the continuing conversation between art and life
"Art is a very high level of communication - but before that, we do have a responsibility - we do have to remember" Michal Rovner Her work looks like a screen of writing but then as you look closer, you realise it is rows of people walking - and this is not animation, it is …
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Marian Keyes, Irish novelist, made this brief video of 3 techniques to get started on the writing and potentially beat writer's block. If you live in the UK and pay a TV licence, you can see it at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05fj5f8 In summary, her 3 helpful hints are there: Establish a routine which works for you (she …
Laurel and Hardy demonstrate the dangers in door to door sales at Christmas
Here is Kaffe talking about his needlepoint (he designs for Ehrman tapestry) - and his love of making designs for interiors, as they are then like a window on a fantasy world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpClScg9rR0 He begins by showing a couple of waistcoats for men which he designed: and demonstrates how he sketches a design of …
Alex Booker has a family history steeped in the sea and navy - and he makes prints inspired by that. Here he is at work in his studio, going through the entire process of making a woodcut print. https://vimeo.com/143560030 You can find his work (and order online) at bookerprinthouse.com
Malcolm Guite: "I once had a conversation with the poet Seamus Heaney on when poetry lives and works in people, as opposed to being printed on a page or worse still, studied in a university somewhere - when does it actually become poetry? We both agreed that it first becomes poetry when it shimmers into …
Knit your own tinsel!? No way? Yes, way. Arne and Carlos demonstrate, using the "i-cord" technique which stands for "idiot stitch". The whole demo is unintentionally hilarious, as they share a house and knitting career together yet are very different personalities - and one of the biggest differences is that one of them loves glittery …
Tim Marlow, expressive art commentator, takes us through a 2017 exhibition of Henri Matisse's art. "....He distilled all this into an art which sang with colour, an art of sinuous line and form, simplifying almost to the point of abstraction." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRkdY8VQx1c
At Stirling University's Dementia Services Development Centre, the Director is very positive about art being made and viewed by people with dementia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoQCV4ouAqI Professor June Andrews, believes that the illnesses' disinhibiting side effect serves to help people recover their childhood enjoyment of arts: singing, dancing, painting. The centre often holds art exhibitions with a mixture …
I so enjoyed this film - even though I only went to accompany someone else and I'm not an especial fan of Queen the pop group. It is definitely one to watch in the cinema, BIG SCREEN, to get the incredible sense of large stadium concerts - at which Queen excelled - and the necessary …
