You know how it is, you’re on the way to work and a familiar street changes before your eyes. This little patch of London was transformed over a period of 3 days for 1 day of filming. I was told that it was for the upcoming TV drama Guerrilla starring, amongst others, Idris Elba. I couldn’t resist photographing […]
Street set building before the filming of Guerrilla
The organ at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral
I’ve never seen a large organ console close up before and was pretty gobsmacked when I encountered this one in real life. St Paul’s Cathedral hosts organ recitals several times a year and it’s well worth the experience, The complexity of the instrument is mind-boggling. As Simon Johnson, the organist performing that evening explained, this […]
Emerged at Frameless Gallery
Julian Page and Joanna Bryant Projects collaborations are regularly featured here and this time at Frameless Gallery they presented, amongst others , drawings by David Watkins Joella Wheatley‘s oil and pen paintings and Cally Shadbolt’s processes, the record of activity so much more compelling than the end product, something I come across a great deal in my life. For me […]
Petra Baker at New Designers London
There is so much to see at New Designers every year that it can sometimes be difficult to keep to the parameters I set myself, although going round the show on my own helps me stay focused. Loughborough graduate Petra Baker exhibited a tightly edited and mature collection of exquisitely made pieces using only black and […]
The Ethics of Dust at Westminster Hall – an Artangel project
Projects initiated by Artangel are always intriguing so l get to them whenever I can. The Ethics of Dust works with the remarkable location and history of Westminster Hall and I, for one, found it a very powerful experience to walk between two layers of 400 years; the stone wall and the dust from that wall encased in latex. We visited […]
Time really is money at Ziferblat
Started in 2011 in Moscow, the Russian word Ziferblat translates to clockface in English. The concept of a space where you only pay for the time spent there now has 15 locations in Europe so seemed an appropriate place to meet soon after the Brexit referendum result. The photos below are from Ziferblat Liverpool in Albert Dock […]