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Art Encounters | Mid Life Solution and Subterranean Homesick Alien
“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time.
The above quote is…
Exhibition | Personal Space – Travels in India
Upon arrival, Mumbai gave no quarter.
There was a huge queue at the single working ATM in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. In an effort to fight counterfeiting and the black market, the Indian Government had, without warning,…
Art Encounters | A Wave, a Dream and Dante
A few weeks ago, rumbling around in the garage, I came across a poster of the famous Japanese woodblock print (The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai) that was given to me as a present by my sister and brother-in-law when they returned from…
Art Encounters | William Eggleston in Cambridge
More from the Art Encounters series can be found here.
Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend…
Art Encounters | The Eyes of Dunkirk
Note: This piece contains spoilers for Dunkirk
It’s early August. I’m in the middle of trying to finish a load of writing projects, one of which is a book on film. I need a break, just to remind myself of why I’m doing what I do. I see…
Art Encounters | The Rescue Act II
Back in May of this year I wrote an Art Encounters article called The Rescue Act. It was about the events that led to my adopting a border collie called Oscar. The title was a bit tongue-in-cheek, like the title of an action movie and I was…
‘Elvis Knows’ – A Journey From Paint to Print with Eóin Francis McCormack
Ahead of 'Elvis Knows' (Thursday August 17th) - a visual journey from paint to print by critically-acclaimed painter Eóin Francis McCormack I met up with Eóin in his studio to chat about his transition from painting into the world of…
Art Encounters | Another America
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
I’m a little confused. The main reason, and probably the one which all others feed into, is to do…
Art Encounters | Out of the Ordinary
I flew into Shannon airport from Malaga with the family in tow. As the cool lovable air brushed in from outside, and I knew I had survived the intense heat of the Costa del Sol. As I came through that ‘nothing to declare’ sign I bumped into…
Art Encounters | A Cordoba of My Dreams
O’ sacred place of Córdoba,
You exist because of Ishq,
Ishq that’s wholly eternal,
Which does not come and go,
Muhammed Iqbal - The Mosque of Córdoba.
I'm moving through the dark,
Of a long black night,
Just moving with the moon,…