Category: Art
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Art, Artefact, or Design?
: Art, Artefact, or Design? In the East Wing of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum I tilted my iPhone upwards to capture the floating heads suspended from the ceiling. I wasn’t alone. Have you noticed how tourists and visitors always take photos of the same things? Clearly these faces suspended above the exhibits…
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Banksy: from Kirkwall to Glasgow
I am one for letting journeys unfold, as planning ahead is not my forte. Sometimes one experience segues into another, like when I managed to get a ticket to the Cut and Run Exhibition at the Glasgow GoMA. This exhibition is probably the closest Banksy will come to doing a retrospective and sharing something of…
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Neue Museum Berlin
Paradoxically, I didn’t photograph the most famous exhibit of the Neue Museum. Like the Mona Lisa, Queen Nefertiti has her own special room, a space that has a beauty in itself. The artistry of this bust is unsurpassable, with fine sculpting that is befitting of the Queen’s delicate fine boned face. What did the artist…
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Artist in the spotlight: Jenny Watson – don’t fence me in
Initially the composition of this painting unsettled me; too much fence not enough dog. I spent a good deal of time contemplating before I realised that the placement of the dog is a key to understanding the work. Cyclone Fence with Great Dane is an ambitious early work by Australian artist Jenny Watson completed in…
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Evening Walk, Marcus Creek
Cloud reflections in Marcus Creek, a coastal creek in Noosa, Queensland, Australia
ART by Jude Tulloch 