Geist: Between Legacy and Becoming – at London’s D Contemporary gallery

Laura Holmes with ‘Welcome Back, You’ve been difficult to talk to.’

By James Brewer

Laura Holmes, a London-based painter, cooks up a feast of wild colouration, as is to be seen in her latest exhibition outing. She is one of four contemporary artists whose work is shown alongside legendary figures (one of them David Hockney, still very much alive and working furiously at the age of 87), in a show titled Geist: Between Legacy and Becoming.

The aim of this display at D Contemporary gallery in the...

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Behind The Sky: A Tribute to Missing Persons from the Croatian Homeland War, at London’s D Contemporary gallery

Gordana Špoljar Andrašić with Burden (graphite, pencil and gold).

By James Brewer

When war is over – it is not over. Pain, trauma and the anguish of not knowing what has happened to countless missing loved ones remains bitterly sharp.

This was the aching impetus for a moving display of artwork under the title Behind The Sky: A Tribute to Missing Persons from the Croatian Homeland War. The displayatthe Mayfair galleryD Contemporarywas certainly not a dirge or lamentation, though.

The installations...

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