John Akehurst’s original collages always remind me of that scene in Mad Men when Don Draper pitches ‘The Carousel’ to Kodak. Like much of the show it’s worth re-watching, and this transcription won’t do Jon Hamm’s performance justice. “Technology is a glittering lure, but there is the rare occasion when the public can be […]

Emma Tann’s piece In My Craft or Sullen Art is beautifully invested in the source from which the title was derived. It is a piece of art – something to be viewed and studied – but it also as forlorn and unattended as a spider web. That the artist uses the doily as reference, and sometimes material, […]

  For children of a certain generation the illustrator Richard Scarry’s Busytown was a homely but nonetheless baptismal first encounter with a depiction of Being-in-the-World – a particular and supervening awareness of the worldhood of the world. I remember the reading* of his books being an eye-widening experience, verging on a kind of sensory overload, […]

Sometimes artworks create a sense of mystery usually granted only to first times… Re-posted from It’s Nice That: Matt Lee’s Presence of Absence photographic series features a “decontextualised black shape” looming ominously over a Bangalore apartment block. The title of the work suggests the shape is some kind of infinite void of time and space, poised on […]