The Open House Festival is the chance to see places not normally open to the public. It used to be over a single weekend in September but now spreads over a longer period. One of the places I visited this year was the Archive Library at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly in London. I’ve been […]
Places
Behind the Red Moon – the Turbine Hall commission by El Anatsui at Tate Modern
Behind the Red Moon is the title of El Anatsui’s installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Made of possibly millions of bottle tops and discarded materials all painstakingly attached together with wire and thread, these huge pieces fill the space, dwarfing us humans. The Red Moon, seen as you enter the hall, resembles a billowing […]
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Post 2 of 2.
As stated in my last post, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize goes on tour around the UK now that it has ended in London. Here are some of the venues listed: Drawing Projects UK (details TBC); The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 16 February to 12 April 2024; The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May […]
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Post 1 of 2
There’s a magic about drawing that I will never tire of experiencing. Both the making and the looking give me such pleasure so the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, organised by Parker Harris, is a feast. It’s the foremost drawing exhibition in the UK with an extremely high standard of work. This blog post […]
Bandaloop: Resurgum at St Paul’s Cathedral. GDIF.
Part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) this year, aerial dance company Bandaloop performed Resurgam (latin for I shall rise) on the South side of St Paul’s Cathedral. Look at the bird carved in stone. I think the phoenix rising from the fire refers to the rebuilding of the cathedral after the Great […]
Visiting Strawberry Hill. Post 2 of 2
As I said in my previous post on Strawberry Hill, things began to get more interesting for me upstairs. This stained glass alcove in the Round Room beyond the Gallery is called the Henrys window and continues the stylistic evolution of the building. The same room contains the most expensive single item commissioned for the […]
