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Eric Gill

May 2023

  • Jonathan Jones

    Eric Gill was evil. His sculpture at BBC headquarters isn’t

    Jonathan Jones
    The BBC is right to restore the defaced statue that was created by an artist who sexually abused his daughters. Instead of blaming a piece of inert stone, we should be trying to change the real world

December 2022

  • Eric Gill with to his sculpture Prospero and Ariel at BBC Broadcasting House.

    Airbrushing claim as ‘Eric Gill museum’ shuns legacy of artist and sexual abuser

    The master craftsman was once lauded in Ditchling, Sussex. Now, as the grotesque truth of his life is acknowledged, all that has changed

October 2022

  • Martha Gill

    Hitler’s watercolours are best ignored, but you have to reckon with the power of Eric Gill

    Martha Gill
  • Comedian Jimmy Carr wielding a hammer

    Channel 4 buys painting by Hitler – and may let Jimmy Carr destroy it

January 2022

  • Catherine Bennett

    Sometimes a statue is indefensible – the BBC should get rid of Eric Gill

    Catherine Bennett
    Its response to the paedophile artist’s vandalised work is highly misguided

December 2017

  • Rachel Cooke

    Spare us the moral hysteria that threatens a new age of censorship

    Rachel Cooke
    The muddle over sexual behaviour is already proving dangerous for free expression in the arts

April 2017

  • Eric Gill Ariel

    Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?

    Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work?

February 2017

  • Patio, 1998 by David Rayson.

    House of horrors: the shows putting a macabre twist on domestic bliss

  • David Jones's The Garden Enclosed

    Anatomy of an artwork
    David Jones’s The Garden Enclosed: trauma, passion and childhood

October 2016

  • tirzah garwood the train journey woodcut

    Rachel Cooke's shelf life
    Tirzah Garwood: portrait of the artist and her circle

    Tirzah Garwood’s autobiography, finished when she had just lost her husband, Eric Ravilious, is as evocative as her work

March 2016

  • Edward Johnston design for an alphabet, 1916.

    This week’s new exhibitions

  • Edward Johnston Way Out, Brompton Road 1916 Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft Edward Johnston's Way Out, Brompton Road, 1916. DMAC. Underground: 100 years of Edward Johnston’s Lettering for London Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft 12 March – 11 September 2016

    London to the letter: meet Edward Johnston, the font of all tube style

January 2016

  • Keep Calm and Carry On ( and On and On and On)

    Keep Calm and Carry On – the sinister message behind the slogan that seduced the nation

    It is on posters, mugs, tea towels and in headlines. Harking back to a ‘blitz spirit’ and an age of public service, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ has become ubiquitous. How did a cosy, middle-class joke assume darker connotations?

November 2015

  • Charles Edwin Fripp’s The Last Stand at Isandlhula, 1885

    Artist and Empire review – a captivating look at the colonial times we still live in

    The stiff upper lips and square jaws may be gone, but it’s hard to escape the modern parallels in this provocative exhibition that brings the British empire back to life

October 2015

  • The Garden Enclosed

    Soldier, poet, painter: how David Jones became Britain’s visionary outsider

    Whether in his vivid war epics or painting the valleys in Wales, David Jones observed the world intensely. Fiona MacCarthy salutes a modernist maker on the brink of a major revival

September 2015

  • Google unveils their new san-serif, four colour logo.

    Google's new logo is motivated by design austerity, not legibility

    Jack Self
    The web giant is trading on the assumption sans serif fonts are intrinsically easier to read, but the truth is they are simply faster to load

November 2014

  • Eric Gill works on a sculpture of Jesus restoring the sight of Bartimaeus at Moorfields Eye Hospital

    Courtesy of the man from Oz and Viz, the outrageous Eric Gill’s finest art

    Multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis was an obsessive collector of the great artist-craftsman, who also became infamous for his voracious sexual appetite. Now his archive is up for auction at Sotheby’s

July 2014

  • Hayward Gallery

    Museum of the Year 2014: what makes a winner?

    Artist Tracey Emin, historian David Starkey, designer Margaret Howell and others champion their favourite exhibition space

July 2006

  • Written in stone

    Eric Gill's reprehensible private life would doubtless land him in prison today. But does that mean we should value his sculpture less? After all, writes Fiona MacCarthy, the two sides of the man are inextricably linked.

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