Art – Jade Angeles Fitton

The Spectator – Provincial Auction House Boom

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:41:41 +0000

For The Spectator I wrote about my obsession with online auctions and how online auction websites have resulted in boom times for provincial auction houses. Read here.

Air Mail – Waiting For Godet

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:33:02 +0000

For Graydon Carter’s Air Mail I went to Saint Paul de Vence in the South of France and discovered the most incredible story of the perfume house’s 21st century revival (featuring a break out of a retirement home!). Read here.

The Guardian – The Ritual Turning of The Stone

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:19:14 +0000

For The Guardian I wrote about the ritual ‘Turning of the Stone’ in my local village – an ancient ritual that occurs every November 5th.

Piece for the Financial Times

D P — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:00:31 +0000

For the ⁦‪Financial Times I wrote about one of my favourite paintings and how it relates to one of my favourite activities, housesitting other people’s beautiful homes. To read about the joys of house sitting, and of leaving again, click here.

For The Fence: How My Dad Poisoned Himself Making Spitting Image Puppets

jadeangelesfitton — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:33:08 +0000

For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his special effects career that spanned the 1970s-2010s and was extremely (and almost exclusively) weird and chaotic. This is how he poisoned himself while making the prototypes for the original Spitting Image… CLICK HERE.

Illustration by Viz cartoonist Davie Jones.

Overheard In Art Galleries Piece For The Fence

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:48:23 +0000

I went lurking around London’s galleries writing down all the pretentious and ridiculous things I overheard there. Available in print only for The Fence.

You can subscribe to this brilliant magazine of undercover investigations, fiction and satire here. Think Private Eye but with short stories.

My Piece For Flux Magazine

jadeangelesfitton — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:30:55 +0000

Piece for Flux Magazine on the figurative artist Harland Miller, represented by the White Cube, and his catalogue raisonné that is rumoured to be announced later this year:

http://www.fluxmagazine.com/artist-harland-miller/

Review of Austin Osman Spare Exhibition, the man who refused to paint Hitler

jadeangelesfitton — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:26:46 +0000

My review of the amazing exhibition at The Last Tuesday Society of Austin Osman Spare’s (one of Alan Moore’s favourite artists) work for Creators — you can sit and have a tea or alchy drink and look some of the creepiest and most beautiful artwork on the planet. They’ll charge you £20 to go see Hockney or Picasso down the road, balls to that. This guy was compared to Michelangelo Buonarroti and Dürer and it’s free x x x

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8zjk/austin-osman-spare-forgotten-occult-artist-hitler-london?

Art World vs. Algorithms: Trump’s Top Financiers in the Art World

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:06:25 +0000

I wrote for Creators/Vice about a website that uses algorithms to reveal Trump’s top financiers in the art world that is also a conceptual art piece by Seth Price. It’s really, really, really cool. Have a look here.

ORDINARY BRAVERY: IN LESBOS AND ATHENS, REFUGEES LIVE IN LIMBO [PHOTO ESSAY]

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:48:28 +0000

Regarding whether art can re-humanise, and be a constructive response to the refugee crisis. Chronicling the stories of the everyday bravery that goes into finding a safe roof over your head. Engage with it. It’s not going to go away. Read here.