by The Art Wanderer | Feb 18, 2025 | Art in Depth
Looking at Landscape: The Colonial Gaze The concept of the ‘gaze’ is not new to art history. Broadly, it is a way of thinking about how the artist projects themselves onto a subject or sitter, reducing them to an object at whom the artist was looking. The concept of... 
by The Art Wanderer | Dec 7, 2023 | Art in Depth
The Abuja Pottery & Michael Cardew A Colonial Review Who was Cardew? Michael Ambrose Cardew was a British studio potter born in 1901. Cardew is well-known for being the first apprentice potter at the Bernard Leach Pottery in Cornwall, where he worked in the... 
by The Art Wanderer | Jun 7, 2023 | Art in Depth
Jean-Claude Chauray A Modern Master of the Dutch Golden Age An Introduction to Chauray Jean-Claude Chauray, also known as J.C. Chauray (1934 – 1996), was a little-known French artist active through the mid-twentieth century. He grew up in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, a... 
by The Art Wanderer | Mar 25, 2021 | Art in Depth
Thomas Jones Naples and the not-so-Romantic Landscape In May 2020, after a year of intense research and hand-cramp-inducing typing, I submitted my university dissertation. I called it, ‘The city-as-subject; Thomas Jones’s ‘A Wall in Naples’ and the... 
by The Art Wanderer | Nov 25, 2020 | Art in Depth
Toppling Statues A PSSA Webinar Review Over the last two days, I attended the Toppling Statues Webinar; a very ‘2020’ event, focussing on one of 2020’s hottest art world topics. Hosted by the newly-formed Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA), I was all... 
by The Art Wanderer | Nov 6, 2020 | Art in Depth
The British Country House: Re-curating our Colonial Legacy Reinterpreting the Curation of Racist Imagery and Artefacts in British Country Houses It’s been a tough year for the heritage sector. Nonetheless, many organisations have used this time to begin...