William Gibson’s new book Zero History came out a few days ago. It’s a taut thriller about information and the power of design, and fetishises a designer who uses deadstock fabric, of a quality impossible to find new, to make clothing with shapes inspired by the golden age of workwear. The designer doesn’t release in [...]
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Norwich in London
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
If you are a Londoner who wishes they were by the seaside then the exhibition opening at the Bankside Gallery tomorrow night is for you. Norwich Printmakers at Bankside Gallery runs for a week only, 22nd – 27th June. There will be 33 printmakers from the Norwich area there, many exhibiting in London for the [...]
Tags: Bankside Gallery · printmaking
St Jude’s Christmas Show
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
St Jude’s in Itteringham are opening their Christmas show with mulled wine, mince pies and a glorious exhibition of prints.
Felbrigg Hall by Ed Kluz is one of the standout pieces for me in the online preview – part collage, part painting and full of joyful colour, it’s one of a collection of images of eccentric [...]
Tags: christmas presents · printmaking · st judes
Justin Partyka in Norwich
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
On Tuesday the Justin Partyka show opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. I’ve written about him on here before and I do think it’ll be a show worth going to see – there will be more than fifty of his images of the East Anglian countryside and its people. It’ll be on til [...]
Tags: countryside · exhibition · Justin Partyka · photography
Bending the Line
August 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The Arts Council thinks Sleaford is in the East Midlands, but lets sneak it in here because it’s still in the Fens. Sleaford is home to The Hub National Centre for Design and Craft.
It has an energetic programme of exhibitions, courses and events that aims to encourage appreciation of design, craft and culture, and acts [...]
Ipswich Museum
June 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Inching into Ipswich through an endless traffic jam on a wet Wednesday, I never expected to fall in love with it. Too many ugly 1980s buildings, depressing 1970s bungalows and grey drizzle turning everything it touched sticky and sad.
And yet… that’s just the face it shows to casual visitors. As soon as I parked the [...]
Tags: animal bones · ethnography · fish skull · fossils · giant stuffed woolly mammoth · ipswich museum · stuffed animals · victorian curiosities
Denmark to Suffolk
June 4th, 2009 2 Comments
In the small Suffolk village of Fressingfield opposite the old flint parish church is an outpost of a purist Scandanavian aesthetic. A building that in the last century was the village post office is now the Pottery, workshop and showroom of Lars P. Soendergaard Gregersen, a Danish potter who makes domestic pieces in hand thrown [...]
Tags: china · craftsman · east anglia · fressingfield · hand thrown porcelain · pottery · soendergaard design · suffolk