John Bellany

Our next Artist You Need To Know is someone who has been described by Keith Hartley, a past senior curator of the National Galleries of Scotland, as offering something “like a manifesto: I don’t want to do paintings for Edinburgh drawing rooms, I want to do...

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Our latest Artist You Need To Know, in the ongoing series from AIH Studios, is an artist of unique vision. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photographs are sometimes playful, sometimes disturbing. His subjects are often characters in a scene he’s staged, that is as...

Brenda Pelkey

Our next Artist You Need To Know is someone who just recently had a major retrospective of her work (long overdue, perhaps) generated by the Art Gallery of Windsor and which travelled to numerous places around Canada, as her work was always a critical and interesting...

Graham Coughtry

The latest person we’re featuring in AIH’s ongoing Artists You Need To Know series has a work currently on display at the Art Gallery of Hamilton that is, perhaps, one of his finest, and a fine example of his practice. Graham Coughtry’s Leaping Figure (1961) is given...

Diana Thorneycroft

Our next Artist You Need To Know is prolific and provocative: perhaps you had the chance to see an excellent exhibition of some of her latest work at the Art Gallery of Burlington when it was there last year. Diana Thorneycroft’s Black Forest (dark waters) created a...