Category Archives: painting

FRANCIS BACON IN WIVENHOE

The painter Denis Wirth Miller was Francis Bacon’s best friend. However, their relationship and the fact that they regularly shared Wirth Miller’s studio in the small town of Wivenhoe is virtually forgotten today. I revisited the Wivenhoe chapter in Bacon’s … Continue reading

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NEW YORK TALK

If you are interested in my talk on Francis Bacon and artistic collaboration at the CAA conference next week in New York come along- the panel is free and open to the public. Please find more details in the conference’s programme.

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PERRY OGDEN INTERVIEW

I interviewed Perry Ogden on photographing Francis Bacon’s Reece Mews studio before its relocation to Ireland in 1998. Find out more in the latest issue of SuperMassiveBlackHole focussing on studio spaces. Download the magazine here

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BACON MONTHLY FOCUS

Francis Bacon was fascinated by bullfighting and repeatedly referred to the corrida in his paintings. Find my brief introduction on the artist’s relationship to the topic as ‘Monthly Focus’ on the website of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Monaco. … Continue reading

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THE NOT-SO-SILENT PARTNER

The College Art Association of America accepted my proposal for their 2015 conference in New York. I am looking forward to speaking about Francis Bacon and artistic collaboration.

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AESTHETICS OF TRANSPARENCY – FRANCIS BACON AND X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY

I will be talking on Francis Bacon’s engagement with radiography at the interdisciplinary postgraduate conference ‘in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion’ at the University of Birmingham, 27th June 2013. More on the conference’s website.

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FRANCIS BACON IBOOK

My iBook on Francis Bacon, created together with The Estate of Francis Bacon and ArtFinder, is available on iTunes.

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METAMORPHOSES

Francis Bacon Metamorphoses presents twenty of the most compelling comparisons between the wide-ranging imagery that Bacon collected and the paintings they informed. I was sponsored by The Estate of Francis Bacon to undertake a twelve-month research project, working with Bacon’s original … Continue reading

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