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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Boo Ritson @poppysebire gallery
Boo Ritson, Foothills 2012, Digital C-type print, 90 x 135 cm I’m always intrigued by the paths and directions artists take in their work. Whilst there are many artists happy to produce work in the same style over long periods … Continue reading
Looking Intently : Et Cetera @HoxtonArtGallery
There’s a fabulous exhibition on at the moment at Hoxton Art Gallery. Curated by Tom Jeffries, it is entitled Et Cetera- A reappraisal of the mundane. And it is most certainly an equisitely assembled set of works examining the insignificant … Continue reading
Posted in Encountering Art, Life encounters with the Artist
Tagged art, contemporary art, Hoxton Art Gallery
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Sun? You kidding?
I see WordPress was suggesting photos on the theme of “sun” this week. Cue hollow laughter from the world. Prodigal Son tells me he searched the planet last week through his phone weather app to see if there was anywhere … Continue reading
Punctuating @LaScatola Gallery
Last week I happened upon a new show at La Scatola Gallery in London. I’d been led to it after reading an interesting article by Ben Austin about relatively recent and emerging galleries, and on finding it was so close … Continue reading
Posted in Encountering Art
Tagged contemporary art, La Scatola Gallery, London Galleries, Rowena Harris, Vera Cox
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Big skies near York
Driving back from York to Leeds last weekend, I got lost. Pretty unbelievable, really. I wasn’t actually lost in the sense of I had no idea where I was. There were enough sunbeams in the air for me to know … Continue reading
Reflections on Paintings: Gary Hume and
Gary Hume (left) in conversation at Leeds Art Gallery I have an ongoing professional fascination with the surface of paintings. For some time I have been employing a highly reflective acrylic resin finish to my own work as a practical … Continue reading
Gordon Baldwin at York Art Gallery
I visited York Art Gallery yesterday for the first time in ages, and happened upon a very interesting and intriguingly curated exhibition of the work of ceramicist Gordon Baldwin. On entering the space, the visitor is confronted, almost overwhelmed, by … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ceramics, landscape, sculpture
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Connect-ability inability
I rely on my phone far too much. Even with my endeavours of recent months to develop more sustainable online/offline habits (meaning much less online), I’m still far too over dependent on the phone when I’m out and about and … Continue reading
The Winning Ways of Winnie
“. I’ve never had a problem saying “No” to children. It’s easy. “NO”. Just like that. I was careful to choose my battles though. Didn’t care what they ate, read or wore , whether their rooms were tidy or whether … Continue reading
Posted in Life encounters with the Artist
Tagged AA Milne, Character merchandising, Disney, Winnie the pooh
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The Crown House Jewel
The wonderful eccentricity of urban industrial and commercial architecture in Leeds never fails to intrigue, enthuse and excite. Whilst I was practically in tears at having to send my laptop off for repair last week (online backups and hard drive … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Hometourist
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