincoln

9th May, Wind From Nowhere, The Arcade, Lincoln

9th May, Rushing To Paradise, Pyewipe inn, Lincoln

8th May, Unlimited Dream Company, Greyfriars and St. benedicts, Lincoln

7th May, Crystal World, Jospeh banks Conservatory, Lincoln

3rd May, Rafal Topolewski, International3, Manchester

20th April, Tim Dunbar, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale

16th April, Nineteen Fourteen, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

16th April, Christina Mackie, Nottingham Castle

16th April, Emma Talbot, Mrs Ricks Cupboard, Nottingham

12th April, Anguish and Enthusiasm, Cornerhouse, Manchester

9th April, Platform:In the Making, Site Gallery, Sheffield

3rd April, Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern, London

3rd April, Roy Lichtenstein, Tate Modern, London

3rd April, Simon Starling, Tate Britain, London

3rd April, Kurt Schwitters, Tate Britain, London

3rd April, Fischli & Weiss, Serpentine, London

3rd April, Rosemarie Trockel, Serpentine, London

3rd April, Sterling Ruby, Hauser and Wirth, London

3rd April, Phillippe Vanderberg, Hauser and Wirth, London

3rd April, Manet, Royal Academy, London

22nd March, The Art of Pop Video, FACT, Liverpool

22nd March, CS Leigh, Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool

15th March, Misdirect Movies, Royal Standard, Liverpool

8th March, Yoshua Okon, Cornerhouse, Manchester

8th March, Slyvia Sleigh, Tate Liverpool

8th March, Glam!, Tate Liverpool

8th March, Mishka Henner, Open Eye, Liverpool

8th March, Edith Tudor-Hart, Open Eye, Liverpool

7th March, Clare Kenny, Bureau, Manchester

1st March, Unspecific Objects, Royal Standard, Liverpool

1st March, The Universal Addressability of Dub Things, Bluecoat, Liverpool

28th February, Emily Speed and Hayley Newman, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

28th February, Evi Grigoroulou, Untitled Gallery, Manchester

28th February, Raqib Shaw, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

28th February Rosa Barba, Cornerhouse, Manchester

24th February, Michael Landy, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

24th February, John Piper, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

24th February, Richard Long, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st February, Karl Fritsch, Manchester Art Gallery

15th February, Co-Respondent, Transition Gallery, London

15th February, Susan Hiller - Channels, Matts Gallery, London

15th February, Mike Nelson - To The Memory of Honore de Balzac, Matt Gallery, London

15th February, Eva Hesse - 1965, Hauser and Wirth, London

15th February, Bruce Nauman - Mindfuck, Hauser and Wirth, London

15th February, Yelena Popova, Cole, London

15th February, Grit to Gold: Collaging the Abstract, Standpoint Gallery, London

15th February, Kate MccGwire, All Visual Arts, London

12th February, The World is Almost 6000 Years Old, The Collection, Lincoln

1st February, Versus, Rogue Project Space, Manchester

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