Nothing about us, without us
The draft text of Winter Fires should be complete by the end of August. Everyone who has contributed to it
Tag: older people
Ways of being an old painter
At the National Portrait Gallery, in London, there is a photograph of two painters by David Dawson. Lucian Freud stands
Representing people
Work on the portraits for Winter Fires continues, alongside the meetings and conversations with older artists. The aim is to produce a
Conditional artists
The art world divides artists into two kinds. There are artists, by which it means the acceptable figures who conform
Playing the game
Retirement is an old fashioned word for an increasingly old fashioned idea. It evokes Victorian widows moving to the country
Standing exactly at that place
(Photo © Simon Richardson) ‘I’m standing exactly at that place in terms of working with older people in this country.
