Author Archives: Russell Jones

This is yesterday gig notebook.I have seen Manic Street Preachers live three times at Leeds festival 2008, Manchester Ritz in 2013 and Manchester Albert Hall in 2014 all with my friends Andrew and Tom.I have seen the band perform The Holy Bible in its entirety.

Really happy with how this has come out one of the ten commandments used as an eye chart. Ten Commandments made visible once again some hiding in plain sight such as the eye test.

Seems like only yesterday when I picked up a pen and thought to mysen: “time to scribble my thoughts onto paper before they turn into vapor in the big mindcloud” and its great to be allowed to express myself; grab the pot of ink from the shelf finally sit down. Stop acting like a clownContinue reading “Poem 21/03/2022”

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Kimathi Donkor is a contemporary artist who lives and works in London, England. His solo exhibitions include Kimathi Donkor: Notebooks at Brixton Library (London, 2021), Some Clarity of Vision at Gallery MOMO (Johannesburg, 2015), Queens of the Undead at Iniva (London, 2012) and Fall/Uprising at the Bettie Morton Gallery, (London, 2005). Group exhibitions include War Inna Babylon at the ICA, London 2021, the Diaspora Pavilion (57th Venice Biennale,Continue reading “Kimanthi Donkor”

From Emily Speed’s site: My interests lies in the relationship between people and buildings and my work explores the body and its relationship to architecture. The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of my work; how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how aContinue reading “Emily Speed”

Yvonne Mullock was born in Chester, Cheshire, in the U.K in 1978 and currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was educated at Glasgow School of Art, B.A. (Hons) in drawing and painting. Yvonne started her talk around the theme of composition that it could be a thought or an arrangement of ideasContinue reading “Yvonne Mullock”

Yvonne Mullock 24.02.2022 Yvonne MullockBorn Chester, Cheshire, U.K 1978, Currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Education 1997–2001 Glasgow School of Art, B.A (Hons) Drawing and Painting. Emily Speed 3.3.2022 You may know the work of Emily Speed for her recent solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, Flatland. This work is inspired by Edwin Abbott’sContinue reading “Gravity”

Julia Kristeva asks in her book Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, (1992) if the beautiful can be sad. If ‘beauty is inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning’. She wonders if the beautiful object is the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival afterContinue reading “Helen Blejerman 1/2/2022”

I bought this single which had Faster and P.C.P. on it way before the album was released and it gave me a totally different expectation to how the album would sound.I was expecting three minute punk songs but apart from these Revol and Yes the album was slower and much darker than that.I love thisContinue reading “P.C.P.”