Given the photos I’d seen (as above) I thought there was only one way to view the recent ArtAngel project by Sarah Sze at the Waiting Rooms, Peckham Rye. Still images can only give a hint of a constantly changing visual experience so please click the link to see the Artangel official video. The hemisphere […]
Sarah Sze at the Waiting Room, Peckham Rye
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 […]
Strawberry Hill. Post 1 of 2
Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Surrey, the first Neo-Gothic building, is the product of Horace Walpole‘s imagination. Built from a pair of small cottages then developed over 40 years, it is a fantasy drawn on his deep knowledge and love of history and art. I had visited the exhibition “Horace Walpole & Strawberry Hill” at the […]
Public art by Veronica Ryan OBE at Hackney Central, London
These sculptures were unveiled a couple of years ago to honour the Windrush generation but this was the first time I’d had a proper look at them in situ. Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop are typical Caribbean fruit remembered from Veronica Ryan OBE‘s childhood visits to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London. These are accessible […]
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern. Post 2 of 2
Here are a few more photos from A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography currently at Tate Modern. The studio shots above are by Ruth Ginika Ossai. Her sitters choose which backdrop they want from her stock inspired by Nollywood films or Igbo gospel music videos. I loved the streetwise posed teenage boys in front […]