James Payne

As well as the comparisons with the usual bunch of female artists, Sarah Maple has also been compared to Russell Brand!

In this day and age, humour is sometimes deemed as frivolous and the art world has long accepted only 'serious' work as worthy of judgement.

Maple is...

A year ago today a young man I knew became another statistic. One of the 16 cyclists killed on London's roads last year. Two-thirds of which were (like him) killed by HGVs. The majority of these deaths (like his) happened after large vehicles turned across the cyclist's path.

Dan...

Sixty-six books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses, 783,137 words, 3,116,480 characters. For the last 18 months, artist Daniel Rapley has been writing the King James Bible by hand, on standard feint ruled notepaper, using a ballpoint pen.

I recently spoke with Michael Hall, who, as well as curating...

The issue of homophobia is not something you would expect in the art world, however a recent 'work of art' in America prove this is not the case.

The following article was written with Texan born Dr Michael Petry whose book Hidden Histories: 20th Century Male Same-Sex Lovers in...

As an antidote to hideous Christmas visuals here is a round up of five of the best art shows in London. Be quick though as some of them are just about to close.

Paul Noble / Gagosian Gallery / Until Dec. 17
God is not something...

In the second of a series of blogs on how gallery shows are put together, I spoke to the artist Andrew Curtis, who curated our current group show Your Garden is Looking a Mess Could You Please Tidy it up.

There are twenty artists in the show,...

People often ask how we choose artists and curators, decide on shows, make press contacts etc. In the first of a series, I will attempt to explain the inner workings of a gallery from several different points of view, and hopefully demystify how small independent galleries like ours put shows...

Visiting Frieze this year it was hard to remember that only a sliver of fabric stands between the people involved in the Occupy Wall St. Movement and the ultra-wealthy collectors whose families really do occupy Wall St.

Maybe in a nod to the recession, last year's army of waiters giving...

It's that time of year again when art dealers polish their large, structurally pronounced eyewear and flog their wares in tent city. The art world's marathon, Frieze Art Fair is back.

Statistics: Frieze started in 2003. 170 or so galleries take up 20,000m2 of Regent's park. They...

Margaret Harrison is an artist I admire tremendously. A show we had a few months back in the gallery was hugely popular. Here Margaret talks about:

"In the UK there was a wilderness period for many artists of my generation from the late 80's onwards, in the US it...

Not since Christian Marclay's The Clock has art been such a cinematic experience as it is with Artangel's latest project, Audio Obscura in St Pancras station by poet Lavinia Greenlaw.

Sound art is notoriously difficult for the viewer/listener as it is so hard to shut off the...

'More Passion' a neon piece by Tracey Emin was recently installed in Downing Street. Emin is refreshingly honest about her passion for the Tories ("They are massive collectors"), yet has donated a piece that says precisely nothing. Maybe it is dedicated to Nick Clegg?

It has been said that all...