Roads aren’t something I find particularly fascinating most of the time but I really wanted to share these images with you. I hadn’t ridden into the West End for exercise during the shut-down, but after cycling to a friend in West London, he urged me to go as it was so strange and I’m glad […]
One-minute blog of interesting things
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As a working contemporary artist I visit many exhibitions and shows, but sometimes it is the things I see that are part of daily life that capture my interest. My one-minute blog of interesting things reflects the fact that although we are increasingly time-poor, there is creativity all around us.
Sculpture In the City. Part 2 of 2
Elisa Artesero’s The Garden of Floating Words at 70 St Mary Axe provides a moment of respite for a traffic marshall in hi-vis gear. Though best seen at night when the poem’s words seemingly float in the air, the blurred reflection gives an indication of the effect. Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block ) by Jyll Bradley […]
Sculpture in the City. Part 1 of 2
I’ve been cycling as part of my daily exercise and, as the City isn’t far from me, went down to wander down all those little side streets and alleys where I found some of this year’s Sculpture in the City. OK, so the first one is certainly not on a side street but it is […]
Gilt of Cain
I caught sight of this sculpture by Michael Visocchi & poet Lemn Sissay in Fen Court from a distance during one of my bike rides in a deserted City of London recently. It was unveiled back in 2008 to commemorate the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807. The complete integration of text and […]
Painting the Infinite at Rosenfeld Gallery. Post 2 of 2
In a separate space from the painting exhibition at Gallery Rosenfeld featured in my previous blog, we came upon this magical sculpture, Living Light, by Shuster + Moseley. This shot demonstrates the apparent simplicity of the sculpture: 5 suspended hand blown glass discs with a light source. My companion here, fellow ArtCan artist Lisa Price, […]
Painting the Infinite. Rosenfeld Gallery. Post 1 of 2
Sometimes paintings are so delicate they really can’t be appreciated properly in a photograph: Riccardo Guarneri‘s work seen at Gallery Rosenfeld is a case in point. These recent paintings by the octogenarian Italian were shown with those of the much younger Chinese painter Qinzhen Han: while different in age, gender and nationality, their concerns are […]
New work by Bridget Bailey
Bridget Bailey is a textile artist whose work has featured before in my blog; I first met her many years ago when she was a milliner and I love how she uses those skills, honed over so much time, to create these exquisitely made pieces for Garden Delights, an exhibition, now online, at Byard Art in […]
The Library of Exile by Edmund de Waal, British Museum
My last cultural day out before the shut-down was visiting galleries with Tabish Khan of The Londonist and already feels like an age ago. I don’t normally mention my exhibition companions but it’s only fair to include him as he’s in the photo above and did suggest the venues that day. The Library of Exile […]
JD Malat Gallery, London
Jean-David Malat, director of JD Malat, presented a group show, The Contemporary Human Condition, which I was able to see in March just before the shutdown. The range of work was broad, as is the subject, and here are a few of the works including Liu Fei‘s trademark bald women. Mio Yamato, with her mesmeric […]
Kimono:Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A
This exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum covers the history of the Kimono right up to the present day, from a contemporary bridal outfit above, to the individual component panels, below. A small projection showed how the kimono is constructed: made up from 8 panels the form is deceptively simple yet as a canvas […]
