Vanilla and concrete
Innovative exhibition at Tate Britain of work by three contemporary artists who use everyday objects, spaces and gestures in their work freezing a transient moment by freezing them in a work of art. I think my favourite was Mary Ramsden who made large pictures based on the smudges and painterly marks left on mobile phone screens. It made you get your own phone out and have a look at the marks on it. Somehow they are now a record of a thought process! Rallou Panagiotou made luxury and leisure items out of marble such as cocktail straws plus his own toe in grey marble with a green toe nail. Marie Lund made casts of ordinary objects and I loved the casts of the inside of backpacks. Each one was different as different things had been carried in it and had tufts of the material from the original around the edges. Closes on 19 Jun2 2016. Reviews Evening Standard