This is not a Film
An object deflecting a bullet at an opportune moment is a filmic trope. The requisite quality, alongside bullet-proof material or bulk, is that the object be somehow consequential, comedic or poignant:...
View ArticleAn Index for A-Z
body as mannequin mannequin as life as artist as with no legs or head standing rooted to the gloss floor whose absent toes have been multiplied and stuck to the wall *parts masquerading as hooks lying...
View ArticleInterview with Felicity Powell
Situated on the Grand Union Canal, flanked by the railway and the Harrow Road, and crowned by the odd concrete elegance of the Westway, Felicity Powell’s studio is surrounded by a strange confluence of...
View ArticleArt on the Road
A pitch for arts television, written for John Wyver. By Clo’e Floirat, Christina Manning Lebek and David Morris. ‘In a historic year for Land Art, Miranda Sawyer takes the viewer on a 3000km road trip...
View ArticleLooking up at the Library – an interview with Ruth Beale
The day after the opening of Ruth Beale’s exhibition Bookbed at Peckham Platform the gallery is busy, the door swinging open and shut almost constantly. Beale is sitting opposite me on the eponymous...
View ArticleArrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way
Go home there is nothing to see. Sounds like a late-night suburban annunciation1, something a mugger would say if caught in the act by an unsuspecting passer-by. No. Sounds like something a disgruntled...
View ArticleThat Vessel
“A Premonition of the Act” | Rose English at Camden Arts Centre | 12th December 2015 – 6th March 2016 ———————————————————————————– A low, round, revolving stage is lit from above. An audience circles...
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