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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 15:28
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Towards the beginning of this web-log I wrote about close friend, Richard Kidd. I touched upon his drive in creating a fabulous studio near Newcastle, his dynamic paintings and the great night to celebrate them. Friday Night and Saturday Morning (November 2005).
It is in the saddest of circumstances that I write about him now: a small contribution at the point of his untimely death, to mark the...
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 09:57
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I’m back!
Would like to say it was yesterday, then it would look mildly impressive to be here on the case the next day. But it wasn’t.
Six weeks and lots to tell. It may not come out in any coherent order but I’m working on it.
This was a professional and research trip part funded by the Arts Council. Thank you Arts Council.
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 13:46
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'Oakura' Jerry Morris, 2008
World Beach reaches the landmark point of one hundred published entries. And in what style!
Jerry Morris on North Island, NZ hits the spot with this beautifully crafted work. The attention to detail in this piece is stunning. And appropriately coincidental that it’s from New Zealand as connections with the other side of the world inspired the World Beach...
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 16:45
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One of the greatest pluses of a project such as Cloth & Culture Now is getting to meet the artists. From Finland, Japan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,UK; 31 of the total of 35 of us made it to the opening weekend. From formal lectures to conversations over the cornflakes, we learnt of each other’s cultures and practice. The creative connections that might join us around the globe felt a...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 13:31
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I have never been good at keeping a diary.
The thick ‐ lockable - keep all your secrets safe ‐ pour your heart out tomes of pre-pubescence, never made it past the first few days.
Even now at the beginning of a potentially good trip away, the well intentioned - document everything excitement attached to favourite pen and a new, velvety Moleskine soon deteriorates into incoherent...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 09:37
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The idea for the World Beach Project arrived in my head fully formed and in an instant. It popped up by way of responding to the response to my work using small stones, which in its turn, is a response to the land ‐ specifically, rock.
Whether a line of quartz splitting a rock face or a huge folded mountain range, the structure of rock talks of the structure of our planet. It is like a map...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 11:20
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Sometimes the creativity is in the discovery, the isolating.
Tiny rocky cove. Clamber or swim to. Bit secret.
Hours, days months before... who knows... the head had been found.
Most likely lying at a strange angle amongst the jumble of boulders.
Carefully placed to catch the light.
Perched, watching. Waiting to be noticed by another.
In a different time frame. Stumbling upon it, unsuspecting....
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 10:31
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Guest post by V&A blog administrator.
We are very pleased to announce that the World Beach Project webpages are now live on the V&A website and we have received our first contributions including one from North America and one from continental Europe. We have been getting very excited about this idea ever since Sue first proposed it to us, we hope you will enjoy using it, looking at other...
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 11:30
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The Hunting Tapestries hanging in the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in 1899.
Image taken from ‘The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries’ by George Wingfield Digby, V&A. ISBN11 290037 2
The four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries in the V&A’s collection date from before the middle of the fifteenth century and were for hundreds of years hanging in Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.
This old...
Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 17:44
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Tapestry Course students in room 94, September 2007
When Room 94 closed a while ago, many of us who visited it regularly for our ‘fix’ of the fabulous tapestries that hung there, feared it may be lost forever as a textile gallery. No mention of it in the V&A’s Future Plan (in fact Textiles as...