Another freezing night saw us explore the Kings Cross area, covering displays before having to take refuge in the recently opened Waitrose cafe for heat and hot chocolate. Again, this is only a selection of what was on offer. Binary Waves by LAb[au] translated waves from surrounding mobile phones into light , creating an ever-changing and non-repeating pattern […]
Places
Lumière London in the West End
London’s first Lumière festival took place over the coldest weekend of the winter. It was a mega-fest of social media images -they’ve been all over the net so I’ve just selected a few pieces for this post. Each piece of work was specifically designed for its site encouraging us to look up at architecture so often overlooked. The tumbling […]
More history in St Pancras Gardens
Not only containing Thomas Hardy’s tree, this former graveyard is dense with history. Sir John Soane’s family mausoleum is here, the roof of which inspired the design of our famous telephone boxes. Original drawing of the tomb.Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the first woman peer, unveiled this grand memorial and sundial in 1879 to commemorate some of the illustrious people […]
St Pancras Gardens – Thomas Hardy’s tree and The Beatles
At St Pancras Gardens near King’s Cross you can find this ash tree which has grown over the years into the surrounding gravestones. They are a record of the work Thomas Hardy, a surveyor and architect’s assistant, supervised when appointed to exhume human remains and dismantle the tombs to make way for the new Midland railway line in 1865. […]
Sculptural jewellery by Ute Decker
I first saw Ute Decker’s jewellery several years ago and featured it in a previous post back in 2010. She’s based at Cockpit Studios, one of the diminishing number of London havens for artists and makers. The sculpture was what first appealed to me; I only found out later about her commitment to the use of conflict-free and […]
Shelley James at Cockpit Studios
A maker I hadn’t met before showing at Cockpit was Shelley James and there was no way I couldn’t stop after seeing these glass pieces. The one below contains a poem, the strips of text legible according to the angle of the ball. You can see for yourself the connections to DNA, science, mathematics and music, all […]