The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature again. Well why not (again)? Again and again (and again and again), all this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every couple of weeks or so alongside everything else that appears on these fractured pages on a daily basis? Can you think of one good reason why not to? Well besides the time involved and the this and the that and the dancing around and the skins on the tins of paint and the man at the door…

Five pieces of art then, a semi regular feature, just five pieces of art that have passed our way in the last few days, nothing more (or less) than that. Nothing really to do with an upcoming show or anything else (although maybe they are), just a simple, semi regular five pieces of art feature. Let’s do it again…

1: Now this is strong, always enjoy A David Shillinglaw/Lily Mixe piece, this one, Supernature, 2024, a painted and collaged wooden assemblage (130x130cm), The title piece and collaboration made for their exhibition that just came to an end at Salisbury’s Vanner Gallery.

Supernature is a body of work that celebrates the natural world. The artists are a couple; they share a home and studio and although their approach and aesthetic can sometimes contrast, both artists are heavily drawn to nature as a constant source of inspiration. The exhibition is a cross-pollination of ideas, objects, materials and techniques, and the result of many years collecting and studying together.  “We are animists*, all of us. Whether we realise it or not, we worship nature. We invest meaning into sacred ground, magic rocks, medicinal plants, precious metals and minerals. We celebrate rainbows, volcanos, and the ebb and flow of seasonal transitions. Nature has the power to shape our landscape and sustain systems on which we all depend. There is no separation; we are part and particle of the natural world”.

Lily and David invite you to look closer at nature and discover connections that support the idea that we are all made from the same stuff. Everything is connected; the micro and macro systems collide and overlap. Hidden under soil and layers of skin, the world grows and decays in a harmony of brutal beauty.

*animist: a person who believes all natural things, such as plants, animals, rocks and thunder have spirits and can influence human events.

And now I must admit I had forgotten this particular Five Art Things page and this bit about the David Shillinglaw/Lily Mixe piece, it was writen late last year and here were are in late February 2025 and David Shillinglaw just reminded me via his social media by saying this and posting the image that’s just down there…

“I struggle to digest the world, to know which bits of the news I should chew on or spit out. It’s overwhelming. Painting and poetry help me locate the inner horizon, mapping moments, plotting ideas and planting trees in the wilderness of my mind.

I allow myself to get excited about colour combinations or reinventing ancient symbols, grounding myself in smudges and splinters and celebrating confusion and constellations of the absurd”.

2: One of Tricia Gillman‘s paintings that can currently be seen, for the whole of the year so it seems, as part of Tricia Gillman Paintings From the Eighties, 1985-87 at Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf. Right, The evil doctor G tells is that the paintings are only on view by appointment but they are there until December 13, 2025, more via Tricia’s website about the appointment thing

And you really can’t get a sense of the size of that Tricia Gilman painting from just seeing it as a flat image on line like that, here’s some installation shots from the Canary Wharf show that give you a bit more of a flavour. And i do see there is an opening on the evening of March 20th 2025

More Tricia Gillman coverage on these pages – Tricia Gillman, Moment Fields at Benjamin Rhodes Arts – the tiny details feel important, the layers beneath, the things you almost sense rather than see. This, for more than one reason, is a rather recommended exhibition…

3: Melike is as productive as ever, new work energing all the time from the Turkish artist including the piece show just share on her social media. Melike has been featuring on these pages for a number of years now,we’ve nowhere near had enough of her mark making yet. Here’s her online solo exhibition from March 2023 – Cultivate presents Melike – an online art exhibition…

4: Jennifer Binnie – Woman in the Trees is a rather beautiful limited edition of 50 individually hand-coloured linocuts, created by artist Jennifer Binnie to accompany her debut publication and solo exhibition, Forest Visions, at Richard Saltoun Gallery (January–March 2025). Read more about the show here – ORGAN THING: On a wet Friday in London part one, Jennifer Binnie at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Lilly Fenichel’s Against the Grain at Gazelli Art House…

“The publication includes an essay by art critic Jennifer Higgie and a special section dedicated to materials from the Neo Naturists Archive. Each Woman in the Trees print is signed and numbered by the artist, and comes unframed, inside a complimentary copy of the publication. Please note that the hand-painted background colours will vary, making each piece uniquely distinctive”. More here

5: Taylor Silk – Do love her red star down in the basement, I guess it will be gone in the next day or two, she painted it there before the start of her show at Hackney’s Wilton Way Gallery, it deserves one more celebration before it gets painted over and the next show opens in the very small basement space. That show opening back in Early January really did get the start of the London art eyar off in style – ORGAN THING: Taylor Silk’s Soft Domme opening night at East London’s Wilton Way Gallery, so much more than just playful fun…

And more Milike…