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Traces and Testament | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. July 14, 2010. My latest serious piece of writing was for the artist Chantal Powell. The following is an essay written for the catalogue to accompany her first major exhibition:. Chantal Powell: Traces and Testament. The work of Chantal Powell contains one of the key elements of good art in that while it is intensely personal in terms of its creation, it is also open to a range of interpretations by the viewer. She is an artist that tak...
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Everybody’s clever nowadays | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. Everybody’s clever nowadays. February 15, 2010. Byker is a photobook by the Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. To me it has all the elements of great art – it is in turn humourous, dark, life-affirming and deeply touching. Konttinen came to England to study film-making and although she was originally based in London, she moved to the Byker area of Newcastle in 1969. Tagged: British documentary photography. Have you seen the th...
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. Nothing, like something, happens anywhere. February 5, 2010. I have been working in Art and Design for the last decade and when asked to name my favourite artists, I don’t struggle for answers. But rather than produce a list of names, I think it would be interesting to share some images and perhaps explain what attracts me to them. Some will be big names, others upcoming artists who haven’t received much attention. I’ll say this for him...
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The world needs more Lerts | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. The world needs more Lerts. February 20, 2010. There’s something heroic about this. I have driven past this semi-aggressive notice hundreds of times on my way to work and I have to say that it never fails to raise my spirits. It’s almost perfect in its failure. This was painted rage. I have also imagined the pure horror and blind panic that went through the artist’s mind when they realised that they were running out of space. But in the...
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Len Spragg’s Caravan | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. Len Spragg’s Caravan. May 18, 2010. The following is an introduction to a forthcoming photography exhibition. I was asked by the Photography Department at The University of Wolverhampton to write a short essay about the show. As ever, feedback welcome! What are you looking at? When this collection was passed to Dean Kelland (he is related to Redfearn by marriage), he was struck not only by the sheer volume of photographs, but also by th...
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In Every Dream Home a Heartache | Hours of Mindless Fun
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Hours of Mindless Fun. Selected distractions for your consideration. In Every Dream Home a Heartache. January 27, 2010. Anyone with a surface knowledge of the footballer George Best will probably recall the two defining elements of his life namely football and alcohol. But I have always felt that there is more to his story, that there was somehow a deeper reason behind how he chose to live, or rather how life happened to him. Many people overlook the fact that he was essentially a very shy man, which see...
