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Conversations with Francis Bacon, revisited.

I have often found myself asking, “What is the point  of making art?” The majority of it lives in a museum, a gallery, or collectors’ homes secluded from the broader public. Even when we do have access to view artwork in a public space such as a gallery or museum, the message of the work [...]

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CULTURE CLASH, or art and commercialism.

For many years I embraced this world thinking I was an artist. I painted and looked forward to the day where I could only make art and live a life like Picasso or Van Gogh, however heroic or treacherous it may be. Well, a couple of years in to the real world and many slim [...]

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