'The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.' - Stanley Kubrick I grew up loving black and white films: dramas, romances, musicals and mysteries....
Last week I got a sneak preview of the new Azzadine Alaïa exhibition at The Design Museum in London. It’s a fantastic tribute to an incredible couturier who trained in sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis and who regarded his dresses as works...
Last week I went to the opening of the new Julian Opie exhibition at the Alan Cristea gallery on Pall Mall in London. I was really interested in seeing his work as I really enjoy the simple lines in his work which always give a...
This week I visited Burberry at Old Sessions House in London for the exhibition ‘Here We Are’ curated by Christopher Bailey, Lucy Kumara Moore and Alasdair McLellan – in celebration of the September 2017 Burberry collection. I’d seen that Skye from @georgianlondon had been via her Instagram Stories...
This week I was invited by Somerset House to experience their current exhibition ‘Perfume’ - A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent and I also had the opportunity to create my own, personal scent with the Experimental Perfume Club. I was really excited as those of...
Last month I visited the new Design Museum in Kensington, London for a look around the ‘Breathing Colour’ exhibition by Hella Jongerius. I didn’t know much about it but knew that it would definitely appeal to my obsessive sense of colour...
My 15 year old son is a real film geek; all things from the original Japanese ‘Godzilla’ to Ben Wheatley’s ‘A Field in England’, ‘Close Encounters’ and ‘Dune’ to ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’, and he is also a massive Stanley Kubrick fan...
Yesterday I went to ‘Destinations’;an exhibition at The Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf on the Southbank in London. It’s an exhibition which showcases the work of new designers and makers for performance, graduates of Edinburgh College of Art and Bournemouth, Birmingham and Rochester Universities. It’s only on...