Art

In the fourth instalment of our week-long series, figures from music, art, food, sex work and education look back on a year that shook their fields. Here, Ellie Pennick, founder of Guts Gallery, talks us through a year of online exhibitions.

The Los Angeles-born, globally-renowned artist uses video, publishing and performance to examine representations of Blackness in her work. She’s shown at New York’s MoMA and London’s ICA and, surprisingly, is a fan of Bournemouth football club.

Deciphering the blockchain boom: explaining Grimes, Beeple and Kings of Leon’s interest in cryptocurrency’s latest gold rush.

The Cheshire artist uses painting as therapy to tackle existential dread, religion and fear of death. Honest, it’s way more fun than that sounds.

Fifty years of making pictures, upsetting the establishment and sticking two fingers at the easily offended is no easy feat.

The Georgian musician shouts out the fashion designers, painters and producers in her network.