“Hare hare god send thee care, I am in a hare's likeness now, but I shall be a woman even now, hare hare god send thee care.” Extract from Isobel Gowdie's third confession, 1662 Albrecht Dürer: Self Portrait at 28, oil on panel (1500) I've just arrived in Germany, on my way to Kebbel-Villa's International… Continue reading On Hares
Category: painting
On Alice Neel’s Babies
I first came across Alice Neel's work when my tutor Richard recommended to me the documentary Alice Neel, a film made by her grandson in 2007. This was another hit from the Glasgow School of Art library's DVD collection. This film, which I watched in my second year at GSA at age eighteen or nineteen,… Continue reading On Alice Neel’s Babies
On the Paintings of Rouen
I've been writing a bit about painting recently. Oddly enough, it actually took a couple of years of writing this blog to get going on painting analysis; I started writing mainly about film, literature, and other assorted cultural ephemera (lesbian vampires); I would continue making my own work in watercolour and oils, but painting remained outside my writing.
On Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Birds
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: The Counter (oil on canvas, 2010) "At Ease As The Day Breaks Beside Its Erasure And At Pains To Temper The Light At Liberty Like The Owl When The Need Comes Knocking To Fly In League With The Night." Lynette Yiadom-Boakye With a borrowed Tate membership card in hand, I recently managed to… Continue reading On Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Birds
On Paula Rego’s Feet
“And, they tell us, we at home Live free from danger, they go out to battle: fools! I’d rather stand three times in the front line than bear One child.” Euripides, Medea (431 BCE) So it’s been one year and nine months since I finished my MA at Chelsea College of Arts, and in the… Continue reading On Paula Rego’s Feet
Sertraline Dreams 