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or trying to. I suppose there are two things that are currently competing for my attention apart from my day time job. One is our intended move to Spain and the other is my trying to get more focussed on my textile art. Both are related to each other. Since our return from [...] Wangechi Mutu has been named the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2010. She is Kenyan born, but now lives and works in New York. Her work is mostly collages made from a variety of media, including conventional fashion and lifestyle glossies, pornography, and automobile and motorcycle magazines. Her main motif revolves around [...] here is another link to an article about the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition at the V&A. This time the article appeared on the Daily Mail website. The quilt referred to was made by a group of Girl Guides at the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore. One of the girls involved in the making, [...] I have to admit that I wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about when McQueen’s death last month hit the headlines. He wasn’t actually on my radar, although I wasn’t completely unaware of him. A little research showed that he certainly designed some wonderful fashions. But when I saw this gallery of [...] I first read about Valerie Goodwin in Dec 2009 /Jan 2010 issue of Quilting Arts. Her quilts appeal to me. I like the bird’s eye view and her use of colour. She is an interesting quilter as she has a degree in Architecture and teaches classes in architectural design. She has a web site [...] I got up very early on Sunday – for me. We were booked onto a guided tour around the Botticelli Exhibition at 10:15 in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Just recently we have been to a couple of guided tours around exhibitions and have really enjoyed them. So it was a relatively small price to pay to get some culture. It had the added advantage that we got a parking space practically outside the exhibition and beat most of the crowds to see the exhibition. It is very popular. The tour was well organised with everyone being given a headset and the tour guide using a microphone. So despite it still being quite crowded we could still hear everything well. The tour lasted about an hour and took in 6 or 7 of the paintings, which was quite enough. The choice of paintings was also very good to cover a wide range of the works. The tour guide was obviously knowledgeable and told us lots of interesting background information, including some about how the exhibition was organized and how the paintings were transported.  Idealized Female Portrait, Städel Museum, Frankfurt Continue reading Botticelli Exhibition On Thursday evening we went for a private guided tour of the exhibition “Art for the Millions” at the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt. The company DH works for is a corporate sponsor of the gallery and this is one of the perks for employees and spouses. The exhibition shows over 100 life-sized figures [...] Well a couple of days have gone by since I got back from the UK and the opening of the exhibition. I have had time to reflect and collect my thoughts together. These are the things that I have learnt from taking part in the exhibition – both from the process up front and then from seeing all the entries for the award displayed together. I was working on my tea cosy this afternoon. I have more or less finished both sides to it now. I am making a pieced background for the sea and the wave and am appliquéing the white horses onto this. I am using the technique of fabric collage, that I learnt at Quilt University [...] I recently decided to try out a subscription to Fiberarts. I already subscribe to Quilting Arts, but was interested to see what the difference was. The long awaited first issue arrived this morning with the latest issue of Quilting Arts. I had to read the new one first of course. I don’t usually spend [...] |
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