Of all the galleries in Paris
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 […]
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Home Blindness
Taking the time to be inspired and set resolve. I’ve spent three months writing, re-writing, re-re-writing, going backwards as I chip away editing various blog drafts. Thinning my once animated […]
An interview with Aura & Aura
As our phones have grown attached to our palms and synchronised to our thumbprints, it’s inevitable that they should become an extension of their owner’s individuality too. No one’s boobs, knees, […]
Colour in a ‘techno-scientific world’
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 […]
#Thinkingincolour: Part II
When we describe a colour, we are poets. Read about someone who creates colour, talk about its essence. Thinking about the phenomenon of colour experience and the science of colour vision together, I thought it […]
#ThinkingInColour: Part I
Is colour experience different to colour vision? What did you think of #thatdress? If one person sees blue and black in the photograph and another sees white and gold, can they […]
Intellectual ecstasy: Plato and philosophical progress
…Is ancient philosophy still relevant in 21st century life? Why didn’t Plato know that slavery was wrong…? As part of Bristol’s Festival of ideas, Rebecca was invited to the Watershed […]
‘DO NO HARM’
‘Do No Harm’ is a startlingly honest autobiography by the brain surgeon, Henry Marsh. He writes not only about the exciting, successful operations he has carried out, but also […]
