jessica k

clowns

Magnhild Kennedy, Clowns. You can buy these for £95 a pop, perfect for next halloween…?!

SO creepy, but I really hope I get to see her Damselfrau exhibition at the Doors Showcase in London before it closes. Here's a less creepy but equally as haunting mask to end on:

… sleep tight!

cecil

the first art book i bought was about Cecil Beaton's photography. you can see why.

ethereal

swan princess meets samurai?

i know it's old news… ^ from my favourite Givenchy collection so far. S/S 2011.

So because I've pretty much exhausted all of the major current art exhibitions in glasgow (yay! unemployed graduate!), I was tripping around the smaller galleries to check out what was going on, and came across the Memory exhibition at the Compass gallery. There was an awful lot there, but I really just wanted to post about one artist, Scott McMurdo.

for me personally, McMurdo's piece The Compulsion of Memory sums up the concept of memory perfectly; his work is shadowy and vague, and there is something slightly disquieting about the way he tenderly touches on the loss of memory with the older and younger figure, it feels as if there is so much left unsaid, so many memories hidden amongst the shadows of the room.

nb. the title of this post is to remind me to finish reading Nabokov's memoirs, which I was supposed to read for class about a year ago and still haven't finished now that I've graduated...

painter as sculptor

Henri Matisse, La Serpentine

Sunday Morning

Currently finding it hard to listen to anything composed after 1970. I blame this on radio2.

Zadok Ben-David

"the idea of the beast within man"

Conversation piece, 1996. At CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood.

I really want to go!!

Mission/Missions (how to build cathedrals), 1987.

Cildo Meireles.

Meireles's installation was created as a means of exploring the cost of conversion to christianity for the indigenous people of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Mission/ Missions is laden with symbols of exploitation and tragedy in the South American colonies; constructed using 200,000 cattle bones, the canopy hangs ominously above a luminescent pit of pennies, the two connected by only a fragile stem of communion wafers.

Theresa Himmer

Sequin graffiti, definitely the best street art around. Sorry Banksy.

Himmer's sequin graffiti adorns run down and dreary areas of Reykjavik, yet the intention of her artwork is not to simply brighten up the city. Her sequin graffiti which is made up entirely of artificial materials, acts as a powerful critique on the damage being done to Iceland's environment, with designs featuring motifs such as melting glaciers and lava which drips from the roofs of the city's buildings.

just because

I'd always wake up early if breakfast was like this, ah so good!

Norman Parkinson

So lovely.

I'm a complete sucker for 1950's fashion photography anyway, but Norman Parkinson is especially good.

Breath Taking

Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Fresh Air.

While I was in Aberdeen last week I stumbled upon the Breath Taking handblown glass exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery, a Crafts Council touring exhibition. I actually kind of avoided it at first, for some silly reason I thought it wouldn't be that interesting but I'm SO GLAD I wandered into the exhibition room, it was incredible! The sheer skill of the glass blowers was completely awe inspiring, and there wasn't even a boring old wine glass in sight! Breath Taking was playful and ironic, and turned any previous opinion I had of glass blowing as a tired old craft completely upside down. It was WOW.

http://breath-taking.org.uk/