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Circa review: Travis Somerville, Golden Thread Gallery
Travis Somerville: Homeland Insecurity Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 4 August – 22 September 2018 In Fourth year English Literature, we had to read A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. One tends to try to forget these things quickly, and with the exception of this book and a (perhaps rash) aversion to Shakespeare,…
Circa review – Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Golden Thread Gallery
Vanessa Donoso Lopez: Quotidian Tensions between the Domestic and the Unexpected Golden Thread Gallery 11 January – 17 February 2018 The Babel fish in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a universal translator renowned for its instantaneous language translation capabilities. Because of its extraordinary evolution, it is argued in the book that the…
Studio Visit: John Rainey
Yesterday I visited NI/ London-based artist John Rainey in his (amazingly equipped!) home studio. I invited John to work with me on a new initiative that I’m coordinating on behalf of VAI NI. About John: Through a series of classical references and both manual and digital (3D Print) processes, my sculptures consider how digital…
