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Dromology at South Square
You may be aware that the Abbot and I contributed to the Dromology exhibition at South Square, well it’s now happening. Above is a snatch of the website blurb and here is the Abbot’s poster edition. My...
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More dromology
Here are the flyers for South Square’s Dromology show, it’s always the way with these things, you do the work, submit it, completely forget about it, and then the opening creeps up on you. Can’t wait...
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Arts roundup 1 – Manchester
Images above by Charlie Meecham I went to the People’s History Museum yesterday to see the (I think) final resting place of Charlie Meecham’s Oldham Road project. The Abbot had some images in this...
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Arts roundup 2 – Manchester
In About Looking by John Berger, there is an essay on Jean Francoise Millet’s painting, from which the following quote is taken: ‘…a painting of the starkest simplicity. Scarcely a Landscape but a...
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Sugar Mule #42
Lawrence Upton just told me that his guest edited issue of Sugar Mule is now out, including an edit of my piece on Phil Moody’s Ikea work: http://www.sugarmule.com/42Hanso-s.htm See the unedited cut of...
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Simon Ford – new work and new blog
Here’s Simon ford’s new blog, he’s making some excellent new work, producing bricks with the names of TV shows on them, before leaving them all over the country with GPS co-ordinates. He has also put...
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Piper at The Whitworth
The John Piper retrospective at The Whitworth is definitely worth seeing, particularly for Piper’s landscapes which show the rather more un-idealized bleakness, but also beauty, of Britain. They...
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Yoshua Okón’s Octopus
Yoshua Okón’s Octopus at The Cornerhouse is worth seeing. The first part is a video, presenting a digital, Sims-style landscape, which we virtually and noisily helicopter around. In the middle of this...
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Red Saunders review
I’ve just revisited my thoughts on Red Saunders’ work, after seeing his show at The People’s History Museum. This review is looking for a home. My essay on his work at Impressions in Bradford last year...
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