A ‘Discussion on Virtual and Other Realities’ seemed like the perfect event to go to as I tried to wrap my head around some reading on NFTs, and how a cryptopunk now sells for millions of dollars. How is this relevant to reviewing a poetry festival? We’ll get to that in a bit. Last week, […]
Dovecot studios is currently hosting MAKING NUNO, showcasing the works of Sudō Reiko, innovative textile designer from Japan and design director of leading textile firm NUNO. A MUJI pop-up store runs alongside the exhibition. Quite different to most fine art textile exhibitions, this art exhibition attempts to show the creative process behind the designing and […]
The fantastical landscape illustrated in The Hunt in the Forest has helped me get through the numerous lockdowns we have faced throughout this pandemic. The Hunt is a painting by Italian artist Paolo di Dono, better known as Uccello, circa 1465–1470. After coming across it at a History of Art course in my first year, it has become one […]
I always come back to ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. I feel as though I have known it forever; there are stretches of time where I read it often, and suddenly a few years have passed without having thought about it at all. Time and space move strangely throughout this poem, ironically reflecting […]
I’m sure most people have heard that Joanna Cherry was recently sacked from the SNP’s Westminster front bench– but was it really because Nicola Sturgeon has a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy against transphobia? Has anyone bothered to find out what actually happened or just heard that Cherry is transphobic and hooray to Sturgeon for being woke? The […]
Being by the sea with a glass of wine in our hands sounds incredibly idyllic. However, it is winter and the shore is freezing cold, we are also in a lockdown so the sea seems far away for most of us! Worry not, for here is an oceanic delight to save the day with its […]
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 stars Right off the bat, I have to confess that this review might be just a little bit biased – I, dear reader, have been watching and listening to these two personalities since I was a mere eleven-year-old child. When Film and TV started doing podcast reviews, I knew I had to share […]
Whilst this was one of the most difficult years of my life, it was also simultaneously one of the best yet. You might think that ‘best year yet’ is a stretch, perhaps even a leap over a chasm – it might outrage you, with everything that happened in 2020 – but hear me out; this […]