Sergeant George Edgar Hildreth
Sixty million soldiers from all over the world served in Word War I, fighting in locations all over the planet, from France to Greece, Turkey to China, the North Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The acceleration in the development of warfare technology at the end of the 19th century meant that combat in WWI became […]
The Four Giants of British Modernism
From 19th September to 19th October 2019 The Beaux Gallery will be hosting a major exhibiting of four of Britain’s greatest champions of the British Modernism movement. The exhibition shows how these artists revolutionised British art, enabling visitors to see a comprehensive retrospective of some of their greatest works. Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost (13 […]
Studio Nicholas Daley
Michelin Design Gallery. V&A Dundee Until 7th February 2020 Yet again the V&A Dundee have dazzled us with another ground breaking show. They have recreated the studio of Nicholas Daley, one of the UK’s most exciting young fashion designers, in an exhibition exploring the creative processes behind his collections. The show gives an insight into […]
WILLIAM BLAKE
Tate Britain, London William Blake must be seen as one of the greatest Britons of all time. Blake’s talent as an English poet, painter, and printmaker, seems endless, but sadly, was unrecognised during his lifetime. Fortunately Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of poetry and the visual arts of the Romantic […]
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Have you ever wondered who wrote the words to In a Bleak Midwinter, one of our most famous and definitely my favourite carol? It was actually Christina Rossetti, sister to Gabriel Dante Rossetti. Woman were central figures in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, not just as lovers, models and muses, but as artists themselves. 160 years after […]
Brian Sewell
Working as a lowly press officer at Sotheby’s Bond Street salerooms during the early 1990s brought me into contact with any number of interesting people, some more ‘interesting’ than others – but perhaps, the most truly interesting of all was the legendary art critic Brian Sewell. Anyone remotely connected with the global art scene of […]
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel – The Illustrated world of a Fashion Icon – by Megan Hess “in order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different” Coco Chanel This delightful book, beautifully illustrated by Hess herself is an enchanting narration of Coco Chanel’s life. Each page is lovingly put together with stunning illustrations and a small paragraph […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s Globe – until 13th October Let me start by telling you this production is unlike any Shakespeare I have ever seen. It’s almost as if the Bard went to Glastonbury and spent a wee bit too long in a rave tent. It’s not surprising Director Sean Holmes decided to take a wholly unique approach, […]
Clare Balding OBE
Winner of the BAFTA Special Award and RTS Presenter of the Year Award for her expert coverage of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Clare Balding is one of Britain’s most recognizable faces in media. Leading broadcaster, best-selling author and an ardent campaigner for better coverage of women’s sport, Clare is loved across the […]
100 Years of Bauhaus
In conceptual terms, Bauhaus emerged out of late-19th-century desires to reunite fine and applied art, to push back against the mechanization of creativity, and to reform education. Gropius envisioned the Bauhaus as encompassing the full totality of artistic media, including fine art, industrial design, graphic design, typography, interior design, and architecture. Influenced by 19th and […]
