When the Revolution Comes? Some Things: New Book by Panya Banjoko: The Importance of The Word: Or The Ground

On Friday 22nd June 2018, the aspirations of Juneteenth became a closer reality. Panya Banjoko pulled a blinder. At Neales Auction House 192-194 Mansfield Road NG1 3BH, not only did she speak her own words and launched a book but she gave a nudge and a nod to the things we’re all missing in everyday life: […]

The General Data Protection Act: An Opportunity For Democracy, News…And Beauty?

Above: data, manufacture and art project Aether Architectural Intelligence: Exploring Space as an Interactive Medium”, where researchers Refik Anadol, Raman Mustafa, Julietta Gil and Farzad Mirshafiei created an immersive interactive environment that combines robotic actuation, formal transformation and real time projection mapping controlled by a sensory input device. Refik Anadol has produced extraordinary imaginings of how it’s […]

The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives…. Our Powers Of Self Expression

I like art galleries: they’re performance spaces for everyone in society. Micro theatres leading on to wider human stages, perhaps. I like the way the people who work in them feel obliged to perform access to the work and I like the way we as visitors feel as if we’ve been invited into a different […]

Taking the News Into Our Own Lives And Back Again: This Is What I Think News Is

Above the work of Molly Crabapple who is an artist working in reportage Above Reportage from Kenyan artist, Mercy Kagia How do we begin to understand and reach for a better future, for more people, more of the time? When democracy feels postponed, pushed out, uncomfortably absent, when 10 million people who are eligible to vote […]

Beyond A Stuck Society: New Laws: GDPR, The Data Protection Bill, Automation, Freedom Of Speech: We Need To Talk With Everyone (And Do Something)

Featured Image: Property: Lionel Shriver’s new book Property We’re all really trying hard at the moment to create a dynamic, transformative economy throughout the whole of the UK that re-places us in the world and moves away from an over dependence on the ability to purchase a property as a source of identity, status, stability, safety […]

Art Is In Our Hearts: Excel Beyond Spreadsheets …Bonington Art Shop

Above: £50 voucher from Bonington Art Shop…. Boningtons Art Shop is twenty one years old, nearly twenty two: the same age as many undergraduates and post graduates. I’ve ‘known’ about the shop, ie through friends who’ve studied and worked at Trent and have studied art. The grapevine around the shop is that it’s a great […]

All Too Human Exhibition: Get Touched By Art: ‘I Want The Paint To Work As Flesh Does’ (So That’s The Secret….Lucien Freud): Let’s Talk About Art In More Places, More Of The Time….

Above Celia Paul’s 1985 painting Family Group, below Paula Rego’s The Dance 1988, Frank Auerbach’s Head of E.O.W(2), E.O.W (1), (1959-1960) Lucien Freud’s Head of Leigh Bowery (1991), all works that take you inside something that the All Too Human Exhibition at Tate Britain, open now until 27th August 2018. it’s a fantastic contrast to […]

Delicious Cake: I Know We Tried It Yesterday….

This cake was in the Guardian Feast magazine (you have to have bought the magazine to get this recipe but there are some great ones online). This cake was very, very delicious. The only problem was my oven (electric) and a recipe that said it should be baked for 15 minutes at 180C or 350 […]

A Bright Future For Everyone: Less Privilege, More Transparency In Data Management: Me and The General Data Protection Regulations 2018

Above: Image labelled for reuse from Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like An Artist I work in marketing on an employed and self employed basis and really understand the phrase garbage in, garbage out. The quality of the information you have makes all the difference to the way you market and sell. Your results. Being employed […]

How Olympic Success Means We Need Local News, Histories, Stories

Above Lizzie Yarnold’s Gold Medals Winter Olympics 2018 Yay! We all love success. It makes you realise though, that we need to encourage the sharing and opportunities for success for more people, more of the time. A way to encourage this is through writing stories and using art and print to tell ordinary people’s stories and […]