Born in Bradford but raised in Bangladesh, Matthew Krishanu paints children playing on swings, seesaws and climbing frames to makes subtle points about race, empire and excluded faces
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses,” said Susan Sontag in her 1973 book On Photography. The late Spanish artist Juan Genovés did both in his powerful political paintings that draw on photography and film techniques to point up state atrocities of the Franco era.
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This area is situated in the heartland of Europe’s only Indigenous people, the Sámi, and it is the site of a long and bitter cultural, political, and ecological struggle over land use rights and guardianship.
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In a major new commission for the Tate museum group in London, the British-Guyanese artist returns to the themes of empire and postcolonial reckoning that have fascinated him throughout his career.
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“The things I articulate in my artwork are memories hidden in the brain cells that are waiting for a trigger,” the Iraqi-born artist says.
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After skewering the male dominance of gay bars, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings are scrutinising overlooked historical connections between feminism and the political right
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