The Game of Hazarding – an encounter with the painter Ryan Mosley

Every new work is a game of hazarding, I am thinking to myself as I stare at the painting on the easel in Ryan Mosley’s studio at Persistence Works in Sheffield. Beneath those huge skylights, you could call it a studio scene straight out of central casting: stacks of paint-smeared plastic buckets; packets of latex … Continue reading The Game of Hazarding – an encounter with the painter Ryan Mosley

The Strange Antiquity of Modernity: the Seriously Fantastical World of the painter Neo Rauch

There is to be lunch, on the stroke of noon, at Neo Rauch's third-floor studio in the Spinnerei, and we are minutes late. We hurry up many flights of concrete stairs, past walls of painted brick whose bareness is interrupted only by the occasional defiant shout of graffiti. Having passed through the giant metal door … Continue reading The Strange Antiquity of Modernity: the Seriously Fantastical World of the painter Neo Rauch