portraiture – Hackney Citizen

Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 May 2017 at 10:49

"Nonchalant confidence and pride": Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London © The Estate of Alice Neel

A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture

Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 May 2017 at 15:48

A triumphant Benjamin Ogbebor, his family, and Dr Robert Travers (2nd from left.)

The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first