Archive | August 10, 2009

Channeling Emily Carr and thinking about Place



Some of you already know that I’ve been copying Emily Carr paintings for the last week or so, attempting to understand more fully how she does forests and trees.

Emily Carr, Cedar Sanctuary, 38 x 26″, Oil on paper, 1942

I’ve learned a lot through this exercise [ including the rule …

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One Foot In The Grove



Anyone who went would more than likely testify that last years Mutate Britain show was one of the finest urban/street/leftfield/just plain weird art shows ever seen in London. It’s venue, Cordy House, seems to have since been condemned and so the return show has now moved to an as yet undisclosed location in West London (at a undefined time in September). All very vague – the only details publicly available at the time of writing are on this poster in Curtain Road  courtesy of unusual_image – but keep watching for more news as past experience shows that this will be one not to be missed.


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Anthony Lister Goes Big In Sydney



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More from Lister here.

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Robo-Perforations

Following on from Ruairi’s recent post on the Gantenbein Vinery Facade, I thought it would be nice to draw attention to another very cool robo-technique – robotic perforation. Students from ETH Zurich have been working with Architects Gramazio & Kohler to create architectural screens based on different grids, variations and forms only realistically possible with [...]

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