Outside the Serpentine Gallery North I spied their interestingly shaped café against a leaden London sky.
Curved Space
Category: Architecture
Gallery Space
The Goodman Gallery provided an opportunity to continue my collection of big, open, white gallery spaces. See more below (click pictures to enlarge).
Photo Poster
Every time I visit London’s Photographer’s Gallery I’m tempted to take a picture in the stairwell where you have a a view of the show posters and through a window to a small, street-overlooking alcove where videos about the current exhibition are shown. One show I was there to see, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, included work by Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad with this lovely textured piece of work I took a close-up of:
Underground
Number 9
Alma Pub
On our walk up to the Upper Hale cemetery we cam across a new pub and I wonder if The Wellington was once a pub?
Upper Illium?
We walked up to the Upper Hale (one of Farnham’s villages) to see how they’d integrated the dilapidated chapel into the landscaping design of the cemetery (the work in this article has been completed.) Emerging into the Upper Hale we saw this house with its equine wooden sculpture (we didn’t check inside for Greek soldiers).
Shroom Season
Next stop on our gallery tour was the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place. We’d been hoping to see the photography exhibit, Wide Angle View but it was closed and we contented ourselves with an exhibition of student projects and a library project on the difficulties faced by women architects in the largely male world of architecture.
Camden Art Centre
Several weeks ago, we did a crawl of London galleries, starting at the Camden Art Centre and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a student show that contained surprisingly mature work. Once again, I was struck by gallery spaces and the installation below (‘Twinkling finale’: 4.3.2‽_-⨅⨼, 2022 by Zayd Menk). Click either image below to see them larger.
Wall Art
Rectangles
On our New Year’s Day walk to Aldershot we came upon this Morrison’s (English supermarket chain) upon arriving in Aldershot – worth-a-shot.
Cryptography
Antony Gormley sculpture
This mysterious life-size statue of a man contemplating the water held in his cupped hands is the work of the celebrated British sculptor Antony Gormley. Sound II, fashioned from lead out of a plaster cast of the artist’s own body, is in the Cathedral Crypt.
Winchester Cathedral
A few more images to give a sense of the magnificent scale of the place. Click on any of the images below to see them full size.
Winchester Cathedral
Near the end of December we visited Winchester Cathedral on a rainy day. Click any of the images to see them full-size.
Beatlemania
We passed this well-known site on our walk around London the 23rd December. To the left, circled in red next to George, is my cousin Sidney, who shimmied up onto the roof that famous day.
Piccadilly (Potemkin) Village
Train Ride to Waterloo
Chawton House Windows
During the break our daughter was visiting from the States and we took her to visit Chawton House, erstwhile home of Jane Austen’s brother (the Jane Austen House itself, which we visited last May was closed for the holiday). The house has a fascinating history, which you can read about at the link above, and I took some pictures out the windows which provided framing of the view.
Magic Gazebo?
