Beat Back at Leeds Industrial Museum
We love museums so when Lee Goater asked us to get involved in a project to bring a new audience to Leeds Industrial Museum we jumped at the chance. The project became Beat Back, our…
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A day in Nowa Huta, Krakow, Poland
I was initially drawn to Nowa Huta for the Brutalist Architecture. During the visit I found so much more. Nowa Huta (which translates as The New Steel Mill) is a planned secular socialist realist settlement….
Hannah Waldron tapestry weaving and Disobedient Bodies at The Hepworth Wakefield
Since visiting Dovecot Studios and Tisser La Couleur exhibition I’ve wanted to gain a better understanding of tapestry weaving. When a weekend class came up at The Hepworth in Wakefield it was the perfect opportunity….
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Tibor Reich exhibition at The Whitworth, Manchester
I was unaware of Tibor Reich (1916-1996) before this exhibition at the wonderful Whitworth in Manchester. It was the video at the end of this post that convinced me to visit, I was interested in…
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Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden, Italy
The French artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was inspired to build the Tarot Garden (or Il Giardino dei Tarocchi) after visiting Antoni Gaudí´s Parc Güell in Barcelona. In 1979 she purchased a plot of…
Tisser La Couleur at Musée de Lodève
Driving though Lodève in France I read about the Atelier National de Tissage de Tapis where the priceless Gobelins tapestries are woven. Unfortunately they were not open for the next few days and I was disappointed to…
Villa Aalto, Helsinki
On a recent visit to Finland a destination I wanted to visit, even more then Moominland, was the home of the architect and designer couple Aino and Alvar Aalto. The house designed by the Aalto’s…
Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
On a recent trip to London ‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age’ exhibition at the Science Museum was a must. It was excellent. The reasonable size meant you really could immerse yourself in the information…
Nicolas Schöffer Retrospective, Mucsarnok, Budapest
While in Budapest we were lucky to discover lots of Hungarian art. One highlight was the work of Nicolas Schöffer and his retrospective at Mucsarnok. When people describe Schöffer’s work words like hypermodern, kibernetic and…
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Anna F. Györffy Hungarian Children’s Illustrator
Walking in Budapest we spotted a poster for this Anna Györffy exhibition ‘Mosó Masa és barátai’ at the Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (the center for important Hungarian literary works). I hadn’t heard of Györffy before but…
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