A Critic’s Choice Selected by Andrew Lambirth
Browse & Darby, until 7 May
The bravest thing an art critic can do is to show their own work; the next bravest is to mount a show of the artists they admire. Publishing one’s critical opinions in print is one thing; hanging up the physical evidence in public is quite another. One normally fearless critic of my acquaintance, when invited to do it, declined with a shudder and a quote from ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.
Cork Street didn’t feel like the Valley of Death when I visited Andrew Lambirth’s Critic’s Choice last week. Lambirth has a long association with Browse & Darby, and his selection of 24 painters features half a dozen gallery artists, past and present, including Euan Uglow, Anthony Fry, Anthony Eyton, Patrick Symons and Jeffery Camp. So he’s not exactly in enemy territory, but neither is he entirely on safe ground.

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