Went down to the Jerwood gallery in Hastings yesterday and saw the William Scott exhibition and the collection upstairs, which includes a lovely painting by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. I was sorry not to see more of Scott’s still lives, which I really love, but I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised as the exhibition was called Divided Figure, after all. I didn’t really go for the painted figures much, although I enjoyed the charcoal drawings.
Also on show were eight of the Chapman brothers’ Exquisite Corpse series. They seem particularly relevant at the moment. Death, war, bodies in parts …
