Interview with Miranda Donovan

10/05/16
Interview with Miranda Donovan

Published in issue 21 (summer 2016) of State magazine

Review of Peter Newman: Subterranean Blues at CNB Gallery

10/01/16

Peter Newman: Subterranean Blues

CNB Gallery

24 November 2015 – 14 February 2016

Descending the stairs to the subterranean, blue-painted cellar that is CNB Gallery, visitors are met with an unlikely series of photographs: eight large-scale, circular prints, each offering a periscopic vista up towards the sky. Forming part of Peter Newman’s Metropoly project, these images take viewers to cities around the world – London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris – capturing contemporary buildings, Modernist structures and century-old churches alike, seen from below, as if by an ant, alongside trees, clouds and, in the centre, always, a glimpse of sky.

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Review of Miranda Donovan: Metaphors for Mankind at CNB Gallery

29/10/15

Miranda Donovan: Metaphors for Mankind

CNB Gallery, London

7 October – 12 November 2015

Deep beneath the ground in the heart of Shoreditch, a basement brims with hooded figures; pithy, stencilled statements; exposed bricks; graffiti tags and corrugated steel sheets. But these are not crude scribbles on a cellar wall; these are carefully crafted paintings – worth a bob or two, at that – by Miranda Donovan, a City and Guilds-trained artist, who refers to her deeply layered and textured works as “sculptural paintings” and who, through her own self-exploration, questions and challenges the viewer’s concept of the human condition.

The venue is the CNB Gallery – formerly Cock and Bull – named after the infamous Damien Hirst tank containing a Hereford cow and a cockerel, preserved in formaldehyde, and elevated above diners in the centre of the former electricity generating station, now Mark Hix’s Tramshed restaurant, directly above. Donovan and Hix first collaborated in 2009, when the artist was commissioned to create a bespoke mobile for his Soho restaurant. They have continued to work together on and off ever since.

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Preview of Miranda Donovan: Metaphors For Mankind at CNB Gallery

28/09/15

Miranda Donovan: Metaphors For Mankind

CNB Gallery, Tramshed

7 October – 12 November 2015

Published in issue 18 (autumn 2015) of StateF22