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Movie Catch-Up: Exit Through the Gift Shop
There’s a 1966 Peter Sellars movie, After the Fox, in which Sellars’ master criminal Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), posing as a famous director, persuades the entire population of a coastal village that...
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Art: The Museum of Everything
“Hidden from view around our world, humble pockets of creativity bustle: dynamic studios where self-taught artists discover, form and make.” “The Museum of Everything presents Exhibition #4, the...
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Review: Kate Plumtree – Worn to Be Wild
Worn to be Wild at Mottisfont Abbey, 14 July – 16 September 2012 An installation by UK textile artist and costume designer Kate Plumtree. She’s created extraordinary couture dresses inspired by British...
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Mister Night Sky
Mister Night Sky (for Sir Patrick Moore) December 2012 This began as a simple ‘Man in the Moon’ picture, then I added a satellite. A thought struck me that it would be nice if I included some Patrick...
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Review: Brighton and Hove Artists Open Houses 2012 [Part 1]
One of the biggest UK festivals of artists’ open houses takes place throughout May every year in Brighton, East Sussex. Other similar events happen in other areas of the UK, including Bath,...
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Review: Brighton and Hove Artists Open Houses Christmas 2012 [part 2]
December brings a smaller Artists’ Open House Festival to Brighton and Hove, with fifty-four houses and venues opening across the city this year to showcase the best in art and craft for Christmas....
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Review: Brighton and Hove Artists – New England House 2012
Thursday December 13th Caught the New England House [46] show today – a trail all by itself, over six floors in an extraordinarily hideous building rejuventated by a colony of artists, craftspeople and...
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Review: Brighton and Hove Artists Open Houses Christmas 2012 [part 3]
Saturday December 15th (Map and artist profiles at the AOH listings site) Today kicked off with a walk along the seafront between the piers. The old fisherman’s workshops in the arches under the road...
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I Wish I Was A Spaceman (for Gerry Anderson)
Re-post from I Wish I Was A Spaceman (for Gerry Anderson) by Thomas Everchild Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and UFO were Gerry Anderson’s most significant and important work as a producer. His...
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Review: Brighton and Hove Artists Open Houses Christmas 2012 [part 4]
Sunday December 16th (Map and artist profiles at the AOH listings site). Today dawned beautifully bright and sunny, so I decided to do the long Fiveways circle of houses. Theresa Winchester and...
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The Golden Record – Voyager’s Message in a Bottle
The Voyager spacecraft has recently left the orbital limits of our solar system. It is now the furthest any made-made object has travelled from Earth. If you’re not old enough to remember the launch,...
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Art: Artists Open Houses 2013 First Weekend
Friday 3rd May As ever, our festival began with a visit to previews at two well-established Hove Arts Open Houses, beginning with a champagne reception at Dion Salvador Lloyd [4]. Lloyd, a self-taught...
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Art: Artists Open Houses 2013 Second Weekend
Originally posted over at Artists’ Open Houses Second weekendSaturday 11th May We began today with the remaining three Dyke Road Arts houses on our way into town. Nine by Nine [3] This house is all...
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Art: Artists Open Houses 2013 Third Weekend
Third weekend Saturday Originally posted over at Artists’ Open Houses Kemptown Artists Continuing my goal to see as many and to travel as far as possible within the city, I caught a bus from Hove...
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Art: Artists Open Houses 2013: Fourth weekend (Re-post)
Originally posted at Artists Open Houses Saturday May 25th : Fiveways Over the final weekend I visited as much of the Fiveways trail as time and tired feet allowed. This area saw the birth of the...
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Review: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 – Grayson Perry
The award-winning artist Grayson Perry presents the 2013 BBC Reith Lectures, titled Playing to the Gallery. Across four programmes he discusses what makes him an artist, the limits of contemporary...
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Opinion: Surviving Actors’ Expos, Part One [Guest Post]
Originally posted as Surviving Actors’ Expos by Edwin Flay, February 11, 2014. “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the consumer, you’re the product.” – Anonymous. So, on Saturday, I attended an...
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How-to: Surviving Actors’ Expos, Part Two [Guest Post]
Originally posted as Surviving Actors’ Expos by Edwin Flay, February 11, 2014. “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the consumer, you’re the product.” – Anonymous. So, on Saturday, I attended an...
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Movie Catch-up: Europa Report (2011)
Despite a title that sounds like an EU treaty from Brussels, the Europa Report is a ‘found-footage’ sci-fi thriller that crosses Blair Witch with The Abyss. In space. With the challenges of deep...
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