A good article which gives a number of practical ways of perceiving the world that help you see the world in a way that leads in to drawing and painting. Painting and drawing doesn’t copy the world on to a canvas. It makes you look at the world in a way that lets you create… Read More How to Train Your Eyes to See like an Artist – Artsy
A great series about Dialect Poets. Here Given dialect will always change and lives in fear of loss at all times, Dialect Poets seek to both rediscover dialect and by making and performing poetry, both preserve it and make it grow. I loved that this had an angle on place, performance, art, research. The one… Read More Tongue & Talk: The Dialect Poets – Radio 4
Why are we so imaginative? What possible use is there in passing through the looking-glass with Alice or supposing that the moon is inhabited by creatures with aerials growing out of their heads? These are some of the wilder flights of our imagination and not shared by everyone. Read More…
The trope of the isolated artist is all around us. From Anthony Burgess’ writing retreat in the English countryside to Dali’s hideaway in the north of Spain and more recently, the mansionof DJ and producer Deadmau5 near Toronto, artists have been seeking to get away from it all for centuries. And in many cases, solitude is an effective… Read More The One Thing You Should Do to Amp Up Your Creativity
Good news for those juggling time-pressures in today’s busy, modern life. According to ground breaking research commissioned by BBC Arts, even the briefest time spent on a creative pastime such as painting, pottery or playing the piano, has an impact on our wellbeing and emotions. In the largest study of its kind, with almost 50,000… Read More Even a small amount of creativity can help you cope with modern life, reveals new research by BBC Arts and UCL
In the second of three BBC Radio 4 programmes music writer John Doran seeks out the radical music being made in the margins of Britain. In this episode, he heads to the post-industrial belt of northern England. Read More…
In the first of three BBC Radio 4 programmes music writer John Doran seeks out the radical music being made in the margins of Britain. He hears from musicians who have been pushed to the edges of the big cities. Read More…
In a BBC Radio 4 programme, Kieran Yates explores the role council estates play in shaping British music culture – and how the thin walls of her childhood estate introduced her to diverse music. Journalist Kieran Yates grew up in a South Asian family on a council estate in London. Read More…
For 112 days Sara Morawetz retraced the 2,000 kilometre journey of two 18th century astronomers, tasked with defining the length of a metre. On 24 June 2018 artist Sara Morawetz started walking. In sturdy leather boots and a broad-brimmed, blue felt hat, she headed south from Dunkirk, France’s most northerly town. For 112 days, over 2,000… Read More Walking from Dunkirk to Barcelona to Measure the Curvature of the Earth
“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein “starts” shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.“… Read More dVerse Poetics: On Geography