Writing about The Vanity of Small Differences, Grayson Perry’s charming and challenging tapestries, reminds me how connected art should be. It brings together themes on social mobility referred to as far back as the eighteenth century. It nods to the great Italian Renaissance frescoes of Masaccio. And on tour and on television the series brings…
Grayson Perry and The Art Club.
Grayson Perry is definitely an artist for our times and a champion for the mass media. I am looking forward to visiting the 2003 Turner Prize winner’s exhibition when I visit Bristol Art Gallery in the next few weeks to see The Art Club. Tapestry and glazed pottery are Perry’s specialist media and both exude…
Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, Devon
The Trafalgar Way is a commemoration of the race to get the news of Admiral Nelson’s famous victory in 1805, to the Admiralty in London. It records the horseback journey of Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotière through Southern England with the dispatches from the epic sea battle. Lapenotière’s journey from Falmouth to London covered 271 miles…
Happy New Year from West Bay in Dorset
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS THE WHITE BOX AND LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE NEW GALLERY VISITS IN 2022. KEEP SAFE AS ALWAYS. We eventually found a gallery to visit in December on the coast in Dorset. Sladers Yard was well worth it in on a very wet wintry day to see some exciting…
A Visit Last Summer to King’s College Cambridge.
Cambridge was one of the many places we visited last summer and as we are in virtual lockdown at the moment I am returning in my writing to the city. There are many iconic buildings in Cambridge but probably head and shoulders above the rest is King’s College Chapel. Be it on one of those…
