Archive for October, 2009
Spent two days with Catherine Kleeli this week. Catherine was running a really great workshop at the Regional Print Centre in Gum Arabic Transfer Printing. It’s a process that allows you to print from photocopies in a process not dissimilar to lithography. I went down to Carmarthen and visited Oriel Myrddin (see review on a-n), […]
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Tags: aberystwyth arts centre, catherine kleeli, edwina bridgeman, ellie rees, heavenly, llandeilo, monocle, oriel myrddin, pyjamas, red cross, toast, trench coat
Press Release A Winter’s Tale 6 November/Tachwedd 2009 6pm Nadolig yn Oriel Myrddin Gallery Noson o oleuadau yn pefrio, gwin twym, a chacennau sinsir – a chyfle arbennig i chi gael golwg ar ein casgliad gaeaf ysbrydoledig a fforddiadwy . . . sydd i’r dim ar gyfer anrhegion Nadolig unigryw. Mae nosweithiau hir y gaeaf […]
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Tags: oriel myrddin, shell, Steffan Jones-Hughes
Artists Book Collection
The Artists Book Collection at MMU in Manchester is fantastic. I spent a wonderful afternoon in there last week just looking at folds!
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Manchester Northern Quarter
We went to Manchester the other day and as we were walking around we came across the bizarre sight of a number of Michael Jackson lookalikes walking near the Triangle shopping centre. I saw a few things that I really liked as we walked through the Northern Quarter. There are increasing numbers of retro shops […]
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Tags: Afflecks Palace, all saints, baby cakes, comedy festival, junk, junkshop, majolica works, manchester, michael jackson, northern quarter, retro
Autumn
It’s well and truly Autumn. I love the way these berries have such an intense redness against the grey of the road surface. It creates an uplifting warmth as you walk through.
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Veteran Reviewer
I had an email from a-n this week which described me as a “veteran reviewer”. Here’s the message with a link to the review. http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface Dear Steffan Jones-Hughes, Lots of writer offers at the bottom so do scroll down… News As part of our series on critical writing Rachel Lois Clapham has produced an experimental […]
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Tags: a-n, Bedwyr Williams, Ceri Hand Gallery, review
Mesmeric is my word for today. This bloody wordpress app for ipods keeps losing everything I write. I spent all morning making notes on it and they just disappeared. Visited Ceri Hand Gallery this morning to see Bedwyr Williams exhibition Nimrod. That is very special, like entering an alternative universe. Bedwyr’s work has a rye […]
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Tags: Anglesey, Bedwyr Williams, Ceri Hand Gallery, H2NY, Helen Palmer, Homage to New York, Jean Tinguely, Joyous Machines, Madness, Mesmeric, Methodist, Michael Landy, Nimrod, Tate
I didn’t get a chance to see this exhibition but it looks really interesting. I’m going to have a look around the website when I’ve got more time. There’s a good blog on
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Tags: cut outs, Jad Fair, liverpool, paper, Red Wire Studios
Car
When we went to Portugal this summer I took this photo of a Renault 4. It brought back memories of childhood. We had a series of these white cars, at one point we even had a white car and the Renault 4 van, I have recollections sitting in the back on the wheel hubs with […]
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Awst and Walther at Oriel Davies
Went to the opening a week last Saturday. Really liked the drawings. The exhibition is on until 11th November. Website link on the side. This is me with the drawings that I really liked.
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Tags: awst, benjamin, manon, oriel davies, walther
