This month the gallery at Modern Art Oxford has a juice bar at the centre of the building to celebrate a new exhibition that looks at how we are never truly private when we walk outside. The barriers between what is personal and what is public are investigated by placing iPads as cameras in garden […]
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Music on The Water is an exhibition in Galway City Museum of paintings by Artist Maurice Quillinan. Based in Kildare, Quillinan studied Art at Limerick and later the Royal College of Art. His work is held in private collections across the globe. I got lucky and stumbled on a site specific portrayal of […]
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It’s just as well the visitor is thrust into the mix as I had lost my muse, couldn’t get my hands on the keyboard and the white page had been staring me back in the face for a while. I wandered through woods of Headington Hill, a part of Oxford Brookes University campus, looking […]
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Looking for an object to fill me with inspiration I walk around (and around) a local covered market and follow the scent of oranges and bright posters to a local museum to see how an object can be used as Art. ‘I’m having Art for lunch’ says a visitor as another orange is taken from […]
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The first time I got paid to do what I love, namely entertain, was my best job ever. I can see my first pay packet today and remember staring at it in disbelief that I was being given money to be on stage, singing and dancing all day at a UK entertainment resort. I […]
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My neighbour has a holiday cottage full of the outdoors type. They are frequently lost on our winding roads but I hear them coming up the lane from random chatter on their mobile phones. Right now I have my window open. to catch what drifts in on the breeze. I’m walking my way to work […]
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Photograph taken by Cheri Lucas Rowlands Light bounces of each brick to defy the emptiness of the tunnel in the photograph. This image could work in a gallery as it has depth beyond the bricks and mortar. It reminds me of the colonnades outside the Uffizi where I stood in the rain waiting to see […]
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(to be read amongst friends) Anna- She’s here. Bess- She’s not here. She doesn’t want to be here! It’s a day off from the kitchens of Audley End. Anna- Of course she’s here. It’s a hide and seek game silly! We have to look harder. Bess- She’s never seen this garden before. She’s new to […]
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