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A personal photography project

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The Story of Women and Art

30 May 2014

The final episode of The Story of Women and Art, written and presented by Professor Amanda Vickery, was broadcast on BBC 2 tonight and it has been a really fascinating three-part series. Exploring not just painted art but other creative crafts by female artists who have a significant story to tell. In the first episode…
RP 2014 Annual Exhibition

12 May 2014

I’m not 100% sure how I came across the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries but I’m glad I did. My only problem right now is that the day job is taking up most of my time. So a leisurely view of the work on show is out of the…
Photography as art

2 May 2014

I came across The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton during a visit to the National Portrait Gallery bookshop the other day. I’ve only just started reading it and for me it is a bit of a slow process as it has been written in a fairly academic textbook style. In the introduction the…