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Category: Sam Nallen Copley

  • Amartey Golding: Drawing the Line

    By Sam Nallen Copley © Amartey Golding Contemporary art often sets out to polarise: post-modernist deliberate abstraction and laboured attempts to push boundaries versus ethnocentric pious anti-avant-garde conservatism. Although we hit this stalemate many years ago, clichés of what exactly constitutes…

  • Meditations on Art

    By Sam Nallen Copley The birth of art Fifty-thousand years ago, a Neanderthal in what became south-eastern Spain took a seashell, coloured it with goethite and fashioned it into a necklace. Life was hard in the Middle Paleolithic Period, and if this…

  • The Great Wave, 180 years on

    By Sam Nallen Copley The Great Wave off Kanagawa  Around 180 years ago, Tokitarō (the birth name of Katsushika Hokusai), an elderly man from Eastern Japan embarked on a new project. His second wife had just passed away, his first having…

  • [EXCLUSIVE] “Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Last Letter” by Sam Nallen Copley

    By Sam Nallen Copley   Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Probably no one who attempts suicide… is fully aware of all his motives, which are usually too complex. At least in my case it is prompted by a vague sense of anxiety, a vague…

    [EXCLUSIVE] “Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Last Letter” by Sam Nallen Copley