Press Coverage: John Moores Painting Prize 2020 Edinburgh artist in the running for UK’s biggest art prize. Edinburgh Reporter, 14 February 2021 By Phyllis Stephen Liverpool-born artist shortlisted for top award, 19 February 2021, Liverpool Life, Paul McAuley, JMU...
‘The Neanderthals Future Infirmary’ 2019, oil and mixed media on canvas, 160 x 240 cm Short List I am one of 5 prize winners shortlisted for the delayed 2020 John Moores Painting Prize with my painting ‘The Neanderthals Future Infirmary’. I am...
Just before the first COVID-19 lockdown, we took ownership of a 7-year-old Border Terrier called Stanley. As we entered lockdown, my daily walks with Stanley into the Pentland Hills became an essential activity of body and mind. The Pentland Hills are a stone’s...
Present day, hidden under many forgotten or disused hospitals, are warrens of still- functioning operating theatres, recovery rooms and laboratories. They have a single goal: to bring back the Neanderthals. Why? To see if they and other archaic humans might have their...
‘In the adjacent gallery, Neoneanderthals is a collaboration between Robbie Bushe and Jeanne Cannizzo. It poses the question, if homo sapiens have made such a mess of things, maybe cloned neanderthals, neoneanderthals after “de-extinction,” might do better....
