the blessed round
I was lucky enough to be invited to collaborate on The Blessed Round, a cantata by Rebecca Bilkau, set to music by Helen Roe, which had its first performance on […]
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This week’s failures
Modern life has made some things a lot easier for the studio potter – like paperwork and photography: I’ve just photographed work for a new show at Gallery57 in Arundel. […]
tribes in the arts
Many thanks to everyone who supported the Artists’ Open House at the Dulwich Festival. We had a great couple of weekends, with a real feeling of community in dear old […]
the meaning of objects
I was given these lovely buttons recently. I’m not sure how many families pass down the button box, a store of old, new, useful, ugly – and some gorgeous – […]
the limits of cork lining
Proust famously had his bedroom cork-lined to keep out the noise of his neighbours. Eric Packer, in DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, has his limo cork-lined, too. I’ve been musing that focus, […]
the division of labour
This week I’ve been an electrician, a stone-cutter, a photographer, an illustrator, a gardener, a marketer, a critic, and an entrepreneur. Well, sort of. Mending my kiln was the […]
the expanded field
New research in ceramic practice at the University of Westminster focusses on the relationship between ceramics and museums. The conference, Ceramics in the Expanded Field opened yesteday with a private […]
text threads
I was writing about text threads last week – the online kind, where a conversation gets linked together by a virtual thread. The metaphor of threading‘s pretty universal: used in […]
texts and txts
I got sidetracked this week by the re-birth of email newsletters. The right ones can be great – a kind of mini-magazine you can stack up to read at leisure. […]
the sea, the sea
I will be at West Dean Craft Fair by the time you read this. I’m really looking forward to being in the gardens, (here’s the West Dean Gardens blog), near […]
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