The Ryder is a small project space in Bethnal Green and I was able to attend a recent private view for their Performed Painting exhibition. As you can see from the images below, the show looks at the act and enactment of painting. Is it action painting or our idea of action painting? The Spanish artists […]
Places
Station to Station: a 30 day Happening at the Barbican
Station to Station: a 30 day Happening, has events taking place all over the Barbican for, need I say it, 30 days over the summer. A couple of the ones I attended were Model Universe by Liz Glynn and Smoke Performance by Olaf Breuning. Model Universe takes place in a darkened yurt with the artist giving […]
Lunch at Paddock School Café in Roehampton
On my way back from visiting the Lawn Tennis Association for my Buro4 project, I stopped at the Paddock School Café as had noticed the sign on the way up from Barnes train station. It looked cheerful and welcoming so I gave it a go. I now know that Paddock School is specifically for children with […]
The glory of a good flint wall
Many of us are used to seeing flint used in buildings in the UK but have you really looked at the different construction? Here are two very different but equally beautiful ones seen in Norwich. This wall was built towards the end of the 14th Century and is the only one I’ve seen where the flint […]
Magna Carta by Cornelia Parker at The British Library
I believe that we all know that this year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta (note the link here is from Wikipedia). As part of the celebrations and at a crucial point in our history where the Human Rights Act is under threat, Cornelia Parker was commissioned to come up with a […]
The inspiration for Versailles – Vaux-le-Vicomte
Vaux-le-Vicomte , only about 45 km from Paris, is all about symmetry and balance. Built in the mid-17th Century by Nicolas Fouquet, then Superintendent of Finances for the king of France Louis XIV the Sun King, this château and garden inspired Versailles. The architect Louis Le Vau (who later designed Versailles) worked closely with the painter Charles Le […]