Today’s Slice Of Art, we did say we would do this, maybe not every single day, more often than not though, there can never be too much art on these pages, here comes another slice…
A simple feature, just an almost daily slice of the art posted. Some days it might be a piece of art from someone we’ve been regularly covering on these pages (and maybe working with in terms of Cultivate), other days it might be something by an (almost) household name, on other days it might be a piece of art by someone who work we hadn’t known until the day we posted it, Today, eve nthough we’re only twelve into this whatever it is, we feature an artist for a second time, this time we feature another Hilda Kortei painting…
We first saw Hilda’s work in a group show at East London’s The Approach Gallery back in the Summer, this week she posted this photograph of a new painting, we just had to share it here, I really like her use of both texture and colour, the energy of her mark making, the commitment she makes, her surfaces…
An except from the review of that group show that ran on these pages back in June
“…..and I really really like those two Hilda Kortei pieces. I really needed to see those two pieces tonight, I really need to just stand there with them, I know nothing about Hilda Kortei, right now I really don’t want to know too much about Hilda Kortei, I just want to enjoy the layers, the colour, the decisions made that make the two pieces on the wall here in the main room so enjoyably exciting. It isn’t that she’s doing something radically different, it is that she has got the balance of what she’s doing with these two pieces just right and for now that’s more than enough. The analysis and the reasoning and the deconstructing of her deconstruction and her piecing things (back) together can come along later. her use of paint here is delicious, the colour is powerful, rich, engaging, it does feel intuitive and right now I just want to enjoy her two bold pieces that are next to each other on the wall.
“British artist Hilda Kortei approaches painting as an intuitive process of construction and revision, creating richly layered compositions in which abstraction, fragmentation and materiality converge through colour, gesture and the physical act of making. For Near to the Wild Heart, Kortei presents two paintings (both 2026) that combine hand-sewn canvas, assemblage and expressive mark-making to create compositions that are both bold and open-ended. Areas of exposed canvas and irregular edges interrupt the picture plane, lending the paintings a raw physicality and an openness that resists fixed interpretation”.
Hilda Kortei on Instagram
Previously…
Previous slices of art…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 11) – Helch’s Last Mission, a film by Los Angeles Lurking…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 10) – Just a rather delicious Pete Monaghan still life…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 5) – Jennifer Pochinski’s suggestions made…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 4) – Sabine Tress and her pink ghost…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 3) – Hilda Kortei’s painterly intuition…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 2) – Hetty Douglas is unmanageable…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 1) – Madeleine Strindberg’s Departure…
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