I really like it when I get a physical reaction to a piece of art. Although maybe like isn’t the right word. I remember seeing Damien Hurst’s statue of Saint Bartholomew a couple of years ago; in his “exquisite pain” he was holding his own recently removed skin aloft. At the risk of sounding pretentious, […]
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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: September 10th, 2008  Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Derbyshire | Wirksworth Festival 2008.  One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed) Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: September 9th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Derbyshire | Wirksworth Festival 2008. Comments are closedSaturday morning saw us heading off into Derbyshire to take part in the Art and Architecture Trail at Wirksworth Festival. To say it was raining seems inadequate really. We had second thoughts, then third as we drove through torrential rain, but eventually resigned ourselves to getting soaked between venues. However, the Festival Organisers had obviously […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 13th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. Comments are closedAfter I wrote about the steelworker mural the other day, I suddenly remembered the vultures. I used to love walking past the vultures. Part way down Arundel Gate in Sheffield was an end wall with a brick mural of four vultures. Like the steelworker, this was also commissioned by Sheffield City Council, but this one […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 9th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)I thought I’d show you one of Sheffield’s best known faces. I can’t tell you who he is, but I can tell you that this brick mural was based on the image of a real steelworker. Some adaptations to the man’s appearance were made to allow the image to be created from coloured bricks. […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 16th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)Art Sheffield 08Yes No Other Options I just couldn’t leave the topic of our visit to the Millenium Galleries yesterday without telling you about the work of Sheffield based artist Andrew Cooke. I found it hard to see how some of the art exhibited in the “Art Sheffield 08 Yes No Other Options” event […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 15th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. 2 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)Art Sheffield 08Yes No Other Options We paid a visit to the Millenium Galleries today. A large section of the gallery is hosting part of “Art Sheffield 08 Yes No Other Options”, a citywide contemporary art event. So what is it all about? artsheffield.org describes it like this:“Taking as its foundation a specially commissioned […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 22nd, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)Where has this sudden obsession with graffiti come from? This one’s the last (at least it’s the last for now). Or is it? Time will tell… Anyway this is at the end of Division Street in Sheffield, near the controversial graffiti competion site. I haven’t managed to discover who painted it yet, but I rather […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 18th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. Comments are closedWoke up this morning,Put on my shoes,Strolled into Sheffield,Saw the Constipation Blues I spotted this painted on the side of the former Fopp shop on Division Street at the weekend. Perhaps the artist should consider eating more fruit. There was an assembly all about graffiti and criminal damage at school today, I kept thinking […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 17th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. 2 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)There is a beautiful flock of blue birds flying up through the stairwell leading to Sheffield’s Graves Art Gallery. Textile artist (and origami expert) Seiko Kinoshita has created a beautiful sculpture from paper yarn with some other mixed media. The sculpture, called Blue Bird, stretches from the skylight on the top floor to the ceiling […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 13th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | London | Random Musings | Spurious lists. Comments are closedWhilst we were in London at the weekend we made a number of small discoveries. Here are ten things that I didn’t know this time last week: 1. The cost of living in London is……very reasonable where public transport and food shopping are concerned. We also spent very little more on going out to eat […] |
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