All in Words
All around Exchange Place studios there are posters with a promise and an apology surrounding an artist’s impression of how this area will soon be transformed. The project has a name: From Grey to Green. It might be one of the last regeneration projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund. Every time I see it the melody from ‘Jerusalem’ comes into my head
Still, artists are also citizens. It would be dishonest to suggest that our art were entirely disconnected from our lives as members of a community …. Our art is shaped by where we come from.
Diagonally across from the house I live, there is the semi-detached terraced house belonging to the Iqbal family. Mr Iqbal is in his 80s and moved to the UK in his late teens or early twenties He does'n’t know his actual date of birth.
An introduced species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. Non-native species can have various effects on the local ecosystem.
On 1st December many old Dutch veterans who served in Dutch New Guinea will again raise the Morningstar flag to commemorate and support the Papuan rights to self determination.
Waking up this morning with a head ache that only got worse when I heard the news that Donald Trump has become the new President of the United States.
The current promise by the UK government to support refugees from Syria and nearby war torn areas in 'safe havens' has, as some critics point out, an underlying reason to 'keep refugees out' of Britain.
Eduard Douwes Dekker kwam in zijn baanbrekend boek ‘Max Havelaar’ op voor het volk van Indonesië, dat door het Nederlands beleid in die kolonie tijdens de 19de eeuw op gruwelijke wijze werd behandeld.
Eduard Douwes Dekker took sides with the Javanese people of colonial Dutch Indonesia in his groundbreaking novel ‘Max Havelaar’, as they had been exploited in the most appalling manner.
We commissioned the writer Jacqueline Yallop to write a short text about our project which now has a name, is nearing completion and is due to be installed at Museums Sheffield's Millennium Gallery for their forthcoming exhibition "In The Making".
Following on with the Dancing Belles series, in early June I met with Divja Unnikrishnan but now living in Sheffield with her husband and son.
A lot has happened in the last month. The oak stem from Ruskin Land has now been processed at Darley Dale sawmill (picture below) and Henk Littlewood has begun his experiment to steam bend the planks into semi-circular shapes that will then be made into the spherical space in which my pictures will be displayed.
After 6 weeks of listening to politicians, witnessing their staged and choreographed gesturing, hearing their rehearsed statements over and over I'm now tired and ready for a long sleep - preferably 5 years.
Day 3 in the cage below the public domain of the Museum going through four enormous leather bound books of exquisite water colour drawings by Edward Donovan.
One of the main sources of inspiration for Mahatma Gandhi apparently was John Ruskin's book 'Unto This Last' in which he talks passionately about 'fairness' and 'just-ness' particularly in relation to fair and just payment for workers.
