As it says on its website, The Florence Trust provides a dynamic mentoring programme and studio residency in London for twelve international artists each year. Each residency programme lasts for 12 months and is a real lifeline for artists to develop their practice in London. I went along to the summer exhibition private view in […]
The Florence Trust’s 2018 summer show
Events from Block Universe
I hadn’t come across Block Universe, London’s leading international performance art festival, before but, after hearing about it through word of mouth, attended a couple of events – see photos below and links for more info. “You would almost expect to find it warm”, by Laura Wilson, took place at the British Museum in connection with […]
Shape of Light at Tate Modern
I often enjoy going to exhibitions unprepared as that can give me a cleaner sensory experience than having read reviews; such was the case for The Shape of Light at Tate Modern. There is something about Minimalism that resonates deeply and here are some of the pieces that stood out for me: part of Alison Rossiter’s expired photography […]
Tacita Dean – Landscape at the Royal Academy
The inaugural exhibition in the new Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries at the Royal Academy is LANDSCAPE, one of the three concurrent London exhibitions by Tacita Dean. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but was really impressed by the scale and sensitivity of the work shown. Zooming in and out is an essential part of the experience (I […]
The expanded Royal Academy
This is huge in the history of the Royal Academy and it’s such a positive development. The reconfiguration of space and intervention by David Chipperfield Architects to connect both buildings of Burlington Gardens and Burlington House now takes you through a myriad of environments. Here are a few photos of some of these spaces – […]
Raw Materials at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts.
East London has a rich and varied textile history for manufacturing and innovation which this exhibition, at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, examines. The invention of the first synthetic dye, mauveine, by William Perkin took place at his family home in Shadwell and brought the colour purple to the masses and wood block printing by R.E. Littler […]