Japanese Textile and Craft Festival

At Craft Central at the Forge this week is a very interesting exhibition celebrating the Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019-20. The year bridges the Rugby World Cup 2019 and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Japan is organising the Japan Season of Culture in the UK, and the UK will oversee the UK Season of Culture…

V&A Diary 61-80

How time flies when you’re having fun; here are another 20 images I’ve shot from the V&A collection. The more time I spend at the museum, the more varied the collection seems to becomes. This time the images encompass everything from modern ceramics to haute couture, from ancient sculpture from Palmyra to the Portmerion pottery….

No 1: Painting and Drawing by Jeremy Burns

If you head down to Cass in Islington over the weekend you’ll find a great show featuring the work of Jeremy Burns in the basement gallery space. Burn’s painting is influenced by Futurism and Cubism, and this show documents the development of his work, from crisp delineated shapes towards a loser experimental approach. The other…