Kate Aspinall

Writer, academic & artist. Engaging in practices & intellectual history of drawing, especially mid 20thc Britain.

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Happy holidays everyone and all the best for 2025!

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Please join me tomorrow evening in raising a glass of wine in celebration of #lifedrawing in London! PV for DRAWING HUMANS exh on 23 Oct, 18:00-22:00 at XYZ Gallery (5 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8PH), organised by Drawing Living Art. Three of my #drawings will be on display!

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Great talk on Friday on #DuncanGrant’s #Erotic #Drawings @PaulMellonCentr by Samson Dittrich (@SussexUni & @CharlestonTrust) - such a sensitive handling private drawings and the way eroticism feeds from imagined others

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Amazing box filling party last night at @ELPstudio! Final box has so many beautiful prints! Proud to have my drypoint Floating Woman no. 5 amongst them

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Favourite works on paper @GuggenheimPGC, #Venice: #Bridget Riley's study for Loss (1964, gouache & pencil); #EduardoChillida's untitled (1970, collage & ink); #KurtSchwitters's Blau in Blau (1926–9, collage & lithographic crayon) & #HansRichter's Dadakopf (1918, India ink).

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Thrilled to encounter @la_Biennale one of my favourite unorthodox, British, #drawing practitioners: #MadgeGill (1882–1961)

Crucifixion of the Soul, 1934, coloured inks on calico (London Borough of Newham Heritage Archives)

Such a complex, monumental and unsettling masterpiece!

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Dorothy Lichtenstein, the philanthropist widow to Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and the cofounder of his eponymous foundation, died on July 4. She was 84. https://t.co/s5y1ES2nvK

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Many thanks to all who participated in the @TheCourtauld Summer Intensive, ‘Unruly Britannia: The Brit Art Renaissance of 1945-1970’ - all round a pleasure to teach!

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Great visit yesterday to Neil & the @RCA Archive for my @TheCourtauld 'Unruly Britannia' class!

Fascinating to explore #ARK & learn more about the Golden Generation of 1960s pop artists ... plus a photo op with the resident rogue waxworks: #Hockney & #HenryMoore

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Bittersweet beauty: loving the room dedicated to Polish-born, WWII-survivor #FranciszkaThemerson @Tate Britain. The #drawings esp are raw, personal, often witty, and always powerful

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Intimate & wonderful display of #HenryMoore's wartime #drawings in The Butler Gallery, @TheCourtauld: the emphasis on his interest in walls as motif and allegory is powerfully presented + a great opportunity to regard the sensitively his touch and materials in person.

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Read about Euan Uglow and post-war figuration with @KateLAspinall 👉 https://t.co/qYm7ZBNabm

Visit Euan Uglow at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert until 19th July

'Study for 'The Blue Towel'' by Euan Uglow (1932–2000) 📷 © the estate of Euan Uglow / Bridgeman Images 📷 Jerwood Collection

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Loved the #RogerMayne exh @TheCourtauld Gallery - such powerful of images of postwar Britain & beautifully displayed.

Esp appreciated captions discussing history of display (often blown up for grainy effect) + presentation of albums & book covers.

Highly recommend!

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@_jamesfinch @artukdotorg Thank you! And agree: 12 Vertical is a strange proposition & early! Makes a bit of sense that Uglow would be poking holes in C’s measuring - U came under c’s influence so early (measuring marks appearing in late 1940), perhaps stranger still that U continued measuring after!

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A short piece is now live, which I wrote on #EuanUglow for @artukdotorg in celebration of the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert show (open until 19 July): https://t.co/IGIjXzmCip

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Pilgrimage of the 20thc historian to #Guernica: Henry Moore & Eduardo #Chillida sculptures powerfully placed … and another great Chillida in #Gijón

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In northern #Spain fell in love with the sculptural architecture: esp. Oscar #Niemeyer’s @CentroNiemeyer in #Avilés, #RenzoPiano’s @centrobotin in #Santander, and Frank #Gehry's @MuseoGuggenheim in #Bilbao

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Excited to announce that 'Unruly Britannia' will be returning this year as a @TheCourtauld Summer Intensive: https://t.co/GtvVGAnndg

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Please join me on Friday 8 March: proud to be taking part in @TheCourtauld's Study Day on #FrankAuerbach in celebration of the Gallery's exh Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads. https://t.co/WpP0SElnXN

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British masterpiece spotted while travelling: #LynnChadwick's Pair of Walking Figures, Jubilee (1977) looking magnificent outside @MuseoTamayo, #CDMX