Always tuned into this shape, here are a few examples I spotted at the show. Fuminari Todaka used them above for his Home garden whilst you could look through the circle of Howard Miller Design’s Dark Matter garden. Ishihara Kazuyuki was another designer using circles as a design motif in harmony with trademark moss balls […]
Places
A little bit of Chatsworth at Chelsea Flower Show
I was so lucky to be offered a ticket to the Chelsea Flower Show this year but was only able to spend 1 1/2 hours there, enough though to get an overview. Dan Pearson’s garden inspired by the outer cultivated landscape of Chatsworth was quite remarkable – look at the moss and weeds on this rock below – it […]
Tate Modern’s Musée de le Danse
I was very keen to see this concept given my love of dancing: the whole of Tate Modern given over to contemporary dance for two days. We arrived on Saturday afternoon to see a solo performance of Levée des conflits before participating in the visitors’ version. Everyone in the Turbine Hall was invited to take […]
Yinka Shonibare at the William Morris Gallery
The William Morris Family Album continues Yinka Shonibare’s exploration of the Victorian era and the attendant imperialism of that time. His trademark fabrics, now regularly used in fashion by, amongst others, Samson Soboye, are made into clothing of that period and used in reconstructions with local Walthamstow residents of photographs from the Morris family album. The garments weren’t outright […]
Nothing Perishes at new art gallery Soho Revue
Well, Soho Revue is on Greek Street in Soho, London. Recently opened, it’s welcoming; gallerist Marine Tanguy talked us through the artists in their current show Nothing Perishes. I’ve pulled out four of them below. Tel Aviv based photographer Jennifer Abessira finds a connection between juxtaposed photographs mounted on lightboxes; Performer and artist Alison Bignon renders a life story […]
Election manifesto from Bob & Roberta Smith: art against Michael Gove
The artist Bob & Roberta Smith is standing against Michael Gove in Surrey Heath this forthcoming election. I went to Handel Street Projects to listen to his election manifesto. He began by singing the piece above saying why he’ll be voting; I’m with him on that as with everything else. The cards on the mantelpiece are by […]