Plaster One-Liner: winner announcement!

We took a gamble with the Plaster One-Liner, our London Gallery Weekend competition to review an exhibition in just one sentence. We imagined there were three possibilities: it bombs, it breaks the internet, or we get flooded with AI spam. None of these happened, but you came through with brilliant, thoughtful and funny entries

We’ve included some of our favourites below, but there could only be one winner. Let’s get to it…

Winner: @thomasmcmullan!

Judges’ comment

You had our attention at fart, and kept it. This is a review so evocative you can almost feel, hear and smell the show through it. There are a lot of words you wouldn’t usually find in an art review and yet it still rolls off the tongue. Nicely done.

Honourable mentions

“What in the pub toilet decor is going on at Zwirner?”

@midshowweekly on Editions from 30 Years of Gasworks at David Zwirner

“Just as you’re lulled into the cheery calm of Araminta Blue’s colourful abstract forms, something menacingly lifelike lurches into focus – a hand, a bird, a mouth – creating an exhibition that is as unnerving to view as it is pleasurable.”

@veritybabbsart on Araminta Blue at Gallery Rosenfeld

“Post-London Gallery Weekend, I emerge like a Kiki Kogelnik’s cut-out, stretched, hanging, exhausted, latex art piece of human body form.”

@nata00yanch on Kiki Kogelnik at Pace

“The PV crowd gathers at Sadie Coles, sweaty, nervous, like the hoards of football fans at the stadium; and all I can think is ‘wow, Matthew Barney looks hot for 76.’”

@jayad0nna on Matthew Barney at Sadie Coles HQ

“Someone put hallucinogens in my dib dab & now I’m a tropical bird rescued from an oil spill flapping my wings to the memories of a lost landscape 🍃”

@werealljusttryingtogetby on Marieke Bernard-Berkel at Sherbet Green

A big thanks to everyone who entered. Keep your eyes peeled for the next One-Liner!