After White Cube, I went from Bermondsey to Lambeth to the newly opened Newport Street Gallery to see the exhibition of John Hoyland’s work – Power Stations. I have admired his work for a while, but nothing prepared me for walking round a room with these enormous canvasses, in such stunning colours. I found the exhibition …
Yesterday I visited White Cube gallery in Bermondsey for the first time. Obviously I was aware of the history of exhibitions there, but had never yet visited. I started by having a delicious coffee in the hippest cafe over the road (“F**kcoffee”- I gather they’ve had trouble with their sign!) before heading in. White …
I recently (and rather belatedly I realise) came across the amazing work of Paige Bradley – a sculptor – with this incredible piece of work called Expansion. It really blew me away to see this powerful image of the pure light within us and has stuck with me for some time. As Paige says: ….we need …
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I realised that after talking about it for a long time, I haven’t actually recorded what I found and summarised my thoughts. I enjoyed researching this subject immensely and found myself getting deep into the area, I would not have anticipated the conclusions I now draw. When I reflected on my process, I realised that …
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Yesterday I did my presentation for the Research module on Subversion and Creativity. I enjoyed it, and it was especially good to listen to some of the other students, especially the two talks on the same subject as me – we covered it so differently, the three went well together! Some of the younger students …
I attended a talk this week by the photographic artist Clare Strand. I had not come across her work before but whilst researching her I was really taken by the breadth of what she has done and the obvious sense of humour contained in her work. Clare walked us through some of her projects – it …
Signs of human habitation…. junk at the bottom of Forton Lake, Gosport. Made me sad, even if it does have a sort of dystopian beauty…..
