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Wole Lagunju: Cut from the Same Cloth: Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street
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Wole Lagunju, Cut From the Same Cloth
September 20, 2022 'In 2014, after my exhibition Wole Lagunju: African Diaspora Artist and Transnational Visuality at James Madison University, Virginia, United States, I decided to engage with images of men and women... -
Artist Wole Lagunju's first solo show explores issues of power, gender and identity
September 7, 2022 Delving into themes of cultural identity and a reinterpretation of contemporary fashion, Cut from the Same Cloth seeks to bridge the gap between two distinct strands of the artist's practice,... -
Need To Know: What's On This Week In London
September 2, 2022 Take a jaunt to Ed Cross’ eponymous gallery to be captivated by artist Wole Lagunju’s solo show, Cut From The Same Cloth. Brimming with colour, the 28-day exhibition is set... -
Wole Lagunju: Cut from the Same Cloth
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 1 - 28 September 2022 Based in North Carolina, Wole Lagunju is best known for his large scale figurative works, splicing images of dominant Western visual culture — models and celebrities, from magazines and museums... -
What I Buy and Why: Ed Cross on Collecting African Artists Before the Market Boom, and the £20,000 Jadé Fadojutimi Work
July 18, 2022 'Ed Cross has been championing the work of African and African diaspora artists since he founded his eponymous gallery 13 years ago. A former artist himself, he has also long... -
Editors’ Picks: Six Standout Projects from Documenta 15
July 6, 2022 'At the St. Kunigundis Catholic Church in Bettenhausen, Atis Rezistanz has staged an exhibition that is, at turns, haunting and ambitious in its artistic and historical scope. [...] Leah Gordon’s... -
Textile artist Anya Paintsil incorporates humour, hair and folklore to tell stories of her dual heritage
May 30, 2022 'She grew up speaking Welsh and always had a 'weird little art practice' going on the side, even though she wasn't much a fan of school or art, for that... -
Rising Art Star Anya Paintsil Weaves Powerful Personal Stories with Tapestry
April 14, 2022 'African hair braiding and Welsh rag rug making may not seem to have much in common. But in the hands of Anya Paintsil, these two distinct art forms are masterfully... -
Interview: The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel
April 13, 2022 'In the work of Pabi Daniel, there is style and there is style . Thick climbing holds of paint meet swathes of vibrant colour on runway-ready figures. ‘Clothing is key... -
Abe Odedina: Love & Hate
Paintings 2013 - 2020 Please see button below to view sample pages Featuring texts by: Katherine Finerty David Remfry RA Adjoa Armah Emily Watkins Ed Cross 144 pages 229 x 290 Available to purchase...
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Seven questions with Anya Paintsil
September 23, 2021 'Born in Wrexham, North Wales, but now based between Manchester and Chester, Anya's work proudly utilises historic rug-hooking techniques passed down by generations of Welsh women in her family, while... -
Abe Odedina: Love and Hate Review
February 2, 2021 In 1960, the year of Nigerian independence, the artist Uche Okeke wrote a manifesto: ‘Young artists in a new nation, this is what we are! We must grow with the... -
A Conversation with Wole Lagunju
December 23, 2020 'Episode Forty-Six features Wole Lagunju. He is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju’s hybrid paintings of... -
Abe Odedina and Emily Watkins In Conversation
Love and Hate To celebrate the release of Love and Hate, Abe Odedina's first major monograph, the artist talks to the book's editor Emily Watkins about the neediness of canvas, demanding gods and... -
The Portfolio: Mário Macilau
November 20, 2020 'Reality and fantasy overlap in the socially motivated photographs of Mário Macilau, a skilled portraitist who prefers to work on long-term projects. His output includes series focused on street children,... -
Anya Paintsil Awarded The Wakelin Prize 2020
"Highly charged and tender." We're delighted to announce that Anya Paintsil has been awarded The Wakelin Prize 2020. The annual award is given to a Welsh artist, whose work is purchased for the Glynn... -
New York art diary: a miracle on 24th Street
October 24, 2020 'Then, there are paintings I want to pour myself into, like “Wanderlust”, by the French-Belgo-Congolese artist Tiffanie Delune. Geometric bands of orange sunlight fill a fiery coloured sky full of... -
Anya Paintsil: Artists to Watch at 1-54 and Frieze Masters
October 8, 2020 'Welsh-Ghanaian artist Anya Paintsil has just completed her Master's at Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Art, having been announced as one of three mentees, alongside Bryn Rogers and Wincent Szczerba,... -
Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil
'The immediacy of Anya Paintsil’s textile faces and bodies belies the laboriousness of their making. A glance at the artist’s Instagram highlights reel reveals a marathon runner not a sprinter,... -
Anya Paintsil: A Walk In The Park, Whitworth Podcast
'Continuing the discussions raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, we meet and chat with the artist Anya Paintsil. Anya Paintsil is a Manchester based artist, of Welsh and Ghanaian... -
Interview with Tiffanie Delune
August 17, 2020 VANESSA MURREL: Having lived and worked in Canada and Switzerland, as well as taken trips to Bali and recently Luxor, in what ways have those diverse histories and cultures shaped... -
Tiffanie Delune in The Bite Magazine
May 1, 2020 'There are many reasons why an artist paints: it could be to express or release the emotions or experiences they have gone through, as a way to get a message... -
In-Conversation: Tiffanie Delune and Katherine Finerty
Watch in full Watch our 45 minute virtual Q+A with artist Tiffanie Delune and Katherine Finerty, who curated Tiffanie’s solo exhibition ‘Seeds of Light’ which opened 5th March 2020 at The Gramophone Works... -
Conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Global Plantation Series: A Land of Extraordinary Quarantines On June 2nd, Shiraz Bayjoo participated in the first of a series of artist-directed digital discussions that contemplate the global forms and meanings of the plantation historically, and in our... -
In The Spotlight: Ed Cross Fine Art
May 20, 2020 'Way back in 1988 I left my London publishing job at Heinemann to live in Kenya to pursue a career as an artist and continue my publishing interests as an... -
Innocence and Experience: Interview with Tiffanie Delune
March 4, 2020 'Tiffanie Delune’s work is both deeply personal and universal, archetypal. So I shouldn’t be surprised by the bright and open way she greets me, or the grounded and generous analogies... -
5 Peintres Africains qui sont plus doués que Picasso
February 12, 2020 5- Wole Lagunju Peintre Nigérian d’origine Yoruba comme son nom l’indique, ses créations tirent leurs sources d’un mélange de l’univers multiple des entités Africaines et de la culture vestimentaire de...
