The Journal
Studio visits, process notes and practical guides to looking at — and living with — contemporary art.
Studio visit · 8 min read
In the studio with Mara Okafor
Buckets of estuary water, a borrowed boatshed and fourteen canvases drying on the floor — a morning in Porto before Tidal Memory.
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How we hang a show in four days
Spirit levels, string lines and the 145 cm rule — the craft of installing paintings.
Collecting your first painting
Budgets, editions, condition reports and why you should always ask to see the back.
Why we never mix on the palette
Revisiting the rule behind our very first exhibition, Carnival, three years on.
Paper, water, gold: Haneda’s process
Inside the slow, wet and very quiet method behind Gold Ink and Fold / Unfold.
The conservator’s notebook
Light, humidity and frames: keeping a painting happy at home.