well
a busy couple of weeks and we are still in it - assessments on the Textile
Design at nua was smooth with some wonderful work - the show at nua is almost up - we have built
an extraordinary series of structures, creating an environment to show off the work to its best - I've been
north working on the assessment for OCA on the MA Fine Art Course and staying
in the Premier Inn in Barnsley, there was some really excellent thinking
underpinning great work. The next two years graduation shows could potentially
be wondrous. The Degree Show Private View at Chelsea was gloriously old school
- a packed space of randomly dressed individuals all enjoying being there -
some excellent textiles and of course fine art - highlight was a #proundparent
moment - Bob Bicknell-Knight. meanwhile A
very English Scandal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065sk93
was tragically funny but I spent most of the time marvelling over Hugh Grants
stunning performance. I got to see Solo -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778644/
wonderfully geeky - with something for everyone - great back story infilling
alongside swashbuckling set pieces. Christopher
Brett Bailey https://christopherbrettbailey.com/
was the standout session at Pulse 18
last weekend - I cannot recommend him enough - I think this was my 5th outing
and he just gets better. Meanwhile Snape Festival had a new opera - a kind of
brutalist Jacques Tati set in a Kafkaesque modern space with a nod to the
Truman show aesthetics. The Appalachian Spring session by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Huw Watkins on the piano and conducted
by Oliver Knussen was viseral. Playing Coplands Music
for a Great City, The world premiere of The Book of Ingenious Devices by Philip
Cashian, Feldman Structures and Coplands joyous Appalachian Spring one was
swept away. On the way to see the Pavillion next to the Serpentine Gallery
..............I bumped into Christon next to the Christo in the Serpentine which was and which is
fantastic and worth seeing offline.
