Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 April 2019

The Invalid by Matisse

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I had never seen or heard of  Matisse's The Invalid until I saw it on Twitter last week and I can't stop thinking about it. This p...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Dr Avindra Nath's research. And lovely books

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I'm so very, very heartened by the research that is currently going in USA at the National Institute of Health with Dr Avindra Nath as ...
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Monday, 10 April 2017

A Book of Banished Words

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Delighted to have a short piece in Nancy Campbell's just published The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words (photo from @BirdEditio...
Friday, 18 November 2016

The world is fucked and books are all we have

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The world is fucked and books are all we have. When things are tough, I look for illumination in poetry, nothing has helped, but then a few...
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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Like being in a boxing match

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I'm very prone to post-cold coughs that go on forever - possibly because I have chronic sinusitis (from over-using mothballs years ago)...
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Thursday, 11 February 2016

Penelope Lively on ageing reminds me of getting used to being ill at twenty

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I've just started Penelope Lively's memoir Ammonites and Leaping Fish , I had not heard of this book and am glad that artist and w...
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Saturday, 12 September 2015

Art and death and farewells in Glencoe and Greenland

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Twitter can be wonderful. I first met artist and writer Nancy Campbell via Twitter, last year in March. Nancy had favourited a snowdrops ph...
Friday, 5 June 2015

A Series of Unexpected Events - The Well Made Project

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As part of London  Creativity and Wellbeing week 4-12 June, The Well Made Project is hosting an online exhibition called A Series of Unex...
Monday, 30 March 2015

Michael Wolf's 'bastard chairs'

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I love this project bastard chairs by German photographer Michael Wolf. I want to sit on them all (I am always looking for somewhere to sit ...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Colm Toibin & Hanif Kureishi & Bach

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This is just perfect from Colm Tóibín, a five minute film on writing generally, and specifically on fictionalising family trauma. I agree w...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014

The Istanbul Review: Issue 5

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Delighted that the gorgeous The Istanbul Review Issue 5 is now on sale in Looking Glass Books, a wonderful indie book store in Edinburgh. ...
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Sunday, 25 May 2014

Glasgow School of Art, always there like a jewel...

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It was like watching an old friend dying right in front of you and being unable to do anything except witness the event, helplessly. This i...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Fathers & stepfathers & childhood homes

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I was surprised - and flattered - last week to learn I'd been nominated for a *Scottish Asian Women's Award, in the 'achievemen...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Different kinds of light

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The exhibition of Chinese lantern warriors at Edinburgh University is beautiful and haunting, the figures sway gently in the wind, the old ...
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Monday, 6 January 2014

Art & catastrophe, & BBC Alba documentary, repeated on 6 and 13 January

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The BBC Alba 'Toxic Tiredness' documentary from January 2012 is being repeated tonight at 9pm*. The Gaelic parts are, of course, s...
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Sunday, 23 December 2012

Manto & translation, & Pakistani fathers

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This is Saadat Hasan Manto's Mottled Dawn , Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition, published by Penguin India. The cover is exquis...
Sunday, 11 March 2012

Instead...

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Maybe instead of giving my old CDs away to noble causes I should have smashed them and made beautiful animal sculptures. These are simply g...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

How to draw a wolf

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I just have to post this, it is so lovely.
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Friday, 22 July 2011

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I've been dipping into the collected letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, he makes me smile: Yesterday I had toothache, and today I hav...
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Sunday, 17 October 2010

Leaves & kids

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I just watched four leaves fall and spin to the ground, one after the other. I wondered how they 'know' when to leave the tree, wha...
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