Louise R Mayhew

Mentor | Editor | Writer
Founding Editor of Lemonade: Letters to Art, a new reviews platform dedicated to exhibitions in Queensland, Australia

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

What, I hear you cry, are these? From Egypt, 3000+ years ago, these ivory “clappers”, in the form of human hands (with bracelets), were percussion instruments used to shake & rattle against each other, to keep rhythm in musical performances
https://t.co/6GSdZCBfgt

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

This remarkable floor mosaic of an octopus fighting a lobster, surrounded by a spectacular variety of sea creatures, was found during the excavation of the House of the Dancing Faun, ancient Pompeii’s richest residence (1st century, National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

[Art Gallery NSW @ArtGalleryofNSW]

🎉 Congratulations to Julia Gutman, who's won the #ArchibaldPrize 2023 for portrait 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground' of singer-songwriter @actualmontaigne: https://t.co/L0FSnzMzEF
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Julia Gutman 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground' © the artist

Presenting Partner @ANZ_AU

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Crocheted canopy for shade in public space, created by 40 local women of Cartaya, Spain #WomensArt

[Escher @escherxyz]

1/ @JubbishJay creates imagery too sublime to be real. Frozen mountains. Ancient rock formations. Figures lost in the land.

This Escher Editorial celebrates the pristine beauty of Jubbish Jay’s adventure photography, revealing roots in Romanticism, Pictorialism & Impressionism.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Without Mauve, Rubens, Hiroshige, Gauguin, Monticelli, and so many others whose art he learned from, nor without the support of Père Tanguy or Agostina Segatori, nor the devotion of Theo and the efforts of Jo, would the van Gogh now so beloved around the world have ever existed.

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

4,000 year old pectoral with necklace, from tomb of Egyptian Princess Sithathoryunet ~ cloisonné enamel with gold & 372 fashioned pieces of lapis lazuli, turquoise, garnets & other semiprecious stones, flanked by falcons, as symbols of the sun god https://t.co/ItFt7BAa90

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@littlewordier @LaurenElkin I use germinal 💚

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

What's your favorite detail of any work of art? I think the right hand of Michelangelo's David is one of the greatest things ever made.

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@John_Attridge 😂👏🏻

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@qianjinghua Holy moley that’s a good deal. My glasses are $1000+ and not because I choose fancy frames… because I need all kinds of boring things expensive things for my broken eyes 🫠

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@jubbishjay 🐸

[Filippo Lorenzin @fi_lor]

“Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany.
The bubbles are symbols of the fragility of life 🫧

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

Lemonade is weekly art criticism for the Sunshine state.

4 months after launching we've written 17 review for 730 Instagram followers and 180 subscribed readers! If you love art and art writing, join them here: https://t.co/gfCzPwN8mH

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@QAGOMA created a YouTube playlist for all of my Confronting Contemporary Art lectures :)

You can watch them all here !! https://t.co/rnUEFHICgl

[Elliott Bledsoe @elliottbledsoe]

Congratulations to @DrMayhew on launching Lemonade, a new art criticism platform. 😻
#LemonadeLetters #LettersToArt #ArtReviews #ArtCriticism

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

@MadOl66 @SomersetRC Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed the exhibition!

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

https://t.co/cSATE5Tfs7
Who doesn't love a Sculpture Festival?

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

Read the full review here: https://t.co/Dw2bnPZjsF

[Louise R Mayhew @DrMayhew]

Exhibition reviews satisfy one of two possibilities: to think through an exhibition more deeply or see something new. For Lemonade’s opening review, I chose the latter... The Apple and the Knife surveys four decades of practice by Canadian-born, Somerset local, Merton Chambers.