Category: Still life

Studio Visit

Sarah Shaw Studio, Brighton

Throughout May we visited Brighton artists’ open studios at the weekends. At Sarah Shaw‘s studio I was taken by all the collections of old paint tubes, brushes, palettes and other supplies and took several pictures. Sarah held up a window frame used as a palette for one of them.

Click any picture below to see them larger.

According to the measure of your faith shall be your achievements

Hove Museum of Creativity

We went to the Hove Museum of Creativity largely to see Beside The Sea: Photographs by JJ Waller and Martin Parr. Scroll down almost halfway through this history of the museum building to learn about the inscriptions on the Jaipur Gateway, shown above (the post’s title is from the Sanskrit inscription).

Disposessed

I Don’t Have Another Land, 2022, Nathan Coley at the Towner, Eastbourne

“I Don’t Have Another Land is a contemporary text sculpture by the internationally renowned and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Nathan Coley. Coley creates these monumental sculptures using existing phrases that come from overheard conversations, song lyrics, news report, books or any found text. I Don’t Have Another Land was a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Jerusalem in the early 2000s. The phrases used in Coley’s artwork take on new meaning in each place they’re exhibited.”
– from the Towner website

A Dark Story

Grayson Perry at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.