Drawing from an uncomfortable position
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Notting Hill Carnival romance
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Hippy crack canisters. I can see blue sea, golden sand, palm tree This year's Notting Hill Carnival is ending. I clamber out over t...
Uses for the Financial Times, part 4
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Protecting the kitchen table from stuff we found in the gutter after the Notting Hill Carnival. I handled it with latex gloves and launder...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Uses for the Financial Times, part 3
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To denote gravitas. Nicola Streeten (who wrote the award-winning graphic novel Billy, Me and You and co-founded Laydeez do Comics with ...
Monday, 12 August 2013
Being drawn from an uncomfortable position: the artist as model, part 2
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Artists' models are like public lavatories, engaged or vacant. I'm at the Newlyn School of Art, working at being the kind of mode...
Sitting for Rose Hilton: the artist as model
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Brushmarks on glass in Rose's studio I am in Rose Hilton's conservatory in Cornwall. She rootles through her pastels. 'O...
Friday, 26 July 2013
Supreme Court Art: the Privy Council and being prepared
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I'd been avoiding the Privy Council. The Thing sometimes lurks there. People from overseas jurisdictions arguing for the right to carr...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Supreme Court art: what is a terrorist?
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I arrive early but they've already started - what's happening? It's Lord Hope's valediction: he is retiring today. Grandchi...
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