Paul O’ Reilly places Michael Canning’s painterly ‘elegies’ in the context of so-called post-modernism and its legacy
Somewhere, in some place, in some discipline there may be evidence that the 21st century has really begun, has actually broken away and left the 20th century behind in the dust of progress. It’s debatable. But there is little evidence that this has happened, or is soon to happen in the field of contemporary art
Michael Canning’s botanical paintings stand as an allegory for a natural world under threat, observes Sue Hubbard
