I learnt loads at a great in-depth exploration about Lee Bul at the Hayward! Her work has a strong sense of autobiography. Plexus starts out by looking like a split torso, but the wires and sequins are about the home-working that Lee Bul’s mother had to do. A political dissident, she couldn’t get easier factory …
Camden is rethinking our local statues.We were asked to think about some of the statues – and also think what we would truly like to commemorate.I couldnt go to the first session as the venue is not accessible.So that’s my first idea: get accessible! Lets make venues accessible – and then commemorate accessibility! We focussed on …
I’ve been really enjoying The Photographers Gallery (TPG) Slow Looking online audio description and discussion sessions! It’s such fun looking closely and deeply at great photographs – created and curated by experts. Then I was asked to comment on the process, alongside Caroline Dawson, an expert Audio Describer, and Janice McLaren, Head of Education & …
Francis Annagu — project creator, documentary photographer and creative writer (based in Nigeria) invited participants to take part in creating a new work for online exhibition (on Co-iki’s website) under the “Creativity from HOME” experimental residency curated by Co-iki. I’m included with my thoughts on lemons and oaks:https://carolinemawer.com/lemons-oaks-and-the-wood-wide-web/https://carolinemawer.com/lemon-trees-citrus-limon-and-limu-shirin/https://carolinemawer.com/quercus-brantii-the-west-asian-oak/I wrote of how Living in a big …
I got a very generous share of the time at the opening event of this digital group exhibition at the Socially Engaged Art Salon, Brighton. Theres more from all the other artists here: https://www.seasbrighton.org/life-interrupted-gallery And more on my own submission here: https://www.seasbrighton.org/post/life-interrupted-caroline-mawer
Constable’s Haywain is a famously popular painting. It’s a chocolate-box idyll of rural English life Isn’t it? In some important ways, Constable was a true radical. His ‘ rough‘ painting techniques have been described as an important precursor to Impressionism. And he transformed landscape painting. Moving it away from classical Italy towards the English countryside But his …
William Hutt was a master craftsman and a creative whirlwind. Armourer for the Wallace Collection and the Royal Armouries. Leather worker extraordinaire. The earliest adopter of Photoshop I knew Will taught me the rudiments of how to sculpt metal by hitting it very skilfully.He improved my chain-mail making-technique. And he helped me make my first knife. Look … …
(Un)forgotten flora is goign to be an online exhibition curated by Francis Annagu in a “Creativity from HOME” experimental residency curated by Co-iki. We were asked for ‘strange flowers’ we wanted to focus on I chose the lemon: Citrus limon and the Persian oak Aas part of my installation Safe as Houses, I made a …
Sue Austin goes deep sea diving … in her wheelchair. She explains in a TED talk how she experienced the very negative stereotypes linked to wheelchairs, and thought how it might be to juxtapose these with the excitement of scuba-diving. Her NHS electric wheelchair now gives her the “freedom to move in 360 degrees of …
When I saw And Suddenly I Disappear, it felt that, suddenly, there was actually a chance that I might personally appear. Not definitely. I still don’t know where. But at least now there’s a chance. For maybe a chance appearance. Thankyou thankyou THANKYOU for that to Kaite O Reilly and the whole splendid ensemble! Kaite explores …