Notes on Apologue Isle (and other exhibitions)
I think art is really good at communicating things that are not going to work quite so well with words.
Notes on paper towns and abandoned places
Contemporary jewellery and object responses: what we take, what we cast off, and what might have been.
One for sorrow, two for joy
Jo Chew
Despard Gallery
Activism in the arts is a complex thing. There is art that is strident and obviously
MAKE AND DO SEPTEMBER: I AM SO TIRED I MIGHT JUST DISSOLVE
There’s a JG Ballard story, The Wind from Nowhere, that describes a terrifying wind that gets more and more intense, making civilisation impossible and plaguing people’s mental health.
Two things that feature rocks
Here’s two things that feature rocks. That was a coincidence, but when I noticed it, I had to sit these together in my head, because I like that kind of synchronous magic.
Some art I have been thinking a lot about and it kind of delayed me because I was thinking too much and I just could not let go - July/August 2024
Matt Warren & Sleepwalkers
Notes on some fakes and attendant japes
I am deeply unsure that I want to actually support any of the narratives that are vying for supremacy around this story.
The art I ate in June 2024
...it’s freezing and I’m wearing really thick socks as a matter of sheer survival.
The return of the great white hunter
I really like the art of Milan Milojevic. I consider him one of the most vital and unique artists we have locally; I like his approach to art, his aesthetic, his use of differing techniques for creating his images and his sense of absurd comedy.
