Featured image: Rockley Memorial Play Park Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire I originally wrote this article on Sunday 13th November, 2016. I’ve revisited it as on 16th September 2018 there were two events, Let’s Ride (wow, 6000 cyclists turned out along the 6km route!) and, at the Arboretum, Nottingham Green Festival. When I think about the […]
Read More Why Not Sculpture, All Year, Along the Riverbank?Featured Image: Sally Rooney’s Normal People published by Faber and Faber A dystopian culture games you and undermines you even before you’ve been born. A maiming that’s a bit like Kwashiokor, starvation you are born with. Above: The Famine sculpture in Dublin. File photograph: Frank Miller It’s all embracing: cradle to cradle, suffocating, crippling, like […]
Read More TB Of The Sold Or Beyond Dystopian Consumption: Reconnecting History, Culture and Knowledge: Why We Need A New Way Of Writing NowOriginally posted on Damien Walter:
Science shows us how the world is built. Can science fiction help us build a better world? Follow @damiengwalter on Twitter The Blue Marble Astronaut Jack Schmitt released the shutter on the 70 millimeter Hasselblad camera at 5:39 AM on 7th December 1972. The Apollo 17 mission to the moon…
The history of Nigerian art, culture and textiles become hidden in industrial trade wars between India and China: wars that have made it impossible for the Nigerian textile industry to grow and develop. Developing a local supply chain as well as supporting artists as cultural ambassadors for gorgeous textiles across the sectors and the world is […]
Read More Nigeria: Known For Beautiful Fabric: Have A Look at The Wonderful Work Of Flo Awolaja…Featured image and below: Swimming in The Mind experiments with collagraphs, lithography, sound and water . I first noticed the work of Jeannie Clark (this image, particularly) at the Lady Bay Arts Festival (19th 20th May). A poster of this image was on the door and above an ad for her work. I loved it straight […]
Read More The Work of Artist Jeannie Clark: The Body Is A Pen And The Water Is Like InkSince the referendum vote we’ve been in a kind of Brexit jigsaw land, as the brilliant British artist of Nigerian heritage, Flo Awolaja realises in her 2016 London exhibition: Making Stories, Telling Tales In a way, across Europe and the world, we’re all waiting for a society that is more representative, brings out more of the best […]
Read More Why Art is Bringing It All Home For More People, More Of The TimeI found a great shop in West Bridgford: Grace Couture. Above: a lovely summer top and two dresses for work or casual wear. Grace Couture is run by Cassie who’s a bridal specialist and also a really amazing independent retailer. Hence the lovely clothes as well as the wedding dresses. Abbey Road in West Bridgford […]
Read More Great Clothes: 44 Abbey Road West Bridgford (And Beautiful Wedding Dresses, Samples…So Gorgeous)Above a pair of trousers I think animate and energise your step. I can’t find them though. Answering questions for me is like chasing things I never expect to find. Like these trousers. They were in Shortlist Magazine on a website called fiftyplus…but when I searched they weren’t there. I did spend a bit of […]
Read More Clothes That Animate Us: Furnishings That Reflect More Than Just Our Aspirations In The World
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