Art Weekend Away from London

"There are some lovely works of art here but I couldn\’t escape the thought that all of art and science are helpless before the mystery and beauty of a single living daisy."

The Guardian

"This massive, ambitious exhibition is the Chinese artist at his most monumental, and as a result at his most effective. His subject matter works best at enormous scale, blown up, expanded, shoved in your face."

The Guardian

"It is a worthwhile endeavour, searching for a contemporary conversation for Murtha's work, but Close to Home feels quite far off the mark. That Murtha and Ryniewicz are outstanding photographers is indisputable; that they cohere effectively in this exhibition is less convincing."

The Guardian

"This love has a toxic edge. It's as damaging as it is nurturing, as painful as it is essential. Not because their love is unique, but because Mendick has realised that's just what love is."

The Guardian

"Constable gets caricatured as a conservative. In reality he is a conservationist. The Hay Wain, his most elegiac work, is about space and time."

The Guardian

"It's outer space, distant stars, planet Earth, the birds and bees and trees all right here, in this exact moment. It's a portrait of you in the universe, a picture of its vastness and your own little place in it."

The Guardian

"This is an exhibition all about exclusion, about trying to fit in but never quite managing. It's razor-sharp, funny, pop-cultural, obtuse conceptual art about growing up black in Britain, about trying to make it and knowing you're bound to fail, because the system is geared towards failure."

The Guardian

"On a spring day, with bluebells in the churchyard of St Peter's next door, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more uplifting exhibition. If you have a greenhouse, get to it. For me, the pots on the patio call."

The Times

"The best work, by contrast, finds strangeness in the familiar, and summons a forceful, idiosyncratic poetry. Paul Nash and Ivon Hitchens are the stars, although a couple of free-and-easy drawings by Peter Lanyon, inspired by gliding above Cornwall, are thrilling – and don't deserve to be stuffed in a corner."

The Telegraph

"Banerjee's surreal juxtapositions do not banalise high culture, in the sense of bringing it down to the level of daytime television. Instead, they serve to re-enchant everyday life, bringing the Indian gods into a quintessentially British world of anthropomorphic vacuum cleaners and ghastly carpets."

The Guardian

"There is not enough space (in this article, on the internet) to adequately describe the bands of colour that Hokusai gives to the skies through pine trees and plum gardens (one literal translation of mono no aware is “the ah!-ness of things”, which is perhaps as close as we can get)."

The Guardian

"These many hands and hours make Entangled and Woven an exquisitely beautiful exhibition. Every slip of fabric is layered with delicate detail and texture. Fabrics are airy and ethereal one moment, and weighty and dipped in deep indigo the next."

The Guardian

"They're pretty paintings, but a bit laboured and indulgent. Guzmán is way better out in nature, where the landscape becomes the main character, where the jungle explodes into life."

The Guardian

"After centuries of colonialism and exploitation, there's just so much anger and pain here. This show isn't just about the earth and memory, this is art as a form of aesthetic resistance. It's hard not to see these ideas of stolen land and colonialism through the lens of Trump's regime with its ICE raids and travel bans."

The Guardian