The Asset Strippers, 2019 Mike Nelson’s assemblage of telephone poles, hay rakes and heavy machinery in the Duveen galleries of Tate Britain made monuments of the industrial relics of his childhood – and part of my own. The internationally renowned artist, twice nominated for the Turner Prize, grew up in the East Midlands and wentContinue reading “Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons”
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Stone Walk, London
“Stone Walk starts in the gardens of one of the oldest sites of worship in Britain. It traces a path of stones through the city, from the religious to the secular, ancient to present day, finding stones of war and peace, symbols of hope, commerce, fertility, place and communion with a lost London.” August 2014Continue reading “Stone Walk, London”
Pilgrimage: Naoshima, Japan’s art island
“Naoshima is a small, beautiful, somehow sad little island. A tiny town in squares and patches. On one side, beginning several feet back from the sea, a ruined shrine, a general store, a shaved-ice shop. The sadness comes perhaps from the loneliness – in the early afternoons, there never seems to be anyone on theseContinue reading “Pilgrimage: Naoshima, Japan’s art island”
Promenade
Sometimes Nicola Dale and I make work together — we are friends and we shared a studio as students. These days, she’s a full-time artist and I’m a writer that can’t quite let go of the idea of making things for their own sake. During 2020, we each developed our own lockdown rituals. With herContinue reading “Promenade”
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