I still stand by my original thought that I was happy to see Colston being toppled into the Bristol harbour last month; 150 years being long enough to gain the kind of status that will ensure people are angry at its removal by such process that it was.
Firstly, in introducing this post, I would like to point out that much has been said in various quarters over the last few months about how to spend time when furloughed.
Was the sky ever so blue over my Ruhr Valley? Sun. It is warm. But there is no clatter of dishes from the balconies, no humming of people's voices in the cafés. The roaring of the airplane engines is also missing. The honking and screeching, the pattering and stomping, the too loud music of the neighbour, the annoying sound of the leaf blower.
This series of drawings were made during coronavirus lockdown and are based on Henry Moore’s Three Standing Figures, which are based in my immediate locality and stand overlooking the quietness of the lake in Battersea Park.
This lockdown casting has another link with my Mum, in that I discussed the design for this triptych while sitting with her overlooking the sea at Runswick Bay in September 2013.
Howard Eaglestone is an artist with more than 30 years experience teaching Art. He was Head of Painting on BA Hons Fine Art & Design at Bradford College.
March 2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
“…the situation we find ourselves in, here in the 21st Century, is a direct result of our colonial history and there is a bill that will always be due!”
CuratorSpace Courses is a course and workshop listing platform which we've built to let artists and arts professionals move their IRL courses online and list them for free during the pandemic. We’re hoping it will make it easier for people to make a living in these difficult times, as well as giving others a chance to learn something new while they are in lockdown or self isolating.
Ian Pepper is a multidisciplinary figurative artist inspired by New Scottish Painting, German Expressionism and Outsider Art. He is chiefly interested in exploring human relationships and the ways in which people gather together to form different cultural groups.
I think it is highly disingenuous and manipulative to suggest that the NHS coped with the pandemic when workers died and doctors, nurses, care workers and others have to work long hours in dangerous and distressing conditions, often without protection.
