In a small seminar space in the Queens building, performance artist and director Tess Denman-Cleaver is talking about a much wider sense of place, evoking the receding shore, cold waters, and broad skies of the North Sea. The description of her experience of sea-swimming and island exploration off the coast of Northumberland, which has formed […]
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Human taxidermy and the art of nature: RAMM Review
I had gone to the RAMM intending to see Contours into Colour, a retrospective of landscape artist Alan Cotton. A recommendation from a friend and the story of Cotton’s career-shaping encounter in his pyjamas with Marxist art critic John Berger had piqued my interest but, standing in the gallery, his neo-impressionist field scenes and dense […]