Today, we said goodbye to artist Pauline Scott-Garrett who died in early April. I was so glad to have known Pauline over the years, and honoured to collaborate with her last year when I wrote a zine of poems in response to her beautiful series of collage and intaglio prints, BORDERLAND, which engaged with a… Continue reading Pauline Scott-Garrett
Category: Art
Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn
Recently I've been dipping into FutureLearn, the online learning platform. I like the interface of FutureLearn, I find it easy to use. Most recently, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered by the Centre Pompidou in Paris caught my eye, so I signed up. The MOOC is called Pop Art. It's not so much a… Continue reading Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn
Hating on Phone Culture
If you want to see real anger, read some of the comments in response to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's Guardian piece Art, aura and the doomed search for the perfect selfie. Although Cosslett writes that she has discovered that "even to suggest that to look at a painting through a phone is a lesser form of… Continue reading Hating on Phone Culture


