Cathy's Art Diary

Fun installation   at the Royal Academy making use of busts from their own collection to explore portrait sculpture. Curated by artists Cathie Pilkington and Alison Wilding these are laid out in one room on unusual plinths such as breeze blocks and filing cabinets and graduated in height. All the pieces are either by or of Fellows of the Royal Academy and the show has info sheets to tell you who they are of and by. They give the effect of looking at a room of faces but also make you reflect on how sculpture has changed over the 250 years since the foundation of the RA. Closes 19 January 2020

Slightly dull exhibition at Tate Britain of sculpture by Alison Wilding. The colours in the works blended beautifully with the Duveen Gallery but the works were dwarfed by the space and there weren’t many of them I guess it give them room to breathe but I felt it made them look a bit insignificant. I did like the round one like a lily pond but felt a bit annoyed that it was not in the middle of the space. I am sure this was deliberate and artistic but I could only focus on that fact it was crying out to be placed on the central marble feature of the space. I would like to see this work somewhere else to see if I have a different reaction to it.