The painting by Fabritius that features in the opening pages of Laura Cumming’s “Thunderclap” – it could be said to be the inspiration for the book – is to be found in Room 16 at London’s National Gallery. Sean Sheehan It shows a man sitting at a street […]
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Mick Lynch: a trade union hero
The General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) shot to fame in 2022 when his union members took industrial action and went on strike. Sean Sheehan His television interviews with trashmongers like Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley are the stuff of legend […]
Going back to my roots
This documentary is personal and I hope it resonates with audiences, especially with those who, despite the dark times in which we are living, continue the fight for a better world. Pablo Navarrete* My parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. […]
Disrupting and reassembling images: Höch and Heartfield
Hannah Höch saw the fractured nature of her society and used photomontage and collage to represent and interrogate it. Becoming part of the male-centric Dada movement in Berlin and influencing fellow modernists like John Heartfield, she went on to develop her own aesthetic. Sean Sheehan Hoch’s statement in […]
Poetry and music in the voices of migrants and refugees
These two languages of art will converge in the “Voces Festival” (Chilean and Latin American Voices in the UK), an event that has taken place every year since 2016 and is a proposal that projects what immigrants and refugees living in a city as multicultural as London live and feel. […]