Blog entries tagged with “textile”

1. Ship in a Bottle - Yinka Shonibare's New Sculpture in Trafalgar Square

   Tue, 25 May 2010

   From ship at sea to ship in a bottle, today was my second historic ship launch inside a year. Last September I was guest aboard Stad Amsterdam as she set sail from Plymouth Sound on the south west coast of England to recreate Charles Darwin’s historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Today I was…

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   4th Plinth

   Admiral Nelson

   Contemporary Textiles

   Denna Jones

   Dutch East Indies

   Fourth Plinth

   Nelson's ship in a bottle

   Real Dutch wax textiles

   Trafalgar Square

   Vlisco

   Yinka Shonibare

   batik

   contemporary sculpture

   ship in a bottle

   wax-resist

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2. Intellectual Insecurity and the Art of Writing

   Tue, 01 Jul 2008

   NB: The following is a book review I wrote for a forthcoming (2008) issue of Embroidery Magazine (UK). The failure of the book lies in the writing, particularly the lead essay by a professor at Goldsmiths College, London, a teaching institution where obfuscation and gerund creation seem to…

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   how to write

   art criticism

   Goldsmiths College

   The Courtauld Institute of Art

   Franko B

   Paddy Hartley

   Contemporary Textiles

   craft art

   Guerra de la Paz

   Ghada Amer

   El Anatsui

   The Fabric Workshop

   plain english

   etsy

   craftzine

   textile

   jargon

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