Archive for the 'Art' Category

The fruits of the paper flowers

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Last week, when I posted that delicious Thai Green Curry recipe, I mentioned that I’d eaten it while folding origami lotus flowers for an art project. The final piece was going to be submitted to the ‘If You Could…’ diary, a competition run by super-cool design studio Hudson Bec.
The theme of the diary is […]

Brockley-scapes

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

At first glance you wouldn’t think the place was a den of artistic talent. I suppose that since the Nineties, in the UK at least, we’ve come to associate art with oblong-spectacle pioneering, former-factory inhabiting, media-cosying YBAs who generally seem to live in Hackney. Brockley on the other hand has barely a stuffed shark in […]

Blind Light

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Event Horizon - which is also a film with a soundtrack provided by Orbital
A fortnight ago we went to see Gormley’s Blind Light exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in at the Southbank Centre just before it closed.
Anthony Gormley is a sculptor who commands international respect, he’s one of our most significant artistic exports. On the […]