How do you manage to make dinosaurs
boring? Well Jurassic World has managed just
that – dull dull dull and oddly it has a number of misjudged moments of
violence towards women which I found unnecessary. Meanwhile if you are in the
area the barkcloth show at the British museum is quite gorgeous – tucked away
in room 91 it shows a wide range of approaches to the making of cloth from bark
along with some startling graphic designs - as a bonus you get to walk past the
mummies on the way there and make exciting connections between the two displays.
The image of how the chief of the Nadrau Tui Nadrau wrapped the cloth around him so that with
one pull it could all be removed and presented to a visitor was wonderfully
odd. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/shifting_patterns.aspx
The Agnes Martin at The Tate is
quite sublime – room 5 has a number of large grid paintings – they talk of
duality – inside outside, freedom restraint, closed open, random order. The
room of drawings on paper gives you an insight into the process of conceiving
these pieces – its a must see show. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/agnes-martin
The Norwich Textile design
course has a stand at New Designers again this year – spent most of Monday
building it - I left it looking very clean and structured – it will be
interesting to see it with the students work in/on/around it when I have a stint
manning it on Thursday. The students on the MA Book Art Course are in their
last week of developing work before we
hang it next week for their graduation show. It was good to be in the space
with a tape measure and begin to see how the pieces made by individuals become
a collective joint show.........hopefully!
