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Category Archives: Exhibitions

The language of Japanese colour combinations

May 19, 2019by harrietbottom Leave a comment

I love the pure experimentation of colour by modern abstract artists like Mark Rothko, Josef Albers and Bridget Riley. One of my favourite exhibitions, ever, was by Christina Mackie. Nine-metre-high […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Philosophy, Thoughts

Tulip Mania & Bloemen, a private view

June 4, 2018by harrietbottom 1 Comment

So I’ve heard that at one time in Amsterdam, a tulip bulb was the same price as a house. The trading of exotic tulip bulbs in the Netherlands is the […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Thoughts

Of all the galleries in Paris

May 20, 2017by harrietbottom 2 Comments

I’ll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist. A young English debutant who fled her nouveau-riche family to pursue art and a love affair […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Thoughts, Travel

Colour in a ‘techno-scientific world’

February 23, 2016by harrietbottom 3 Comments

Between March and October, 2015, Christina Mackie’s nine-metre-high silk nets hung in Tate Britain’s Duveen Gallery. The pastel, soft fabric trickled down into pools of dense, crystallised dye, whilst a […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Philosophy, Thoughts

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