Lining a few things up

Some of the latest pots - those fired last term - have finally been collected from City Lit, and unwrapped. Most are stowed in a safe place, away from the dust and danger of carpentry, but a few didn't fit into that space and are yet to be put away -

Fired pots in a line, and some stitched pots with ceramic aspirations

What I'm after lining up, though, is a few exhibitions to go to, based on a browse of the latest Art Quarterly magazine. Many are ending in the next few weeks, and others are coming up. Some involve train trips and/or days out. They are listed in order of finishing date, for those currently showing, and starting date, for future exhibitions.


Cornelia Parker at Frith Street Gallery (both sites) to 21 June

Anderson & Low: Voyages at Science Museum to 25 June

Woodcuts at Pallant House, Chichester, to 25 June

Giacomo Balla at Estorick Collection till 25 June

Alice Neel at Victoria Miro till 29 July

Artists Voices at The Lightbox, Woking, to 30 July

Hokusai at British Museum till 13 August

RA summer exhibition, 13 June to 20 Aug

Chris Ofili tapestry at National Gallery till 28 August

Gillian Ayres at National Museum, Cardiff, to 3 Sept

Raphael drawings at the Ashmolean, Oxford, to 3 September

Eric Gill at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, to 3 Sept (train to Hassocks and then a 2-mile walk)

Adrian Berg at Hall Place to 3 Sept (15 min walk from Bexley station

Grayson Perry at the Serpentine Gallery to 7 Sept

Giacometti at Tate Modern till 10 September

Queen of Ightam Mote till 23 Dec (train to Tonbridge then bus 222 (hourly) plus 1.2 mile walk)

Creatures and Creations at Waddesdon Manor till 10 October (train to Aylesbury Vale Parkway, then taxi or bus 16/17/18)

Edward Bawden at The Higgins, Bedford, till 28 January

Balenciaga at V&A to 18 Feb


Painting on the Edge at Stephen Friedman, 8 June to 29 July

Walthamstow School of Art at William Morris Gallery, 9 June to 10 September

Quentin Blake at Jerwood, Hastings, 14 June to 15 October

Howard Hodgkin at The Hepworth Wakefield, 1 July to 8 October

Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park 5 July to 8 Oct

Emma Hart at Whitechapel Gallery, 12 July to 3 Sept

Charlotte Hodes at Wolverhampton Art Gallery to 3 Sept

Plywood at the V&A, 15 July to 12 November


... plus, in terms of days out

• York's ceramic museum (and its railway museum); 
• much to see in Liverpool; 
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park (train to Wakefield); 
• lots to see in Manchester, eg the Whitworth 

and further afield:

• Edinburgh, especially the Scottish National Galley of Modern Art
• Paris!!

But let's not get too excited ... here is some calming "nature" near home, nicely lined up -

Horse chestnuts lining the road to Alexandra Palace