MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes
Feeling at home among workers
CHRISTINE LINDEY is touched by an exhibition of evocative prints by Frank Brangwyn who shunned formal innovations in favour of socially conscious work
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CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
Frank Brangwyn’s Prints
Brighton Museum
Prints and Drawings Gallery
Royal Pavilion Gardens
Brighton BN1
Who nowadays has heard of Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)? Yet he’d had the greatest international reputation of any British artist, he exhibited with Monet, Whistler and Degas, was feted by the Vienna Secessionists and was praised by Kandinsky.
Born in 1867 in Bruges to Anglo-Welsh, Catholic parents, he grew up in London from the age of eight.
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