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Friday, 20 April 2012
The Fear of Place // Topophobia .(scribbled at 13:20 )

Okay, I'm about to bombard you with photographs I took from my trip to Liverpool last weekend, many apologies. I'm feeling rather artistically inspired after visiting Topophobia: The Fear of Place in Contemporary Art at the Bluecoat. Well, as much as someone who isn't an artist can be 'artistically inspired'...

 I'm afraid it ends this weekend (but will be touring to Exeter very soon!).



Abigail Reynolds' work. I LOVE this, it really encourages closer inspection of each composition!







And some children's work that was also in a gallery space:


Equally a useless statement here (in telling you about an exhibition you should see)... is that the Walker Art Gallery's The Art Books of Henri Matisse was worth trekking 211 miles for. I caught the exhibition just before its deinstall. For those interested in Poesie, Les Femmes or even livres d'artistes you should buy the exhibition catalogue.

Here's a rather splendid quote I nabbed from le Fauve:

"From the moment I held the box of colours in my hand, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves."
1941.

 Also, I quickly had a mooch around John Kirby's show at the Walker and picked up this great quotation from him [on being an artist]:

"It's all been a game really, like being a child... fucking around"

TOPOPHOBIA is curated by Eggebert-and-Gould, and will tour to Spacex, Exeter 12 May – 7 July 2012.

http://topophobia.co.uk
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker

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...all posts penned by Vikki, a twenty-something girl based in London (but currently having itchy feet and wanting to move back to Neuilly).

all these poorly taken photographs are indeed my own.


Vermeer's Victoria Sponge.