Eliza Goodpasture

Beauty, terror, awe: drawing the sea | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

Beauty, terror and awe 🌊

Discover how artists channel the sea through drawing 👉 buff.ly/Li0UxIR

'Sea Rock – Line Drawing' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

New story ✏️

Read 'Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group' 👉 buff.ly/BbYLD6l

'Dora Carrington' by Dora Carrington (1893–1932) 📷 National Portrait Gallery

Jenny Saville's drawings in the long shadow of the Renaissance Madonna | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

my piece for @artukdotorg.bsky.social up now - on jenny saville and motherhood
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The aesthetic artistic interior: sketching the Victorian home | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

From Instagram feeds to Victorian sketches, interiors have long reflected changing taste.

Artistic homes were captured through watercolours and drawings.

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🧑‍🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) 📷 Russell Cotes

The exquisite corpse: the Mad Libs of Surrealist drawing | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

'Exquisite corpse' was surrealism’s Mad Libs ✏️

Discover how this playful drawing game shaped modern creativity in this new story 👉 buff.ly/l3S25JX

🧑‍🎨 Dinos Chapman (b.1962) and Jake Chapman (b.1966) © the artists. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

A voyage with no destination: Louise Bourgeois's 1960s drawings | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

A joy to write about the Courtauld's 'Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s' display for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. You can catch it until September 14th. Thanks so much @elizag.bsky.social for the commission! artuk.org/discover/sto...

So excited to publish an interview with the iconic Louise Giovanelli in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this month!

Cluster of yellowish-brown mushrooms growing on a dark, weathered tree branch against a plain background.

Detailed botanical illustration of three brown mushrooms with textured caps and long stems on a beige background.

Detailed botanical illustration of orange-capped mushrooms growing among green grass and small plants on a beige background.

Happy birthday Beatrix Potter 🎂

Before Beatrix Potter's classic literary figures, she had a strong interest in the wondrous world of mushrooms 🍄

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🧑‍🎨 Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 Armitt Museum and Library

Yes it is!

Can confirm that Eliza is an absolute DREAM to work with. If you work on drawings, get in touch with her and the ArtUK team asap ✨

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The sapphic sketchbook: what drawings can reveal about desire | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

What can drawings reveal about desire?

For lesbian artists throughout history, sketchbooks have been safe places to explore intimacy, identity, and longing in ways public artworks couldn't.

Read more in this new story 👉 buff.ly/NCyYICO

🧑‍🎨 Gwen John (1876–1939) 📷 @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social

I also read this as a consequence of gig economy/doggedly monetising your hobbies. Obviously rich celebrities don't NEED the money, but I think now it's an expectation that you publicise/professionalise anything you do for 'fun'

We love Dutch <3

The thing that gets me about this (aside from the obvious cruelty and irrationality) is that it directly impacts British citizens (spouses and children). How can MPs defend this to their voters?? Speaking as someone on a spouse visa

A really exciting interview in Tandem – Joanne Leonard is 85 and only just getting global recognition for her incredible feminist photography and collage practices. We spoke with her ahead of her first UK show at HackelBury Gallery.

Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

'Just like a medieval saint'

19th-century artist, author and philanthropist Francesca Alexander has largely disappeared from history, but she was a celebrity during her lifetime.

Read on 👉 buff.ly/oTxZrKc

🧑‍🎨 Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)📷 Sothebys

The Victoriana of museum “rehangs” Put on your hoop skirts

Museum “rehangs” are everywhere, most recently at London's National Gallery. They inspire furious debate about mixing old art & new politics, but we forget that museums have always done that: their Victorian roots have never been more visible.

Drawing St Ives: Modernism and 'French rot' in twentieth-century Cornwall | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

Beside the seaside 🌊

This new story focuses on the artists who depicted the town of St Ives in drawings during the 20th 👉 buff.ly/jwoSigS

'St Ives' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

A painting of children on and around a portico, with a landscape in the background, in which sits a statue of a Madonna & Child. In the foreground, a girl in a red dress with a blue bow in her hair hands an orange to two other girls, at least one of whom is dressed in rags. At the feet of the girl in the red dress is a cloth with more food in it. At the left edge of the painting two more children are seated on the step.

Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy
by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio for the @artukdotorg.bsky.social blog
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Pictured: Charity, 1861, oil on canvas by Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)

Excited to now be publishing something every week at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social with the addition of "In tandem with..." – our new series of shorter interviews with artists and art people. Read the first one here!

‘I push carpet to the extreme’: The craft genius who makes tufted humanoid wearable sculptures Should carpet as a medium be as highly regarded as painting with oils and sculpting with marble? Anna Perach, an artist born in Ukraine, talks us through her new show inspired by Hoffman’s love triang...

I interviewed Anna Perach about her amazing tufted carpet sculptures and the drift of modern society away from magical, mystical ways of seeing the word. Her show opens at Richard Saltoun in London today!
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Wonderful new story in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this week with interviews with queer artists about the way they collaborate with and support their partners – a new model for fostering shared, loving creativity in an increasingly relentlessly capitalist art world.

It’s a liberation Queer artist couples show us that great art doesn’t have to be made alone.

Creating a rebellious blueprint, queer artist couples teach us the importance of the collective, of the shared, and of the community. “It’s a liberation, meeting someone who opens you up,” says María Cuellar.
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Taste follows power Siena’s lesson in history-writing.

I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...
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I lived there in 2016 and I still miss it. A perfect, strange time capsule of a city.

Taste follows power Siena’s lesson in history-writing.

I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...
@tandemmagazine.bsky.social

Taste follows power Siena’s lesson in history-writing

Siena is a story of the path history didn’t take. That is the privilege of the powerful: to write something out of memory, to create the myths of nations, of religions, of power.
Read more from @elizag.bsky.social on the what-might-have-been of Siena's renaissance:
www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...

Really interesting story from Annette Wickham at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social about Turner's early training at the RA Schools – he called it "the place to which I owe everything."

@artukdotorg.bsky.social has loads on Turner for his 250th birthday – this thread is a great place to start.