Vorticists, Portraits, Polaroids - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions
10 June, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys
Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Tuesday 14th June
The Vorticists @ Tate Britain
Tate Britain explores the short-lived British art movement Vorticism this summer. Conceived by Wyndham Lewis, and combining elements of the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism and Futurism, Vorticism was a radical, forward-looking movement, that embraced ideas of progress. These are the kind of movements that date badly, so this should be interesting.
From Thursday 16th June
BP Portrait Award @ National Portrait Gallery
With a first prize of £25,000, the BP Portrait Award is definitely worth entering. Unfortunately entry for the 2011 competition is now closed, but an exhibition of the best works is on display at the National Portrait Gallery from June to September. The finalists this year are: Wim Heldens, Sertan Saltan, Ian Cumberland and Louis Smith.
From Friday 17th June
Wendy Bevan @ Cob Studios
Things are about to get a little more raunchy at the Cob Gallery thanks to Wendy Bevan's painterly femme fatale series. Expect an eyeful of peculiar nudity as the artist's hand painted Polaroid shots depict women obscuring their bodies with mirrors, magnifying glasses and an assortment of other props.
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