Amazing Playground

Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam created this amazing crocheted playground in Japan! I want to go!

Jooney Woodward

I recently discovered the work of Jooney Woodward. Jooney graduated from the same college as me; Camberwell College of Art in 2001. She had since had numerous shows including a solo show at MOMA in Wales. She also recently won the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.

 Jooney’s inspiration is derived from travelling round Wales. She explores the towns that tourists often bypass. Within them she looks for authenticity and modest beauty in the overlooked. Her photographs evoke interest in local traditions and activities happening today in the modern British countryside. I think my favourite of her images are those that include the heavy black clouds, just about to break. They are imminent of impending disaster but also speak of escaping and getting out just before everything combusts.

Damien Hirst - Lullaby

This was by far my favourite piece in the Damien Hirst exhibit. There were massive mirrored cabinets with tiny shelves on displaying thousands of pills.  Due to the fractured reflection of your own image it encourages self-contemplation. It draws on thoughts about things you rely on as a crutch to get through the day. How influenced your body is by those and ultimately how fragile your life is.

Damien Hirst Spots and Butterflies

There was a lot of colour in the Damien Hirst Exhibition. The spots would be so nice to recreate for a present for someone, using this tutorial. The Butterflies seemed more in the theme of beauty and death running throughout Hirst's work.