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Art Culture

Visible at Patriothall Gallery

In a gallery that you never knew existed, a curious group of older ladies sporting chunky statement jewellery and cosy turtleneck jumpers sit, patiently invigilating their own show. Patriothall Gallery and Studio is an artist-run space tucked in amongst some residential blocks behind a busy road in the affluent Stockbridge. The gallery appears modest and […]

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Art Culture

and per se and: Part XVIII – Alexander Calder and Peter Liversidge

The Ingleby Gallery’s endeavour of pairing the works by two artists – some of whom now sit comfortably within the canon of art history – is proving to be a crowd divider. The ultra-minimalist concept, presenting only one or two pieces from two artists in a large room, was conceived as an opportunity to intensely […]

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Art Culture

Turner in January

  The new year is the best time to start thinking of this year’s summer escape. The joyful Christmas period has passed leaving behind a grey, sludgy January in its wake with promises of gales and drizzle. With divine timing, or a promise made over a hundred years ago, JMW Turner (1775 – 1851) brings […]

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Art Culture

Artist Rooms Clips: An Evening with Agnes Martin

Summerhall: Run Ended Introducing Gabriel: a young, dark-haired boy with knobbly knees poking out from under a pair of innocent beige shorts and a taste for adventure. Otherwise Gabriel, Agnes Martin’s 1976 answer to Hollywood blockbusters, is an evenly paced documentary on nature evoking innocence and sweetness; in which the mountains and lakes are the […]

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Culture Literature

Stone Mattress

Quite simply, the regular and intense satisfaction that Margaret Atwood offers her readers in Stone Mattress makes this book a suitable antidote to grey January days or the perfect start to any a-book-a-month resolutions that have been made. Reaching nine endings whilst having read one book is nothing but rewarding. The conquest aside, this collection […]

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Culture Theatre

Freshers’ Play 2015

Image courtesy of Bedlam Theatre. Part of the concept of the annual Freshers’ Play is the constricting 10 day period in which each group must devise a play alongside strangers with whom they may or may not get on. The eight 10 minute plays were each based on a different title of a Friends episode which had been […]

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Culture Theatre

The Gondoliers

This spring EUSOG’s annual Gilbert and Sullivan feast was the acclaimed The Gondoliers. The story follows the search for the rightful King of the fictional kingdom of Barataria who was promised, at birth, to the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza Toro. Having originally been suspected to be one of two humble gondoliers […]