WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Ordinary excitements
What made Roy Oxlade excel as a painter, says MICHAL BONCZA, was his ability to transform the everyday into objects of wonder
(L to R) Woman on a Table, 2002; Untitled (All images: courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London © Estate of Roy Oxlade)
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
ROY OXLADE, who died in 2014 at the age of 85, was many things — all of them inextricably interlinked and interdependent.
A celebrated teacher, a radical and compelling philosopher in the field of art and a painter with a captivating and intriguing vision, he was also a lifelong Labour voter with a disdain for the Establishment and the monarchy, in particular the latter’s dispensation of “honours” to those in the arts.
As a new online exhibition of his work Art & Instinct at London's Alison Jacques Gallery demonstrates, he was an enfant terrible by nature and a true renaissance man by choice, with both complementing each other to perfection.
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