At the risk of sounding like Golden Girl Sophia Petrillo…picture it. Glasgow, February 1992. A young (ish) media studies student is tasked with the assignment of writing a collection of pieces about the representation of a...
Read MoreIt was the swings swaddled in clingfilm-like tied-back curtains that got me. An image captured by nurse and photographer, Hannah Grace Deller. I wonder if everyone will have at least one response like mine when they visit this...
Read MoreMartin Parr has the subtle knack of locating the delightful in the mundane, the unlikely in the familiar, inviting us to look twice where we might long since have failed to notice. The Epsom-born Parr’s trajectory has...
Read MoreStanding in the central hall of Manchester Art Gallery looking up at the decoration on the walls, a row of sculptures of men riding on horses caught my eye. Those delicately balanced riders, those gently bobbing hooves,...
Read MoreAnyone who knows me will realise that any sharp intakes of breath I might elicit from passing fashionistas are considerably more likely to be gasps of horror than of approval. But even a benighted boy like me knows and...
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