British and Irish Art

Adrian Clark Art Commentator and Historian

Tag: John Piper

  • The Art of John Piper. David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler-Wright

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    Writing about the entirety of John Piper’s career presents a formidable challenge. It lasted a long time and encompassed a great variety of types of work. Describing it requires a very fine balance between detail and overview. The authors here on the whole make a good job of getting that balance right.

  • Exhibitions in 2012

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    Diary starting to fill with next year’s stuff. John Piper will be having more publicity. “John Piper and the Church” is going to be at Dorchester Abbey from 21st April to 10th June. “John Piper:the Gyselynck Collection” will be at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley from 3rd March to 8th October and “John Piper:…

  • John Piper, Myfanwy Piper by Frances Spalding

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    Oxford, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-956761-4 £25Review published in the British Art Journal, X, 2, Winter 2009 It is difficult to know where to begin when tackling John Piper. He lived a long and productive life, working successfully in a variety of styles and media. Although crudely categorised by some as a ‘traditional’ artist, in fact there…

  • John Piper in Kent and Sussex – Exhibition at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

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    Curated by Nathaniel Hepburn. Catalogue with contributions from various authors: ISBN 978-0-9567676-0-8, Paddock Wood, 2011Published in the British Art Journal, Volume XII No. 2, Autumn 2011 Reviewing Frances Spalding’s biography of John and Myfanwy Piper in these pages I commented upon the extraordinary range of Piper’s achievements. This excellent exhibition provoked the same thought. The…

  • John Piper in the 1930s. ‘Abstraction on the Beach’.

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    Dulwich Picture Gallery, London,1 April to 22 June 2003; the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, July to 7 September 2003.Catalogue edited by David Fraser Jenkins and Frances Spalding, 192pp, published by Merrell Publishers in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, London £29.95, ISBN 1 85894 223 3Published in the British Art Journal, IV, 2, Summer 2003 John Piper…