Cathy's Art Diary

Delightful exhibition at Charleston Farmhouse of paintings and photographs of artist studios. Curated by Langlands & Bell the show looks at artists’ studios in which the artists themselves are conspicuously absent which compliments a visit to the farmhouse itself. They drew the works from the collection of former art dealer Katrin Bellinger which contains over 1600 pictures of studios. I loved that the works were shown with no immediate explanation and it was fun to go round guessing the artist. We later found out there is a list you can get from the information desk. We’ve been around with the list since checking our answers. Closed 29 August 2022  

Intriguing  exhibition at Charleston Farmhouse of works from throughout the career of contemporary artists Langlands and Bell which look at Utopian spaces. Most of the works were low relief sculptures in white displayed against pale backgrounds either in a table or one the walls. They formed apparently abstracts shapes. I would have like to know a bit more about the buildings involved and the Utopian ideas they represent. I’m sure I will go again as I’m at Charleston a lot and next time I will try to go around with the Bloomberg Connects app which might give me a bit more information. I responded more to ones where I knew the building and my favourite was one from 1993 which showed five Piece Halls or cloth markets from Yorkshire. I also liked the inclusion of the remnants of their first work “Kitchen” from 1978 which consisted of a nostalgic draw of old cutlery and kitchen implements as it reminded of my Grandmother’s kitchen. I must admit I’d not come across Ben Langlands ...