art

the girls, jane’s mum and me went up to london yesterday to go to the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Gallery

we got there for 10am and had no trouble getting on the boating lake which is set up on the roof

the rest of the exhibition was excellent too and i can highly recommend it.  we also got in half price thanks to a 2 for 1 offer .  And the kids went free.  bargain

afterwards we went to look at the graffiti near Waterloo bridge (i’m saving those photos for another post)

esther, kezia and I went on the Henley Arts Trail yesterday.  I didn’t take too many photos as it was too wet, and people’s art is their copyrights etc.

it really was a great day out.  it was fascinating to see the different types of artists and see their studios.  everyone was so nice and jolly.

so, all in all, another great bank holiday weekend activity !

i bumped in to famous artist Roger Molloy in Brick Lane selling his wares. he’s a chap who is living his art and doing things properly, making ends meet in a pay as you go kind of way.  we had a quick chat, i bought one of his pictures and we went our separate ways.  well, i did.  he stood where he was and continued his activities.  what a nice chap.

another one (other here) – this one taken with my compact camera.

we went up to london to see the crack in the tate modern and the exhbition in the bargehouse.  it was very good.

affordable, but to whom ?

there’s a great exhibition of things at the Bargehouse art gallery in london until the end of the month.  i loved it so much i’m going to go back at the weekend.

updated: website here

this is on a wall tucked round a corner from farringdon station

i spoke to some builders who were unloading some stuff from their van just next to it.  they said they’d never seen it before.

it’s jolly nice.

i walked past this just a few moments after i’d seen the original (without wings) in the National Portrait Gallery.  the bars are probably poignant on various different levels.

when i walked past tate modern yesterday they were dismantling Louise Bourgeois’ spider.

here are some photos i took of it when it was in position

it was interesting that the egg sack was the only recognisable thing

there were lots of leg bits everywhere

and it looked nice with the sun rise lighting st paul’s in the background

lying there it looked like some science fiction thing with its dormant eggs waiting to hatch

of course it would have been easier to catch it in a giant jar and throw it out the front door

or perhaps flush it down the plug hole or chuck it in the thames

i consider myself pretty observant, but i failed to properly notice this mural despite working by it for over 4 years.  i popped back for a meeting yesterday and ‘spotted’ it !

over the summer i carried a couple of pictures everywhere i went to hang on handy hooks if i ever came across any.  there was one in a holiday cottage we went to so i left it there.  as seen here.

another one went on my parent-in-law’s wall and they didn’t spot it for a few weeks.   once they found it they took it to jane’s sister’s house and secretly left it there.  i’ve not heard anything since. (about it).  not sure if they’ve found it or just chucked it in the bin.  or perhaps i’ll get it back as a surprise xmas present.

even street ambassadors (tramps) need hobbies.  there’s at least two in london who make a habit of collecting huge amounts of carrier bags full of stuff and transporting them round london in trollies.  it could actually the same chap come to think about it – perhaps he’s had a shave and removed all the white paint from his coat.

anyway, quite poignant i think.  chap with nothing (we assume) dragging all his found belongings round town in a cumbersome and visually striking way.

makes you fink dunnit.

the lovely big spider outside tate modern