“A gasping death-rattle of mediocrity, a miserable garden party of vapid good taste.”
That’s how The Guardian art critic, Jonathan Jones, describes this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Harsh.
Granted, not many pieces jump off the wall as I wander around the vast viewing rooms but “miserable”? No, it’s never that.
2024’s may not be the best Summer Exhibition I’ve seen but any show that fills the walls floor to ceiling with art can’t help but impress.
Nowadays, I visit the Summer Exhibition less to find inspiration and more to assess whether my work would fit into the mix, and if it would, in which room would it sit. In reality, there’s so much variety within the exhibition that it’s hard to believe ANY work of art wouldn’t fit somewhere within the Royal Academy’s …
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