With time to squander yesterday (escaping the ever-ongoing renovations!) I took myself into town and sat in the park and stitched. Very pleasant in the intermittent sunshine, with the distant view of deckchairs, but after a while my long list of exhibitions to see started nagging at me - as did the daily 10,000 steps target - so the bag was repacked and the Art Stroll began.
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Robert Perkins - Basil Bunting, Fragment, 1980(via) |
In Mason's Yard, the target was an
exhibition of poems-into-pictures - sometimes you get pictures in printed books of poems, but these prints were based on handwritten poems (many by Seamus Heaney). "Handwritten and handmade." Part 2 of this show is scheduled for the autumn; the printmaker is
Robert Perkins.
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Thiebaud painted people to0 |
Nearby, Wayne Thiebaud at White Cube. Upbeat paintings of ordinary objects, sometimes in pairs, and of scenes resembling aerial landscapes. What's striking is the lines of colour throughout - seems like every painting uses every colour of the rainbow. Makes for interesting looking - and it works because of the blank spaces that give the colours room. A glance at the
website finds that the work spans 1962-2017. He started painting cakes, pastries, and pies in 1953.
Shadows in gallery windows along the way towards the National Gallery -
I meant to write about Chris Ofili's tapestry! Later...
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