Art in Focus: December 2024/January 2025

27/11/2024 | Reform

Adoration of the ShepherdsTempera on wood, between1650 and 1700Ivan Honchar Museum, Ukraine

The artist is unknown, but the scene is very familiar. The young mother Mary, looking up to heaven. The older Joseph, standing guard. The tiny baby, swaddled in … Read More

Art in Focus: November 2024

25/10/2024 | Reform

Blood Swept Landsand Seas of Red, 2014Paul Cummins & Tom Piper

The artist Paul Cummins remembers, ‘One rainy day in 2012, I ducked into my local library for shelter and for some reason started looking at wills. I found one … Read More

Art in Focus: October 2024

02/10/2024 | Reform

Angel IV, 2003Emily YoungPaternoster Square, London

If you happen to be in London, walking past St Paul’s Cathedral and into Paternoster Square – look up. You will see five magnificent angel heads mounted on pillars, gazing out over the city. … Read More

Art in Focus: September 2024

06/09/2024 | Reform

Non-Violence, 1980Carl Fredrik ReuterswärdBronze sculpture

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case one sculpture, and its location, says it all. The bronze sculpture, Non-Violence, depicts a 45-calibre revolver with its barrel tied in a knot. … Read More

Art in focus: July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

El AnantsuiThe Restless Earth, 2017Fabric and mixed media

This massive ‘cloth’ or hanging – or sculpture – is the work of Ghanaian artist El Anantsui. It is made from hundreds of flattened bottle tops, aluminium tins and other found objects, … Read More

Art in Focus: June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

CaravaggioThe Seven Works of Mercy, 1606Oil on canvasNaples, Pio Monte della Misericordia

In an early episode of the Netflix series Ripley, Tom Ripley gazes enigmatically at Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy. The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece by an … Read More