As galleries and museums have been closed for several months now I’ve been focussed on art outside. I glimpsed this piece, Column by Studio Swine by a new development on another of my bike rides. The digitally faceted aluminium rock sliced by a rusted corten steel column is aggressive yet finely balanced. Shiny & futuristic, […]
Places
Oxford Street in lock-down on a Bank Holiday Saturday.
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 […]
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, […]