“sometimes frida kahlo is reduced to her suffering – but she burned with fierce ambition”

Nikki Lilly started crying when she saw her portrait – a hyper-realistic pencil drawing that captures the slight slope of her smile, the veins around her eyes, the swelling on the right side of her fa

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

A pound of flesh NEVER was an ...

In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

JENNY SAVILLE IS KNOWN FOR HER LARGE-SCALE PORTRAITS of the female body, often depicted with grotesque exaggeration and distorted features. She links the intricacies of bodily flesh to the layering of

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans