A Marianne Faithfull Moment
Faithful Once a year or two—if I’m in the neighbourhood—I drop by the Salisbury on St Martin’s Lane, and prop my bones up against the bar. I stand in the same place and stare at […]
December 2011
Ellie Rees: The Day of the Twenty Four Cakes
The Day of the Twenty-Four Cakes by Ellie Rees is a twenty-four hour, multi-screen video installation based on a short story idea by Sylvia Plath. In Plath’s draft the central female character is frustrated by her […]
Andrew Kerr/Maya Deren ‘So Ensconced’ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
That snake skeleton (as one small toddler called it) lies in the middle of the floor, barely existent and in my opinion, knowing it. Its knowledge of its delicate mortality makes it aware of how […]
Dancing the way to Carbon Neutrality…
Approaching the debut of the international ‘Home Art’ project series, due to take place in West Melbourne during December, Hayley Haynes raises debate about the role of the artist in our current state of climate […]