The Camera

Author: George Adams

  • Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain

    Shear Cut, 2024. (c) Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ivey Hurvin Anderson’s (b.1965) first major solo show at Tate Britain opens with a series of works based on the artist’s memory of friends on Handsworth Common in Birmingham. In Ball Watching (1997) the paint is layered and scraped to…

  • Cecily Brown: Picture Making

    Image: Cecily Brown: Picture Making, installation view, Serpentine South, 2026. © Cecily Brown. Photo: © Jo Underhill Cecily Brown’s new exhibition at Serpentine South, her first UK solo exhibition for over twenty years, represents a ‘homecoming’ for the British-born, New-York based artist. As well as a selection of key paintings dating back to 2001, Brown…

  • The Long Now: The Saatchi Gallery at 40

    Installation view of The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40 (2026). Photography by Matt Chung. Courtesy of Saatchi Gallery, London. Last year, the Saatchi Gallery turned 40. To mark its anniversary, the gallery’s latest exhibition, The Long Now, consists of a selection of historic pieces shown alongside new work by contemporary artists. Paintings, sculptures, videos…

  • Amelia Barratt at CORPUS Gallery

    Installation view of Marina, by Amelia Barratt. Courtesy of the artist and CORPUS, Cambridge. Photography: Stephen James Amelia Barratt’s ‘Marina’ is the fourth exhibition to take place in CORPUS gallery in Cambridge, a white cube space for contemporary art on King’s Street which opened last year. Barratt (b.1989) is a Glasgow-based artist who works across painting,…

  • Vanishing Landscapes: In Conversation with Bonnie Lander Johnson

    Artwork by Steven Mardones (2025) Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them (Hodder Press, 2025) explores the histories of seven plants in Britain – apples, saffron, woad, reeds, oak, grapes and wheat. The book documents Bonnie’s conversations with people who keep traditional, local techniques of working with plants…

  • Knocking Language Sideways: Seamus Heaney’s Collected Poems

    Artwork by Josse Mansilla (2025) One Tuesday evening in October, within the eaves and red-gold curtains of the Old Divinity School at St John’s College, Cambridge, The Poems of Seamus Heaney was launched to a packed house with modest fanfare. As the book’s jacket sleeve reads, ‘[t]his is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s…

  • Technicolour Victoriana: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

    Artwork by Josse Mansilla (2025) Del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s modern myth begins by going back to its source material. A Danish ship is stuck in the Arctic Circle on an expedition to the North Pole. The injured Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is found near-dead on the ice, pursued by the Creature (Jacob Elordi),…

  • It Could be Sweet: Harold Offeh at Kettle’s Yard

    Harold Offeh, Covers. After Betty Davis. They Say I’m Different, 1974 (2013), C-print. Courtesy of the artist. Entering the sliding doors on a dreary, rain-soaked November morning, hanging up my sodden jacket, and descending the steps into the foyer space that lies between the two main rooms of the Kettle’s Yard gallery, I was struck…