What are the chances you can make it to the Saatchi Gallery today? I just found out about this two-week exhibition on its last day helpfully, but maybe it’ll move on somewhere you can make it to. Skate Girls of Kabul is a collection of portraits by photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson focussing on young girls from […]
Remember when I said I wanted to take up painting? Well I’ve yet to figure out the baffling-seeming world of paper and paints* yet alone sit down to do anything. But while I was in New York, I discovered Iranian artist Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian whose work abstracts traditional geometric patterns from her culture in a variety […]
When I was young, on holiday in a French gite with my family, I remember asking my Dad if he and Mum would be writing in the visitor’s book. I must have been able to write at this time, but unauthorised writing in the visitor’s book by me was obviously unthinkable. ‘No,’ my Dad said. […]
Last week thanks to the generosity of my babysitting parents, I tagged along with my husband on his work trip to New York for three days. Three days just me walking and subwaying around a city I always fancied living in. Until dinner time when the two of us revelled in our together-aloness. It was […]
After my TV-free week away, the first thing I did was slump in front of hours of property porn when I got home. OK, no the first thing I did was watch the cast of Geordie Shore getting mortal and tashing-on in Newcastle nightclubs. But suffice it to say TV has been big on the […]